When I’m preparing for a Tree Spirit Medicine workshop, I first get a “calling” from a tree that it has medicine it wishes to share with us. I then dream journey to its spirit to learn its medicine. After that, I deepen my understanding of the medicine through meditation, research, contemplation and dreaming. An important …
I harvested wild grapes off our land to make juice as a toast for our upcoming Harvest Ceremony. To make wild grape juice:
In the centre of the chest, about one finger-width’s distance from the body’s midline on the right side of the chest (where we point to when we refer to ‘I’) resides the Spiritual Heart – the luminous portal between the oneness of all existence and our sense of ‘I’. The Spiritual Heart is an organ …
I first met the spirit of American Elm on July 8, 2011 while doing a plant study for Plant Spirit Medicine. In PSM, you ‘enter the dream’ in the spirit world with a plant to gather its spirit medicine. In my dream with American Elm it told me that it is a vessel which receives …
Your dream journey experiences always contain transformational energy and power that will open and expand you. The Plant People don’t give advice, suggestions, information, platitudes, or “shoulds.” None of which have any depth or real power. If you receive what seems like advice from a plant such as, “You need to lighten up and play …
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The Tree Spirit Medicine of Willow is “Clarity – Knowing Your Path and Purpose.” Each of us has an inherent purpose and path that we are meant to live. To not do so is the cause of much confusion and suffering. The yearning to live our vision and truth may be postponed, avoided or stifled, …
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The focus of this workshop is on making topical creams for therapeutic use using herbs and other natural substances. The workshop will include both lecture and demonstration of how to prepare medicinal creams. It will cover all aspects of the process of making medicinal creams using only natural ingredients, including: * Different methods for preparing …
The Tree Spirit Medicine of Basswood is “Surrender.” Basswood gifts us the grounding energy of deep, wide roots which create a strong foundation and sense of security, stability, safety and trust. This place of deep rootedness anchors us that we may surrender wholeheartedly and courageously into the depths the Great Mother Mystery, the source of …
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