Articles and musings by Monika Ghent, Nahua Traditional Healer, Educator, and Counsellor
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 …
Read more “Excerpt from the Dream Journeying to the Plant People Manual”
Here is an interview I did with Ewa Maria of SEN/ESSENCES where we talk about Plant Spirit Medicine, ceremony, trees, and other topics.
The brown rice cleanse is an excellent cleanse to do for one to two weeks in the spring and fall to gently detoxify and cleanse your body. Basically, you eat brown rice with or without veggies for breakfast, lunch and dinner. This diet will give you all the nutrition that you will need while your …
Limpias with copal smoke is one of the healing forms used in traditional Nahua healing. Copal is an aromatic resin from a sacred tree in the Burseraceae family indigenous to Central and South America and has been used for centuries in ceremony and healing. Limpia means to clean or purify. Copal limpias are used to …