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10 Feb 2022
Awakening to Wholeness Within with Emily Smith
00:19:51
#012 – In this episode, Emily Smith of Guide to Wholeness shares about how to connect to the wholeness within and listen to intuition, especially when you’re in a career that isn’t in alignment with your core life energy.
Join us as we explore:
* How working with plants can help cultivate intuitive awareness. * Somatic signs in the body that serve as a gateway to spiritual awakening. * How a spiritual awakening can change the career path. * Bringing the career path into alignment with the core self of who we really are. * How working with plants can allow us to safely heal emotions that have been buried in the subconscious. * And some practical tips for connecting with intuition from her new book Wholeness Within.
Emily Smith is a Spiritual Career Coach who helps high-achieving women find personal and career alignment and get clear and confident on the work & life they love. Emily’s also the host of the Guide to Wholeness podcast and the author of Wholeness Within: Insights from One Woman's Journey of Creating a Life and Career in Alignment.
Plant Wisdom from Seed to Culture with Don Tipping
00:51:20
#013 - Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds is incredibly knowledgeable and wise in the way of life and seeds. He brings an embodied philosophy of experience in his work and has an amazing way of weaving connections between seeds and the relationship with Nature, life, and cultures across space and time.
Join us in this episode where Don shares about:
* Fascinating accounts on the intersection of plant lore and seed stories that are interwoven through global cultures over time. * How growing plants to seed gives us deeper insight into understanding the nature of a plant. * How having a direct relationship with seeds help us connect to life and life force. * How our spiritual journey with the plants invites us to look at things from many different angles. * What seeds teach us about the power of potentiality. * The value of curiosity and being in a state of awe and wonder with Nature. * How having a deeper understanding of plant stories and culinary culture gives us a deeper insight of understanding and connection with plants.
Don Tipping is the Director of Operations at Siskiyou Seeds, and he’s been farming and offering hands on, practical workshops at Seven Seeds Farm since 1997. Seven Seeds farm is a small, certified organic family farm in the Siskiyou Mountains of SW Oregon designed to function as a self-contained, life regenerating organism. In 2009 they started Siskiyou Seeds, which is a bioregional organic seed hub that grows and stewards a collection of over 700 open pollinated flower, vegetable, and herb seeds.
#014 - Dana Lynn Peterson is an incredible plant spirit artist, and she created the art for this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. Join us in this episode where Dana shares a behind-the-scenes look at the magic and beauty of plant spirit art and her process of painting with plant essences.
Exploring ways to express the energy and spirit of the plants into a two dimensional art form is what truly makes Dana’s heart bloom, and one of the most amazing aspects of her art is how she weaves flower essences into the process of painting with watercolor.
In our conversation Dana shares about her inspirations for creating plant-centric artwork, how she experiences the plant spirits coming through the art, and how her relationship with plant allies has deepened in the process of painting them over the years. She also reveals her beautiful process in honoring the being of each plant in creating art for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit and the Flower Compass Deck.
Dana Lynn Peterson (she/her) is the owner and founder of Dana Lynn Artistry where she offers art that combines earth and sky and the magic in-between. Dana is passionate about her craft and creates unique watercolor art pieces for clients all over the world. She’s designed over 150 logos for small business, and she’s the artist for this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. She’s also currently working on The Flower Compass deck with Herbalist Shawn Westendorf of Honest Owl Herbal. Dana graduated from Herron School of Art in 2011 and now lives outside of a 75 acre nature preserve in Indianapolis with her husband and son.
And of course at this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit happening over the spring Equinox, where you can join us for a magical weaving of deep herbal wisdom and plant consciousness.
We’ll be hearing from over 30+ amazing and deeply respected herbalists, authors, teachers, and plant expert speakers sharing about their direct experience with Nature consciousness and herbal wisdom.
The conversations we're having in this summit will definitely be affirming in your journey on the plant path, and likely also life-changing in deepening your relationship with these wise green Earth elders who we call the plants.
When the Moon Lights up the Ocean: into the Depths of the Plant Path with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
00:30:47
#015 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina of Moon Mother Apothecary on the power and experience of diving into the depths of the plant path. Suhaly is an AfroKisqueyan herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer. And she’s the founder of Moon Mother Apothecary, a practice and offering of heart-centered, moon-powered medicines created in the traditional wisdom and knowledge of her ancestors.
In this episode, Suhaly shares about how working with nourishing roots like Ginger and Astragalus and soothing herbs like Lemon balm and Oatstraw allow us to slow down and reconnect to our wholeness, to each other, to ourselves, and to nourishment.
She also offers key insights into how plants can help us find the courage and the bravery that is required to take a leap into new depths, and how she has found inspiration in Mae Jemison, who was the first Black woman to venture into outer space; and Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first Black woman deep sea diver in the US army.
The Moon Mother will be hosting an upcoming workshop on the Mother of All Lands: Plants of Power, Purpose, Resistance in Kiskeya with Herban Cura on April 24th; where she’ll do a deep dive into the Materia Medica, folklore, mythology, and socio-political histories of some medicinal plants prominent in Dominican plantwork & the ways they are used across various Dominican communities and in the Dominican Diaspora.
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina (she/they), aka Moon Mother aka The Earth Warrior, is an AfroKiskeyan herbalist, artist, arts administrator, educator, mother, daughter, wife, and community organizer. Her practice lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power and centers the collective wisdom of her community and the ancestral legacy of her people, while creating spaces of agency for folks to enter into their own healing. She is a 2018 graduate of the Sacred Vibes Apothecary spiritual herbalism apprenticeship, and carries out her purpose through small batch, moon-powered plant medicine offerings, justice-forward collaborations, workshops, knowledge-shares, and beyond.
Suhaly has hosted plant medicine-making workshops with spaces including New York Botanical Garden, Gossamer, The Wing, The Museum of the City of New York, Ethel’s Club, Fotografiska, The Highline and several others. She has also guided workshops at the 2nd and 3rd Annual NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conferences. Her ongoing research is centered on Kiskeyan plant medicine in the Dominican Republic and across the Dominican Diaspora in NYC.
The Moon Mother is a proud member of United Plant Savers, Queer Healers, and Herbalists Without Borders. And she is living + loving in Brooklyn, on Lenape and Canarsee land, with her wife and their baby girl, Luna.
Register for Suhaly’s upcoming workshop on Mother of All Lands: Plants of Po
Embodying Herbal Messages in the Dreamtime with Katie Rose Browning
00:33:06
#016 - Do you ever work with herbs while dreaming?
Join us for a very special conversation with herbalist and flower essence practitioner Katie Rose Browning on the power of listening to and embodying herbal messages in the dreamtime.
We recorded this in the rainforest of Costa Rica where Katie and her family are stewarding and living in relationship with the land at Casa Vida Flor. So you will hear all the sounds of the environment including the river, birds, wind, rain, and children playing in the background.
It was a very dynamic experience! And we enjoyed connecting with this amazing land throughout our conversation.
In this episode, Katie offers profound insight into the magic and power of what can happen when we listen to and honor messages coming forward from the herbal realm in our dreams. She also shares about a very potent dream that directed her family to move and become stewards and deep listeners of the land at their home near the Children’s Eternal Rainforest in Costa Rica.
Katie also offers wisdom about her experience of living in reciprocity with the plants and the Earth. And she shares about her experience of working with flower essences for vibrational healing, and the importance of reconnecting with the cycles: of time, of the Earth, and of the moon.
Katie Rose Molina Browning (she/her) is the Director of Embodying Herbalism and steward of Casa Vida Flor in the rainforest of Costa Rica. She’s a certified herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and Earth-centered ceremonialist; and she offers tropical herbal mentorships and Embodying Herbalism through the moon cycles.
Plant Initiations & How the Plants are Driving our Spiritual Evolution with Pam Montgomery
00:33:47
#017 - Join us for a powerful conversation with pioneering Plant Spirit Healer Pam Montgomery as she shares about plant initiations & how the plants are driving our spiritual evolution.
In this episode, Pam also offers deep insight into what it means to live a life in service of the plants, and to be in relationship and co-creative partnership with Nature. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a conversation that I wanted to share it with you here. Such valuable medicine for these times!
Pam Montgomery is an author, teacher, international speaker and Earth Elder who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants/trees and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. She is the author of two books, one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. Pam is also a founding member of United Plant Savers and more recently the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE.
Plant Spirit Medicine Healing with Pip Waller & Lucy Wells
00:48:06
#018 - An incredible conversation with Pip Waller and Lucy Wells on working with plant spirit medicine healing and engaging with Nature on a deeper level.
In this episode, Pip and Lucy offer profound insight into how people can communicate with plant spirits, and the role that plant spirits have for human evolution at this point in history. They also share about the added layers that working with plant spirits can bring into all forms of healing work.
Pip Waller and Lucy Wells are Plant Spirit Medicine healers and the founders of Touched by Nature Plant Spirit Medicine. With a background in plant spirit medicine, herbalism, and energetic healing systems, they are also the authors of several books including Touched by Nature: Plant Spirit Medicine Journeys.
Pip and Lucy are also offering Plant Spirit Podcast listeners a 20% off discount code for a year of their online deep Nature Connection Course on working with the elemental energy of the seasons. Here is the discount code, which you can redeem at https://touchedbynaturepsm.uk/course/: 20TBN
Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times with Dr. Anita Sanchez
00:38:27
#019 - What are the Four Sacred Gifts of the Eagle Hoop Prophecy?
Join us for a very special Plant Spirit Podcast conversation with Nahua (Aztec) and Mexican American author Dr. Anita Sanchez on Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times.
In this episode, Anita offers profound insight into the wisdom of the Four Sacred Gifts in the Eagle Hoop Prophecy and how this provides guidance on how to be in right relationship with the self and all life at this pivotal time on the planet.
She also shares about the power of collective dreaming and how this is connected to her work with the Pachamama Alliance, where she guides life-changing trips into the Amazon to connect with the healing power of the rainforest and Indigenous Sapara and Achuar people who live in deep reciprocal relationship with Nature.
Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec) and Mexican American, is a transformational leadership consultant, speaker, coach, podcast host of "Two-Legged Experience" and author of seven books including the international award-winning book - The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times .
She bridges indigenous teachings with the latest science to inspire and equip women and men to enjoy meaningful, empowered lives and careers while caring for the earth and each other. She is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, Evolutionary Leadership, and Board member of Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance. Anita leads an annual journey into the sacred headwaters of the Amazon.
Anita is passionate about “inspiring people to discover and trust their gifts so that they become a life-giving connection to people and to the planet.” Recent awards include Conscious Company Media 2020 World Changing Woman and the World Woman Foundation #SheismyHero awards with Jane Goodall and fifty-eight other brilliant, heart-centered women.
This summer, Dr. Anita Sanchez is co-leading a Pachamama Alliance Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon Rainforest Journey with Dr. Kit Tennis where participants are invited by Indigenous Sapara and Achuar people to experience a profound immersion in the rainforest. On this journey, you will be invited into their ancestral culture, with direct experience to learn from an uninterrupted lineage of wisdom amongst the vibrant rainforest. This remote environment becomes curiously familiar as it awakens an ancient memory, stored in our very DNA, of a natural and harmonious way of living and being.
You can learn more and register for the upcoming Pachamama Alliance Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon Rainforest Journey with Anita from August 17 – 28, 2022 at: https://www.pachamama.org/journeys
Welcoming Children’s Inner Wisdom with Earth School with Patricia Walsh-Collins
00:32:19
#020 – What would this world look like if kids were taught from a young age to cultivate connection with the wisdom of the Earth?
Join us for an incredible conversation with Patricia Walsh-Collins on how to help children connect with the living relationship between Nature, people, art, and the self.
In this episode, Patricia shares about her experience with Earth School and why it’s important to cultivate awareness of the connection between inner wisdom and Nature from a young age. She also offers experiential insight into the power of giving kids permission to be innately who they are, and the value of demystifying intuition and honoring cyclical ways of being in Nature.
Patricia Walsh-Collins is an Intuitive Educator and the Founder and Director of the Art of Spirit's, Earth School. The mission of Earth School is to facilitate a child's spiritual connection to their inner life, through a living relationship with the Natural World and all beings.
Listening to the Language of the Land as Grief Alchemy with Elsie Lopez
00:43:41
#021 - Join us for an amazing conversation with plant medium, educator, and writer Elsie Lopez on how the land is holding a healing language right now that can help us transform layers of grief and connect to a state of presence.
In this episode, Elsie shares profound wisdom on accessing healing codes and being in a co-creative process with plants and the land. She also offers key practices forlearning how to communicate directly with the landscapes around us, and insight into the transformative experience of connecting with the land of our ancestors.
Elsie also shares poetry on working with Yarrow flower essence, and her experience with the power of dance to support movement and healing in life’s great transitions.
As the daughter of Kiskeyan immigrants, Elsie Lopez grew up living and traveling through the concrete jungle of New York City and the lush campos of Kiskeya (the Dominican Republic). Elsie is plant medium, ethnobotanist, educator, writer, intuitive designer, and founder of Gold Water Alchemy and the Gold Water Education Center.
She’s also the creator of Herbascopes and Florascopes, through which she shares knowledge of plant spirit wisdom and medicine. Elsie’s work focuses on language, sound medicine, and creating holistic spaces, remedies, and happenings.
Tending the Garden of the Soul with Lisa Estabrook
00:43:59
#022 - Join us for an incredible conversation with artist, plant whisperer, and wayshower Lisa Estabrook on how flowers create space for healing.
In this episode, Lisa shares about the timely medicine of her close ally Dandelion and what it means to tend the garden of the soul. She also offers wisdom about her experience with flower medicine as story medicine, and how Nature helps us connect with the power of witnessing, observing, and being compassionate towards the self and others.
Lisa Estabrook is an artist, mother, way shower, author, home herbalist, and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years figuring out how to live a meaningful, heart-led, healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing which also launched her heART based Soulflower business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet.
The founder of the online Soulflower CommUNITY Garden, Lisa's belief is that the more we learn about ourselves and take responsibility for our own healing journeys, the more we will empower and support ourselves and by extension our families, our communities and ultimately the Earth herself.
Join Sara Artemisia for an incredible conversation with Herbalist Lupo Passero of Twin Star Herbal Education and Community Apothecary on the experience of remembrance and the path of the Green Witch.
In this amazing Plant Spirit Podcast episode, Lupo shares about the importance of listening to plant and human elders, how we all have plant people in our lineage, and the importance of coming from a space of gratitude and love when reclaiming the power of the word 'Witch.' Lupo also offers deep insight into how flower essences can support releasing trauma and how people can strengthen their own power of recognizing or becoming a Green Witch.
Lupo Passero is the Herbalist Director of Twin Star Herbal Education and Community Apothecary. She brings over 20 years of knowledge, intimate relationship, and understanding of the plants and essences, and she pairs this with a deep appreciation for the healing connection between the mind, body and spirit.
AtTUNEing to the Frequency & Spirit of Trees with Geri Littlejohn
00:24:01
#023 - Join us for an amazing conversation with flute player and crafter Geri Littlejohn on the reciprocal nature of our relationship with trees and the sacred process of making and playing flutes.
In this episode, Geri shares about her process of connecting with the spirit of trees and the experience of working with the breath as an instrument. She also graciously plays a song on an Elder tree flute that she recently made and shares about the journey and process of making this particular flute. A very special experience!
Geri Littlejohn is a flute player, crafter, and founder of Wicozani Flutes, where she brings woodworking and soulcraft together in honor of music and the spirit of Nature.
In deep connection of honoring Nature and Spirit, Geri weaves together the wisdom of the trees with the prayer of breath through the flutes she’s been making for 30 years in sacred reciprocity.
#025 - What can plant music teach us about being human?
Join us for an amazing conversation with Plant Music Composer & Sound Healer Shane Mendonsa on his experience of co-creating with the plants through generative music.
In this episode, Shane offers deep insight into how connecting with plants through plant music can help us connect to a state of healing. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here. Such wonderful medicine for these times!
Shane Mendonsa is a music composer and sound healer who creates plant music, which allows him to explore his relationship with Nature. He also practices sound healing with tuning forks. This is an extension of his work that allows him to explore the healing effects of music on bodies and spaces.
Pōhala and the Ancient Wisdom of Fern Medicine with Ke'oni Hanalei
00:33:08
#026 – What are the ancient teachings of primordial plants, and what messages of healing are they offering to us now?
Join us for a very special Plant Spirit Podcast conversation with Culturalist and Alchemist Ke’oni Hanalei, who honors the ancient plant medicine lineage of his Maui grandmother (tūtū), Kau'ikeonalani, in his work and connection with plants.
In this episode, Ke’oni offers profound insight into the ancient, timely wisdom of Pohala (to recover consciousness), and how plants can support this process. Recognizing that the vast majority of what he knows regarding plant medicine comes from his direct lineage where plants are gathered and honored in ceremony and in connection with the moon phases, Ke’oni shares about the protocols of plant medicine collaboration.
He also shares about his experience and direct knowledge of Pua’aehuehu, which is Fern Medicine, or emotional intelligence. He offers messages and wisdom on the healing gifts of Ferns, including what they can tell us about coming into balance and homeostasis on the planet at this time.
Ke’oni Hanalei is a descendant of the Mū people, the inhabitants of Papahānaumokuakea (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands) before the migration of the Polynesians, through the lines of Kā’ō’u’ikalanikaleimaumau, Ololu on his maternal grandmothers line, and Mahat on his maternal grandfathers line.
Ke’oni comes from a long line of healers, mystics, fisherman, navigators, and farmers embedded in ‘ike, or knowledge, and he is the founder of PōHALA Hawaiian Botanicals, based in Maui and Kaua’i in the Hawaiian islands.
A vast majority of what Ke’oni knows regarding plant medicine and distillation comes from this direct lineage. His grandmother and female elders taught him the trade of plant extraction. Most of the methods he resources in medicine making remains loyal to these practices. Medicinals, including the oils, tinctures, hydrosols, and essences and essentials, are gathered and honored in ceremony and thus extracted in small batches over a period of time loyal to distinct moon phases which place a botanicals specific house of power. This is the old way and ensures a plant transfers its life-force (mana) into product form.
Pua’aehuehu, Fern Medicine, or emotional intelligence, is one aspect of this ‘ike, and dominates what he expresses today. This is the legacy of his lineage. Fern Medicine is the awareness of the movement of emotions, and the release from control fixation. Ke’oni is also versed in ancient primal, meditative, and movement practices, such as ‘Ulu, which incite cellular memory, DNA activation, and the comprehension of familial and lineal wisdom through the reading of the nervous system and DNA.
To connect with Ke’oni, please visit www.pohala.net and IG
Flower Essences for Times of Transition & Healing with Kathleen Aspenns and Rochana Felde
00:38:01
#027 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Flower Essence Practitioners Kathleen Aspenns & Rochana Felde on how flower essences offer wisdom and support to people in times of transition and healing.
In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana share key messages from essences they’ve been working with recently and why flower essences are such an effective medicine for highly sensitive people. They offer wisdom on the value of plant-centric flower essence education and how an experience of holographic, open-source healing is available when we connect directly with Nature. They also share about the inspiration and experience of collaborating on The Flower Essence Podcast, and how that led to the Flower Essence Conference and School for Flower Essence Studies.
Rochana Felde and Kathleen Aspenns are the co-producers of The Flower Essence Podcast, co-hosts of the Flower Essence Conference, and co-founders of the School for Flower Essence Studies with Ruth Toleldo Altschuler.
For over a decade, Kathleen Aspenns has been helping her clients overcome challenges, heal from traumatic experiences, and find a greater sense of connection to themselves and to Nature. She is a Nature Intuitive and practices Flower Essence Therapy specializing in women and their beloved animal companions.
Her ability to listen deeply and compassionately, and to select precisely the right flower essences, helps each client feel fully supported as she takes the next step in her journey of healing and personal evolution. Kathleen has developed her own line of flower essences, the Flora of Asia. Many of these plants have been used for thousands of years as herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine and are available now for the first time as flower essences.
Rochana Felde is a flower essence practitioner, researcher, educator, and co-founder of The School for Flower Essence Studies. She and Kathleen Aspenns have been producing the Flower Essence Podcast for 3 years, and co-hosted the Flower Essence Conference earlier this year. In her private practice, Rochana formulates custom essence blends for clients needing support with high sensitivity, self-acceptance, life direction and empowerment. She lives in a small forest community on the North Coast of California with her husband and many plants.
#028 – Have you ever had a plant teacher whose clarity and depth of humble wisdom resonates as clear as a bell in the core of your being?
Olatokunboh Obasi is an herbal teacher like this, and in this very special Plant Spirit Podcast episode, she shares profound insight into the nature of our connection with plants, the elements, and all Nature. She also offers wisdom on the value of connecting with the plants that grow directly around us, and how plants teach us how to relate better to people and all life.
We first recorded this conversation for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. And in the wake of the recent Hurricane Fiona, we are sharing it here today as part of a GoFundMe fundraiser that will allow Olatokunboh to stay in her home in Boriké (Puerto Rico), which is a foundational place for healing and herbal teachings that support so many.
This will in turn allow her to rebuild her healing gardens from the recent devastation of Hurricane Fiona and continue to serve as a pillar of healing and Afro-indigenous herbal teachings for both the local and global healing community.
Olatokunboh Obasi MSc, RH (AHG), CNS is a Clinical Herbalist & Educator, andfounder of the Well of Indigenous Wisdom school for herbal medicine and African cosmology. She’s the Boriké (Puerto Rico) Coordinator for Herbalists without Borders International, and up for elections as a Board Member for the American Herbalists Guild.
She’s also the Owner of Omaroti, a wellness shop for wellbeing, and thevisionary founder for the upcoming Caribbean Herbal Symposium. Her devotion is to serve humanity and care-take the earth.
Olatokunboh’s home in Mayagüez is the foundation for the healing work, herbal gardens, apothecary, and teachings that support so many people in the local and global community.
In the recent Hurricane Fiona, her home was damaged and the healing gardens she has invested so much in, were devastated.
As you listen to this podcast and incredible conversation of deep plant wisdom, I invite you to please go to the GoFundMe link below, and contribute any donation that you are able to at this time.
Thank you so much for your time, generosity and contributions. And enjoy the incredible teachings and conversation with Olatokunboh on herbal and Indigenous wisdom!
#029 - Join us for an amazing conversation with seed grower Chris Hardy on the regenerative power of biodiverse seed saving, and why this practice is so key for supporting long-term food systems.
In this episode, Chris shares about regenerative farming practices, how people can get involved with the heritage grain seed library, and how connecting with ancient diverse grains around the world have impacted his work with seeds and growing food. He also shares about his experience with initiating the GMO crop ban in Southern Oregon and tips for people who are interested in doing the same in their local areas.
Chris Hardy is the owner and lead grower at Hardy Seeds, and he’s been challenging the paradigm of modern agriculture since he began farming over 20 years ago. In 2015, Chris founded Hardy Seeds to continue the work his grandfather inspired, and he now oversees an extensive collection of heritage grains, legumes, herbs, and vegetable seeds.
Chris was the initiator of the historic campaign in Southern Oregon to ban genetically engineered (GMO) crops to protect traditional seeds from the threat of contamination, and he serves on several nonprofit boards and associations committed to actively supporting seed diversity and small farm resilience. His extensive travels abroad have kept his passion high for cultural diversity, regenerative farming and community engagement.
Building Bridges Between People and our Elders, the Plants, with Robin Rose Bennett
00:44:00
#030 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Storyteller, Writer, and Herbalist Robin Rose Bennett on the joy and wisdom of connecting with our Plant Elders.
In this episode, Robin Rose shares about the power of connecting with joy as medicine and how herbalists can help connect people with plants for healing. She also offers deep insight into the nature of Rose medicine and how we can embody the teachings of the plants.
She also shares a bonus sneak peak into the life wisdom of her soon–to-be published book: A Green Witch’s Pocket Book of Wisdom: Big Little Life Tips. Stay tuned for this one, as it is sure to be magical!
Robin Rose Bennett is a story-teller, writer, and herbalist. She has been offering classes in WiseWoman Healing Ways: Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings since 1986 - at herb conferences, festivals, clinics, medical and nursing schools, and most joyously, outside with the plants. Robin Rose shares herbal medicine with gratitude for the loving generosity of the plants and the magic, mystery, and beauty of the web of life.
She is on the faculty of the New York Open Center and the Arbor-Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism, and is the author of two meditation MP3’s and the books: Healing Magic- A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living and The Gift of Healing Herbs - Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life.
Multilayered Healing with Australian Bush Flower Essences with Ian White
00:43:11
#031 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with 5th generation Australian herbalist Ian White on the power of flower essences as a potent modality for healing.
In this episode, Ian shares about the power of listening and collaborating with the plant realm and some specific essences that are supportive for collective challenges people are currently experiencing, particularly with stress and sleep issues.
He also offers deep insight into the results of global research being done with flower essences and how essences work with the emotional, energetic, and physical bodies. And he shares about his experience of the pure joy and wisdom that arises in connecting directly with flowers.
Ian White is the Founder & CEO of Australian Bush Flower Essences. After obtaining his Bachelor of Science from the University of N.S.W. and graduating from the N.S.W. College of Natural Therapies, Ian has been practicing successfully as a Naturopath for over 40 years, and he is a 5th generation Australian herbalist.
Ian has spent over 35 years travelling all over Australia researching and developing a range of 69 specific Bush Essences. He is also the author of five major books and runs regular seminars and workshops on the Bush Essences in over 30 countries throughout the world.
Co-creating with the Joy, Beauty, and Healing of Flowers with Melanie Plies
00:32:27
#032 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Flower Farmer, Floral Designer, and Flower Fairy Melanie Plies on the joys of collaborating with flowers throughout the seasons.
In this episode, Melanie shares how working closely and being in relationship with flowers can support the healing journey, with special insight into the timeless wisdom of Tulsi Basil. She also offers ways to connect deeply with plants and flowers in the winter months through crafts, botanical adornments, medicine making, plant dances, and working with flower essences.
Melanie Plies is a Flower Farmer, Floral Designer, Flower Fairy, and Founder of Waterleaf Farm. She grows flowers in Ashland, Oregon, ancestral homelands of the Takelma and Shasta peoples, on a land conservancy where she offers U-pick flowers, experiences, and workshops where people can deepen in relationship with the flowers and the Earth.
She loves playing and co-creating with the flowers through growing them, designing arrangements, (body flower adornment), flower essence making, plant forms and dances, and plant meditations. Being with her other plant loving humans in ritual with the plants is one of her greatest joys. As winter is coming, she dreams of being with her kin, the flowers, in the tropics, as the flowers bring so much light and beauty to her life.
Finding Balance through our Relationship with Plants with Renee K. Smith
00:31:32
#35 - Join us for an amazing conversation on the magic & medicine of flowers and our relationship with Nature with Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina), flower essence practitioner and founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary.
In this episode, Renee shares how flowers can help to open layers of awareness in the process of healing and transformation, and how they help us in creating new pathways for how we want to walk in the world. She also offers wisdom on the magic that occurs when we are in community with the natural world, and how connecting with the Earth creates healing and promotes balance in our everyday lives.
Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina) is a certified flower essence practitioner and proud founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary. Akika Flower Essences was created to explore the ancestral practice of tuning into plant intelligence as a tool for transformation, healing, and empowerment on one’s soul journey.
Renee received her flower essence certification from Oceans & Rivers Acupuncture and Wellness and The Flower Essence Society (FES). As a strategist, Renee believes that everyone can manifest their dreams by creating a strategy that encompasses the right people at the right time. Her goal is to assist others to find joy through connecting with plant intelligence in as many forms possible beginning with flower essences.
As an Iyanifa and Olorisa, initiated to Ifa and Egbe in Nigeria, Renee also uses the knowledge she gains from her spiritual practice to assist her clients in finding and maintaining balance in their lives. She continues to expand her repertoire of community tools for healing through consistent study of our plant allies, learning and practicing the art of alchemy as taught by Master Teacher Diana Pharr and becoming a Level II Reiki Practitioner certified by Taino Reiki Healing. Renee is a Brooklyn native, mother, artist, healer, alchemist, strategist, cultural arts curator, flower essence practitioner, SRJ advocate and community member.
The Power of Reishi & Adaptogens for Inner Balance with Brandon Gilbert
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#034 – What wisdom can we learn from the Mushroom of Immortality?
Join us for an amazing conversation with Brandon Gilbert, founder of Hyperion Herbs.
In this episode, Brandon shares about the supportive and life-changing power of adaptogens and tonic herbs. He offers profound insight into the nature of Reishi, long known as the Mushroom of Immortality, and why it’s important to know plants and mushrooms in their natural, raw state. He also shares how his connection with Eastern Philosophy informs his life journey and experience with herbs.
Brandon Gilbert is the Founder of Hyperion Herbs, and he’s been studying Eastern philosophy since the age of 14. After experiencing the profound effect of tonic herbs, Brandon founded Hyperion Herbs to share purely potent tonic herbs and make them accessible and easily available.
He teaches classes and workshop on a variety of subjects ranging from alternative health, healing modalities, herbalism, internal arts, to Eastern philosophy, and he’s the founder of the YouTube channel HyperionTv.com.
Communicating with Plants & Listening to Nature with Nikki Darrell
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#36 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Plant Medicine Teacher, Researcher, and Herbal Practitioner Nikki Darrell on plant consciousness and the value of listening to the inspirations we find in Nature.
In this episode, Nikki shares wisdom on plant sentience and how people and plants communicate with each other. She also offers helpful insights on the importance of slowing down and noticing the seasons, and how dreaming supports tuning into the inspirations embedded in the Nature council and ecosystems around us.
Nikki Darrell is a plant scientist; practitioner of herbal medicine, aromatic medicine, and body work; and founder of the Plant Medicine School. She is also a gardener, educator, campaigner, and author of Conversations with Plants: The Path Back to Nature and Essential Oils: A Concise Manual. She has been working with plants for over four decades as her fascination with the green beings started in early childhood. Her primary teachers are the plants she works with.
Nikki holds a Masters in Social and Co-operative Enterprise, which she embarked on due to her love of sustainable community development. She is devoted to the recovery of our societal and cultural connection to the plant beings, our kin in Nature, and bringing herbal medicine back into the center of our communities. Her passion and vocation is as a plantswoman and medicine person, embracing the spiritual life path of Earth Wisdom.
She now co-facilitates Nature Resonance Medicine with Alex Duffy, where she helps people become re-enchanted with their place in the community of Nature, in harmony with the seen and unseen beings.
Curanderismo and Ancestral Medicine with Xochiketzalli
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#033 – Join us for an incredible conversation with Nana Xochiketzalli on the powerful healing practice of Curanderismo and ancestral medicine.
In this episode, Xochiketzalli shares about working with plant limpias in the ancient healing practice of Curanderismo and her experience of training with maestras and K'iche Mayan Curanderas Nana Tomasa & Nana Sebastiána. She also offers wisdom on offerings of reciprocity and the power of working directly with the Earth for transmuting energy in healing practice.
Xochiketzalli is a Curanderismo practitioner, practicing ancestral medicine and healing on Wiyot land. She is of mixed ancestry & offers traditional limpias, flower limpias, & soul retrieval limpias at her folk Healing Center in Eureka CA.
She is an AjQ'ij, spiritual time keeper, and guardian of the CholQ'ij Mayan calendar. This work was passed onto her after years of training & a decade of working with her maestras Nana Tomasa & Nana Sebastiána who are K'iche Mayan Curanderas. She offers traditional Mayan fire ceremonies, personal and community healings, CholQ'ij Mayan Calendar Astrology readings, and tzi'te divinations.
Xochiketzalli also teaches & is a maestra of ancestral medicine. She offers various classes in art and making sacred tools used in Curanderismo, and she offers two intensive womxns healing series: 9 Moons Cosmic Rebirthing Series & the 13 Ofrendas Ritual Series.
A Well Fed Life: Plants in Food, Healing, and Community with Wilnise Francois
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#037 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Holistic Herbal Chef Wilnise Francois on the nourishing, sensual connection we have with food and how plants help us to reawaken the light body.
In this episode, Wilnise shares wisdom on the experience of Manje Limyè (eat light) in connection with plants, and physical and spiritual wellness. She also offers profound insight on how her lineages in Haitian and African indigenous herbalism influence and shape her embodied lived experience, and how the plantcestors help us understand how to belong in diverse community within the larger web of connectivity and knowing.
Wilnise Francois is a Holistic Herbal Chef, Licensed Nurse, and Herbalist with over 10 years of experience working in the modality of allopathic healing. As founder and curator of the small business Well Fed Apothecary, she has been working to revolutionize the cultural concurrence between earth's botanical plants and heaven's celestial bodies.
While collaborating with physicians and caregivers worldwide, her role as an herbalist extended with the merging of treatment methods from her traditional Haitian practices and her studies of Western herbalism.
In honor of the people's optimal level of health and wellness, she has vowed her life to continue bridging the gap between the sacred indigenous knowledge and the modernized technology of our world.
You can find Wilnise on IG @wilnise https://www.instagram.com/wilnise/ and at https://www.wellfedapothecary.com/ later this spring.
Plant Allies that Help us Weather the Storm with Rosemary Gladstar
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#38 - Join us for an amazing conversation on Plant Allies with the incredible Herbalist and Author Rosemary Gladstar.
Depression, sorrow, grief, and strife seem to be raging right now. But so is hope, beauty, love, kindness and Plant Power. We can learn from the plants how to root deep, hold fast, and weather the storm. And, perhaps, even how to make magic and beauty in the midst of it all.
In this episode, Rosemary shares simple plant teachings that can strengthen us, help heal us, and light the way on our journey.
Roses, Lavender, Comfrey, Nettle, Plantain, Violets, Self Heal, Yarrow, Chamomile, Calendula, Dandelion, Holy Basil and a host of other plant friends and allies are reaching out to us, inviting us to walk the beauty way even as the going gets tough.
Rosemary Gladstar is an Herbalist and Author who’s been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 45 years.
Often referred to as the ‘godmother of American herbalism’, Rosemary is the author of twelve books, and co-founder of both The International Herb Symposium and The New England Women’s Herbal Conference. She’s also the Founding President of United Plant Savers, and the co-founder and original formulator of Traditional Medicinals Tea Company.
In 2018 Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Naturopathic Medicine. She’s also the author of the popular home study course, The Science and Art of Herbalism.
We first recorded this conversation for the most recent Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that we wanted to share it with you here. Such potent medicine for these times!
If you love this conversation with Rosemary Gladstar and you've been recently craving a connection to the state of centered balance and joy of deep herbal wisdom, you can learn from 33 additional notable Herbalists, Authors, Teachers, and Plant Expert speakers in the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit here: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/plant-spirit-herbalism-2
Flower Essence Therapy and Archetypal Healing with Lindsay Fauntleroy
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#39 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Acupuncturist and Author Lindsay Fauntleroy on how flower essences address the root patterns of imbalance and support archetypal emergence and awakening in the healing process.
In this episode, Lindsay shares powerful insights into what we can learn from African and Indigenous healing systems, and practical tips for how to connect directly with Nature and the elements through different layers and states of consciousness.
She also shares about the difference between working with flower essences and Flower Essence Therapy, and how working with the spirit intelligence of plants opens a shift in perspective as we come deeper into relationship with Nature. Lindsay additionally offers how wellness practitioners can integrate flower essences into their work, and key learnings that are integral to having an effective flower essence practice.
Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power. She is also the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos.
Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program.
Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.
Flower Essences and the Regenerative Path with Ruth Toledo Altschuler
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#40 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Certified Flower Essence Practitioner and Educator Ruth Toledo Altschuler on how the elements, plants, and flower essences offer templates of wholeness that support the experience of coming home to the living world with our whole being.
At a time on the planet when the human species has become so disconnected from the experience of the fabric of life, how do we become co-creators with the web of life again?
In this episode, Ruth offers profound wisdom on how the elements, plants, and flower essences support the experience of coming into a state of embodied presence. She shares about vibrational medicine of specific flowers including Green Fairy Orchid, Moschatel, and Green Rain Orchid; and the power of being rooted and connecting with the process of inner reforestation.
She also offers incredible insight on how for people who are feeling called to become part of the regeneration of Gaia at this time, amazing plants such as Lady’s Mantle can help us connect with how to be agents of this healing through our hands and our hearts.
Certified Flower Essence Practitioner, Voice Dialogue facilitator and True Purpose Coach, Ruth is originally from Brazil, where she initially launched her practice. An early connection with plants in Nature and a deep insight into the human psyche informed her practice of more than 3 decades, mentoring individuals through deep emotional healing, integration and empowerment.
Ruth’s greatest strength is identifying emotional patterns, offering clarity and tools so her clients can transform attitudes and habits, freeing their life force, so their lives can evolve and flourish to the next stage. Her ease with technology, skills as a photographer / designer, and her deep connection with the healing Archetypes of plants and flowers are a channel through which she brings Nature forces to infuse our inner and our digital world with healing beauty and integration, in times of polarization and fragmentation.
Ruth is also the Co-founder of The School for Flower Essence Studies and Co-host of the Flower Essence Alchemy Earth Week Intensive, which starts on April 17th!
In this amazing event, incredible teachers and experts will be sharing deep knowledge on experiencing the relationship between the elements, the essences, and ourselves; and how we can co-create and nurture a vitally potent sense of integration of our human selves within the web of creation.
The Mauri of Plants: Going Deeper into the Forest with Joanne Hakaraia
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#41 - What healing wisdom awaits when we study the ancient maps and walk deeper into the forest?
Join us for a wonderful conversation with Rongoā Māori Healer Joanne Hakaraia on the mauri, or life force, of plants and how she connects with the primordial wisdom and energy that comes from being in the ngahere (forest).
In this episode, Joanne shares an incredible honoring of her ancient lineage with the traditional healing plant medicines of Aotearoa New Zealand. She also offers insight into how she works with the waka or energetic vessel, to help guide people into a deeper way of connecting, knowing, and working with the plants.
Joanne Hakaraia is a Rongoā Māori Healer and Māori wahine born and raised in Ōtaki, Aotearoa. She is tangata whenua of Aotearoa. The Tararua ranges and the Ōtaki and Waitohu rivers raised her.
She walks with her ancestors exploring the land and working with the mauri of plants. She created a waka, an esoteric vessel, to navigate her way through the ngahere (forest). One tree at a time. She gathered a roopū (group) and studied the trees that protect the ngahere. Then went further into the ngahere and studied the Rākau Rangatira (The Older trees).
Connecting to the mauri of plants and sharing that knowledge for healing is Joanne's life purpose. She has dedicated her life to working with and studying plants.
Herbs as the Cornerstones of Wellbeing with Khetnu Nefer
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#42 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Women’s Health Practitioner Khetnu Nefer as she shares about foundational plant wisdom she learned from her grandmother, how the path of herbalism has changed her life, and the power of being a conduit for healing and resource.
Khetnu also shares the inspiration that guided her to create The Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, an incredible herbal conference for Black and Indigenous herbalists and community. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here. Such potent medicine for these times!
Khetnu Nefer is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Educator, Massage Therapist, Herbalist, Reiki Master, Author, Sound Healer, African Dance Professor, and founder of A Soulful Touch Wellness. She is also the Founder of the Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, an herbal conference for Black and Indigenous herbalists and community, happening this year from October 6-8, 2023 on picturesque John's Island, SC.
This herbal conference is a weekend filled with informative workshops that span Gullah Geechee culture, herbal and holistic health practices and other useful topics from amazing teachers of Gullah Geechee heritage and from around the Diaspora.
Herbal Reciprocity & the Bridge between Scientific and Intuitive Ways of Knowing with Lucy Jones
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#43 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Medical Herbalist Lucy Jones on working with herbs as individuals and the profound healing that can occur when we listen to the inherent wisdom of plants.
In this episode, Lucy shares deep herbal wisdom from the experience of her Celtic healing lineage and extensive background in clinical western herbalism and Tibetan Medicine studies. She also offers insight into how Tibetan Medicine complements western herbalism frameworks for healing, and how growing, gathering and processing her own herbal medicines is such a valuable experience and important part of her practice.
Lucy Jones is a qualified medical herbalist and owner of Myrobalan Clinic, a busy high street practice in Somerset, UK. Prior to qualifying in western herbalism, she earned two degrees from Oxford University and studied Tibetan Medicine with the great master, Khenpo Troru Tsenam. When treating patients, she combines Tibetan and western approaches to treatment in her practice.
Lucy grows, gathers, and processes most of the herbs she prescribes and is the author of "Self Sufficient Herbalism" (2020), and her new book, "A Working Herbal Dispensary: Respecting Herbs as Individuals" (May 2023). Both are published by Aeon Books.
Aeon Books is offering Plant Spirit Podcast listeners a 20% off discount code, available for a limited time on Lucy’s new book, “A Working Herbal Dispensary.” Here is the discount code, which you can redeem at www.aeonbooks.co.uk: WHD20
Heart Coherence and Communicating with Plants with Jen Frey
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#44 - Join us for a lovely conversation with Author and Earth Advocate Jen Frey on communicating with plants and the value of connecting with Nature through heart-based practices.
In this episode, Jen shares wisdom on plant communication, her experience with Yarrow, and how working with the intelligence of the heart allows us to come into a state of coherence. She also offers some simple practices that people can do to connect with plants through the heart, and wisdom on how the Plants invite us to embody the experience that we are all connected and remember that we are part of Nature.
Jen Frey is a Healer, Mentor, Earth Advocate and Voice of the Plants. She is the Founder of Brigid's Way and is leading the Plant-a-tary Evolution. Jen is the co-steward of Heart Springs Sanctuary, a living example of how to create a more sustainable future by engaging in co-creative partnership with Nature. With over 20 years of experience with plant essences, energy work, and herbal practices, her private consultations and plant based protocols are known for helping clients through emotional life transitions, physical health crises, and chronic conditions.
Jen has dedicated her life to the spiritual path of plant work. Her apprenticeship certification programs, ceremonies, retreats and workshop offerings are designed for people wanting to open their hearts, fall in love with plants and deepen their relationship to the planet. Jen is the Author of Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits, published by Inner Traditions.
Black North American Herbalism with Shereel Washington
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#45 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbal Teacher, Dancer, and Martial Artist Shereel Washington on the vital experience and lineage of Black North American Herbalism.
In this episode, Shereel shares herbal wisdom honoring her lineage of healing with Black Elders and why having a multicultural knowledge of plants helps us to understand them more fully. She also offers historical and familial stories of plants that she loves, and tips for people who would like to connect with a more multicultural approach to herbalism.
Shereel is an instructor at the Berkeley Herbal Center, Scarlet Sage's Community Classes, the Land of Verse Apprentice Herbal Certification Program, and at the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium (NCWHS).
She is a speaker and was a guest panelist for the Sonoma County Herb Exchange Live Virtual Panel: “Honoring The Roots,” Naomi Love’s: Wise Womb Way Virtual Symposium, and a three-time panelist on Women of Color: “Do You Walk In Our Shoes'' and "Sprouting Liberation" at the NCWHS.
Shereel also teaches Dance and Qigong at the Deep Root Center for Spiritual Studies MOVE: Spirit & Rhythm Dance Program in Oakland, CA, and she is the Founder of Ixalted natural body care & botanicals.
Integrative Herbalism & Wilderness Medicine with Sam Coffman
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#46 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Clinical Herbalist & Teacher Sam Coffman on how incorporating multiple paradigms in clinical herbalism can support an effective and truly integrative approach to health.
In this episode, Sam shares first-hand experiences on working with the healing power of herbs in Echinacea, Comfrey, Horsetail, Prickly Pear, and others in wilderness medicine, wilderness first aid situations, and complex clinical cases.
He also offers deep wisdom on how his journey in many different realms of life including clinical herbalism, martial arts, the Special Forces, linguistics, philosophy, music, western medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has shaped his relationship with the Earth.
Sam Coffman (MSAOM, RH[AHG]) began his medical education in the Army as a Special Forces Medic (aka Green Beret medic) in 1989. Over the years that followed, he looked toward herbalism as a way to provide sustainable health care in remote and post-disaster regions for chronic, acute and physical trauma care.
Over the following three decades, Sam’s primary goal has become the creation of an integrative medical model that embraces vitalistic, TCM and western medical approaches to herbalism into a collaboration with western orthodox models of diagnosis and treatment for acute and chronic health care conditions.
Sam has taught herbalism for over 30 years and has worked as a clinical herbalist for over 15 years. He founded and runs Herbal Medics Academy (AKA The Human Path), which offers four primary programs - Clinical Herbalism, Austere Medicine, Advanced Medicine Making, and Family Herbalism.
Deepening Connection with the Natural World with Yarrow Willard
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#47 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Clinical Master Herbalist Yarrow Willard (aka Herbal Jedi) on building relations with the natural world and bridging the connection between our internal and external environments.
In this episode, Yarrow shares deep herbal wisdom on how plants and wild spaces support the experience of grounding and realignment. He offers profound insight into how plants speak in a pattern language and the value of staying connected to a sense of childlike wonder on the plant path.
Yarrow also shares about his experience with some amazing medicinal plant teachers including Devil’s Club, Self Heal, Dandelion, Burdock, Blackberry, Hawthorn, and Plantain, and how they help with building resilience and reconnection from the inside out.
Yarrow Willard (aka Herbal Jedi) is a second generation Clinical/Master Herbalist who has spent his lifetime exploring the art and science of Plant Medicine and holistic health. As an educator, philosopher and medicine maker, he delivers rich and original content, focused on reclaiming health and deepening connection with the natural world. Yarrow's social channels and extensive collection of YouTube videos are packed with valuable knowledge and a healthy dose of inspiration.
Professionally, Yarrow is an international speaker and YouTuber by the name of The Herbal Jedi. He is Co-founder/Formulator at Harmonic Arts, Director of the Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine, and Co-creator of the Canadian Herb Conferences.
#48 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Herbalist and Educator Lupo Passero on the power of deepening our relationship with the medicinal plants of our ancestors.
In this episode, Lupo shares about her recent experience of traveling to her ancestral homeland in Sicily and how working with ancestral plants helps us connect with a deep remembering of who we are in relationship to the Earth. She offers profound wisdom on the power of reclaiming her Strega lineage and the experience of connecting with many plant allies in Southern Italy including Rosemary, Bay, Olive, Pomegranate, and Calendula. She also shares key insights on the importance of learning recipes, songs, stories, and ancestral practices of spiritual protection and healing with the plants.
Lupo grew up in hardwood forests of the Northeast. Her paternal Grandmother was a wise woman, a Strega, from Italy. Her paternal Great Grandmother came from Knocknashee, the Druid Hill of the Fae, in Sligo, Ireland.
Since childhood she has been studying plants, creating circles, hosting ceremonies, and holding ritual space for others. At 18 she was pulled to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains where she began her botanical studies. As a young mother, Lupo’s greatest teachers have been her two (now grown) children. Her humble beginning of studying herbs and flower essences as a young mother in the 90's inspired her to learn and go on to teach others.
Lupo is the Founder and Director of Twin Star School of Herbal and Energetic Studies. For over two decades she has had the privilege to teach thousands of students, in both Asheville NC, CT/NYC area as well as around the globe, the art of energetic and spiritual herbalism. Her recent trip to Sicily to visit her homeland, has greatly deepened her love and connection to her Sud Italian heritage and reclaiming her birthplace as an American Italian Strega. A true a teacher at heart, Lupo continues to deepened her relationship within her own lineage, as well as many others, by sitting at the feet of and learning from as many teachers as possible.
Plants as a Gateway to Nature Connection with Rosalee de la Forêt
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#49 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt on how connecting with wild medicinal plants supports an experience of joy and deep fulfillment in our relationship with the Earth.
In this episode, Rosalee shares about the transformative experience of working with some amazing herbs including St. John’s Wort, Elderberry, and Hawthorn, and how a sense of curiosity and wonder arises when we witness Nature. She also offers insight on the current phenomenon of plant blindness, and how getting to know herbs inspires an inherently joyful relationship of reciprocity in our experience with the Earth.
Rosalee is passionate about inspiring people to turn to the healing gifts of medicinal plants and nature connection. She finds daily inspiration in the beauty of the Methow Valley in WA state where she has lived for the past 15 years. She is the author of the bestselling books Alchemy of Herbs: Transforming Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies that Heal and co-author of Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine.
Rosalee is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and was an herbal clinician for 6 years before dedicating her offerings to herbal education. In addition to writing books she teaches many online herbal courses about herbalism, nature connection, and medicine making. She is also the host of the Herbs With Rosalee podcast and YouTube channel.
Flower Folklore: Windows of Connection with Nina Veteto
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#50 – What are the secrets of the wildflowers? Join us for an amazing conversation with Forager, Plant Lover, and Artist Nina Veteto on how plant lore helps us connect with each other and the green world.
In this episode, Nina shares her love of flower folklore and how we are wired to connect to the plants through stories. She also offers key insights into how stories provide a way of accessing our heart connection with the green world, and she shares the secret folklore and lineage of her family’s history with Violet, one of her most beloved plant allies.
Nina Veteto is a long time forager, explorer, plant lover & art maker. She’s the Founder of Blue Ridge Botanic and lives in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains surrounded by the inspiration and materials that she brings to her art.
Nina loves growing plants & flowers, making art and teas, and sharing about flower folklore. A former public school teacher and environmental educator, she has turned her passion for plants and their stories into a successful Instagram series called “Secret Stories of the Wildflowers,” which has gained over 100k followers to date. She has also just launched a new substack called Flora and Forage, where she shares articles on foraging, plant ID, folklore, conservation issues, flower fairies, wild tea, and more.
The Practical Magic of Green Witch Wisdom with Robin Rose Bennett
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#51 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbalist, Story-teller, and Writer Robin Rose Bennett on the magic and presence we can find with our allies in the green world.
In this episode, Robin Rose shares deep Earth-based wisdom on practices and teachings from the plants that can help us connect with a sense of joyful presence and belonging in the world. She also offers insight from her book, A Green Witch's Pocket Book of Wisdom - Big Little Life Tips, on experiencing magic in the mundane, the importance of heeding your dreams, and how we are birthing a new way of being in the world.
Robin Rose Bennett is a story-teller, writer, and herbalist. She has been offering classes in WiseWoman Healing Ways: Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings since 1986 - at herb conferences, festivals, clinics, medical and nursing schools, and most joyously, outside with the plants. She shares herbal medicine with gratitude for the loving generosity of the plants and the magic, mystery, and beauty of the web of life.
Robin Rose is on the faculty of the New York Open Center and the Arbor-Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism. She is also the author of two meditation MP3’s and the amazing books: Healing Magic - A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living, The Gift of Healing Herbs - Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life, and A Green Witch's Pocket Book of Wisdom - Big Little Life Tips.
A Green Witch’s Pocket Book of Wisdom- Big Little Life Tips is filled with golden nuggets of green witch magic and silver strands of spiritual wisdom. It offers inspiring guidance to help you live authentically and vibrantly, and provides practices that will support you as you grow and evolve. It draws upon teachings that the author has practiced for decades.
The Witching Herbs and Samhain with The Seed SistAs
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#52 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Herbal Drama Queens Kaz & Fi of The Seed SistAs on the magic and medicine of power plants and reintegrating the ancient tradition of working with witching herbs in ritual and modern herbalism.
In this episode, The Seed SistAs share about their experience of working in deep partnership with the poison plants and reclaiming the word witch. They offer profound wisdom on how to respectfully work with witching herbs such as Henbane, Datura, and Belladonna, and how they help connect people with Nature and bridge the gap between scientific understanding and the magical realms of herbalism. They also share about how the witching herbs and power plants are associated with the energy and time of Samhain.
Kaz & Fi are The Seed SistAs, sensory herbalists who have a passion for educating others about plant medicine. Their mission: to connect people with their local plants promoting empowerment, autonomy, freedom and diversity in health care.
Medically trained herbalists with a love and interest in the so-called witching herbs of old, they have worked and played together for many moons exploring all that the plants have to share. They combine their clinical experience with ritual, art and creativity to teach herbal medicine in a unique, inspiring and accessible style, led by the plants themselves.
The Seed SistAs are also authors of the books the Sensory Herbal Handbook and Poison Prescriptions - power plant magic, medicine and ritual, available at https://seedsistas.co.uk/books/
Being in Relationship with Nature and the Sacred with Nina Simons
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#53 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons on remembering and reclaiming our sacred relationship with the Earth.
In this episode, Nina shares wisdom on learning directly from Nature, rekindling sacred relationship, and how we can engage in the innovative work of restoration in each moment. She offers deep insights on how spaciousness and community allow for co-creating a culture of thriving in the world that is currently emerging and being born.
She also offers an experiential understanding of how leadership requires us to be in a dance of listening to address social, racial equity, and environmental challenges, and how we are being called into a new level of our humanity to meet this world in the most balanced and centered way.
Nina Simons is the co-founder and Chief Relationship Strategist at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Bioneers is a nonprofit that uses media, convening, and connecting to lift up visionary and practical solutions for many of our most pressing social and ecological challenges, using a whole-system approach.
Nina is a social entrepreneur who is passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, and co-creating a healthy, peaceful, and equitable world for all. She speaks and teaches internationally at schools, conferences, and festivals, and co-facilitates transformative workshops and retreats for women that share practices for regenerative leadership through relational mindfulness.
Throughout her remarkable career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age, orientation, and more to create conditions for mutual learning and leadership development. She produces and speaks at large-scale events to work intimately to help small, diverse groups of women leaders knit together to strengthen each other’s work pursuing intersectional healing and ecological justice.
Nina studied Theater Arts and Psychology at Cornell University. In addition to writing the first and second editions of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership (Green Fire Press), Nina co-edited 2010’s Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart (Park Street Press), which explores the flourishing, passionate forms of leadership emerging from women on behalf of the earth through the prism of more than 30 essays from successful women leaders.
The Intuitive Healing Path with Plants and the Akashic Records with Venessa Rodriguez
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#54 – With everything going on in the world right now, it's important now more than ever that our actions of healing in the world are connected to the space of inner being. And plants are so supportive for helping with this!
How do plants support the path of intuitive healing? Join us for an amazing conversation with Intuitive Nourishment Guide Venessa Rodriguez on how working with plants helps us connect with ancestral medicine and integrate spiritual awakenings into the lived experience.
In this episode, Venessa shares deep wisdom on Wild Rose medicine, the Akashic Records, and how plants can help usher us on our soul path. She also offers key insights into energetic hygiene practices and the importance of listening to the wisdom of the body so you can be a vessel for your medicine.
Venessa Rodriguez, CNS is a mama, herbalist, intuitive nourishment guide, Akashic Soul Record channeler, and clinical nutritionist. Through her holistic healing & wellness education collective, Wildly Rooted, and her podcast Feed Your Wild, Venessa gets to the root of collective dis-ease & re-membering the soul back into medicine through radical nourishment of body, mind, & spirit. Venessa is also the founder of the Wildly Intuitive Practitioner Pathway and has worked in private practice since 2011 combining the science + spirituality of food & herbs.
Wildly Intuitive Practitioner Pathway (WIPP) is a 9-month intuitive healing mentorship and practitioner mastermind. It’s for wild-hearted practitioners & healers looking to develop a truly wholistic intuitive healing practice, step out of the “spiritual closet” and bridge the spiritual and mystical with the scientific and practical in client healing work.
Listeners of the Plant Spirit Podcast also have a special invite to Venessa’s workshop, Dare to Shine, Healer: Breakthrough Imposter Syndrome & Amplify Your Intuitive Gifts
A Powerful Workshop for Practitioner & Healer’s For Overcoming One of the Biggest Blocks Holding You Back From Your Soul Path & Medicine. If you've been struggling with imposter syndrome, fear of being seen, and/or procrastinating on utilizing your intuitive gifts in your healing work, this workshop is for you!
Ancestral Folk Herbalism & Plant Allies in Generational Healing with Mimi Hernandez
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#55 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbalist, Ethnobotanist, and Author Mimi Prunella Hernandez on how her roots in Latin American Folk Herbalism and Curanderismo have influenced her approach to herbal medicine.
In this episode, Mimi shares stories from the kitchen of her childhood with her Mexican abuelita and the immersive aromas of Cinnamon and Chocolate. She offers wisdom on how herbal aromas can help with healing generational trauma, and her experience with powerful plant allies including Rue, Rosemary, Lemongrass, Helichrysum, and Chickweed. Mimi also shares about the immense joy of stewarding native plant sanctuaries and a bit of the journey that brought her to the PonderLand Native Plant Sanctuaries.
Mimi Prunella Hernandez is an herbalist, ethnobotanist, and author of the National Geographic Herbal. She is the Executive Director of the American Herbalists Guild, and she believes that keeping plant wisdom alive is essential. Her herbal roots are inspired by her Colombian and Mexican Grandmothers with a Latin American Folk Herbalism and Curanderismo lineage.
With her wealth of knowledge, unwavering dedication, and genuine love for all things herbal, Mimi has made a significant impact in the field of herbal medicine. She has dedicated her life's work to serving as an advocate for both traditional and professional herbal pathways while building cultural bridges of understanding.
Herbal Folklore, Recipes, and Rituals for Yule with Ellen Evert Hopman
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#56 - Join us for a delightful conversation with Author, Herbalist, and Druid Ellen Evert Hopman on the sacred herbs, traditions, recipes, and magical celebrations of the yuletide season.
In this episode, Ellen shares about solstice rituals and herbal recipes that people have long connected with across cultures spanning from ancient Egypt to the Druidic traditions in honor of the returning of the sun. She offers insights on the origins of the Christmas tree and lessons that the conifers and evergreen plants can teach us during the winter solstice. She also shares wisdom on the Druidic path, herbs associated with the fire festivals in the wheel of the year including Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, and Samhain, and the most potent times to gather plants both for medicine and magic.
Ellen Evert Hopman is the author of a number of books and has been a teacher of Herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990. She is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and has presented on Druidism, herbal lore, tree lore, Paganism and magic at conferences, festivals, and events in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and in the United States. She is a co-founder of The Order of White Oak and was its co-Chief for five years, and was the founder and former ArchDruid of Tribe of the Oak.
Imbolc & Connecting to Cycles of the Herbal Year with Katie Rose Browning
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What is the deeper meaning of Imbolc, and how plants can help us connect with the inner spark of life and sense of reawakening?
Pour your favorite cup of tea and join us today for a wonderful conversation with Certified Herbalist, Flower Essence Practitioner, and Earth Centered Ceremonialist Katie Rose Browning on the power of Imbolc and connecting to cycles of the herbal year.
In this episode, Katie shares insights on Imbolc with nourishing wisdom on herbs such as Rosemary, Calendula, Angelica, Ginger, and Turmeric that can help us reignite the inner flame. She also shares how plants can support connecting to the lunar and planetary cycles that we live within.
Katie weaves Vitalist, Wise Woman and Earth-Centered herbal traditions into her practice and teachings and is a channel for facilitating relationships between people and plants. She is the founder and director of Embodying Herbalism, an educational endeavor whose vision is to: bridge the connection between people and plants through community herbalism, relationship with Nature, honoring sacred traditional knowledge, connecting to natural rhythms & cycles and embody the healing gifts of the medicine plants of the world. Embodying Herbalism is based at her family home and center, Casa Vida Flor, in the Arenal region of Costa Rica.
Flower Essences and Plant Spirit Allies with Nicholas Pearson
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#58 – How do flower essences open a bridge for us to connect with plant spirits?
Join us for a wonderful conversation with Author, Teacher, & Flower Essence Practitioner Nicholas Pearson on the power of direct experience in working with the magic of plant consciousness in flower essences.
In this episode, Nicholas shares about a wide variety of ways that we can work with essences, ranging from practical situations in everyday life to magic and ritual. He offers practical tips on specific flower essences that help with anxiety, and how the physical aspects of plants offer a gateway for us to connect and deepen the conversation with them. He also shares about the three different kinds of plant spirit allies and how to directly communicate with plants from a space of clarity.
Nicholas Pearson is a flower essence practitioner and researcher whose love for plants grew alongside his love for the mineral kingdom. Best known for his work with crystal healing and Reiki, Nicholas is an internationally acclaimed presenter facilitating workshops on a wide range of topics. He is the author of several books, including Crystal Basics, Stones of the Goddess, and Flower Essences from the Witch's Garden.
Indigo Initiations from Seed to Cloth: The power of listening to plants with Justine Aldersey-Williams
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#59 – Have you ever tried the ancient skill of listening to plants through your fingertips?
I loved connecting with botanical textile dyer Justine Aldersey-Williams on the initiatory journey she experienced while growing her own pair of jeans from seeds into cloth.
In this episode, Justine shares about her mythic field-to-fashion creation process and of being in a life of apprenticeship to the plants, specifically with the ancient indigo-blue plant called Woad. She offers wisdom on the global lore of Indigo and the sense of deep fulfillment that comes with reclaiming ancestral skills as a mindfulness practice. She also shares about the regenerative process of forming a local fibreshed and how the alchemy of working with natural textile dyes becomes an embodied experience of communication with the plants.
Justine Aldersey-Williams is a regenerative clothing activist, founder of the Northern England Fibreshed, and a botanical textile dyer and educator at The Wild Dyery. She recently made fashion history by producing the UK’s first pair of homegrown jeans - in the process capturing the imaginations of industry, media and consumers alike with her mythic field to fashion initiation story.
Her pioneering work intersects creativity, deep ecology and spirituality. As a lifelong meditator, Justine experiences clothing is an interface between our personal and planetary bodies that needs re-sanctifying. Her practice involves connecting to traditional wisdom and natural lore through the matrilineal textile crafts that transform seeds into cloth.
Nicknamed Woadica, she’s helping develop the commercial upscale of organic British indigo from the heritage plant source Woad with her soon to launch company Homegrown Colour. Her intent is to help fashion manufacturers divest from fossil fuels in favour of our botanical wisdom keepers so everyone can wear clothing that’s regenerating ecology, economy and society.
Ancestral Connections to Plants and Place with Shereen Öberg
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#60 – Join us for a wonderful conversation with Yoga Teacher, Chinese Medicine Practitioner, & Acupuncturist Shereen Öberg on Earth wisdom and recognizing how we are part of Nature, and Nature is part of us.
In this episode, Shereen shares about the strength of her grandmother growing up in Nature in the mountains, and how her grandmother offered key insights about speaking with plants and treating them sacredly. She explores how the deep connection with plants from her ancestral Kurdish homeland has informed her experience with local plants and herbs while growing up in Sweden. She also shares teachings on sacred trees, plants, and the sun in Kurdish culture, and how trees are revered and offer grounding medicine.
Shereen is a yoga and meditation teacher, Reiki practitioner and a licensed Acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine Practitioner & Acupuncturist, and soon to be initiated Priestess through Daughter of Ishtar. She has worked with channeling, healing and spiritual awakening for many years now alongside holding a Bachelor's degree in Business and Economics and a Master's degree in Global Sexual and Reproductive health and rights. She is also a religious studies graduate.
Shereen is an author and the creator of The Law of Positivism, and she is on a mission to help others on their spiritual and healing path. Her new book The Law of Positivism - live a life of higher vibrations, love and gratitude is practical book guiding you through all levels of being to help you to grow on all levels and live your highest potential.
#61 – Join us for an amazing conversation with interspecies communicator Kara Daniels on how to communicate with trees.
In this episode, Kara shares key insights on how tree communication can benefit us as individuals and as a collective in connection with the Earth. She also offers wisdom on gifts and honoring practices for working with trees in our local ecosystems and collaborating with tree consciousness in the experience of land healing.
Kara Daniels is the founder of Deep Root Connections, a space where Earth, animals, Nature, and Spirit are all intertwined, alive, and communicating. She is an animal communicator, channel for Nature and collaborates with the spirits of the land to heal the land we live upon. Her goal is to co-create, co-exist, and heal Mother Gaia by mixing the physical with the mystical, live a magical life and help you do it too in the most down to earth way.
Flower Essences for Pets and Animal Companions with Kathleen Aspenns
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#62 – Have you ever considered giving flower essences to your pet? Join us for a wonderful conversation with Nature Intuitive Kathleen Aspenns on how to support our beloved animal companions with flower essences.
In this episode, Kathleen shares wisdom on specific flower essences that can support pets with various challenges such as separation anxiety. She offers insights into different ways of administering essences to animals and practical tips for how to get started with flower essences for our animal companions. She also shares how animals and their people have similar needs in working flower essences.
For nearly two decades, Kathleen has been helping her clients overcome challenges, heal from traumatic experiences, and find a greater sense of connection to themselves and to Nature. She is a Nature Intuitive and practices Flower Essence Therapy specializing in women and their beloved animal companions. Her ability to listen deeply and compassionately, and to select precisely the right flower essences, helps each client feel fully supported as she takes the next step in her journey of healing and personal evolution.
Kathleen has developed her own line of flower essences, the Flora of Asia. Many of these plants have been used for thousands of years as herbs in Traditional Chinese Medicine and are available now for the first time as flower essences. In addition to working with clients and their animals, she teaches online at the School for Flower Essence Studies and co-hosts The Flower Essence Podcast.
#63 – Have you ever experienced connecting with an Anam Cara, or soul friend in Nature?
Join us for a wonderful conversation with writer and speaker Leah Rampy on the invitation to reconnect with the beauty, awe, and wonder of the world in these edge times that we now find ourselves in.
In this episode, Leah shares about the Celtic term Anam Cara which means soul friend, and how we can find this type of relationship with plants, trees, rivers, and places. She also offers insights on the power of listening and discernment in leadership, and how the global experience of climate chaos and biodiversity loss provides an opportunity to midwife something new and open to deeper states of connection with Nature.
After giving numerous presentations on the dangers of impending climate change, Leah Rampy became convinced that something was missing from the conversations. She then began a decades-long journey to understand what lies beneath our unwillingness to change our interactions with the natural world.
Leah Rampy is a writer, speaker, and retreat leader who weaves ecology, spirituality, personal stories, and practices to help people deepen their relationship to the natural world. She is the author of Earth & Soul: Reconnecting amid Climate Chaos and a frequent speaker on spiritual ecology and leadership in these uncertain times.
Plant Magic for Young Green Witches with Robin Rose Bennett
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#64 - Do you know a young green witch or budding herbalist? So often I hear adults who discovered herbalism later in life say they wish they knew about the magic and medicine of plants when they were young.
Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbalist and Writer Robin Rose as she shares about the joys and practical tips for helping kids (and those who are young at heart!) develop a relationship with the green world.
In this episode, Robin Rose offers key insights on how plants support us in becoming who we authentically are while connecting with a sense of happiness in being alive. She also shares steps on how to help kids safely explore and learn about ritual and plant magic, and how developing a connection with the natural world helps us cultivate our sense of inner wisdom.
Robin Rose Bennett is a story-teller, writer, and herbalist. She has been offering classes in WiseWoman Healing Ways: Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings since 1986 - at herb conferences, festivals, clinics, medical and nursing schools, and most joyously, outside with the plants. She shares herbal medicine with gratitude for the loving generosity of the plants and the magic, mystery, and beauty of the web of life.
Robin Rose is on the faculty of the New York Open Center and the Arbor-Vitae School of Traditional Herbalism. She is also the author of two meditation MP3’s and the amazing books: Healing Magic- A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living, The Gift of Healing Herbs, A Green Witch's Pocket Book of Wisdom, and The Young Green Witch’s Guide to Plant Magic.
Witchy Herbcraft for Samhain and Halloween with Selena Fox
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#65 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Rev. Selena Fox on Nature spirituality and connecting with the magical aspects of herbs long associated with Samhain and Halloween.
In this episode, Selena shares beautiful wisdom on plant allies of the season such as Mugwort in experiences of inner vision, Mullein when lighting ceremonial bonfires, and Rosemary for remembrance when honoring those who have passed. She offers insights into age-old Samhain rituals such as Turnip carving, the significance of Apple trees, honoring cycles, and the interconnectedness of all life. Selena also shares her inspiring experience of legacy in prairie restoration and building community across generations as the Circle Sanctuary celebrates its 50th anniversary this coming Samhain.
Selena Fox is the Executive Director of Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve, a two-hundred acre Nature sanctuary located in the Driftless bioregion of southwestern Wisconsin. An EcoActivist for more than fifty years, Selena was among the organizers of events for the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 and is the founder of Circle Cemetery, one of the first Green cemeteries in North America.
Also known as Reverend Selena Fox, she is Senior Minister of Circle Sanctuary which has been serving Nature Spirituality practitioners worldwide since 1974. Selena writes and speaks on a variety of topics, including Celebrating the Seasons, Herbology, Pagan Ways, and Life Passages. She hosts the monthly podcast, Circle of Nature and shares rituals, chants, and teaching on social media.
#66 - Join us for this powerful episode with Sara Artemisia as we dive into the potent portal time of Samhain when the veils between worlds thin. We’ll explore how our words and intentions are incredibly powerful right now, and the importance of connecting with the multidimensional, high-vibrational green beings of healing we call the plants.
In this brief but impactful episode, we'll explore the microcosmic and fractal nature of healing and intention.
Key insights include: * The power of words and Samhain as a liminal time * How plants are multidimensional, high-vibrational beings of healing * Connecting with plant allies such as Elder and Hawthorn * Entrepreneurial business is world-building, now is the time to ensure your vision aligns with your personal values and true self
This episode is a must-listen for wellness professionals, empaths, and anyone seeking to work with the transformative power of plant consciousness while the veils are thin. It provides a unique blend of spiritual wisdom and practical advice, perfect for deepening your connection with Nature and personal growth.
Herbal Mythology as a Gateway to Ecological Consciousness with Guido Masé
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#67 - What ancient wisdom is hidden within the stories and myths of our plant allies?
Join us for an amazing conversation with Herbalist Guido Masé as we explore the intersection of plant mythology and clinical herbal medicine through his captivating storytelling and deep knowledge of folklore and science. As we settle into the darker months of the year - the traditional time for storytelling - Guido shares herbal lore of while revealing how these stories preserve profound teachings about plant consciousness and healing.
In this episode, you'll discover: • How the plant mythology of Elder and Hawthorn contains hidden keys to understanding herbal medicine • A powerful clinical case study featuring Hawthorn's ability to support emotional healing • The fascinating science behind plant compounds like anthocyanins and their effects on human health • Ancient landwork practices with Nettle and practical ways to be in community with green allies
Guido Masé RH(AHG) is a clinician and educator in the Western herbal tradition. He spent his childhood in Italy and has been living in Vermont since 1996. His practice interweaves clinical experience, mythology, and science. He is herbalist, principal scientist, and chief formulator at Traditional Medicinals, chief herbalist at Urban Moonshine, clinician at the Burlington Herb Clinic/Railyard Apothecary, founder and board member at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, teacher in herbal medicine at the University of Vermont, and author of The Wild Medicine Solution and DIY Bitters.
Nourishing Your Nervous System for the New Year with Rachael Cohen
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#68 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Nature based Spiritual Coach & Author Rachael Cohen on plant allies to support winter wellness and balance in the nervous system during the holidays and new year.
In this episode, Rachael shares wisdom on the connection between plants and supporting a shift from the sympathetic (fight-or-flight) to the parasympathetic (rest-and-digest) responses of the nervous system. She offers key insights on the importance of allowing ourselves to rest during the natural dormancy of winter.
Rachael also shares plant wisdom on forest bathing and the benefits of working with seasonal herbal allies through the holidays and darker times of winter such as:
Cinnamon: Brings warming, grounding energy and abundance
Rosemary: Supports boundaries, memory, and ancestral connection
Lavender: Facilitates deep rest and space for storytelling
Citrus: Supports connecting to the brightness of the returning light
Rachael Cohen is a Nature based spiritual life coach, plant connector, intuitive medium and author. When her experiences as an environmental educator, wild animal specialist and mother left her anxious and distraught over society’s destruction of Nature, Rachael cultivated a creative relationship with plants that awakened her spiritual gifts and transformed her life. She first founded Infinite Succulent, specializing in plant art connections, and then Our Infinite Nature, for facilitating and growing spiritual connections with Nature.
Rachael is the author of Self-Care for Eco-Anxiety: 52 Weekly Practices for Positive Personal Change Through the Power of Nature; Everyday Plant Magic: Change your Life through the Magical Energy of Nature; and Infinite Succulent: Miniature Art to Keep or Share
How Plants Bring Us Home to Nature with Pam Montgomery
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#69 - How can plants guide us through global transitions and help us remember our relationship with the natural world?
Join us for a wonderful conversation with herbalist, author, and international teacher Pam Montgomery as we explore the profound wisdom of co-creative partnership with Nature and discover how plants are actively helping us heal our separation from the natural world.
In this episode, you'll discover:
Biophilia and the meaning of co-creative partnership with Nature
How plants are evolutionary pioneers, leading the way in spiritual evolution and raising consciousness
Stories of how plants appear as guides and helpers when we need them most
How to understand the ancient language of plant communication through light, sound, and vibratory resonance
Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher, Earth elder and new-paradigm thinker who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades.
She is the author of two books one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness, and her latest book, Co-Creating with Nature. Pam teaches internationally and virtually on plant initiations, spiritual ecology, and co-creative partnership with Nature. She is the founder of the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE and was a founding board member of United Plant Savers.
#001 - In this first episode of the Plant Spirit Podcast hosted by Sara Artemisia, we share about the intentions and topics we’ll be covering together with guests on the show. I'll also share a bit about my background and why herbal plant consciousness and the healing wisdom of Nature is something I’m so passionate about.
The Journey of Remembrance and Reconnection with Roxana Marroquin
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#002 - In this episode, Roxana Marroquin of Agua de Jade Apothecary shares about the journey of remembrance and reconnection in healing with ancestral medicines. And there is such a sweet radiance beaming in her relationship with the plants and how she connects with them directly from the heart. We first recorded this interview for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here.
Roxana Marroquin (she/her/ella) is a spiritual herbalist, artist, art therapist, organizer and gardener. Trained under master herbalist Karen M. Rose of Sacred Vibes Apothecary, Roxana centers ancestral wisdom and Earth based spirituality in her herbal practice. Agua de Jade Apothecary is the vessel from which she creates and distributes herbal offerings, provides individual consultations, and facilitates sharing of knowledge among her community.
Roxana has facilitated herbal knowledge shares (workshops) at GreenThumb's 34th Annual GrowTogether Conference, Annual NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conference, Make The Road NJ, The Youth Farm, and various other community gardens, organizations, coffee shops, and pop up locations around her community of Hudson County, NJ and beyond.
A perpetual student of self, plants, and all her relations, Roxana is in a lifelong journey of remembrance and reconnection.
Working with Flower Essences with Danielle Williams
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#003 - In this episode, Danielle Williams of Flower Coven Vibrational Medicine shares about her experience of working with flower essences and how to deepen in relationship with the plants and flowers.
We also discuss several different supports and ways to connect with plants that are particularly helpful for empaths. If you’re an empath, sensitive or intuitive person, you’ll love this episode!
Danielle (she/her) works in conjunction with elemental herbalism, women’s health, and energy healing, in co-creation with the plantcestors and flowers essences to support people with healing the body, spirit and mind.
#004 - An incredible conversation with folk herbalist and alchemical experience facilitator Alissa Maya of Akasha Apothecary on connecting with plant allies, plant wisdom; and how we can be better in alignment with the Earth, her cycles, and the cycles reflected in the feminine body.
There is so much deep juicy nourishment in this conversation with Alissa, and her connection with the plants is so powerful. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here.
Alissa Maya (she/her) facilitates alchemical experiences with plant spirits & the feminine, and supports people in deepening their relationship with the elements through ceremony. With folk herbalist methods, she works with ritual and deep connection to nature and her cycles to create potent herbal offerings. She always offers herbs back to the earth with prayers of gratitude for the infinite wisdom they bring. Offering a synergy of plants, somatic modalities, movement, and ceremony, she teaches people how to come back to true self.
Music of the Plants in Making Medicine with Susan Bowers
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#005 - Have you ever heard of the Music of the Plants?
Join us for an intriguing conversation with herbalist Susan Bowers about her experience in making medicine with the Music of the Plants, a device first developed at Damanhur in the 1970’s and designed to translate the electromagnetic impulses of plants into melodies.
Susan is an herbalist and activist who lives her life in service to the plants and the Earth. She’s been practicing Herbal Plant Medicine for over 45 years. Her Grandmothers are Juanita, Marietta and Ruth, and she lives on the Port Gamble S’klallam tribal ancestral lands.
In this interview, Susan shares deep wisdom about what it means to be in right relationship with the plants. Here are some gems from her experience:
“Being in right relationship with plants, with the entire ecosystem of my garden and the wild places I forage means recognizing that all life is Sacred and Sentient. All life is interconnected.
My traditions have taught me that I must first sit with my plants and seeds in quiet. I then ask permission and give offerings, and listen to their reply. I explain what my intention is and who will receive help from the food and medicine they provide. I give gratitude to them for collaborating with me.
When making medicine this year I've been playing plant music with the Bamboo M, a Music of the Plants device. This adds another layer of healing to the medicine and food.
I feel more connected to the medicine because the music takes me out of my head and into my heart. That is key, being in your heart when you are working with the plant people. And they are happy to serve us if we acknowledge them and get permission.
The reciprocity between us is felt on a new level with the music. Science is now explaining what the ancient cultures knew. We are in this together, and a new paradigm has arisen and the healing of us all is happening now.”
Medicine & Magic with the Witching Herbs with the Seed SistAs
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#006 - Join us for an incredible conversation on Medicine & Magic with the Witching Herbs with the amazing Seed SistAs Karen Lawton and Fiona Heckels of Sensory Solutions.
In this powerful episode, the Seed SistAs guide us on a walk down the plant-lined paths of the Witches Garden and share a window into how we can develop deeply loving and respectful relationships with what are traditionally known as the poison plants and witching herbs.
Throughout our conversation, I experienced feeling transported through the layers of time into ways that we as humans have been in deep relationship with herbs for many hundreds and thousands of years. So powerful! We first recorded this interview for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here.
Tune in for the Seed SistAs’ fun, hilarious, and very real journey in this interview on what it means to re-story our relationship with the natural world through sensory herbalism, creative eco-activitism, and walking in deep relationship with the Earth.
The Seed SistAs are Karen Lawton and Fiona Heckels (they/them), authors of The Sensory Herbal Handbook and founders of herbal education community project, Sensory Solutions Herbal Evolution. Combining medical training and years of clinical practice with a passion for plants, imagination and creativity, their teaching gives people more autonomy in their health by connecting them with their local medicinal plants and the magical nature of the green world.
#007 - A beautiful mind and heart-expanding conversation with holistic health practitioner Emma Fitts of Awaken Your Wild on connecting with Nature, and how this helps us connect to the state of flow and Presence within the self.
Join us as we explore:
The Universal Language between us and plants
How Nature is a reflection of us, and vice versa. That we're part of Nature at our core, and to truly thrive we need to reconnect and remember this magic
The biological impact of our spiritual/physical connection with plants
Medical astrology and how this is connected with herbs
And how working with mindfulness in our connection with Nature and herbs takes us into a space of healing
Emma Fitts is a Holistic Health Practitioner who works with Ayurvedic Medicine, Medical Astrology, Energy Matrix Healing, Reiki, and Plant-Based Diet and Nutrition to help people create unity and vitality in the Body, Mind, and Spirit. And her methods often involve connecting with the spirit of Nature.
She helps people discover and utilize an incredible blueprint that lies within to create the health/life they desire. And she helps people live in alignment with the Wild Self, which is our beautiful mixture of the Cosmos and Earth now coming into balance.
The Tarot, Plant Allies, Flower Essences & Belonging with Denai Grace Fuller
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#008 - Join us for a fascinating conversation with Denai Grace Fuller of Moonflower Medicine on how plants & flowers are both connected with the Tarot and give us a deeper understanding of Tarot archetypes in the classic Rider Waite Smith deck.
In this episode we chat about:
Plant myths and magic, and how they offer insight into understanding Tarot archetypes
How plants and flowers support us on the journey of orienting and belonging
Plant love and working with flower essences
"Pixie" Pamela Coleman Smith, the original artist for the Rider Smith Waite deck
Denai Grace (she/her) is a Tarot Guide & Flower Alchemist, and founder of Moonflower Medicine. She’s walked in beauty & balance with the Tarot & flowers as teachers for her entire adult life. And she's deeply inspired & informed by the plants where she lives in Ashland Oregon, which is in the ancestral homelands of the Takelma people, as well as from her homeland of Belize.
The Role of Plant Spirit Medicine in the Great Turning with Vida Hofweber
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#009 - An incredible conversation with Vida Hofweber of Golden Bough Coaching on the role of plant spirit medicine in the Great Turning towards healing that we're currently experiencing on the planet.
In this episode, Vida offers profound insight into how we can create an intersectional approach in the realm of plant spirit medicine and why this is so important. She also shares messages from the Redwoods and deep wisdom on the role of plant spirit medicine in the Great Turning towards Earth healing. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here. Such deep medicine for these times!
Vida Hofweber (she/her) is a Holistic Life Coach based in traditions of Jungian, Archetypal, and Somatic psychology, Earth Based Spirituality, and Intersectional Feminism. She supports creative, earth-loving people to pass through the gates of life’s initiations, alchemize fires of transformation, and find liberation through self expression. Vida has a Master's in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has practiced herbalism for 15 years.
The Wisdom of Pleasure & Sacred Nourishment with Tavia Benjamin
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#010 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Healer and Facilitator Tavia Benjamin on the power of listening to the somatic wisdom in the body and how to connect with a sense of deep nourishment in these times.
In this episode, Tavia offers key insights into how you can tune into what you enjoy in a way that helps you nourish your nervous system while really living the life that you love. They also share about their resonance with Maryam Hasnaa's classon Pleasure as Prayer and inspiration from Rashida KhanBey Miller on connecting with pleasure as fuel rather than as a reward. And why it's so important to honor the body as a temple, especially for people who work in the healing arts.
Tavia Benjamin (they/she/he) is a Healer and Facilitator, and they focus on embodying liberation and creating liberated spaces for people, especially BIPOC communities. Tavia has over a decade of land and food justice organizing experience, and they work in collaboration withDurham Community Apothecary and the Black Mycelium Project.
Tavia's work supports Queer Southern Black folks to birth new social models and structures into existence that both support their freedom and help them reconnect to their divinity and sovereignty to create sustainable, holistic systems change.
Honoring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Dan Wahpepah
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#011 - Join us for a very powerful conversation with Dan Wahpepah of the Anishinaabe, Kickapoo and Sac & Fox tribes on Honoring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge. I’m deeply honored that Dan joined us as a guest on the Plant Spirit Podcast. And his message is so important for the times we are in!
In this episode, Dan shares profound insight into what it means to decolonize the mind, particularly when working with permaculture and other land based practices.
He also offers deep wisdom into:
How prayer opens up a circular conduit between yourself, the Universe, the person you’re praying for, and the Earth.
Re-indigenizing permaculture with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK).
His Permaculture Foundations work with Megan Toben at the Eco-Institute.
How important it is to connect with Indigenous people who have been taking care of the land for thousands of years.
Coming back into balance with our Elder relatives and learning the stories of the land
How we’re in a crossroads of prophecy at this time.
The importance of having a reciprocal relationship with the plants.
And he also shares the powerful story of the first Tobacco plant Asema, and how to be in right relationship with this sacred medicine plant.
Dan Wahpepah is from the Anishinaabe, Kickapoo and Sac & Fox tribes. He grew up with his community’s cultural ways and has been politically active with the American Indian Movement and spiritually active through tribal ceremonies. Dan started the Rogue Valley Pow Wow, the American Indian Cultural Center, and Red Earth Descendants. He's also a board member of Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance, Rogue Climate, and Pipeline Fighters. As part of his tradition, he is a Drum Keeper and Drum Chief.
Dan works with Traditional Ecological Knowledge and permaculture. And his life work is focused on the preservation of this Earth for future generations. He believes that “Permaculture combined with Traditional Ecological Knowledge is a powerful pairing. To contribute to life is what we need to feel. We are moving into a giveaway society. The best way for us to train for this new paradigm is to garden. By gardening, we contribute to life while gaining a harvest, feeding pollinators, sequestering carbon, feeding sugars and carbon to the billions of microbes and miles upon miles of mycorrhiza, connecting to community for excess giveaway, connecting with the seasons, connecting.”
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