For most of human history, herbalism hasn’t had a name. It was just a way of life, part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ancestors have deep nourishment to offer us, and are an antidote to the depleting and disheartening realities of modern life. Let us reclaim an embodied relationship to plants, come into alignment with the regenerative currents of nature and ourselves, and get back to the root of the root of the root.
TOPICS:
Remembering parts of ourselves through plants and storytelling
Learning simple herbalism at her great-grandmother’s feet in Poland
The many uses for nettle, including urtification or the application of the sting on the body
Herbalism as homecoming
Cultivating embodied presence in relationship with the plant realm
Earth’s electromagnetic frequency brings us into the brainwave states where healing can happen
Body portals (chakras) in relationship to plant healing
Noticing where in your body a plant lands
Flooding the body with nourishment: drinking herbal teas & infusions every day (sometimes)
Blending fresh spring greens to create herbal “juices”
The most ancient herbal healing tradition on earth (v the way herbalism is often practiced today)
Seasons and cycles: harmonizing ourselves to the regenerative currents of nature
Midwifing death & dismantling structures in our own lives and society at large
The dark womb of the universal mother: a personal, powerful medicine story in which names, archetypes, ancestral threads, and healing are interwoven
The plants and the magic of Beltane
LINKS:
School of the Sacred Wild website
The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary book
Marysia on Instagram
The book’s illustrator Maggie Eileen Lochtenberg
Sharon Blackie’s book If Women Rose Rooted
My interview with Sharon on Episode 54: Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination
Judith Berger’s book Herbal Rituals
My interview with Judith on Episode 59: Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, and Remembrance
Article: Urtification or Stinging Nettles on the Skin
Marysia’s article on The Pagan Roots of Easter
Sage Mauer and The Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education
Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
My website MythicMedicine.love
Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
Medicine Stories Facebook group
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
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