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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.

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

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.

You can find Katie at: https://www.embodyingherbalism.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

Learn more about Mimi at https://www.mimiprunellahernandez.com/
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National Geographic Herbal: https://www.mimiprunellahernandez.com/national-geographic-herbal

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

Learn more about the Wildly Intuitive Practitioner Pathway at: https://www.wildlyrooted.com/wipp-apply

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!

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

You can find Nina at: https://www.ninasimons.com/ and https://bioneers.org/
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Nina's book: https://www.ninasimons.com/writing

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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/

You can find the Seed SistAs at: https://seedsistas.co.uk/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

You can pre-order Robin Rose’s A Green Witch’s Pocket Book of Wisdom at: http://www.robinrosebennettbooks.com/ and receive the beautiful bonus booklet Herbal Recipes for Deepening Meditation, Dreams, and Intuition.

 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.

You can also find Robin Rose at: https://RobinRoseBennett.com
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On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RobinRoseBennett

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

You can find Nina at: https://www.blueridgebotanic.com/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blueridgebotanic/
Flora and Forage newsletter on Substack: https://msha.ke/blueridgebotanic

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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.

You can find Rosalee at: herbswithrosalee.com
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosaleedelaforet/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HerbsWithRosalee

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/