plant spirit medicine

#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/

#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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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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#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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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/
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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/

#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.

You can find Lupo at: https://www.twinstartribe.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/

#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.

You can find Joanne and subscribe to her newslettter at: https://www.rongoamauri.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/

#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. 

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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/

#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.

You can find Nikki at https://theplantmedicineschool.com/, on IG @plantmedicineschool, on facebook @theplantmedicineschool, and Aeon Books: https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/author/nikki-darrell/22734/

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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/

#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.

You can find Renee at https://www.akikafloweressences.com/ and on IG @akikafloweressences

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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/

#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.

You can find Brandon at https://www.hyperionherbs.com/ and on IG @hyperionherbs 

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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/

#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.

You can find Xochiketzalli and sign up for her newsletter at https://www.xochiketzalli.com/ and on IG @spiritmedicines

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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/

#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.

You can find Melanie at https://www.waterleaffarm.com and on IG @waterleaffarm

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.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/

#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.

You can find Ian at https://ausflowers.com.au/ and on IG @ausflowers.com.au

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Etsy: www.plantspiritdesigns.com

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

#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.

You can find Robin Rose at https://www.robinrosebennett.com and on IG @robinrosebennett

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia
Etsy: www.plantspiritdesigns.com

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

#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, and founder 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 the visionary 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.

https://gofund.me/0246163d

Thank you so much for your time, generosity and contributions. And enjoy the incredible teachings and conversation with Olatokunboh on herbal and Indigenous wisdom!

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Etsy: www.plantspiritdesigns.com

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

#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.

You can find Kathleen and Rochana at www.floweressencestudies.com,  https://thefloweressencepodcast.com/,  https://wiseflowerwellness.com/, and https://floraofasia.com; and on IG @flower.essence.studies, @thefloweressencepodcast, @wiseflowerwellness, and @floraofasiaflowers

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia
Etsy: www.plantspiritdesigns.com

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

#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 @pohala_hawaiian_botanicals 

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia
Etsy: www.plantspiritdesigns.com

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