At The Gaia School we practice merging our energies and consciousness with that of the plants in order to form intimate personal relationships with them as our teachers. As we open our hearts to the plants we develop close green allies.
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Acknowledge & Fight Against Oppression / Colonisation in Herbalism – Recognise & understand how all forms of oppression exist in the realms of herbalism & natural medicine, continuing to harm individuals and communities.
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When I was in graduate school I picked up the book Silent Spring by Rachael Carson. You should too.
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Your ancestors are calling you.
Those of us who travel in the spirit realms answer when we hear the call. We come to listen.
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I have given you my mouth
and you have given me the night.
Wet, scent, petals and lips,
the gift of an open gate.
a small fire in the darkness
as if approaching a wild animal, a deer
or a sleeping fox
move quietly.
enter with awe.
This is a summary of my experiences with the medicines that have been amazing blessings along my path with this hidden teacher.
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There are many different modalities and tools used to help someone along their healing journey. Some of these tools are material, visible, and tangible – while others are invisible, hard to measure, and felt by the heart rather than the hands.
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A woman drawn back to the sea,
shores her elder’s left
searching for seeds they carried
she chases the intoxicating flowers to the corners
of the earth, the ones that spin
a fury of fire in the body
and turn the eyes to God.
Walking in the Vermont woodlands, along rushing streams and tall pines, hay scented fern fills the air with its sweet perfume.
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This is how I experience and know these trees and their medicine – a combination of bark, wind, quaking wood ringing like chimes… plays of light, the presence of silence and stillness… green needles in snow, white sky, clouds, soft earth, breath…
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Sitting and writing about particular medicinal plants, I realize it’s important to talk about relationships and interactions between plants and people first.
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I am sitting at the ocean’s edge wrapping leaves together of Willow, Red Clover, Jasmine, and St. John’s Wort, in front of a lit candle.
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Deep ecology teaches us that every living thing, from the small club moss on the forest floor, to the coyote, to the human being, has equal right to live and flourish.
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My life has been a love affair with nature, and I’m not sure I could write a more passionate love story. There is no place more sacred in my experience than the landscapes of wild nature.
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