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• Archive: Discover medicinal plants and tonic herbs most valued for women’s health — to heal and thrive during your specific cycle of life.Do you have a favorite plant or tree whose leaves or fruit you anxiously await each year — to craft a tea, tonic, or tincture?The enjoyment and healing derived from our relationship with the plant medicines we grow starts long before we apply or ingest them...Herbs and other plant medicines offer us hope, beauty, and the opportunity to create an intimate relationship with the Earth — one based on mutual respect and care.The daily use of herbal remedies empowers us to care for ourselves, our families, and our communities.And our herbal wisdom connects us to herbalists and healers throughout the ages who have called upon the healing power of plants.Your Intimate Relationship With Medicinal PlantsConnecting deeply with these living, growing “beings,” including the soil, offers you an opportunity to not only better know a plant’s healing qualities and growing requirements, it can nurture your mind, body, soul, and Mother Earth.When you’re attuned to a plant’s essence or “spirit,” you’re awakened to how its energies and life cycles synergize with yours.For example, when you place seeds in moist soil they undergo an awakening process, and when you add them to your teas, tinctures, and foods they offer you a similar awakening energy.And using seeds as medicine and saving them from your garden, as well as growing and eating food that your ancestors ate connects you with your roots and the Earth — honoring both the plant’s life cycle and your own.These simple acts can help you to heal the places inside you that have been wounded, and to celebrate and continue the lineage of both your people and plants.When you pay attention to the beauty, scents, and expansive nature of flowers, you can find inspiration on physical and spiritual levels, as they move you from feeling separate and isolated to being present, awake, and embodied.When we work with the soil to grow our healing plants, we can experience a deep spiritual grounding, and we have the opportunity to bring reciprocity into this relationship, through the use of organic, biodynamic gardening practices that are good for the Earth.We can also offer blessings as we sow seeds and gather harvests to energetically share our positive intentions and gratitude for the plants that can heal us.And we can look to the rhythms of the season and solar and lunar cycles to discover when it’s best to plant and harvest.
• Our ancestors have looked to the moon’s phases for centuries to raise vital crops.Discovering a Plant’s Spirit Expands Your Knowledge of HerbalismHerbs replenish and restore your body’s health and vitality by supporting its inherent metabolic processes of strengthening, toning, and rebuilding.Leaves, flowers, seeds, roots, and berries offer you healing medicines to address different health issues, yet you can gain a better understanding of their healing powers — beyond the physical — when you look deeper, into a plant’s “spirit” or inherent essence.For example, medicinal roots — the foundation of a plant — help to strengthen your inner core, cultivate confidence, and feel present and rooted.Liver-supporting herbs, that also support adrenal function, are especially vital for women, because they help balance shifting hormones and mood swings and promote emotional resilience.Flower essences nourish your self-esteem, dignity, inner harmony, and capacity to heal.There are also specific flowers that support breast health, liver, lymph, nerves, and skin.For women, these include herbal breast massage oil, herbs and dietary regimens for supporting vaginal health, and baths that can uplift the spirit and enhance inner peace.Discover the Feminine Way of Plant Medicine With a Respected ExpertIn The Feminine Way of Plant Medicine, herbalist, gardener, teacher, and author Deb Soule invites you to bring plants “to life,” not only by growing and creating natural medicines with them, but by looking beyond their physical qualities and into their spiritual essences.She’ll also share the feminine approach to raising medicinals — through biodynamic gardening, looking to seasonal, solar, and lunar cycles for planting and harvesting wisdom, and offering blessings and intentions as you sow and gather your crops.And she’ll share practical wisdom she’s cultivated over decades of growing and crafting plant medicines...... including how to determine the vitality and therapeutic quality of herbs by how they’re grown, gathered, prepared, and stored, herbal dosage and safety considerations, and how to prepare and use herbal infusions, decoctions, tinctures, elixirs, foot baths, and spiritual healing baths from fresh and dried herbs.She’ll also introduce herbal teas and tonics for menstruating years, menopause, and elderhood, including medicinal leaves for supporting your heart health, liver, digestion, memory, and meditation.Deb has over 30 years experience growing, preparing, and using medicinal herbs and her approach to herbalism is intimately tied to her view of the Earth as a living being.In this 7-module journey into the feminine way of plant medicine, you’ll:Determine the quality of herbs — how they’re grown, gathered, prepared, and stored affects their vitality and therapeutic benefitsPrepare and use herbal infusions, decoctions, tinctures, elixirs, foot baths, and spiritual healing baths from fresh and dried herbsUnderstand herbal dosages and safety considerationsCultivate a daily meditation practice that will help you deepen your relationship with plants and your connection with Mother EarthDiscover herbs and lifestyle suggestions for enhancing memory, mental clarity, and inner harmonyExamine roots that support detoxification, digestion, balance, and immunityCover lifestyle and herbal support for low libidoStudy herbs for relaxing the nervous system and promoting sleepBe given a seed-planting prayerIdentify specific berries and seeds that support heart health, nerves, liver, kidneys, immunity, and vaginal healthExplore herbs for soothing agitation, anxiety, heart palpitations, insomnia, and griefUnderstand how to use seeds for healing intergenerational traumaBe given a meditation for meeting the spirit of a plant whose fruits or seeds are used for medicineAnd much more...Throughout the ages, women have called upon medicinal plants to nurture their relationship with the Earth, the cosmos, their spirituality, and their bodies.
• In The Feminine Way of Plant Medicine, Deb will help you to deepen your relationship with these healing plants, yourself, your community, and the Earth.And you’ll discover the feminine way of plant medicine as a spiritual path that nourishes body, mind, and soul, andthe lives of the growing “beings” that aid in our healing, the land, and the Earth.What You’ll Discover in These 7 ModulesIn this 7-module transformational intensive, Deb will guide you through the fundamental spiritual skills and competencies you’ll need to successfully practice the daily use of herbal remedies to empower you to care for yourself, your family, and your community.Each contemplation and training session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to look beyond the physical qualities of plants and into their spiritual essences as well as to grow and create natural medicines with them.Module 1: Remembering Our Roots as Herbalists & HealersHerbal wisdom connects us to herbalists and healers throughout the ages who have called upon the healing power of plants.And using herbal teas, tinctures, baths, and flower essences enhances our physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing beyond their prescribed uses when we look to their “spirits” — those qualities that make them nutritive to the soul, as well as the mind and body.We can also start our healing and help heal the Earth with how we work in our gardens, offering blessings and other reciprocity practices — many used by our ancestors — to energetically connect with the land.The daily use of herbal remedies empowers us to care for ourselves, our families, and our communities.In this module, you’ll learn how to:Cultivate a daily meditation practice that will help you deepen your relationship with plants and your connection with Mother EarthLive in harmony with seasonal, solar, and lunar rhythmsCreate a reciprocity practice to use when gathering and preparing plant medicinesDetermine the quality of herbs — how they’re grown, gathered, prepared, and stored affects their vitality and therapeutic benefitsPrepare and use herbal infusions, decoctions, tinctures, elixirs, foot baths, and spiritual healing baths from fresh and dried herbsUnderstand herbal dosages and safety considerationsWork with flower essences for nourishing our self-esteem, dignity, inner harmony, and capacity to healModule 2: Herbal Teas & Tonics for Menstruating Years, Menopause & ElderhoodHerbs replenish and restore the health and vitality of the body by supporting the body’s inherent metabolic processes of strengthening, toning, and rebuilding.
• Herbs that support liver and adrenal function are especially vital for women as these herbs balance shifting hormones and mood swings and increase the emotional capacity to be less reactive and more resilient.In this module, you’ll discover:Nourishing herbal teas to regularly keep in your cupboardThe role of the liver in hormone imbalancesHerbs for supporting liver functionHerbs for reducing stress and supporting adrenal function and vitalityHerbs and lifestyle suggestions for enhancing memory, mental clarity, and inner harmonyModule 3: Medicinal RootsDigging Down DeepMedicinal roots strengthen our inner core, help us cultivate confidence and feel present and rooted throughout life’s varied journeys.
• Infinite possibilities emerge from strong roots.