Plant Attunement with Blue Vervain and California Poppy
Another beautiful day and yet another extraordinary plant attunement at Clearpath Medicine Gardens a couple of Sunday afternoons back. It never ceases to amaze me how well this process works. It has never not worked. If it wasn’t such an eye-opening, doubt-vanquishing...
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The Sound Journey with Codonopsis & Poke
Plant Attunement with Gongs in the Garden is a cherished gathering for me every time. Not only do I get to share therapeutic sound, something very dear to me, but I also get the chance to sit with people focusing their intention and attention on communing with...
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An Herbalist’s Spotlight on Woad: Medicinal Value & Best Gathering Time
Four times a year, Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine offers a Materia Medica course, an in-depth exploration of fifteen herbs spread out over three Wednesday evenings. During a typical class we cover five herbs, describing them and their medicinal value in great...
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Another Plant Attunement Success: Codonopsis and Poke
This Sunday’s Plant Attunement at Clearpath Herbals Medicine Gardens in Montague was sweet, successful and sublime. I am hard pressed to think of a better thing to do on a sultry Sunday afternoon, sitting in a garden bursting with color, listening to the transporting...
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Plant Attunement Reflections
I have been doing and facilitating plant attunements for many years now, on my own, and with students from Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine and UMass-Five Colleges. Plant Attunement is a term used to describe sitting with a plant, and settling the chatting and...
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Gongs in the Garden
Work with medicinal herbs and therapeutic sound is work with consciousness. Sound has a deep link to emotionality, the subconscious, and physiology. We as humans are electric beings, constantly in motion. We are vibration, we are sound. The frequency depicts the...
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Kauai Work Retreat, Spring Break 2017 (Part Two)
Kauai Work Retreat Day-by-Day Summary Day One of the Kauai Work Retreat we spent at good friends on the North Shore, who have a very special site on their land that needs constant attention. The North Shore of Kauai is among the rainiest, most lush places on...
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Kauai Work Retreat, Spring Break 2017 (Part One)
Local Harmony and Kauai Work Retreat I’m heading home from Kauai after spending three weeks in the sweet, soft Hawaiian air, rejuvenating from a usual, atypical western MA winter. The second week of my stay was spent facilitating – along with Owen Wormser – our second...
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Underrated Herbal Medicine Superstar: Spilanthes Creates a Sensation
Tomorrow begins the Foundations of Western Herbal Medicine, where we learn not only about the medicinal wonders of herbs like spilanthes, but also about human health from the lenses of traditional and modern Western medicine as well as Native American, with...
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Herbal Holistic Medicine, Allopathic Medicine, and Language
Throughout Foundations of Western Herbal Medicine, I stress the importance of language. Words can tell us a lot. Let’s take a closer look at a couple that define two prevalent views of human health and medicine: allopathy (conventional medicine = allopathic medicine)...
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