Tea is a great way to use herbs as medicine. I love picking fresh herbs and filling my tea pot … here’s how to make tea work for your body as medicine.
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The Movement Medicine method is a journey of unfolding and loving every petal that wraps around your centre.
The unfolding looks like this: Self awareness, Self compassion, Self acceptance, Strength and Expression
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I heard a long rustling sound. Not the kind lizards make when they dart through leaves. The kind a snake makes, it’s long body slowly moving through fallen leaves. The length of its noise equal to the length of its body.
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As I put my two children to bed in our jungle farm house high in the hills above the little village of San Juan del Sur, in Nicaragua, I reassured them that the hundreds of hatching ants on their curtains were…
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Yarrow has been used for making herbal medicines for thousands of years. From my plant medicine meditation journal: Rise up. Be authentic. Bold. Stand up and be strong. We will help you blossom and take you to the next level.
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When we moved to Canada in 2007 I had ideas of living on a ranch and becoming 'one with the wilds' and maybe even getting draught horses to plough the land on the patch I was going to farm…
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It was as though the mountains came alive. It wasn’t a visual sense, like ‘Oh aren’t they magnificent’ – it was a full on ‘Wow, those mountains are really watching us, and they are powerful’.
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I was born on the twelfth of August. An auspicious day if you are from Britain, born into a family that hunts and fishes. It’s known as ‘The Glorious Twelfth’ because it refers to the start of the shooting season for red grouse, and ptarmigan.
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Salves (or ointments) are made of beeswax, herbs and vegetable oils. Once you’ve made a medicinal oil, it will take you no more than 15 – 20 minutes to make a salve.
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In the spring and summer, I gather medicinal herbs, berries, barks, roots and flowers from the woods, river banks and fields. Here's how I turn them into medicinal oils.
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What if you could learn directly from plants and bypass the textbooks? Wouldn’t that be lovely?
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