The Evidence of Deepening: An Introduction to Anima Healing Arts
Many deeply rooted changes have been taking place here in the quiet of the Canyon during the cold months. As Spring slowly unfurls her foliate face, we’re increasingly incorporating these transformational shifts into our existing framework of education and healing work. Regular blog readers will first notice that my herbal blog has a new title, and is now called Animá Healing Arts rather than The Medicine Woman’s Roots. Those who visit the herbal blog via the web rather than subscribing through email will also have noticed the structure and content change of the non-blog pages as well as a new front page. Even if you do subscribe via email, I encourage you to take a look at the new, expanded site and additional offerings. The new Animá Healing Arts...
New Animá Supporterships
The following is the some of the new text for the Supporter page of the Animá website, describing the new forms for contributing financially to this place, practice and purpose. We eliminated the Memberships, as that made it sound like this was an organization rather than a school and sanctuary, and lowered the minimum Supporter contribution so that nearly everyone can afford to participate who really wants to. There are now 4 clear levels of Support for you to choose from, according to the degree of involvement and gratitude, and your ability to help. Due to the difficult economic times we have lost the aid of several Supporters, so we have to thank you in advance for even considering becoming a Supporter yourself… any time, at any level. Become...
A Great New Resource for Working With Kids & Herbs
I’m guessing that a fair number of my readers are parents, grandparents or caregivers for children, and that almost all of you are interested in herbs. If those two interests overlap at all for you, you’re going to want to check out this new herbal course created through a collaboration between John Gallagher of Learningherbs.com and herbalist Angela Goodloe of The Herbalist’s Path and Authentic Mama! Simple, straight-forward and hands on, this accessible series of lessons will likely become invaluable for a great many people wanting a natural way to practice first-aid and support wellness in the little ones in their lives. Here’s a short description of the course from the Kids & Herbs Website: Kids & Herbs is a conversation between...
New Animá Correspondence Courses & Mentorships!
Intro: Recent changes at the Animá School have resulted in a continuing number of queries about both the 8 week Courses and what are now the year or longer Mentorships. For all students of the earlier year long courses, your lessons and time frame remains unchanged, the only difference is that your special course is now called a Mentorship due to how much teacher-student time is involved. For those considering applying of a year long program, please understand that I can take only a very few more Lifeways Mentorship students, and that anyone applying for Kiva’s Medicine Woman Mentorship will have to be put on a lengthy waiting list. For all prospective students, we recommend beginning their work with us with an 8 week course of their choosing, ideally...
First Frost and Status Update
This is just a short post to let all my blog readers, clients, students and other people awaiting emails, know that I am working madly away at the websites and Conference planning, and will be mostly out of touch until the end of this week. Sorry for any inconvenience and many thanks for your support of this vital work, especially the upcoming Tradition in Western Herbalism Conference! Hope you’re all having beautiful harvest seasons wherever you are. Unless of course, you’re in New Zealand or Australia, in which case I hope you’re having a gorgeous and ever more blooming Spring. Here we’ve been having our first frosts and the mountains are gold with wildflowers and the air is thick with the honey-sweet scent of Snakeweed and Goldenrod. The...
Film Revew – Numen: The Nature of Plants
Numen: The Nature of Plants A review by Kiva Rose Anyone who has ever experienced the bliss and connection of gathering Mullein flowers on a warm summer day or the satisfaction of facilitating wellness in another living being, who may have ever known the incredible healing power of the plants – is sure to be touched and inspired by this cinematic exploration of herbal medicine! The premise of Numen is very much in alignment with our work in the Animá Lifeways and Herbal Tradition. What they define as Numen in the film, is what we call the anima, the vital lifeforce in the human body as well in plants. The creators of the film also clearly understand that healing is not just about tending our individual wounds but also those of our larger self, this...
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