Now Even HIS Mother Approves! – Herbalist Humor
Nearly 300 full color pages that informs minds, warms hearts, and ruffles feathers. Winter Issue Releases Dec. 3rd www.PlantHealerMagazine.com (spread this herbalist humor poster freely)
Becoming An Herbalist “Professional” or Not – Part 1
Whether To Become a Professional Herbalist or Not Choosing Our Path – Part I by Jesse Wolf Hardin excerpted from a longer article in the upcoming Winter issue of Plant Healer Magazine pro•fes•sion: 1. a paid occupation, esp. one that involves formal training and qualification. We each have an ultimate personal role to fulfill, one that by its very nature maximizes our abilities and imparts maximum meaning to our daily acts. While it may look something like the roles we see others assuming, it will in certain ways be significantly different from what everyone else does, a position, purpose and way for which we alone are ideally suited. We’ll need to choose again and again between options and paths as we progress in that fulfillment, basing each choice...
Creek Indian Medicine, PHM Excerpt by Phyllis Light
Creek Indian Medicine by Phyllis D. Light Intro: Phyllis is one of the more naturally insightful herbalists we know, as well as one of the few in our community blessed to have grown up in a place-based healing tradition. Southern Appalachian Herbalism is informed not only by African, Celtic and other European strands, but by the perspectives and practices of the indigenous peoples of the region. We are pleased to share with you the following excerpt from Phyllis’ column in the upcoming issue of Plant Healer Magazine, an introduction to Creek Indian medicine and materia medica in particular. To read the twice-as-long version with more history and plants included, subscribe to: www.PlantHealerMagazine.com A Bit of History My traditional herbal training...
Plant Healer Sneak Peek… & Community Alert
Plant Healer Sneak Peek… & Community Alert Releasing Dec. 3rd is the Winter issue of Plant Healer, Issue #9, continuing our mission to not only inform and inspire, but also assist the revitalization of our folk herbal community. New Content We’ve added 2 new departments this quarter. The first is called “The Herbalist Mother: An Intuitive Approach To Health, from Pregnancy to Childcare,” that will be written by Sabrina Lutes an other contributors. The second is a column focused on each person finding and developing their unique gift and role within the herbal community, entitled “Choosing a Path.” And Kiva’s always anticipated “Medicine Trails” column has been renamed “Medicine Woman,” in concert with her upcoming Medicine...
Plant Totems: Identifying Our Most Personal Herbal Ally by Jesse Wolf Hardin
The following is excerpted from a much longer piece featured in the current issue of Plant Healer Magazine, and that will be included in Wolf’s next book, “Finding Our Medicine”. As far as I know it is the most extensive and inspirational work ever done on the seldom explored subject of personal, practical plant totems. Thank you for reposting and sharing this! -Kiva Rose PLANT TOTEMS Identifying & Learning From Our Most Personal Plant Ally By Jesse Wolf Hardin The Ojibway word “totem” originally refers to a plant or animal symbol for a specific family or clan, not unlike the creature emblems on ancient European Coat of Arms. Thus we talk about “totem poles” when referring to trees carved into vertically stacked animals, each signifying a...
Plant Healer Annual Volume 2 – 1,000 pages!
We’re fresh back from putting on our 3rd annual event for herbalists, now called The Herbal Resurgence Rendezvous: Medicine Of the People, By the People, For the People. What a shindig! There were more participants, and there was more diversity, energy and excitement than ever before! One of our first tasks after getting home, was to start packaging the newly arrived Plant Healer Annuals, two volumes that are each the size of a phone book, and the color Art of Plant Healer book that goes with them. Thank you for spreading the word! -Kiva Now Shipping Volume II of the PLANT HEALER ANNUAL Now a 3 Book Set! Featuring over 1,000 pages total, of Articles, Photography and Art – All 4 Issues From 2011/2012 including a Free 60 page full-color...
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