Join me for the following classes at the Good Medicine Confluence at the historic Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico from August 17th - August 20th:
✺ Addiction Alchemy: Healing Addiction Through the Earth Body
✺ Rewilding The Soul: Chiron as Mirror, Teacher, and Healer
✺ Song of the Subtle: Flower Essences & Vibrational Approaches to Catalyzing Profound Change
I will be teaching alongside fellow herbalists, alchemists, dream weavers, visionaries, poets, land-tenders, and heart-centered mystics at this year’s gathering. Join us in exploring the beauty and bounty of this Earth and our role within it!
Learn more and register for the confluence here ♡
Addiction Alchemy: Healing Addiction Through the Earth Body — True addiction alchemy unfolds from healing addiction through the Earth body. In this class, we will discuss the role that re-embodiment—both into our own bodies and into the body of Earth—plays in the process of addiction remediation. We will explore how consciously working with herbal and vibrational allies, engaging in nature-based ritual, exploring nonordinary states, and practicing mindful self-inquiry can support the process of re-embodiment that is essential to long-term healing. This work is inspired by the ecopsychological principle that humans are calling out for healing, that the Earth is calling out for healing, and that the healing of people and planet are inherently interdependent and reciprocal in nature. This class is rooted in the Earth-based understanding that the same wisdom that sings through the plants is also singing through every human being. There are as many ways to return to a state of regulation and integration following addiction as there are flowers in the field. Every recovery journey is unique, and there is no right or wrong way to embark upon the journey of recovery. Whether you have personal experience with addiction or you wish to better support your clients or loved ones through the journey of addiction alchemy, this class is designed to help you move through the landscape of addiction recovery from a place of truly embodied presence.
Rewilding The Soul: Chiron as Mirror, Teacher, and Healer — The medicine of Chiron illuminates a vast and fertile landscape of embodied mythopoetic potential for both practitioner and seeker alike. Modern interpretations of the Chiron myth place emphasis on Chiron as the archetypal wounded healer; however, this is only a small facet of the medicine Chiron can offer us. In this class, we will explore the connection between Chiron and the process of rewilding the Soul. By partnering with herbal and vibrational allies who share an affinity with the Chiron story, exploring how Chiron expresses in the birth charts of ourselves and our clients, and looking to nature-based ritual practice as a key remediation strategy for life in a post-industrial world, we will begin to see Chiron as the preeminent archetypal mirror, teacher, and healer. Chiron reveals that our deepest wounds often hold the greatest medicine and invites us to reframe our brokenness as an invitation to tune our hearts to the Earth’s song in order to heal both Self and Earth. When we choose to courageously approach the facets of ourselves and our world that are most in need of healing, we plant the seeds for a more beautiful, more regenerative future. This class will empower you with a deeper understanding of Chiron’s mythology and the role of Chiron in the natal chart, practical tools for working with herbs and flower essences during Chiron transits, a renewed sense of connection to the Earth’s wisdom, and a reunion with the mythopoetics of Self in service of offering your Soul’s medicine to a world that dearly needs it.
Song of the Subtle: Flower Essences & Vibrational Approaches to Catalyzing Profound Change — Plants have a vibrational match not only for our physical patterns but also for our emotional and psychological patterns. In a world increasingly drawn to high-intensity healing modalities, the transformative power of the vibrational medicine of flower essences offers a gentler, more sustainable path towards healing, integration, and change. The flowers invite us to open our hearts to the path of subtlety in order to shift the vibrations of stuck emotional patterns that are holding us back from being our fully expressed and vibrant selves. Flower essences teach us about the connection between mind, body, and spirit and allow us to expand our consciousness in a safe, gentle, and loving way. Dancing with the flowers is a teaching in abundance, showing us just how much is possible from seemingly so little. Through exploring practical applications of flower essences, the relationship between the intelligence of the nervous system and the intelligence of Nature, and the marriage of vibrational medicine with ritual practices designed to amplify their effect, we will begin to see how a “less is more” approach to healing holds great promise in the pursuit of profound transformation. This class will provide applicable knowledge to practitioners and seekers alike and empower anyone seeking to grow their ecological consciousness and develop a deeper sense of intimacy with Life.