Kate Gilday has been a clinical herbalist, flower essence practitioner and creator, Ayurvedic lifestyle consultant, and teacher for over 30 years. In this episode, she speaks about the intimate partnership Trees invite us to be a part of.

 For many years, Kate was a member of Collaborative Healing, a group of local practitioners who address health care through a unique integrative network, educating the community and combining conventional medicine with expert complementary care. She is well-loved for the clarity and clinical relevance gleaned from decades of experience in her teachings. Kate brings her love of the wild places, song, and healing to the workshops she presents around the Northeast.  A creative medicine maker, Kate is the founder of Woodland Essence, a forest botanicals and flower essence company and workshop center.

Over the millennia we have lived and grown with the trees and they continue to invite us into a partnership that we may all thrive even in uncertain times.  Each species carries gifts of its essential nature. By creating time to be with these ancient ones and in paying attention with all of our senses, we can answer the invitation the trees offer and learn how the spiritual essence of a tree can touch and enter our hearts, minds, and own personal essence. We come into a relationship where our lives and that of the trees are enriched. It simply takes stepping forward, opening our arms and spirits to embrace the gift of intimacy that awaits.

These tall ones do seem to be conduits between earth and sky-- storing sunlight in their bodies, releasing oxygen into the atmosphere, and bringing water up from the deeper recesses of the soil.  They carry the long story of the land, of change, and of the qualities to withstand and even flourish in times of uncertainty.  Strength, resiliency, networking, communication, generosity, and the essence of community, there is much we can learn and integrate from the wisdom held in a forest.

This episode is the fourth in a series of episodes centered around the Tree of Life. 

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