Dan Winter is a multi-disciplinary bodyworker and Epigenetic Health Coach who supports his community to understand their body better so they can live empowered and meaningful lives. Dan believes that when we understand the fundamental laws of nature and apply them in our lives, we unlock our capacity to heal. Ever since he can remember, he has been curious about human potential. The challenges he's met in his health journey have fuelled his interest to look deeper, listen and learn to optimise his own function across many areas of health to live a life in harmony.
In this conversation, Dan and I discussed the importance of permaculture and how it serves as a lens for viewing life, particularly his bodywork. He shares his understanding of the Chinese Five Elements theory, Ayurveda, Zenthai Shiatsu, and Permaculture principles as useful modalities to integrate nature into health and well-being.

Takeaways:

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction and Importance of Permaculture

02:09 Studying Permaculture and Applying Principles

05:13 Applying Permaculture Principles to Body Work

07:58 The Pattern to Detail and Integration Principle

09:21 Integrating Plants in an Urban Environment

12:47 Favourite Plants and Medicinal Diet

16:14 Must-Have Plant: Sweet Leaf

19:11 Utilising Plants for Health and Healing

25:23 Understanding the Five Elements

31:28 What's Alive and Thriving: Personal and Professional Life

CONNECT:

Website: www.bodyrelate.com.au
Facebook: Body Relate 
Instagram: @bodyrelate
Work with me: https://brelate.simplybook.me/v2/
Radio show FB page: https://www.facebook.com/CairnsFM891?mibextid=kFxxJD

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In this episode of the Elder Tree Podcast, Twiggy Dawn interviews herbal elder Pat Collins who resides on  Wanaruah land down in Musswellbrook. Pat has been a herbal teacher and herbal clinician for 32 years and opened the Total Health and Education Centre down in 1997 which is an inspirational place incorporating learning and healing for her community.

Pat really advocates home herbalism and loves to see people feeling confident to identify medicine, make their own medicine and use that medicine for their health and their family's health.Pat has written a whopping 8 books and I have been stocking her book "Wondrous World of Weeds" for over a year now.  Pat was a cub leader for around 20 years, which inspired her book "Bush Wise", the founder of the Pat Collins Total Health and Education Centre. Pat shares her journey of becoming a herbalist and opening the centre in Musswellbrook, in NSW.

She discusses the herbal products she makes and sells, including creams, syrups, and cleansers. Pat also talks about her involvement with the Indigenous Plants for Health Association and the importance of preserving and researching native plants. She offers regular workshops and a correspondence course to teach people how to make their own herbal remedies.

Pat emphasizes the importance of incorporating health and education and connecting with nature through bush camps. In this conversation, the guest discusses the importance of connecting with nature and the need for more education in this area.

Pat's website:https://patcollins.com.au/

Correspondence Course:https://patcollins.com.au/Shop/Pat-Collins-Correspondence-Course/

Some of Pat's upcoming workshops:https://barenatureskin.com.au/collections/pat-collins-workshops

Indigenous Plants for Health (IPHA) indigenous plant knowledge cards:https://indigenousplantsforhealth.com/knowledge-cards-for-australian-medicinal-edible-plants/

Join IPHA (only $20 per year!)https://indigenousplantsforhealth.com/join-2/#:~:text=To%20join%20now%20click%20online,to%20one%20of%20our%20meetings

Wise Women Gathering 17-19th May 2024:https://www.wisewomengathering.com/

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"The body cries the tears the soul cannot shed."

What is healing? How do we bring ‘the Sacred’ into a natural medicine clinic? Is this necessary for true healing to happen? These are the tricky questions untangled by Jimi Wollumbin and Stephanie Hazel in this episode of Sacred Herbalism. 

(TLDR: Jimi’s take is that Healing is not the absence of disease, but rather the roaring presence of soul.)

We mentioned the following people, books and opportunities:

The Wild Edge of Herbalism - a 4 month initiation into plant relationships and sacred stories with Stephanie Hazel. Book a virtual coffee date here and we can chat about if this is right for you, and how you can start deepening into plant relationships right now.

Or email me and I’ll send you a course outline. 

Jimi Wollumbin’s Apprentice Lounge is available here.

Francis Wellar’s Wild Edge of Sorrow (Yes he inspired my course name!!) available here.

We discussed the idea of The Meaning Crisis - articulated by the excellent John Vervacke and available here as a free audio course.

May be you enriched by these teachers and these ideas.

Finally, about the Elder Tree:

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In this illuminating episode, join Tonielle as she unveils the transformative world of Sociocracy as a way to collaborate within groups and how dynamic decision-making tools can ensure facilitation can be fun and effective.

Greetings everyone from Lutriwita AKA Tasmania.  I am down here on an incredible herbal adventure-  of which one of the main goals and pivitol points of the trip was to go to Goulds farm and meet Greg Whitten. 

I have wanted to meet Greg ever since I purchased his massive book "Herbal Harvest" 13 years ago (it was released 25 years ago).  I have never come across anything like this book and it really inspired, motivated and educated me.  It came at a time when I was running an essential oil company, preparing to enroll in uni, was feeling disgruntled at the lack of herbal medicine education opportunities, and was hungry for a herbal teacher to teach me in person. 

Since that day I first opened the book I have vowed to go and meet him.  So here I am on this beautiful island which seems to be the perfect land for propagating temperate climate herbs and therefore propagating wise herbal elders such as Greg.Greg has had over 35 years of experience in growing high quality herbs and has been operating his current farm since 1995 where he grows around 80 species of medicinal plants. 

Greg co-owns Goulds which is a business that has been around Hobart since 1880 and it first started out as a pharmacy-  back when pharmacies were mostly herbs anyway.   Greg purchased Goulds 17 years ago with his daughter Dawn Whitten, her partner Jason Hawrelack and their friends Belinda and Daniel Robson, with Greg managing the farm and medicine making facilities, and the others managing the clinic and apothecary in Hobart.Goulds is the only example in Australia of multi practitioner clinic and apothecary, which grows and makes a large portion of its medicines.  The Goulds farm is organic and biodynamic and one of the things which makes it really special is that they still do everything on the farm by hand without machinery. 

Greg has quite an inventor streak and loves to create or re-invent innovative tools for weeding, growing, harvesting and making herbal medicine.  If you look on my Alchemilla Herbals facebook page you will find photos of my tour of his farm and medicine making area.Greg is such a humble and wise elder and one of the many things that I really appreciate about him is that he is so forthcoming with his knowledge-  he doesn't have any of that edgy industry mindset, doesn't harbor any trade secrets and also recognises that as he prepares for retirement, the knowledge must be in the hands of the next generation.  I hope that you enjoy this interview where we discuss his book herbal harvest which took 5 years to write on a typewriter.

We also discuss the internship program which used to run at Goulds.  This is a topic that I am particularly interested because The Elder Tree will run internship programs.  On this trip so far I met about 6 people who completed this program and it was great to hear about it from Greg and also hear a bit about what he calls the "Goulds Paradigm" , and his journey at Goulds and Green Pharm.  There are some areas of the interview where we geek out a bit on ratios medicine making, and botanical names.

Found out more about Goulds here:https://www.gouldsnaturalmedicine.com.au/Follow them on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/GouldsNaturalMedicine/Follow them on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/goulds_natural_medicine

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Kaja Skraskova is a scientist and plant lover. When she was 11 years old, Kaja dreamt of opening an old style apothecary- a place sought after by people who needed to reconnect with herbs to heal. Kaja’s roots are in the Czech Republic and after embarking on a pharmacy degree in Prague and being lured down the research path, it was a research trip to Tasmania that set in stone her path towards creating a bush apothecary. 

Kaja is passionate about sustainable skin care and her Herbae Thylacini skin care range aims to raise awareness of the interrelationship between humans and the plant world, with a focus on re-discovering traditional medicines, and finding better ways to live in harmony with nature.

It’s fascinating to hear of Kaja’s study of the constituents of native Australian plants and the crossover between their European counterparts which are used by herbalists across Australia…we ponder how and if it might be possible for non indigenous Australians to use native Australian plants medicinally, in a way that does not misappropriate the knowledge of the traditional custodians of the land on which they grow. 

Kaja’s living far from home and support networks, while running a small business and raising 2 small children - and the theme of ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ threads through our conversation- we mourn the model of existing in immediate family silo’s where it’s difficult to find the time and space for self care.

Kaja is a big picture thinker and questions the idea of self care as only individual care- pondering is it more pertinent to ask- what does my community need, my neighbour, my work colleague- and watching the ripples of good will and connection flow from helping one another.

Along with being a passionate plant lover, Kaja’s a skilled herbal medicine maker and I loved picking her brains about different herbs and manufacturing techniques.

Towards the end of our interview, Kaja shares the most unique and nourishing herbal recipe that she uses to sneak extra herbal goodies into her two young daughters- I can’t wait to try it and I’m sure you’ll love it too! 

https://herbaethylacini.com.au/

Connect with Kaja here:

https://www.instagram.com/herbae_thylacini/?hl=en

https://www.facebook.com/herbaethylacini/

**SHOW NOTES**

Goulds Apothecary https://www.gouldsnaturalmedicine.com.au/apothecary

Penelope Ody's Complete Medicinal Herbal

https://www.amazon.com.au/Complete-Medicinal-Herbal-Penelope-Ody/dp/156458187X

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The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.  You can find Chad's music here and here.

Can knowledge belong to a place? Can knowledge belong to a people? And what happens when we force other cultures to prove that their ways of knowledge also have a place at the table? What is lost when we lose the ability to hold many perspectives at once, and what happens when languages that knowledge emerges from disappears? In this more-academic-than-usual (but hopefully still relevant and mind-bending) Stephanie Hazel interviews her university Anthropology lecturer, John Bradley. John taught Stephanie at UQ in 2006 on the topic of Indigenous Ethnoecology.

This conversation explores epistemic violence and the exclusion of non-western ways of knowing, and does this through stories about cycad palms, about university arrogance, and about Snow Lions disappearing with glaciers melting. John shares the real lived experience of the Yanyuwa people of Arnhem Land - what living 'in relationship' with the rest of ecology actually looks like through kin-centric ecologies.The conversation also highlights the loss of indigenous languages and knowledge and the role of language in preserving plant medicine knowledge.

If you want to read more about Yanyuwa kinships systems, here is a free pdf book about Yanyuwa Law, co-authored by John Bradley.

And here is another one a bit less about Law, and more about Kinship. Warning: both of these are heavy, but fascinating!

You can check John out on LinkedIn.

Key Points:

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The intro and outro song is "⁠Sing for the Earth⁠" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.  You can find Chad's music ⁠here⁠ and ⁠here⁠.

Join us on this episode as we delve into the world of permaculture with Robyn Rosenfeldt, the visionary behind Permaculture Pip magazine. Robyn wears many hats – from being the founding publisher and editor to an art director, photographer, writer, bookkeeper, and the tea lady.

Amidst the hustle, she finds solace in surfing, balancing a life that revolves around her haven in Pambula, NSW, with her partner and three children, as they tend to a lively household that includes three sheep, four chickens, a rooster, and five ducks.

In this conversation, Robyn speaks to the insights she gained in her Permaculture Design Course, which sparked her passions beyond the garden, weaving together her roles as a creator and nurturer to birth the vibrant Pip mag, and she shares the meaning behind the name.

Venture into Robyn's world as she advocates for using edible plants to enhance well-being, unveiling her favourite botanical berry allies and her ways of cultivating and using Garlic.

We discuss the environmental impact of purchasing herbs and the transformative journey of growing your own. From the feathered friends in her backyard to the allure of bushtucker foods, Robyn imparts the wisdom of balance in life, drawn from her love for surfing and the grounding sanctuary of her garden.

As a special treat for our Trove Patreon Members, Robyn extends a generous gift – her "Sow, Know, Grow" ebook, a testament to her dedication to sharing knowledge and fostering a community of mindful living. Tune in for a captivating conversation that delves deep into the heart of permaculture, sustainable living, and the vibrant tapestry of Robyn's creative life.

TAKEAWAYS:

SHOW NOTES:

00:00 The Importance of Permaculture

02:00 The Creation of PIP Magazine

04:17 Integrating Plants into Life

07:17 Must-Have Plants in the Garden

10:47 Growing Garlic

13:24 Utilising Plants for Health

19:10 Growing Berries

24:19 Finding Balance in Life

28:37 Thriving in Life

33:42 Ebooks and Resources

37:18 Christmas Presents and Farewell

39:01 Benefits of Growing Your Own Herbs

40:09 Appreciation for Pip Magazine

CONNECT:

PIP Mag: https://pipmagazine.com.au/www.pipmagazine.com.au
Instagram
Facebook
Youtube

How to Grow Garlic: https://pipmagazine.com.au/grow/how-to-plant-garlic-2/

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The intro and outro song is "⁠Sing for the Earth⁠" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.  You can find Chad's music ⁠here⁠ and ⁠here⁠.

This episode is a thought provoking discussion with Lily Aagren aka Lily of the Herbs, who is a herbalist, permaculturalist and ZenThai Shiatsu practitioner on Warrandjuri country in Warrandite, Victoria.
In this conversation, Twiggy and Lily discuss their journeys in herbal medicine and the need for a more nuanced approach to herbalism education in Australia. Lily shares her experiences learning herbal medicine through volunteering and skill sharing, as well as her motivation to become an educator.

They also discuss the challenges and limitations of herbalism education in Australia, and the importance of reclaiming and celebrating different aspects of herbalism. They both express their excitement for the future of herbalism in Australia and the potential for more diverse and accessible education options.

In this conversation, Twiggy and Lily discuss the accessibility of herbs, the power of inspiration and manifestation, the importance of land accessibility and community living, the integration of herbalism into daily life, the empowerment and sovereignty that comes with herbalism, the impact of connections and planting seeds of inspiration, the availability of herbs in supermarkets, current herbal allies, upcoming offerings and trainings, and closing thoughts on trust and gratitude takeaways.

🌳Volunteering and skill sharing are valuable ways to learn herbal medicine
🌳There is a need for more nuanced terminology and recognition of different aspects of herbalism
🌳Herbalism education should be accessible and cater to different learning styles and interests
🌳The landscape of herbalism in Australia is changing, with more diverse education options emerging Herbs can be made more accessible by supporting herb growers and organic farmers
🌳Inspiration and manifestation play a key role in creating the future we want to see
🌳Land accessibility and community living can enhance the practice of herbalism
🌳Herbalism empowers individuals to take control of their health and make informed choices
🌳Connections and sharing inspiration can have a ripple effect and create positive change
🌳Exploring different herbal allies can provide unique benefits and support
🌳There are various offerings and trainings available to deepen knowledge and practice of herbalism
🌳Trusting the journey and expressing gratitude are important aspects of the herbalism journey.
Chapters
00:00Introduction and Background
02:01Journey in Thailand
04:12Working with Fresh Herbal Medicine
06:29Connection with Plants in Traditional Cultures
07:44Relaxed Attitude towards Healing
08:30Journey of Learning Herbal Medicine
11:10Learning through Volunteering and Skill Sharing
14:00Becoming an Educator
19:11The Way of the Herbalist Course
24:00The Need for Nuanced Terminology in Herbalism
29:51The Changing Landscape of Herbalism in Australia
38:00The Future of Herbalism Education
43:27Making Herbs More Accessible
44:07Inspiration and Manifestation
45:05Land Accessibility and Community Living
46:03Daily Integrated Practice and Health Sovereignty
47:12Empowerment and Sovereignty
47:48Creating Connections and Planting Seeds of Inspiration
48:06Herbs in Supermarkets and Unexpected Discoveries
49:15Current Herbal Allies
53:14Upcoming Offerings and Trainings
55:37Closing Thoughts and Gratitude

Show Notes:

Lily's website:

https://www.lilyoftheherbs.com/

Find her on IG:

@lilyoftheherbs

The book mentioned:

Herbal Harvest by Greg Whitten

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