The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia

#42 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Women’s Health Practitioner Khetnu Nefer as she shares about foundational plant wisdom she learned from her grandmother, how the path of herbalism has changed her life, and the power of being a conduit for healing and resource.

Khetnu also shares the inspiration that guided her to create The Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, an incredible herbal conference for Black and Indigenous herbalists and community. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here. Such potent medicine for these times!

Khetnu Nefer is a Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, Educator, Massage Therapist, Herbalist, Reiki Master, Author, Sound Healer, African Dance Professor, and founder of A Soulful Touch Wellness. She is also the Founder of the Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, an herbal conference for Black and Indigenous herbalists and community, happening this year from October 6-8, 2023 on picturesque John's Island, SC.

This herbal conference is a weekend filled with informative workshops that span Gullah Geechee culture, herbal and holistic health practices and other useful topics from amazing teachers of Gullah Geechee heritage and from around the Diaspora.

You can purchase tickets, learn more about the conference, and apply for sponsorships here: https://www.gullahgeecheeherbs.org/

You can also find Khetnu at https://bio.site/asoulfultouchwellness
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#41 - What healing wisdom awaits when we study the ancient maps and walk deeper into the forest?

Join us for a wonderful conversation with Rongoā Māori Healer Joanne Hakaraia on the mauri, or life force, of plants and how she connects with the primordial wisdom and energy that comes from being in the ngahere (forest).

In this episode, Joanne shares an incredible honoring of her ancient lineage with the traditional healing plant medicines of Aotearoa New Zealand. She also offers insight into how she works with the waka or energetic vessel, to help guide people into a deeper way of connecting, knowing, and working with the plants.

Joanne Hakaraia is a Rongoā Māori Healer and Māori wahine born and raised in Ōtaki, Aotearoa. She is tangata whenua of Aotearoa. The Tararua ranges and the Ōtaki and Waitohu rivers raised her.

She walks with her ancestors exploring the land and working with the mauri of plants. She created a waka, an esoteric vessel, to navigate her way through the ngahere (forest). One tree at a time. She gathered a roopū (group) and studied the trees that protect the ngahere. Then went further into the ngahere and studied the Rākau Rangatira (The Older trees).

Connecting to the mauri of plants and sharing that knowledge for healing is Joanne's life purpose. She has dedicated her life to working with and studying plants.

You can find Joanne and subscribe to her newslettter at: https://www.rongoamauri.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#40 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Certified Flower Essence Practitioner and Educator Ruth Toledo Altschuler on how the elements, plants, and flower essences offer templates of wholeness that support the experience of coming home to the living world with our whole being.

At a time on the planet when the human species has become so disconnected from the experience of the fabric of life, how do we become co-creators with the web of life again?

In this episode, Ruth offers profound wisdom on how the elements, plants, and flower essences support the experience of coming into a state of embodied presence. She shares about vibrational medicine of specific flowers including Green Fairy Orchid, Moschatel, and Green Rain Orchid; and the power of being rooted and connecting with the process of inner reforestation.

She also offers incredible insight on how for people who are feeling called to become part of the regeneration of Gaia at this time, amazing plants such as Lady’s Mantle can help us connect with how to be agents of this healing through our hands and our hearts.

Certified Flower Essence Practitioner, Voice Dialogue facilitator and True Purpose Coach, Ruth is originally from Brazil, where she initially launched her practice. An early connection with plants in Nature and a deep insight into the human psyche informed her practice of more than 3 decades, mentoring individuals through deep emotional healing, integration and empowerment.

Ruth’s greatest strength is identifying emotional patterns, offering clarity and tools so her clients can transform attitudes and habits, freeing their life force, so their lives can evolve and flourish to the next stage. Her ease with technology, skills as a photographer / designer, and her deep connection with the healing Archetypes of plants and flowers are a channel through which she brings Nature forces to infuse our inner and our digital world with healing beauty and integration, in times of polarization and fragmentation.

Ruth is also the Co-founder of The School for Flower Essence Studies and Co-host of the Flower Essence Alchemy Earth Week Intensive, which starts on April 17th!

In this amazing event, incredible teachers and experts will be sharing deep knowledge on experiencing the relationship between the elements, the essences, and ourselves; and how we can co-create and nurture a vitally potent sense of integration of our human selves within the web of creation.

You can register for Flower Essence Alchemy here: https://floweressencestudies.com/flower-essence-alchemy/ 

You can find Ruth at: https://essencementoring.com and  https://www.essencecircles.com
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#39 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Acupuncturist and Author Lindsay Fauntleroy on how flower essences address the root patterns of imbalance and support archetypal emergence and awakening in the healing process.

In this episode, Lindsay shares powerful insights into what we can learn from African and Indigenous healing systems, and practical tips for how to connect directly with Nature and the elements through different layers and states of consciousness.

She also shares about the difference between working with flower essences and Flower Essence Therapy, and how working with the spirit intelligence of plants opens a shift in perspective as we come deeper into relationship with Nature. Lindsay additionally offers how wellness practitioners can integrate flower essences into their work, and key learnings that are integral to having an effective flower essence practice.

Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power. She is also the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos.

Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program.

Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.

You can find Lindsay at The Spirit SEED, on IG at https://www.instagram.com/lindsayfaunt/, and on facebook at The Spirit SEED

And you can order her book In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power here: IN OUR ELEMENT

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#38 - Join us for an amazing conversation on Plant Allies with the incredible Herbalist and Author Rosemary Gladstar.
 
Depression, sorrow, grief, and strife seem to be raging right now. But so is hope, beauty, love, kindness and Plant Power. We can learn from the plants how to root deep, hold fast, and weather the storm. And, perhaps, even how to make magic and beauty in the midst of it all.

In this episode, Rosemary shares simple plant teachings that can strengthen us, help heal us, and light the way on our journey.

Roses, Lavender, Comfrey, Nettle, Plantain, Violets, Self Heal, Yarrow, Chamomile, Calendula, Dandelion, Holy Basil and a host of other plant friends and allies are reaching out to us, inviting us to walk the beauty way even as the going gets tough.

Rosemary Gladstar is an Herbalist and Author who’s been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 45 years.

Often referred to as the ‘godmother of American herbalism’, Rosemary is the author of twelve books, and co-founder of both The International Herb Symposium and The New England Women’s Herbal Conference. She’s also the Founding President of United Plant Savers, and the co-founder and original formulator of Traditional Medicinals Tea Company.

In 2018 Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Naturopathic Medicine. She’s also the author of the popular home study course, The Science and Art of Herbalism.

You can find Rosemary at https://scienceandartofherbalism.com/, on IG at @rosemarygladstar, and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RosemaryGladstar

We first recorded this conversation for the most recent Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that we wanted to share it with you here. Such potent medicine for these times!

If you love this conversation with Rosemary Gladstar and you've been recently craving a connection to the state of centered balance and joy of deep herbal wisdom, you can learn from 33 additional notable Herbalists, Authors, Teachers, and Plant Expert speakers in the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit here: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/plant-spirit-herbalism-2 

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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#037 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Holistic Herbal Chef Wilnise Francois on the nourishing, sensual connection we have with food and how plants help us to reawaken the light body. 

In this episode, Wilnise shares wisdom on the experience of Manje Limyè (eat light) in connection with plants, and physical and spiritual wellness. She also offers profound insight on how her lineages in Haitian and African indigenous herbalism influence and shape her embodied lived experience, and how the plantcestors help us understand how to belong in diverse community within the larger web of connectivity and knowing. 

Wilnise Francois is a Holistic Herbal Chef, Licensed Nurse, and Herbalist with over 10 years of experience working in the modality of allopathic healing. As founder and curator of the small business Well Fed Apothecary, she has been working to revolutionize the cultural concurrence between earth's botanical plants and heaven's celestial bodies. 

While collaborating with physicians and caregivers worldwide, her role as an herbalist extended with the merging of treatment methods from her traditional Haitian practices and her studies of Western herbalism. 

In honor of the people's optimal level of health and wellness, she has vowed her life to continue bridging the gap between the sacred indigenous knowledge and the modernized technology of our world. 

You can find Wilnise on IG @wilnise https://www.instagram.com/wilnise/ and at https://www.wellfedapothecary.com/ later this spring. 

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#36 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Plant Medicine Teacher, Researcher, and Herbal Practitioner Nikki Darrell on plant consciousness and the value of listening to the inspirations we find in Nature.

In this episode, Nikki shares wisdom on plant sentience and how people and plants communicate with each other. She also offers helpful insights on the importance of slowing down and noticing the seasons, and how dreaming supports tuning into the inspirations embedded in the Nature council and ecosystems around us.

Nikki Darrell is a plant scientist; practitioner of herbal medicine, aromatic medicine, and body work; and founder of the Plant Medicine School. She is also a gardener, educator, campaigner, and author of Conversations with Plants: The Path Back to Nature and Essential Oils: A Concise Manual. She has been working with plants for over four decades as her fascination with the green beings started in early childhood. Her primary teachers are the plants she works with.

Nikki holds a Masters in Social and Co-operative Enterprise, which she embarked on due to her love of sustainable community development. She is devoted to the recovery of our societal and cultural connection to the plant beings, our kin in Nature, and bringing herbal medicine back into the center of our communities. Her passion and vocation is as a plantswoman and medicine person, embracing the spiritual life path of Earth Wisdom.

She now co-facilitates Nature Resonance Medicine with Alex Duffy, where she helps people become re-enchanted with their place in the community of Nature, in harmony with the seen and unseen beings.

You can find Nikki at https://theplantmedicineschool.com/, on IG @plantmedicineschool, on facebook @theplantmedicineschool, and Aeon Books: https://www.aeonbooks.co.uk/author/nikki-darrell/22734/

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#35 - Join us for an amazing conversation on the magic & medicine of flowers and our relationship with Nature with Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina), flower essence practitioner and founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary.

In this episode, Renee shares how flowers can help to open layers of awareness in the process of healing and transformation, and how they help us in creating new pathways for how we want to walk in the world. She also offers wisdom on the magic that occurs when we are in community with the natural world, and how connecting with the Earth creates healing and promotes balance in our everyday lives.

Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina) is a certified flower essence practitioner and proud founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary. Akika Flower Essences was created to explore the ancestral practice of tuning into plant intelligence as a tool for transformation, healing, and empowerment on one’s soul journey.

Renee received her flower essence certification from Oceans & Rivers Acupuncture and Wellness and The Flower Essence Society (FES). As a strategist, Renee believes that everyone can manifest their dreams by creating a strategy that encompasses the right people at the right time. Her goal is to assist others to find joy through connecting with plant intelligence in as many forms possible beginning with flower essences.

As an Iyanifa and Olorisa, initiated to Ifa and Egbe in Nigeria, Renee also uses the knowledge she gains from her spiritual practice to assist her clients in finding and maintaining balance in their lives. She continues to expand her repertoire of community tools for healing through consistent study of our plant allies, learning and practicing the art of alchemy as taught by Master Teacher Diana Pharr and becoming a Level II Reiki Practitioner certified by Taino Reiki Healing. Renee is a Brooklyn native, mother, artist, healer, alchemist, strategist, cultural arts curator, flower essence practitioner, SRJ advocate and community member.

You can find Renee at https://www.akikafloweressences.com/ and on IG @akikafloweressences

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#034 – What wisdom can we learn from the Mushroom of Immortality?

Join us for an amazing conversation with Brandon Gilbert, founder of Hyperion Herbs.

In this episode, Brandon shares about the supportive and life-changing power of adaptogens and tonic herbs. He offers profound insight into the nature of Reishi, long known as the Mushroom of Immortality, and why it’s important to know plants and mushrooms in their natural, raw state. He also shares how his connection with Eastern Philosophy informs his life journey and experience with herbs.

Brandon Gilbert is the Founder of Hyperion Herbs, and he’s been studying Eastern philosophy since the age of 14. After experiencing the profound effect of tonic herbs, Brandon founded Hyperion Herbs to share purely potent tonic herbs and make them accessible and easily available.

He teaches classes and workshop on a variety of subjects ranging from alternative health, healing modalities, herbalism, internal arts, to Eastern philosophy, and he’s the founder of the YouTube channel HyperionTv.com.

You can find Brandon at https://www.hyperionherbs.com/ and on IG @hyperionherbs 

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#033 – Join us for an incredible conversation with Nana Xochiketzalli on the powerful healing practice of Curanderismo and ancestral medicine.

In this episode, Xochiketzalli shares about working with plant limpias in the ancient healing practice of Curanderismo and her experience of training with maestras and K'iche Mayan Curanderas Nana Tomasa & Nana Sebastiána. She also offers wisdom on offerings of reciprocity and the power of working directly with the Earth for transmuting energy in healing practice.

Xochiketzalli is a Curanderismo practitioner, practicing ancestral medicine and healing on Wiyot land. She is of mixed ancestry & offers traditional limpias, flower limpias, & soul retrieval limpias at her folk Healing Center in Eureka CA.

She is an AjQ'ij, spiritual time keeper, and guardian of the CholQ'ij Mayan calendar. This work was passed onto her after years of training & a decade of working with her maestras Nana Tomasa & Nana Sebastiána who are K'iche Mayan Curanderas. She offers traditional Mayan fire ceremonies, personal and community healings, CholQ'ij Mayan Calendar Astrology readings, and tzi'te divinations.

Xochiketzalli also teaches & is a maestra of ancestral medicine. She offers various classes in art and making sacred tools used in Curanderismo, and she offers two intensive womxns healing series: 9 Moons Cosmic Rebirthing Series & the 13 Ofrendas Ritual Series.

You can find Xochiketzalli and sign up for her newsletter at https://www.xochiketzalli.com/ and on IG @spiritmedicines

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/