The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia

#022 - Join us for an incredible conversation with artist, plant whisperer, and wayshower Lisa Estabrook on how flowers create space for healing. 

In this episode, Lisa shares about the timely medicine of her close ally Dandelion and what it means to tend the garden of the soul. She also offers wisdom about her experience with flower medicine as story medicine, and how Nature helps us connect with the power of witnessing, observing, and being compassionate towards the self and others.

Lisa Estabrook is an artist, mother, way shower, author, home herbalist, and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years figuring out how to live a meaningful, heart-led, healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing which also launched her heART based Soulflower business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet.

The founder of the online Soulflower CommUNITY Garden, Lisa's belief is that the more we learn about ourselves and take responsibility for our own healing journeys, the more we will empower and support ourselves and by extension our families, our communities and ultimately the Earth herself.

You can find Lisa at https://mysoulflower.com/ and on IG @my_soulflower  

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/

#021 - Join us for an amazing conversation with plant medium, educator, and writer Elsie Lopez on how the land is holding a healing language right now that can help us transform layers of grief and connect to a state of presence.

In this episode, Elsie shares profound wisdom on accessing healing codes and being in a co-creative process with plants and the land. She also offers key practices for learning how to communicate directly with the landscapes around us, and insight into the transformative experience of connecting with the land of our ancestors. 

Elsie also shares poetry on working with Yarrow flower essence, and her experience with the power of dance to support movement and healing in life’s great transitions. 

As the daughter of Kiskeyan immigrants, Elsie Lopez grew up living and traveling through the concrete jungle of New York City and the lush campos of Kiskeya (the Dominican Republic). Elsie is plant medium, ethnobotanist, educator, writer, intuitive designer, and founder of Gold Water Alchemy and the Gold Water Education Center. 

She’s also the creator of Herbascopes and Florascopes, through which she shares knowledge of plant spirit wisdom and medicine. Elsie’s work focuses on language, sound medicine, and creating holistic spaces, remedies, and happenings. 

You can find Elsie at www.goldwateralchemy.com and on IG @goldwateralchemy and @goldwatereducationcenter

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
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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/

#020 – What would this world look like if kids were taught from a young age to cultivate connection with the wisdom of the Earth? 

Join us for an incredible conversation with Patricia Walsh-Collins on how to help children connect with the living relationship between Nature, people, art, and the self. 

In this episode, Patricia shares about her experience with Earth School and why it’s important to cultivate awareness of the connection between inner wisdom and Nature from a young age. She also offers experiential insight into the power of giving kids permission to be innately who they are, and the value of demystifying intuition and honoring cyclical ways of being in Nature.

Patricia Walsh-Collins is an Intuitive Educator and the Founder and Director of the Art of Spirit's, Earth School. The mission of Earth School is to facilitate a child's spiritual connection to their inner life, through a living relationship with the Natural World and all beings. 

You can find Patricia at https://www.earthschoolforkids.org and on IG: @art_of_spirits_earth_school

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraartemisia.ms/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
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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/

#019 - What are the Four Sacred Gifts of the Eagle Hoop Prophecy?

Join us for a very special Plant Spirit Podcast conversation with Nahua (Aztec) and Mexican American author Dr. Anita Sanchez on Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times.

In this episode, Anita offers profound insight into the wisdom of the Four Sacred Gifts in the Eagle Hoop Prophecy and how this provides guidance on how to be in right relationship with the self and all life at this pivotal time on the planet.

She also shares about the power of collective dreaming and how this is connected to her work with the Pachamama Alliance, where she guides life-changing trips into the Amazon to connect with the healing power of the rainforest and Indigenous Sapara and Achuar people who live in deep reciprocal relationship with Nature.

Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec) and Mexican American, is a transformational leadership consultant, speaker, coach, podcast host of "Two-Legged Experience" and author of seven books including the international award-winning book - The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times .

She bridges indigenous teachings with the latest science to inspire and equip women and men to enjoy meaningful, empowered lives and careers while caring for the earth and each other. She is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council, Evolutionary Leadership, and Board member of Bioneers and the Pachamama Alliance. Anita leads an annual journey into the sacred headwaters of the Amazon.

Anita is passionate about “inspiring people to discover and trust their gifts so that they become a life-giving connection to people and to the planet.” Recent awards include Conscious Company Media 2020 World Changing Woman and the World Woman Foundation #SheismyHero awards with Jane Goodall and fifty-eight other brilliant, heart-centered women.

This summer, Dr. Anita Sanchez is co-leading a Pachamama Alliance Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon Rainforest Journey with Dr. Kit Tennis where participants are invited by Indigenous Sapara and Achuar people to experience a profound immersion in the rainforest. On this journey, you will be invited into their ancestral culture, with direct experience to learn from an uninterrupted lineage of wisdom amongst the vibrant rainforest. This remote environment becomes curiously familiar as it awakens an ancient memory, stored in our very DNA, of a natural and harmonious way of living and being.

You can learn more and register for the upcoming Pachamama Alliance Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon Rainforest Journey with Anita from August 17 – 28, 2022 at: https://www.pachamama.org/journeys

You can also find Anita at https://foursacredgifts.com/ and on IG @dranitasanchez 

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/
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Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
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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/

#018 - An incredible conversation with Pip Waller and Lucy Wells on working with plant spirit medicine healing and engaging with Nature on a deeper level. 
 
In this episode, Pip and Lucy offer profound insight into how people can communicate with plant spirits, and the role that plant spirits have for human evolution at this point in history. They also share about the added layers that working with plant spirits can bring into all forms of healing work. 
 
Pip Waller and Lucy Wells are Plant Spirit Medicine healers and the founders of Touched by Nature Plant Spirit Medicine. With a background in plant spirit medicine, herbalism, and energetic healing systems, they are also the authors of several books including Touched by Nature: Plant Spirit Medicine Journeys.

Pip and Lucy are also offering Plant Spirit Podcast listeners a 20% off discount code for a year of their online deep Nature Connection Course on working with the elemental energy of the seasons. Here is the discount code, which you can redeem at https://touchedbynaturepsm.uk/course/: 20TBN

You can also find Pip and Lucy at https://touchedbynaturepsm.uk/ and on facebook @touchedbyplantspiritmedicine. 
 

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/

#017 - Join us for a powerful conversation with pioneering Plant Spirit Healer Pam Montgomery as she shares about plant initiations & how the plants are driving our spiritual evolution.

In this episode,  Pam also offers deep insight into what it means to live a life in service of the plants, and to be in relationship and co-creative partnership with Nature. We first recorded this for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a conversation that I wanted to share it with you here. Such valuable medicine for these times!

Pam Montgomery is an author, teacher, international speaker and Earth Elder who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the green beings and has been investigating plants/trees and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. She is the author of two books, one of which is the highly acclaimed Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. Pam is also a founding member of United Plant Savers and more recently the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries or ONE.

You can find Pam at www.wakeuptonature.com and on IG @pam.montgomery.589

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/
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Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
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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/

#016 - Do you ever work with herbs while dreaming?

Join us for a very special conversation with herbalist and flower essence practitioner Katie Rose Browning on the power of listening to and embodying herbal messages in the dreamtime.

We recorded this in the rainforest of Costa Rica where Katie and her family are stewarding and living in relationship with the land at Casa Vida Flor. So you will hear all the sounds of the environment including the river, birds, wind, rain, and children playing in the background.

It was a very dynamic experience! And we enjoyed connecting with this amazing land throughout our conversation.

In this episode, Katie offers profound insight into the magic and power of what can happen when we listen to and honor messages coming forward from the herbal realm in our dreams. She also shares about a very potent dream that directed her family to move and become stewards and deep listeners of the land at their home near the Children’s Eternal Rainforest in Costa Rica.

Katie also offers wisdom about her experience of living in reciprocity with the plants and the Earth. And she shares about her experience of working with flower essences for vibrational healing, and the importance of reconnecting with the cycles: of time, of the Earth, and of the moon.

Katie Rose Molina Browning (she/her) is the Director of Embodying Herbalism and steward of Casa Vida Flor in the rainforest of Costa Rica. She’s a certified herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and Earth-centered ceremonialist; and she offers tropical herbal mentorships and Embodying Herbalism through the moon cycles.

You can find Katie at www.embodyingherbalism.com and on IG @katie.embodyingherbalism 

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
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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/

#015 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina of Moon Mother Apothecary on the power and experience of diving into the depths of the plant path. Suhaly is an AfroKisqueyan herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer. And she’s the founder of Moon Mother Apothecary, a practice and offering of heart-centered, moon-powered medicines created in the traditional wisdom and knowledge of her ancestors.

In this episode, Suhaly shares about how working with nourishing roots like Ginger and Astragalus and soothing herbs like Lemon balm and Oatstraw allow us to slow down and reconnect to our wholeness, to each other, to ourselves, and to nourishment.

She also offers key insights into how plants can help us find the courage and the bravery that is required to take a leap into new depths, and how she has found inspiration in Mae Jemison, who was the first Black woman to venture into outer space; and Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first Black woman deep sea diver in the US army.

The Moon Mother will be hosting an upcoming workshop on the Mother of All Lands: Plants of Power, Purpose, Resistance in Kiskeya with Herban Cura on April 24th; where she’ll do a deep dive into the Materia Medica, folklore, mythology, and socio-political histories of some medicinal plants prominent in Dominican plantwork & the ways they are used across various Dominican communities and in the Dominican Diaspora.

Suhaly Bautista-Carolina (she/they), aka Moon Mother aka The Earth Warrior, is an AfroKiskeyan herbalist, artist, arts administrator, educator, mother, daughter, wife, and community organizer. Her practice lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power and centers the collective wisdom of her community and the ancestral legacy of her people, while creating spaces of agency for folks to enter into their own healing. She is a 2018 graduate of the Sacred Vibes Apothecary spiritual herbalism apprenticeship, and carries out her purpose through small batch, moon-powered plant medicine offerings, justice-forward collaborations, workshops, knowledge-shares, and beyond.

Suhaly has hosted plant medicine-making workshops with spaces including New York Botanical Garden, Gossamer, The Wing, The Museum of the City of New York, Ethel’s Club, Fotografiska, The Highline and several others. She has also guided workshops at the 2nd and 3rd Annual NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conferences. Her ongoing research is centered on Kiskeyan plant medicine in the Dominican Republic and across the Dominican Diaspora in NYC.

The Moon Mother is a proud member of United Plant Savers, Queer Healers, and Herbalists Without Borders. And she is living + loving in Brooklyn, on Lenape and Canarsee land, with her wife and their baby girl, Luna.

Register for Suhaly’s upcoming workshop on Mother of All Lands: Plants of Power, Purpose, Resistance in Kiskeya (Quisqueya, Dominican Republic and Haiti), hosted with Herban Cura on April 24th at www.moonmotherapothecary.com/workshops

You can find Suhaly at www.moonmotherapothecary.com and on IG @moonmotherapothecary. 

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraartemisia.ms/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
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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/

#014 - Dana Lynn Peterson is an incredible plant spirit artist, and she created the art for this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. Join us in this episode where Dana shares a behind-the-scenes look at the magic and beauty of plant spirit art and her process of painting with plant essences.

Exploring ways to express the energy and spirit of the plants into a two dimensional art form is what truly makes Dana’s heart bloom, and one of the most amazing aspects of her art is how she weaves flower essences into the process of painting with watercolor.

In our conversation Dana shares about her inspirations for creating plant-centric artwork, how she experiences the plant spirits coming through the art, and how her relationship with plant allies has deepened in the process of painting them over the years. She also reveals her beautiful process in honoring the being of each plant in creating art for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit and the Flower Compass Deck.

Dana Lynn Peterson (she/her) is the owner and founder of Dana Lynn Artistry where she offers art that combines earth and sky and the magic in-between. Dana  is passionate about her craft and creates unique watercolor art pieces for clients all over the world. She’s designed over 150 logos for small business, and she’s the artist for this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. She’s also currently working on The Flower Compass deck with Herbalist Shawn Westendorf of Honest Owl Herbal. Dana graduated from Herron School of Art in 2011 and now lives outside of a 75 acre nature preserve in Indianapolis with her husband and son.

You can find Dana and her art at www.danalynnartistry.etsy.com, and on IG at @danalynnartistry and @theflowercompassdeck

And of course at this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit happening over the spring Equinox, where you can join us for a magical weaving of deep herbal wisdom and plant consciousness.

Get your free ticket at www.plantspiritherbalismsummit.com

We’ll be hearing from over 30+ amazing and deeply respected herbalists, authors, teachers, and plant expert speakers sharing about their direct experience with Nature consciousness and herbal wisdom. 

The conversations we're having in this summit will definitely be affirming in your journey on the plant path, and likely also life-changing in deepening your relationship with these wise green Earth elders who we call the plants.

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/

#013 - Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds is incredibly knowledgeable and wise in the way of life and seeds. He brings an embodied philosophy of experience in his work and has an amazing way of weaving connections between seeds and the relationship with Nature, life, and cultures across space and time.   

Join us in this episode where Don shares about:  

* Fascinating accounts on the intersection of plant lore and seed stories that are interwoven through global cultures over time. 
* How growing plants to seed gives us deeper insight into understanding the nature of a plant.  * How having a direct relationship with seeds help us connect to life and life force. 
* How our spiritual journey with the plants invites us to look at things from many different angles. 
* What seeds teach us about the power of potentiality. 
* The value of curiosity and being in a state of awe and wonder with Nature. 
* How having a deeper understanding of plant stories and culinary culture gives us a deeper insight of understanding and connection with plants. 

Don Tipping is the Director of Operations at Siskiyou Seeds, and he’s been farming and offering hands on, practical workshops at Seven Seeds Farm since 1997. Seven Seeds farm is a small, certified organic family farm in the Siskiyou Mountains of SW Oregon designed to function as a self-contained, life regenerating organism. In 2009 they started Siskiyou Seeds, which is a bioregional organic seed hub that grows and stewards a collection of over 700 open pollinated flower, vegetable, and herb seeds.

You can find Don at www.siskiyouseeds.com and on IG @siskiyouseeds.

For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/multidimensional.nature/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/saraartemisia.ms/
Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@multidimensional.nature
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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/