The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia

#012 – In this episode, Emily Smith of Guide to Wholeness shares about how to connect to the wholeness within and listen to intuition, especially when you’re in a career that isn’t in alignment with your core life energy. 

Join us as we explore: 

* How working with plants can help cultivate intuitive awareness. 
* Somatic signs in the body that serve as a gateway to spiritual awakening.  
* How a spiritual awakening can change the career path.  
* Bringing the career path into alignment with the core self of who we really are. 
* How working with plants can allow us to safely heal emotions that have been buried in the subconscious. 
* And some practical tips for connecting with intuition from her new book Wholeness Within.   

Emily Smith is a Spiritual Career Coach who helps high-achieving women find personal and career alignment and get clear and confident on the work & life they love. Emily’s also the host of the Guide to Wholeness podcast and the author of Wholeness Within: Insights from One Woman's Journey of Creating a Life and Career in Alignment.

Check out her new book Wholeness Within at: wholenesswithin.us

You can also find her on IG: @guidetowholeness

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/emilymsmith1

And on her website at: www.guidetowholeness.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/

#011 - Join us for a very powerful conversation with Dan Wahpepah of the Anishinaabe, Kickapoo and Sac & Fox tribes on Honoring Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge. I’m deeply honored that Dan joined us as a guest on the Plant Spirit Podcast. And his message is so important for the times we are in!

In this episode, Dan shares profound insight into what it means to decolonize the mind, particularly when working with permaculture and other land based practices. 

He also offers deep wisdom into:

• How prayer opens up a circular conduit between yourself, the Universe, the person you’re praying for, and the Earth. 
• Re-indigenizing permaculture with Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK). 
• His Permaculture Foundations work with Megan Toben  at the Eco-Institute. 
• How important it is to connect with Indigenous people who have been taking care of the land for thousands of years.  
• Coming back into balance with our Elder relatives and learning the stories of the land
• How we’re in a crossroads of prophecy at this time. 
• The importance of having a reciprocal relationship with the plants.  
• And he also shares the powerful story of the first Tobacco plant Asema, and how to be in right relationship with this sacred medicine plant.   

Dan Wahpepah is from the Anishinaabe, Kickapoo and Sac & Fox tribes. He grew up with his community’s cultural ways and has been politically active with the American Indian Movement and spiritually active through tribal ceremonies. Dan started the Rogue Valley Pow Wow, the American Indian Cultural Center, and Red Earth Descendants. He's also a board member of Natives of One Wind Indigenous Alliance, Rogue Climate, and Pipeline Fighters. As part of his tradition, he is a Drum Keeper and Drum Chief.

Dan works with Traditional Ecological Knowledge and permaculture. And his life work is focused on the preservation of this Earth for future generations. He believes that “Permaculture combined with Traditional Ecological Knowledge is a powerful pairing.  To contribute to life is what we need to feel. We are moving into a giveaway society. The best way for us to train for this new paradigm is to garden. By gardening, we contribute to life while gaining a harvest, feeding pollinators, sequestering carbon, feeding sugars and carbon to the billions of microbes and miles upon miles of mycorrhiza, connecting to community for excess giveaway, connecting with the seasons, connecting.”

You can find out more about Dan's work at https://eco-institute.org/permaculture-foundations-certificate and http://www.redearthdescendants.org.

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/

#010 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Healer and Facilitator Tavia Benjamin on the power of listening to the somatic wisdom in the body and how to connect with a sense of deep nourishment in these times.

In this episode, Tavia offers key insights into how you can tune into what you enjoy in a way that helps you nourish your nervous system while really living the life that you love. They also share about their resonance with Maryam Hasnaa's class on Pleasure as Prayer and inspiration from Rashida KhanBey Miller on connecting with pleasure as fuel rather than as a reward. And why it's so important to honor the body as a temple, especially for people who work in the healing arts.

Tavia Benjamin (they/she/he) is a Healer and Facilitator, and they focus on embodying liberation and creating liberated spaces for people, especially BIPOC communities. Tavia has over a decade of land and food justice organizing experience, and they work in collaboration with Durham Community Apothecary and the Black Mycelium Project.

Tavia's work supports Queer Southern Black folks to birth new social models and structures into existence that both support their freedom and help them reconnect to their divinity and sovereignty to create sustainable, holistic systems change.

You can find Tavia at durhamcommunityapothecary.wordpress.com, patreon.com/BlackMycelium, and on IG @blacknherby. 

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/

#009 - An incredible conversation with Vida Hofweber of Golden Bough Coaching on the role of plant spirit medicine in the Great Turning towards healing that we're currently experiencing on the planet. 

In this episode, Vida offers profound insight into how we can create an intersectional approach in the realm of plant spirit medicine and why this is so important. She also shares messages from the Redwoods and deep wisdom on the role of plant spirit medicine in the Great Turning towards Earth healing. 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 deep medicine for these times!

Vida Hofweber (she/her) is a Holistic Life Coach based in traditions of Jungian, Archetypal, and Somatic psychology, Earth Based Spirituality, and Intersectional Feminism. She supports creative, earth-loving people to pass through the gates of life’s initiations, alchemize fires of transformation, and find liberation through self expression. Vida has a Master's in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and has practiced herbalism for 15 years.

You can find Vida at www.goldenboughcoaching.com and on IG @goldenboughcoaching.

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/

#008 - Join us for a fascinating conversation with Denai Grace Fuller of Moonflower Medicine on how plants & flowers are both connected with the Tarot and give us a deeper understanding of Tarot archetypes in the classic Rider Waite Smith deck.

In this episode we chat about: 

• Plant myths and magic, and how they offer insight into understanding Tarot archetypes
• How plants and flowers support us on the journey of orienting and belonging
• Plant love and working with flower essences
• "Pixie" Pamela Coleman Smith, the original artist for the Rider Smith Waite deck 

Denai Grace (she/her) is a Tarot Guide & Flower Alchemist, and founder of Moonflower Medicine. She’s walked in beauty & balance with the Tarot & flowers as teachers for her entire adult life. And she's deeply inspired & informed by the plants where she lives in Ashland Oregon, which is in the ancestral homelands of the Takelma people, as well as from her homeland of Belize.

You can find Denai at moonflowermedicine.love and on IG @moonflowermedicine.love.

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/

#007 - A beautiful mind and heart-expanding conversation with holistic health practitioner Emma Fitts of Awaken Your Wild on connecting with Nature, and how this helps us connect to the state of flow and Presence within the self. 

Join us as we explore:

• The Universal Language between us and plants
• How Nature is a reflection of us, and vice versa. That we're part of Nature at our core, and to truly thrive we need to reconnect and remember this magic 
• The biological impact of our spiritual/physical connection with plants
• Medical astrology and how this is connected with herbs
• And how working with mindfulness in our connection with Nature and herbs takes us into a space of healing

Emma Fitts is a Holistic Health Practitioner who works with Ayurvedic Medicine, Medical Astrology, Energy Matrix Healing, Reiki, and Plant-Based Diet and Nutrition to help people create unity and vitality in the Body, Mind, and Spirit. And her methods often involve connecting with the spirit of Nature.

She helps people discover and utilize an incredible blueprint that lies within to create the health/life they desire. And she helps people live in alignment with the Wild Self, which is our beautiful mixture of the Cosmos and Earth now coming into balance.

Emma is also the host of The Wild Awakening Podcast

You can find her on IG @awakenyourwild_ and wholesomelivingayurveda.com.au

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/

#006 - Join us for an incredible conversation on Medicine & Magic with the Witching Herbs with the amazing Seed SistAs Karen Lawton and Fiona Heckels of Sensory Solutions.

In this powerful episode, the Seed SistAs guide us on a walk down the plant-lined paths of the Witches Garden and share a window into how we can develop deeply loving and respectful relationships with what are traditionally known as the poison plants and witching herbs.

Throughout our conversation, I experienced feeling transported through the layers of time into ways that we as humans have been in deep relationship with herbs for many hundreds and thousands of years. So powerful! We first recorded this interview for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that I wanted to share it with you here.

Tune in for the Seed SistAs’ fun, hilarious, and very real journey in this interview on what it means to re-story our relationship with the natural world through sensory herbalism, creative eco-activitism, and walking in deep relationship with the Earth.

The Seed SistAs are Karen Lawton and Fiona Heckels (they/them), authors of The Sensory Herbal Handbook and founders of herbal education community project, Sensory Solutions Herbal Evolution. Combining medical training and years of clinical practice with a passion for plants, imagination and creativity, their teaching gives people more autonomy in their health by connecting them with their local medicinal plants and the magical nature of the green world.

You can find them on IG @seed_sistas and www.sensorysolutions.co.uk

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/

#005 - Have you ever heard of the Music of the Plants?

Join us for an intriguing conversation with herbalist Susan Bowers about her experience in making medicine with the Music of the Plants, a device first developed at Damanhur in the 1970’s and designed to translate the electromagnetic impulses of plants into melodies.

Susan is an herbalist and activist who lives her life in service to the plants and the Earth. She’s been practicing Herbal Plant Medicine for over 45 years. Her Grandmothers are Juanita, Marietta and Ruth, and she lives on the Port Gamble S’klallam tribal ancestral lands.

In this interview, Susan shares deep wisdom about what it means to be in right relationship with the plants. Here are some gems from her experience:

“Being in right relationship with plants, with the entire ecosystem of my garden and the wild places I forage means recognizing that all life is Sacred and Sentient. All life is interconnected.

My traditions have taught me that I must first sit with my plants and seeds in quiet. I then ask permission and give offerings, and listen to their reply. I explain what my intention is and who will receive help from the food and medicine they provide. I give gratitude to them for collaborating with me.

When making medicine this year I've been playing plant music with the Bamboo M, a Music of the Plants device. This adds another layer of healing to the medicine and food.

I feel more connected to the medicine because the music takes me out of my head and into my heart. That is key, being in your heart when you are working with the plant people. And they are happy to serve us if we acknowledge them and get permission.

The reciprocity between us is felt on a new level with the music. Science is now explaining what the ancient cultures knew. We are in this together, and a new paradigm has arisen and the healing of us all is happening now.”

In this episode, Susan shares about her experience connecting with Shane Mendonsa's work with Plant Music. To learn more about Shane's work, please visit his YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpjl7axNrHYPh53gezouYxA and on BandCamp at https://shanemendonsa.bandcamp.com/

To connect with Susan directly, you can contact her at [email protected] and IG @suzinna53.

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/

#004 - An incredible conversation with folk herbalist and alchemical experience facilitator Alissa Maya of Akasha Apothecary on connecting with plant allies, plant wisdom; and how we can be better in alignment with the Earth, her cycles, and the cycles reflected in the feminine body.

There is so much deep juicy nourishment in this conversation with Alissa, and her connection with the plants is so powerful. 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.

Alissa Maya (she/her) facilitates alchemical experiences with plant spirits & the feminine, and supports people in deepening their relationship with the elements through ceremony. With folk herbalist methods, she works with ritual and deep connection to nature and her cycles to create potent herbal offerings. She always offers herbs back to the earth with prayers of gratitude for the infinite wisdom they bring. Offering a synergy of plants, somatic modalities, movement, and ceremony, she teaches people how to come back to true self.

You can find her on IG @akashaapothecary and https://akashaapothecary.com/.

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/

#003 - In this episode, Danielle Williams of Flower Coven Vibrational Medicine shares about her experience of working with flower essences and how to deepen in relationship with the plants and flowers.

We also discuss several different supports and ways to connect with plants that are particularly helpful for empaths. If you’re an empath, sensitive or intuitive person, you’ll love this episode!

Danielle (she/her) works in conjunction with elemental herbalism, women’s health, and energy healing, in co-creation with the plantcestors and flowers essences to support people with healing the body, spirit and mind.

You can find Danielle at vibrationalmedicine.love and on IG @flower.coven.

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
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/multidimensionalnature/

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