WILDCRAFTING FOOD & MEDICINE ~ Stinging Nettles are a nutritious wild superfood, an ancient whole-body medicine, a traditional textile plant, food for important pollinators, and a super compost activator and soil nutrient. To me, she is an honored elder who’s been here for thousands of years supporting us in powerful and mysterious ways. Learn more about this incredible plant and how to work with her.
Read MoreTRUSTING THE NATURAL PROCESS OF CHANGE ~ We are all going through life living by these unspoken agreed upon rules—intertwined, blindfolded and bowed to the religion of the clock. But how much are we just trying to keep up with systems that exist outside of ourselves rather than how we actually want to live?
Read MoreA SIMPLE PRACTICE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING ~ There is a very simple practice that has the potential to literally change your life. It’s so simple it is hard to believe it’s worth the extra time in the morning to do it. It’s hard to believe it actually has the potential to change your life. But truthfully, it most certainly has changed mine.
Read MoreWILDCRAFTING BLACK COTTONWOOD MEDICINE ~ Learn how to wildcraft Cottonwood tree buds to make the ancient and famed Balm of Gilead— a potent panacea for many ailments from arthritic joints to sunburns.
Read MoreHOW A SIT SPOT PRACTICE CAN BENEFIT YOUR HEALTH AND THE LAND ~ We have evolved over the past 2 million years from the land, as the land, and living closely with the land. Relationship with the land is hard wired into our DNA. Having a sit spot practice is a simple practice with benefits that are immense for our overall wellbeing and for the land itself. Learn all about this practice and the scientifically proven benefits for your health.
Read MoreTHE DANCE OF NATURE CONNECTED COACHING ~ All great truths are big enough, wide enough, and deep enough to hold great paradox. And Nature Connected Coaching is one such paradox. Masculine and feminine. Earthly and Spirit. And when these opposing forces are held together, something truly magnificent begins to alchemize.
Read MoreWILDCRAFTING THROUGH THE WINTER ~ Learn about Horehound’s origins and how to make a healing cough syrup even in the dead of winter.
Read MoreLIFE AS A WORK OF ART ~ I had a dream of a wise woman I trust and admire who was warning me that creating shifts and making changes in the culture is hard work. Slow work. I awoke thinking, yes. Maybe. But time moves fast and this life is just a blink, and what is it all for anyways?
Read MoreMYSTERIOUS MEDICINE ~ The Black-billed Magpie is a surprising and mysterious bird, commonly misunderstood and misrepresented. In the same family as crows, jays and ravens, magpies are known to be one of the most intelligent creatures around—right up there with dolphins, chimpanzees and humans.
Read MoreWe so often spend our days preparing ourselves for our life that is to come. Doing tasks that we think will get us closer to a life that we really want, a life that is different than the one we have—a dream of someday. But life is—and always is—right now.
Read MoreThis time of year my body starts to crave rose hip tea. As the colds and flus start flying around and as our bodies get worn out and run down, these little red fruits dot the black and white landscape almost begging to be harvested and enjoyed. Learn how to forage for rose hips and make rose hip tea.
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