Presented by Kathy Meadowlark Dawe and Breighton Dawe

Traditional healers use plants in their techniques; this method of healing is known as herbalism.  We know that leaves, roots and plant parts are helpful.  We hope to take this to a new dimension in this class.  Working effectively with plant spirits teaches us that the spirit of a plant does the actual healing.  Ancient shamanic practice compelled the healer to first to make contact with the spirit of the plant to ask for its help before utilizing the herbal cure.
There are many forms of plant medicine: Food, Tea, Poultice, Oil, Tincture, Powder, Flower essence, Homeopathic remedies.  We are suggesting you add another dimension to your herbal experiences by conscious connection and contracting with plant as your teacher and healer. 

Plant Spirit Medicine speaks of the elements of nature, the plants, shamanism, and healing combined together with intention.  We find ourselves in a disastrous psychological, ecological and spiritual situation in the world today, and it is a result of having stopped engaging in meaningful askance, appreciation, and understanding of the inspired subtle energy conversation with nature.  Reinstating this interaction through conscious connection can help to heal us, and our world, and opens us to the wisdom available.  “As above so below,” suggests to us that what we do to anything effects another part of the whole. The concept of Plant Spirit Medicine is much bigger than just ingesting the herb Astragalus Root or Echinacea to cure your cold symptoms.  It is about all healing and about being in right relationship with one's self, plant spirits, others, and All That Is. 

Plant spirit medicine is spirit medicine.  Plants are more similar to people than they are different.  They have a physical body, a mind, and also a spirit.  They share our earth walk with us and so they are in a sense our brothers and sisters.  Wild plants living in nature are living in the fullness of spirit.  They are wise, and can teach us, inspire us and can give us medicine.  They will give us medicine for our spirit as well as our bodies if we only ask.  Asking and listening to the actual plant,(when our brain has already told us intellectually that the herb we need for swollen glands is Golden Seal) is a step we have long skipped.  It requires us to read subtle energy.  It requires going within ourselves into silence, forming a question or appeal and awaiting an answer.  Then, the toughest part of all requires valuing or trusting the answer we receive.

In this class we discuss how plants aid us in all these ways. We will journey to find a plant ally, and discuss how plants and trees communicate with us, both directly and subtly.