Circles start tomorrow - you in?
Abalone Newsletter Quickie: Inner Tracking in Community!
Just one day left to join the next round, in person in Point Reyes Station!
Get deeper into your body and heal yourself in community with earth-based medicine.
Eight Wednesdays from 4-6pm, outdoors in a garden, starting May 8th - tomorrow!
I have been struggling to find a name for this group offering. I call them “Embody Chinese Medicine Circles” but it is more like an Inner Tracking study group. With your small cohort, you go deep to discover your body’s messages and your own sense of what you need to heal… with support.
The point of these circles, for me, is about helping you get into your body and use that wisdom to inform your health choices and guide your life.
To create a space for you to be held in close-knit community.
To teach practical techniques for listening inwardly and divining what you need.
To get to know some plant medicines.
To taste a completely new anatomical model where your body is a living ecology.
To put you confidently in the driver’s seat of your own healing, with practitioners as advisors, not dictators, of your path.
A slow re-patterning of what ‘medicine’ means.
Because I believe healing is always self-healing and always orchestrated by the powers of nature. Our bodies always speak and always heal, as long as we are breathing - we just need to listen and then nurture the righteous flow.
Sometimes this means swimming upstream in the river of our habitual modern (pretty damn toxic) industrial-era lives. Always this means paying attention to what our bodies know - by listening to our hearts, our guts, and our reproductive centers (in Chinese earth-based anatomy, the three fires or “san jiao”).
This is the last time I will be doing these groups - going forward, I’ll be sharing herbal medicine and community health support as separate offerings - and I now offer a drop-in yoga class every Thursday on the Green (10-11am).
So if you are resonating with all of it, now is a great time to clear your schedule and make it happen. It is my favorite offering, where I share all my medicine in one collage of no-mind learning by feeling and being together!
the details.
Early Summer Session: May 8 - June 26
every Weds from 4-6pm, outdoors on the grass in Point Reyes Station
Each session is divided into three parts:
learning one ingredient in a classical formula through experience & lecture
a yogic breathing and movement practice that builds each week
each person sharing about their health and receiving my feedback and guidance from a Chinese medicine perspective, including tongue diagnosis
Each week, you will receive:
a deep-dive into a plant medicine - learn to feel which herbs are for you by drinking and then meditating with one herb per week, feeling and then learning what the books say about its properties. Past plants include rhodiola, bai shao, licorice… this session we step through a classical Chiense formula.
a simple yogic self-care practice to tend your own Qi at home so you can use movement and breath to rebalance your body’s energy, any time, for free.
companionship in sharing health check-ins, gaining comfort, strength and inspiration from knowing you’re not on the journey alone
personalized expert health guidance from me based on Chinese medicine and whatever is showing up. Each person receives a 15 minute consult + tongue diagnosis, every other week
Practice listening inwardly to track your subtlest signs and symptoms, so you can know in any moment what you need to feel great and gain fluency in your body’s messages
a crash-course in Chinese medicine so you can use earth-based wisdom to understand your unique elemental patterns and how to balance them
In-person meetings to keep your self-care momentum and inspiration alive
Plus:
PDF and printed herbal monograph of our featured herb of the week
20% off herbal remedies while enrolled in the class
10% off acupuncture treatments and consultations while enrolled in the class
access to remedies, resources and practices that I don’t share anywhere else
Curriculum draws from:
Herbal traditions - Chinese, Western folk, indigenous, plant spirit, eclectic and modern scientific research - plus my clinical and personal experience
Qi dynamics of herbs, body systems, seasons & environment
basic Chinese medical anatomy like organ systems, meridians, Qi, Yin/Yang
Common “Evils” (Wind, Damp, etc) & how to deal with them
Chinese medical pulse and tongue diagnosis
classical Hatha yoga & Qi Gong
other medicine practices such as ayurveda, ancestor work, divination…
seasons, environment, and what is alive for everyone each week
Contribution for 8 Week Series
Extended Early Bird Rate: $640. I offer a 2-installment payment plan
Alumni, $500 cash ($540 if paying with card)
save 5% if you pay in cash
How to Register:
Use the button below, or pay by cash or card at Abalone Clinic in Pt Reyes Station
What if I’m on the fence?
Learn more on the webpage: www.abalonemedicine.org/self-healing-circles
Book a free 30 minute exploration & consultation call using the button below!
I would love to see you there.
Alison 👣 🌾
To catch all my other upcoming offerings, check out my last letter, “Slow Medicine”
and stay tuned for my next written piece from Animist Alchemy soon, about sitting in the red clover and the ill will of the woods - this is just a news flash!