slow medicine
we are nature & nature is the cure
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I have so many invitations for you… healing circles, a new yoga offering, clinical sessions, a live interview, free classes… and musings on slow wild medicine (as usual). Come sip some warm water and read for a spell…
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*starting soon* Embody Chinese Medicine Circles
Wednesdays from 4-6 pm in Point Reyes Station
Early-bird registration closes on May 1st 🫧 and a sweet li’l group is coming together (this might be the round one for a while). There is space left!
Does this sound like something you’d love?
find out which remedies are right for you through direct experience
learn a short daily movement practice you can do at home every day
receive individual health guidance in a close-knit circle
study two classical herbal formulas in-depth, ingredient-by-ingredient, exploring Qi, flavor & feeling
learn to recognize and rebalance your Chinese medical patterns - like Qi stagnation, Spleen damp, Yin deficiency…
design a personalized health reset
receive inspiration and motivation to focus on your self care
enjoy the warmth & support of an intimate group of other self-healers.
Eight Wednesdays starting May 8th in Point Reyes Station, 4 - 6pm. Session dates: 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5, 6/12, 6/19,6/26
Contribution for 8 week series: $640 before May 1st, $720 after. (alumni, $540)
Bring a friend, both receive a special gift
Play the video above to hear a bit about what happened for Lexi, a dedicated self-healer, through her time in the Embody Chinese Medicine circles.
Check out the Embody Chinese Medicine Circles webpage to learn more, book a free exploration call (below) or just dive in with the button above and we’ll see you there ✨
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*new offering* Yoga on the Green, Thursdays @ 10am
I am offering a yoga class every Thursday at 10am starting this week (May 2). Drop-in community class, $15-$20 sliding scale. It will be traditional Hatha yoga style, therapeutic and designed to impart a daily home breathing and movement practice. Bring your own mat or blanket. No sign-up necessary, just come!
Yoga was my first entry into healing. For the decade before my son was born I was on a yogic path, traveling far to apprentice with my guides and learning to teach. Now my practice is just an essential daily thread woven into my busy life. Working with all you beautiful people at Abalone, I sense how much more potent your treatments might be if paired with a small strong home practice. These classes offer a way to take care of your own Qi at home between sessions.
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Going Live on Thursday May 9th with Chanana McGarry
For the first time ever I’m going Live on Instagram with Chanana McGarry of WombLiteracy.com. Chanana is a colleague, friend and certified fertility educator sharing ground-breaking work about rewilding reproductive health. Her work is what I wish I had been taught when I was a teenager.
I want every menstruating woman to have access to this powerful and effective path to reclaim reproductive sovereignty without toxic interventions. Round up your bleeding sisters, daughters, friends & supportive men and catch us on IG at @abalonemedicine next week, Thursday May 9th at 1pm Pacific time. And sign up for her free class on Monday in the meantime.
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*free* Monthly Class Series on Rewilding our Health
Empowering our community to use natural healing in our day-to-day lives. I offer tools to gain confidence in caring for yourself and your loved ones naturally. I share what I’ve learned over 20+ years of unearthing and remembering these ancient wild gifts.
all classes are on Zoom. Register and attend to access to the recording after the class.
next class: Home Herbal Medicine Chest
How to Treat your Maladies with Natural Medicine.
Sat May 25th, 10 - 11am PT
From relieving asthma attacks, flu, Long Cv & bronchitis, from resolving red-streaking cellulitis to healing sinus infection, to clearing black widow poison & preventing Lyme after a deer tick bite, I have done it all - 100% naturally. I’ll show you how to get off the industrial pharma hamster wheel and tap into our birthright of natural medicine to heal common maladies at home. Herbs work. Whole plants, food, movement, rest & nature are the cures, if we have the right knowledge & trust in our bodies.
I have been doing this for 15 years for both my son and myself: healing absolutely everything with herbs and natural remedies and zero trips to the drugstore (well, I do buy band-aides). I will give instructions for what remedies to stock and how to use them. I’ll share epic natural healing stories, and the tale of the one time in 15 years that I needed to take antibiotics… bring questions! This is one of my favorite classes to teach, and an essential skill set for true earth-based resilience. Sign up and share with your friends- it’s free!
Coming Up Next, Stay Tuned…
June 22: Natural Bathing Practices for Self-Healing & Wellness
July: Women’s Medicine: Tending our Womb. dates TBA.
Past Classes…
April: Designing your Own 2-Day Water Fast & Home Retreat
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Consultations and Treatments
Rewild your health.
I have spaces open to work with me one-on-one using Chinese medical diagnosis, acupuncture, moxa, cupping, diet & lifestyle guidance and whole-plant medicines. I can help with acute issues like colds, flus, orthopedic issues, rashes, etc. I also work constitutionally on complex issues to rebalance your root ecology over time. Symptoms usually resolve along the way.
I offer custom & intensive packages. With Chinese medicine, treatment changes as your patterns are revealed and layers peel away. Symptoms often resolve quickly, whereas rebalancing our ecology towards root-level strength & free flow is a practice- true healing is slow medicine.
I work via telemedicine or in-person, and ship herbs as needed.
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Rewilding our Health
This is for all you animist pagan life-affirming heretics out there who can feel we are not at all separate from mama earth. not a machine, or a collection of body tissues and organ systems and chemical reactions separate from soul or mind or land
our hearts flower and burn with a fire of life, anchored by the deep waters of our holy kidney wells, drawn through the rich soil of our stomach with its agni, its aliveness, worms and micorrhiza.
Our body has all the divinity of pachamama. all the innate intelligence and wisdom and power and wildness. all the elemental forces and infinite network of lives working together in a whole. The tsunamis and wildfires and tragedy and calm seas and glittering sunrises and forests and rivers. all the self-healing capacity. all the mystery and magic and worlds behind the veils.
it is *all* *in* *us* and we can listen, fall into ourselves, dive and resurface with visions, knowing, medicine.
our bodies and spirits are designed to heal. We evolved with natural medicines, feet on the earth, moving across land, sleeping under the stars, bathing in wild water, sun rain wind on our skin, whole food in our bellies transforming into Qi.
My grandmother, who turned 96 a few days ago 💖🌷 told me when she was a girl, she used to walk everywhere (she preferred barefoot) and so did everyone she knew… they all ate vegetables from the garden and fresh-baked bread, and everyone was strong and lean and outdoors... it wasn’t *that* long ago.
For millenia, humans did not need one single factory-produced chemical or supplement for our daily thriving. not one. for millenia. Of course Western medicine has its place; I use it when I need it and recommend it when it’s time. But there is so much potent living medicine already at our wild fingertips, that can cure serious stuff, in a way that feeds our soul. It is a fundamentally different approach to enshrine our natural bend towards light. Again. we are not machines.
Our bodies speak the language of nature. Chinese medicine, yoga, ayurveda, other indigenous models, know humans are made of the same living elements as the natural world. Rivers of blood. Seed of nourishment in the earth belly. Deep roots tapping aquifers in kidneys. Flowering fire of the heart. Channels of energy and essence of spirit accounted for in a practical anatomical way.
I read the pulse and tongue of someone last weekend whose heart pulse was a bit flattened and buried. I asked… he told me he lives with this daily ache, he doesn’t have his big family and community around him anymore. Its not always the bones and blood and guts where the medicine is needed.
Chinese Medical diagnosis uses our born sense of the wild earth to understand what our bodies are telling us. The innate language of nature we have in our bones. Rebalancing our own terrain the way we tend a natural garden. taking into account all of it - mind, emotions, history, season, symptoms, and all that surrounds us - and then seeing the patterns.
And knowing how to invite our inner ecology to rebalance itself, with plants, eating habits, bathing and physical practices, acupuncture, breathing, movement, massage.. the way we live. guided less by strategizing, more by feeling.
It works. when the remedy is right, the symptoms melt away - without knowing which molecules and hormones are doing what. without blood tests. without trying to engineer micro- realms that we cannot directly see or feel, or know the holistic reasoning for in the fathomlessly intelligent machinations of the universe of our living body’s ecosystem.
We don’t need to play God - we *are* God - we just need to listen.
our body is the earth. Let’s rewild our medicine together.
and since real health encompasses everything… let’s rewild everything.
…to be continued…
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Alison
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Sis! Such a powerful powerful piece! Seeing the work and gifts you bring to this world fills my heart with joy!!