un-paving our minds
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Free Class *this Saturday* - Home Herbal Medicine Chest
How to Treat your Maladies with Natural Medicine.
Sat May 25th, 10 - 11am PT, Virtual/Zoom
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!
…part of my *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 to access the recording after the class. Up Next…
Sat June 22: Natural Bathing Practices for Self-Healing & Wellness
July: Women’s Medicine: Tending our Womb
August: Crash Course in Tongue Diagnosis
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Weekly Hatha Yoga on the Green
I am teaching a drop-in community yoga class every Thursday from 10-11am outside of Abalone Apothecary while the weather is fair. All are welcome, $15-$20 sliding scale, tell your friends! Bring your own mat or a blanket, and a cushion or meditation pillow if you need it to comfortably sit cross-legged on the earth.
The class is traditional Hatha yoga style, therapeutic and designed to impart a daily home practice. Looks more like qi gong than Vinyasa flow.
No sign-up necessary, just come! We’ve been having a lovely time. I have to raise my voice to be heard over the starlings, and chubby gophers pop up to munch grass and catch the vibes.
I draw from my 20+ year study and practice of Shadow Yoga. 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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Abalone Field Notes 04 | 05.19.24
Last week I spoke about the harvest being the medicine. I shared a few photos of clover and wild oats and I hope you didn’t get the wrong idea.
I do not share many images of the wild places where I wander to find medicine, because I mostly do not take my camera along. For the herbs that are further beyond the veld, the medicine is the wander itself, as in the harvest, as in the draw of the meadow. to go back to being a child, like I spoke of last week.
to climb high up a pine tree above the lake and sway in the wind of a storm and know that no one could ever find me unless i chose to be found
to crouch in holy caves tucked into the ragged coastline, barefoot and half naked, and for a moment feel more kin with the raven strutting down the shore than with the humans
I ask the plants’ permission first, on the rare occasion that I want to gather images along with medicine. Otherwise - the phone stays home. There are portals that open when there is no temptation to harvest mirages and steal souls. Nothing for the sake of anything but a secret moment of intimacy with the wild.
Leaving the camera behind for our most irresistibly photogenic moments is a practice, one among many (like bushwhacking or using creative punctuation or letting medicine be plants not pills) for breaking down the brutishly-paved lanes in our mind that have told us for too many generations all kinds of misguidance about what is reasonable and what is crass… one of many practices to rewire and rewild our idea of what is ‘healthy’ ‘appropriate’ and ‘free’. Always with deep self compassion and an understanding that the wild does not judge, the living earth is dying to be in deeper relationship with us, will always love us exactly as we are, its little children, always gently nudging us to open our squinted newborn eyes…
Rewilding our minds will rewild our culture.
and when I practice this, the medicine jumps into my arms, tells me what is needed, goes into the cobwebs of my mind and gently delicately blows them clean, unpaves the indigenous footpaths and deer trails of my psyche, cleans me up, makes me whole again. in return i worship, offer tears love tobacco songs, am happy calm alive
I think everyone needs this.
I think we all need to untether intentionally and regularly before we lose our mind (soul?) completely and become lost forever in the land of forgetting. But what do I know about what you need? you tell me…
what other practices do you know to break down the barbed-wire fences in our minds?
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Alison