Plant Allies that Help us Weather the Storm with Rosemary Gladstar

03/18/23 • 35 min

The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia

#38 - Join us for an amazing conversation on Plant Allies with the incredible Herbalist and Author Rosemary Gladstar.
Depression, sorrow, grief, and strife seem to be raging right now. But so is hope, beauty, love, kindness and Plant Power. We can learn from the plants how to root deep, hold fast, and weather the storm. And, perhaps, even how to make magic and beauty in the midst of it all.
In this episode, Rosemary shares simple plant teachings that can strengthen us, help heal us, and light the way on our journey.
Roses, Lavender, Comfrey, Nettle, Plantain, Violets, Self Heal, Yarrow, Chamomile, Calendula, Dandelion, Holy Basil and a host of other plant friends and allies are reaching out to us, inviting us to walk the beauty way even as the going gets tough.
Rosemary Gladstar is an Herbalist and Author who’s been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 45 years.
Often referred to as the ‘godmother of American herbalism’, Rosemary is the author of twelve books, and co-founder of both The International Herb Symposium and The New England Women’s Herbal Conference. She’s also the Founding President of United Plant Savers, and the co-founder and original formulator of Traditional Medicinals Tea Company.
In 2018 Rosemary was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the National University of Naturopathic Medicine. She’s also the author of the popular home study course, The Science and Art of Herbalism.
You can find Rosemary at https://scienceandartofherbalism.com/, on IG at @rosemarygladstar, and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/RosemaryGladstar
We first recorded this conversation for the most recent Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit, and it was such a gem of a discussion that we wanted to share it with you here. Such potent medicine for these times!
If you love this conversation with Rosemary Gladstar and you've been recently craving a connection to the state of centered balance and joy of deep herbal wisdom, you can learn from 33 additional notable Herbalists, Authors, Teachers, and Plant Expert speakers in the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit here: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/plant-spirit-herbalism-2

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A Well Fed Life: Plants in Food, Healing, and Community with Wilnise Francois

#037 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Holistic Herbal Chef Wilnise Francois on the nourishing, sensual connection we have with food and how plants help us to reawaken the light body.
In this episode, Wilnise shares wisdom on the experience of Manje Limyè (eat light) in connection with plants, and physical and spiritual wellness. She also offers profound insight on how her lineages in Haitian and African indigenous herbalism influence and shape her embodied lived experience, and how the plantcestors help us understand how to belong in diverse community within the larger web of connectivity and knowing.
Wilnise Francois is a Holistic Herbal Chef, Licensed Nurse, and Herbalist with over 10 years of experience working in the modality of allopathic healing. As founder and curator of the small business Well Fed Apothecary, she has been working to revolutionize the cultural concurrence between earth's botanical plants and heaven's celestial bodies.
While collaborating with physicians and caregivers worldwide, her role as an herbalist extended with the merging of treatment methods from her traditional Haitian practices and her studies of Western herbalism.
In honor of the people's optimal level of health and wellness, she has vowed her life to continue bridging the gap between the sacred indigenous knowledge and the modernized technology of our world.
You can find Wilnise on IG @wilnise https://www.instagram.com/wilnise/ and at https://www.wellfedapothecary.com/ later this spring.

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Flower Essence Therapy and Archetypal Healing with Lindsay Fauntleroy

#39 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Acupuncturist and Author Lindsay Fauntleroy on how flower essences address the root patterns of imbalance and support archetypal emergence and awakening in the healing process.
In this episode, Lindsay shares powerful insights into what we can learn from African and Indigenous healing systems, and practical tips for how to connect directly with Nature and the elements through different layers and states of consciousness.
She also shares about the difference between working with flower essences and Flower Essence Therapy, and how working with the spirit intelligence of plants opens a shift in perspective as we come deeper into relationship with Nature. Lindsay additionally offers how wellness practitioners can integrate flower essences into their work, and key learnings that are integral to having an effective flower essence practice.
Lindsay Fauntleroy is a licensed acupuncturist and the author of In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power. She is also the founder of The Spirit Seed, a school that offers personal and professional development courses that are rooted in ancestral understandings of health, humanity, nature, and the cosmos.
Lindsay is a certified instructor for the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as a facilitator of the Flower Essence Society's global practitioner certification program.
Her approach to soul medicine emerged through over 15 years of clinical practice, Doctoral studies of Indigenous and African Diasporic psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. Lindsay's Five-Element flower essence remedies, the Elementals, are available nationally and internationally.
You can find Lindsay at The Spirit SEED, on IG at https://www.instagram.com/lindsayfaunt/, and on facebook at The Spirit SEED
And you can order her book In Our Element: Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power here: IN OUR ELEMENT

The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia - Plant Allies that Help us Weather the Storm with Rosemary Gladstar

Transcript

Sara Artemisia00:00:05.009

Welcome to the Plant Spirit Podcast on connecting with plant consciousness, and the healing wisdom of Nature. If you'd like to learn more on how to communicate directly with plants, visit

Sara Artemisia00:00:22.649

www.learnplantlanguage.com. To register for the free workshop, that's www.learnplantlanguage.com. I'm your host, Sara Artemesia and I'm absolutely delighted and deeply honored to introduce our guest