When the Moon Lights up the Ocean: into the Depths of the Plant Path with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina

04/07/22 • 30 min

The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia

#015 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina of Moon Mother Apothecary on the power and experience of diving into the depths of the plant path. Suhaly is an AfroKisqueyan herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer. And she’s the founder of Moon Mother Apothecary, a practice and offering of heart-centered, moon-powered medicines created in the traditional wisdom and knowledge of her ancestors.
In this episode, Suhaly shares about how working with nourishing roots like Ginger and Astragalus and soothing herbs like Lemon balm and Oatstraw allow us to slow down and reconnect to our wholeness, to each other, to ourselves, and to nourishment.
She also offers key insights into how plants can help us find the courage and the bravery that is required to take a leap into new depths, and how she has found inspiration in Mae Jemison, who was the first Black woman to venture into outer space; and Andrea Motley Crabtree, the first Black woman deep sea diver in the US army.
The Moon Mother will be hosting an upcoming workshop on the Mother of All Lands: Plants of Power, Purpose, Resistance in Kiskeya with Herban Cura on April 24th; where she’ll do a deep dive into the Materia Medica, folklore, mythology, and socio-political histories of some medicinal plants prominent in Dominican plantwork & the ways they are used across various Dominican communities and in the Dominican Diaspora.
Suhaly Bautista-Carolina (she/they), aka Moon Mother aka The Earth Warrior, is an AfroKiskeyan herbalist, artist, arts administrator, educator, mother, daughter, wife, and community organizer. Her practice lives intentionally at the intersection of plant power and people power and centers the collective wisdom of her community and the ancestral legacy of her people, while creating spaces of agency for folks to enter into their own healing. She is a 2018 graduate of the Sacred Vibes Apothecary spiritual herbalism apprenticeship, and carries out her purpose through small batch, moon-powered plant medicine offerings, justice-forward collaborations, workshops, knowledge-shares, and beyond.
Suhaly has hosted plant medicine-making workshops with spaces including New York Botanical Garden, Gossamer, The Wing, The Museum of the City of New York, Ethel’s Club, Fotografiska, The Highline and several others. She has also guided workshops at the 2nd and 3rd Annual NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conferences. Her ongoing research is centered on Kiskeyan plant medicine in the Dominican Republic and across the Dominican Diaspora in NYC.
The Moon Mother is a proud member of United Plant Savers, Queer Healers, and Herbalists Without Borders. And she is living + loving in Brooklyn, on Lenape and Canarsee land, with her wife and their baby girl, Luna.
Register for Suhaly’s upcoming workshop on Mother of All Lands: Plants of Po

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Plant Spirit Art with Dana Lynn Peterson

#014 - Dana Lynn Peterson is an incredible plant spirit artist, and she created the art for this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. Join us in this episode where Dana shares a behind-the-scenes look at the magic and beauty of plant spirit art and her process of painting with plant essences.
Exploring ways to express the energy and spirit of the plants into a two dimensional art form is what truly makes Dana’s heart bloom, and one of the most amazing aspects of her art is how she weaves flower essences into the process of painting with watercolor.
In our conversation Dana shares about her inspirations for creating plant-centric artwork, how she experiences the plant spirits coming through the art, and how her relationship with plant allies has deepened in the process of painting them over the years. She also reveals her beautiful process in honoring the being of each plant in creating art for the Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit and the Flower Compass Deck.
Dana Lynn Peterson (she/her) is the owner and founder of Dana Lynn Artistry where she offers art that combines earth and sky and the magic in-between. Dana is passionate about her craft and creates unique watercolor art pieces for clients all over the world. She’s designed over 150 logos for small business, and she’s the artist for this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit. She’s also currently working on The Flower Compass deck with Herbalist Shawn Westendorf of Honest Owl Herbal. Dana graduated from Herron School of Art in 2011 and now lives outside of a 75 acre nature preserve in Indianapolis with her husband and son.
You can find Dana and her art at www.danalynnartistry.etsy.com, and on IG at @danalynnartistry and @theflowercompassdeck
And of course at this year’s Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit happening over the spring Equinox, where you can join us for a magical weaving of deep herbal wisdom and plant consciousness.
Get your free ticket at www.plantspiritherbalismsummit.com
We’ll be hearing from over 30+ amazing and deeply respected herbalists, authors, teachers, and plant expert speakers sharing about their direct experience with Nature consciousness and herbal wisdom.
The conversations we're having in this summit will definitely be affirming in your journey on the plant path, and likely also life-changing in deepening your relationship with these wise green Earth elders who we call the plants.

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Embodying Herbal Messages in the Dreamtime with Katie Rose Browning

#016 - Do you ever work with herbs while dreaming?
Join us for a very special conversation with herbalist and flower essence practitioner Katie Rose Browning on the power of listening to and embodying herbal messages in the dreamtime.
We recorded this in the rainforest of Costa Rica where Katie and her family are stewarding and living in relationship with the land at Casa Vida Flor. So you will hear all the sounds of the environment including the river, birds, wind, rain, and children playing in the background.
It was a very dynamic experience! And we enjoyed connecting with this amazing land throughout our conversation.
In this episode, Katie offers profound insight into the magic and power of what can happen when we listen to and honor messages coming forward from the herbal realm in our dreams. She also shares about a very potent dream that directed her family to move and become stewards and deep listeners of the land at their home near the Children’s Eternal Rainforest in Costa Rica.
Katie also offers wisdom about her experience of living in reciprocity with the plants and the Earth. And she shares about her experience of working with flower essences for vibrational healing, and the importance of reconnecting with the cycles: of time, of the Earth, and of the moon.
Katie Rose Molina Browning (she/her) is the Director of Embodying Herbalism and steward of Casa Vida Flor in the rainforest of Costa Rica. She’s a certified herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and Earth-centered ceremonialist; and she offers tropical herbal mentorships and Embodying Herbalism through the moon cycles.
You can find Katie at www.embodyingherbalism.com and on IG @katie.embodyingherbalism

The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia - When the Moon Lights up the Ocean: into the Depths of the Plant Path with Suhaly Bautista-Carolina

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Sara Artemisia00:00:05.040

Welcome to the Plant Spirit Podcast on connecting with plant consciousness, and the healing wisdom of Nature.

Sara Artemisia00:00:15.119

I'm your host, Sara Artemesia and I am deeply honored to introduce our next guest to the show today. Suhaly Bautista-Carolina Moon Mother is an AfroKisqueyan herbalist, artist, educator, and community organizer. And she's the founder of Moon Mother apothecary, a practice and