Herbal Allies

Plant Spirit Medicine

Plant Spirit Medicine is a deep healing modality based upon two powerful healing traditions; Indigenous Herbalism and Classical Chinese Five Element Theory. Indigenous Herbalism differs form modern forms of herbalism in the central importance it places on having a relationship with the plants used in healing. The healing power of the plants is transmitted through the connection created between the practitioner and the plant itself.As practitioners, we enter into the dream of nature meeting the consciousness that allows us to open up to energy and happenings that are going on around us all the time but that our “ordinary minds cannot perceive.

Classical Chinese Five Element Theory is a profound way of relating to the cycles of nature. It invites us to view the world-including our own emotional, physical, and spiritual predilections-as a combination of earth, sunshine, air water and growth. There are 5 elements: Metal, Water, Wood, Fire and Earth each element relates to a season, and organ system and emotion. The five elements provide a framework for understanding balance and harmony as it relates to illness and health. Assessment and treatments based on the elements are both subtle and powerful.

Plant Spirit Medicine can offer a reconnection to the ecstasy of living by bringing us in alignment with the dance of creation. Plant Spirits hold within them the plan of creation and that wisdom is powerful healing for our hearts.This healing modality aims to reconnect our spirits to source.

“….the human in making contact with the sacred through plants, must go into the world of plants, not as a human who knows but as a seeker who has come to learn.”
-Stephan Bruhner, Sacred Plant Medicine