Plant Spirit Medicine is a profound yet gentle form of healing that synthesizes ancient Chinese Five-Element Theory with the shamanic practice of using plant energies for healing. It brings into balance the energies of the body, mind and spirit. As our society becomes more fractured from nature and we find ourselves suffering from physical and emotional difficulties, the healing power of our plant allies reconnects us to the life force that inhabits all living things.
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Plant Spirit Medicine (PSM) uses plant energies instead of needles to bring the life force, or Chi, into balance and harmony. This system of healing recognizes that true healing comes from within and follows the natural Law of Cure. Interior and exterior stresses often prevent us from accessing our own healing power. The plants gently provide support to enable healing to happen on all levels.
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Five-Element Theory was developed in China many centuries ago and approaches healing by looking at the natural world. All living things are composed of five elements: fire, earth, metal, water and wood. Each of these elements is associated with a season, a color, an organ system of the body, certain emotions and more. When all these elements are fully balanced within us, we can achieve our highest sense of harmony and potential. Plant Spirit Medicine is nature talking to nature, and its healing powers are deep and affirming.
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PSM was the first healing modality that I utilized to help clients and was the original foundation of my work. While my work now encompasses other shamanic tools and sacred forces, my love of the plant spirits is deep and abiding. I am so grateful to them for their generosity, wisdom, beauty and love.
Long Distance Healing for Humans
How do you "language the un-languageable?" That is the challenge when it comes to discussing Long-Distance Healing. The mystery of how healing travels from me to you falls into the complex realm of divine and all that entails. What started out as a form of continuing to help my Plant Spirit Medicine clients while they were traveling, now encompasses various divine forces, sacred sites, and presences that want to help. The wind, Grandmother Ocean, a sacred river, or a special plant may offer the healing help that is needed. This healing work can be beautiful and transformational.
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In 2012, I underwent an arduous initiatory process which affirmed the effectiveness of my long-distance work. I offer this healing help with humility. I stand in awe of the wondrous and transformational healing that this work can offer.
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Before our first session, I ask that you reflect on a power or totem animal that has shown up in your life. This might be an animal that you feel a close affinity for in life, or one that repeatedly shows up in your dreams. The first session is a lengthy intake where we review your history, health issues and discuss your challenges. While I’m in session, I will ask you to lay down comfortably at home, resting, with a lighted candle nearby.
Upon completion of the treatment, I will call you back to discuss what transpired and the guidance you’ve received. I encourage my clients to take notes as I do not provide a recording of the session.
Please contact me directly for more information.
Animal Communication and Healing
One fateful day in 1998, Maggie, one of the cashmere goats on our farm fell seriously ill. I rushed her to the vet, leaving her in the care of professionals to perform the recommended emergency surgery.
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As I was leaving the animal hospital, I wondered why it hadn't occurred to me to aid our precious goat with the same tools I had employed to help my fellow humans: Plant Spirit Medicine?
I visited Maggie every day during her three-day recovery at the hospital, and started developing a way to offer her the profound healing help of the plant spirits.
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Over time, as my own gifts deepened, I started working with animals long-distance to help them with physical, behavioral and emotional issues​.
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​​After nearly three decades of doing this work, I am still honored and moved by the wisdom of our animal friends. The teachings and wisdom they share—relaying their messages to their human families through me—can offer meaningful guidance. Our furry, feathered, or scaly friends respond to the love and healing help of the plant spirits with enthusiasm and joy. I have deep gratitude for how they teach us how to walk on this Earth in a good way.
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During the initial intake session I will ask you a number of questions in order to help me to get to know your animal companion through your eyes.
Please contact me directly to learn more.
Traditional Shamanic Healing
This healing work is the deepest kind of help that I offer and takes place in person, heart to heart.
We sit by a fire (or with a candle that is special to you) as you share with me your challenges and struggles.
Next, I listen to the divine messengers for guidance on how the treatment should unfold. I draw upon the wisdom of multiple traditions, teachers, and my sacred sites to facilitate the appropriate healing to arrive.
I ask that you open yourself to the mystery of the divine help that manifests. Although I can never predict what will show up, I surrender to the wisdom and help that divine provides.
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Prior to the session, I will usually ask my client to do some minimal preparation in order to be in alignment for receiving the treatment.
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Please reach out to me directly to learn more or to schedule a session.
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House & Land Cleansing
Sometimes our home, work space, or land can feel unsettled, heavy or unwelcoming. Energies and spirits can get stuck there or linger on the land.
Perhaps you have moved into a new home or office space and want a fresh start by clearing out a sense of the former occupants.
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If one is breaking ground for a new building site or a new garden, it can be important to ask permission and build good relationship with the beings and spirits of that place.
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Within the Nahua tradition, there is a cleansing process, or limpia, that can help bring homes, offices, land, and lives back into balance. It’s a way to honor the beings and energies of a place and bring healing. During a limpia, I call upon my relationship with the gods and spirits to move energies and bring cleansing, harmony, and balance.
To learn more about this work, please contact me directly via the link below.
