Welcome to Module 7 of this healing journey: healing for presence. We bring the healing we have woven from the root through the portal of the heart, through the talking piece of spirit, the throat to the Third Eye. We are deep in the belly of the celestial realm. This is our last energetic stop before we revel in all of the medicinal, timeless, and boundless contours of Spirit. Here we enter the becoming of creator and the created, Spirit and what Spirit ancestorfests. It is within this part of our journey that we are unequivocally are called to embody Spirit and the work of Spirit. It is here that we are challenged to embrace our worthiness, our capacities, and the medicine we are necessary in the path of collective liberation. Welcome to your destiny.
Plant Ancestors this month
Week 1: PASSIONFLOWER/MAYPOP [Passiflora spp]
Week 2: HOLY BASIL [Ocimum tenuiflorum]
Week 3: BLUE VERVAIN [Verbena hastata]
Week 2: HOLY BASIL [Ocimum tenuiflorum]
Week 3: BLUE VERVAIN [Verbena hastata]
Week one
Distance Gathering 1
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2021 7:30-10/10:30p EST
To prepare for session 1 gather
Prepare your space in front of your altar
[minimum have a bowl of water + candle lite]
Journal + writing/drawing tools
Herbal tisane: PASSIONFLOWER/MAYPOP [Passiflora spp]
To prepare your herbal tisane bring 1 quart of water to a boil then add the herb material
[fresh or dry] inside the pot of water, allow to simmer for 15 mins minimum without the lid on
All handouts
Download or print the following handouts:
Ajna/Third Eye
Passionflower/Maypop [Plant Profile]
Healing for presence [Botanical cards]
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 13, 2021 7:30-10/10:30p EST
To prepare for session 1 gather
Prepare your space in front of your altar
[minimum have a bowl of water + candle lite]
Journal + writing/drawing tools
Herbal tisane: PASSIONFLOWER/MAYPOP [Passiflora spp]
To prepare your herbal tisane bring 1 quart of water to a boil then add the herb material
[fresh or dry] inside the pot of water, allow to simmer for 15 mins minimum without the lid on
All handouts
Download or print the following handouts:
Ajna/Third Eye
Passionflower/Maypop [Plant Profile]
Healing for presence [Botanical cards]
Access our distance gathering session 1 via Zoom link sent via email
You are encouraged to log on to our Zoom meeting 5-10 minutes before our set gathering time
See group email for Zoom details
October Gathering Recording #1
[link will be available here up to 36hrs after the gathering date via email and on your respective WhatsApp thread]
You are encouraged to log on to our Zoom meeting 5-10 minutes before our set gathering time
See group email for Zoom details
October Gathering Recording #1
[link will be available here up to 36hrs after the gathering date via email and on your respective WhatsApp thread]
Self-Healing Practice #1
Maintain an intimate + committed partnership with your nourishing herb 1 quart a day.
Open/close each day with a blessing herb
Optional: Work with 1 quart of an herb from the body system or chakra that we are journeying with to strategically nourish yourself
Open/close each day with a blessing herb
Optional: Work with 1 quart of an herb from the body system or chakra that we are journeying with to strategically nourish yourself
REVIEW
READ
REFLECT
Describe your relationship your third eye chakra.
What are the stories that you tell about your reality? What stories are told to you? Which stories/myths free you, and which limit you?
What thoughts feel good and help you thrive? What thoughts feel harmful and cause stuckness/suffering?
What emotions dominate for you in life? What is your relationship to your emotions/feelings?
How do you access your creator/storyteller mind to bend and shape reality?
What feeds your creative consciousness?
What is being communicated from the universe/spirit world? What is the universe helping you to see/understand/know?
*
Over the next week, invite 1 practice that allows you to explore and travel through the dimensions of reality / the universe - through time/space/love/
gravity. Bring yourself into a state of deep meditation, your body to full rest, and into a journey outside of this plane.
*
Return to the Ajna meditation. Allow your intuition to guide to what is true for the collective.
What lives in the collective soul's eye?
What does the collective third eye need right now to heal the wounds we hold here?
*
Share your reflections + questions on our WhatsApp thread
What are the stories that you tell about your reality? What stories are told to you? Which stories/myths free you, and which limit you?
What thoughts feel good and help you thrive? What thoughts feel harmful and cause stuckness/suffering?
What emotions dominate for you in life? What is your relationship to your emotions/feelings?
How do you access your creator/storyteller mind to bend and shape reality?
What feeds your creative consciousness?
What is being communicated from the universe/spirit world? What is the universe helping you to see/understand/know?
*
Over the next week, invite 1 practice that allows you to explore and travel through the dimensions of reality / the universe - through time/space/love/
gravity. Bring yourself into a state of deep meditation, your body to full rest, and into a journey outside of this plane.
*
Return to the Ajna meditation. Allow your intuition to guide to what is true for the collective.
What lives in the collective soul's eye?
What does the collective third eye need right now to heal the wounds we hold here?
*
Share your reflections + questions on our WhatsApp thread
EXCERCISES
After connecting the Ajna/Third Eye Chakra handout and/or Ch 11 from Opening to Spirit, choose 1 of the exercises offered in either resource.
If the conditions and safety aligns, I encourage you
How did this practice feel in my body?
What are moments I want to celebrate?
What moments stretched me?
What did I learn from this practice [about my truths]?
If the conditions and safety aligns, I encourage you
How did this practice feel in my body?
What are moments I want to celebrate?
What moments stretched me?
What did I learn from this practice [about my truths]?
Week two
LISTEN
Each time you engage with each exercise, prepare your space [this assures
A bowl of water or fire to protect you
An herbal tea
Journal + writing/drawing tools
Sitting before your altar whenever possible
All handouts
Download or print the following handouts, they are also included in the corresponding section below:
Nervous System
Nervous System Herb List
Holy Basil [Plant Profile]
A bowl of water or fire to protect you
An herbal tea
Journal + writing/drawing tools
Sitting before your altar whenever possible
All handouts
Download or print the following handouts, they are also included in the corresponding section below:
Nervous System
Nervous System Herb List
Holy Basil [Plant Profile]
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
Check-in
Check-in
Before we gather next, please show this community some love. This season of the final purge before deep rest is here and it's not playing around. Remember you are not alone.
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Send us a note, photo, a song, a poem, video of how your heart is, what's moving through your these moments, and any medicine that needs to be witnessed!
You're welcomed to send more than one update!
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Send us a note, photo, a song, a poem, video of how your heart is, what's moving through your these moments, and any medicine that needs to be witnessed!
You're welcomed to send more than one update!
PLANT MEDITATION
HOLY BASIL [Ocimum tenuiflorum]
HOLY BASIL [Ocimum tenuiflorum]
Prepare
Herbal tisane: HOLY BASIL [Ocimum tenuiflorum]
You know what to do!
To prepare your herbal tisane bring 1 quart of water to a boil then add the herb material [fresh or dry] inside the pot of water,
allow to simmer for 15 mins minimum
Herbal tisane: HOLY BASIL [Ocimum tenuiflorum]
You know what to do!
To prepare your herbal tisane bring 1 quart of water to a boil then add the herb material [fresh or dry] inside the pot of water,
allow to simmer for 15 mins minimum
LISTEN
Feel free to follow our plant wisdom share by using the materia medica (also known as a plant profile) above side by side as you listen.
HOLISTIC ANATOMY + PHYSIOLOGY
Nervous System
Nervous System
....
MEETING OUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
READ
*written by a cis white women, you are NEVER required to read white authors on this journey.
REVIEW
Remember that these herb lists are cheat sheets with more technical herbal action terms you can find in your herbal action glossary
from week one module one
from week one module one
REFLECT
Describe your family’s general relationship with nervous system health, anxiety + stress.
Describe your community’s general relationship with their nervous system health, anxiety + stress..
Describe your relationship with your nervous system health, anxiety + stress.
Describe your community’s general relationship with their nervous system health, anxiety + stress..
Describe your relationship with your nervous system health, anxiety + stress.
MEDICINE MAKING
HERBAL PREPARATION:
Smudge Wands with natives
HERBAL PREPARATION:
Smudge Wands with natives
WATCH
PLANT COMMITMENTS
Explore
Our cardiovascular herb list, do you need to journey with a plant ancestor to support your cardiovascular system?
Add this babe to your daily nourishing herb infusion for the next 2 weeks, what do you notice?
Notice if there are any overlaps between your nourishing, musculoskeletal, immune-lymphatic, genitourinary, digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory + nervous system herbs: are they the same herbs?
Were there herbs that support you in multiple ways?
Continue your commitment
Blessing smoke to open/close the day [daily]
Drink 1 quart infusion of a nourishing herb + INVITE A NERVINE [daily]
Our cardiovascular herb list, do you need to journey with a plant ancestor to support your cardiovascular system?
Add this babe to your daily nourishing herb infusion for the next 2 weeks, what do you notice?
Notice if there are any overlaps between your nourishing, musculoskeletal, immune-lymphatic, genitourinary, digestive, cardiovascular, respiratory + nervous system herbs: are they the same herbs?
Were there herbs that support you in multiple ways?
Continue your commitment
Blessing smoke to open/close the day [daily]
Drink 1 quart infusion of a nourishing herb + INVITE A NERVINE [daily]
PLANT WALK + IDENTIFICATION
Continue your seasonal plant chart for your region
[documenting the plants you notice by description, drawing + name when known]
Go on 1-2 walks before we gather next
Create 1-2 journal entries for both plants you are familiar + unfamiliar with you met on your walks
Feel free to review our Plant Identification Guide + the common plants growing found in Module 2
[documenting the plants you notice by description, drawing + name when known]
Go on 1-2 walks before we gather next
Create 1-2 journal entries for both plants you are familiar + unfamiliar with you met on your walks
Feel free to review our Plant Identification Guide + the common plants growing found in Module 2
Week three
Distance Gathering 2
MONDAY OCTOBER 25, 2021 7-9/9:30p EST
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27, 2021 7:30-9:30/10p EST
To prepare for session 2 gather
Prepare your space
Journal + writing/drawing tools
herbal tisane/tea:
A representation of what helps you tell your truths with more money
blessing herb [the homie you have chosen to open/close each day]
a glass of water for drinking + snack
gather: an object that represents or supports your embodiment of PRESENCE.
this may be photos or representations of people who bring you into presence, plant ancestors, mirrors, waters, etc
All handouts
Download or print the following handouts
Blue vervain [Plant Profile]
October Gathering Recording #2
[link will be available here up to 36hrs after the gathering date via email and on your respective WhatsApp thread]
MONDAY OCTOBER 25, 2021 7-9/9:30p EST
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27, 2021 7:30-9:30/10p EST
To prepare for session 2 gather
Prepare your space
Journal + writing/drawing tools
herbal tisane/tea:
A representation of what helps you tell your truths with more money
blessing herb [the homie you have chosen to open/close each day]
a glass of water for drinking + snack
gather: an object that represents or supports your embodiment of PRESENCE.
this may be photos or representations of people who bring you into presence, plant ancestors, mirrors, waters, etc
All handouts
Download or print the following handouts
Blue vervain [Plant Profile]
October Gathering Recording #2
[link will be available here up to 36hrs after the gathering date via email and on your respective WhatsApp thread]
Self-healing practice #3
PLANT CONNECTIONS
All healthy relationships grow from self-reflection and open communication. Before our next gathering:
Ask your NOURISHING HERB
Ask your BLESSING HERB
Ask your DIGESTIVE HERBS
Ask your HEART
if you would like to continue the journey working with them.
Allow tension to exist. Some times we need to work with the emotions, energies, plant ancestors that bring us the most discomfort, for here lies the medicine of our psychic surrender and deep physiological realignment.
If you have a clear INVITE AN ANOTHER plant ancestor to nourish your journey welcome the change. You will have the opportunity to do this at the end of each month. The intention is to commit to building an intimate relationship with at least 1 nourishing herb and bless herb. Nourishing herbs can only do their work through long-term commitment, our physical body takes a bit to acclimate, purge, and then assimilate nutrients
FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME FURTHER GUIDANCE.
Some times the plants share tons and tons of info or many want to journey with us at a time. Remember I am here to sort through the messages with you.
<3
Ask your NOURISHING HERB
Ask your BLESSING HERB
Ask your DIGESTIVE HERBS
Ask your HEART
if you would like to continue the journey working with them.
Allow tension to exist. Some times we need to work with the emotions, energies, plant ancestors that bring us the most discomfort, for here lies the medicine of our psychic surrender and deep physiological realignment.
If you have a clear INVITE AN ANOTHER plant ancestor to nourish your journey welcome the change. You will have the opportunity to do this at the end of each month. The intention is to commit to building an intimate relationship with at least 1 nourishing herb and bless herb. Nourishing herbs can only do their work through long-term commitment, our physical body takes a bit to acclimate, purge, and then assimilate nutrients
FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT TO ME IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOME FURTHER GUIDANCE.
Some times the plants share tons and tons of info or many want to journey with us at a time. Remember I am here to sort through the messages with you.
<3
Commit
Blessing smoke to open/close the day [daily]
Drink 1 quart infusion of a nourishing herb + a NERVINE [daily]
Blessing smoke to open/close the day [daily]
Drink 1 quart infusion of a nourishing herb + a NERVINE [daily]
Plant Journal
Spend 10 minutes journeying with the spirit and physical [make an herbal tisane/tea, see instructions above] medicine with one our nourishing herbs. You are welcomed to replay my the guided plant meditation during our last session [go to the recording, available on your WhatsApp thread], journey with your own instruments or silence. Spend 5 minutes writing your downloads, messages, images, and the places the plant ancestor went in your body.
At least 1x a week
Spend 10 minutes journeying with the spirit and physical [make an herbal tisane/tea, see instructions above] medicine with one our nourishing herbs. You are welcomed to replay my the guided plant meditation during our last session [go to the recording, available on your WhatsApp thread], journey with your own instruments or silence. Spend 5 minutes writing your downloads, messages, images, and the places the plant ancestor went in your body.
At least 1x a week
REVIEW
Return to each week on this online portal, in your notes, your journal entries, and in your heart. With much compassion, practicing less judgement about what you were not able to get to, really hold, read or practice, come to experience the journey. There is no shame between us. I, like our community holds that the world is spinning, it's difficult to feel into the healing spiral these moments are bringing. That's okay. Let it take as long as it needs to take. Return to the places you want to deepen, the practices you want to nourish, and with much honor to yourself, honor your capacity at this moment.
if you are ready + eager to dig into some of the themes that have arisen during this month, check out the additional resources below.
if you are ready + eager to dig into some of the themes that have arisen during this month, check out the additional resources below.
ANCESTOR + COLLECTIVE CONNECTIONS
Exercises:
1) Connect to (y)our capacity to receive messages from the future, present + past by pulling from a divination or oracle deck daily.
What medicine is being offered? What are the stories that your week long spread share with you?
2) Bring an amethyst, lapis lazuli, clear quartz, selenite, or any other mineral ancestor that resonates with you to your third eye.
Rest. Rest in the tranquility and vibration of being one.
What is coming through to you?
How do your ancestors understand the future and the generations to come?
What practices, rituals, and tools are used within your traditions to see into the future, present, and past?
1) Connect to (y)our capacity to receive messages from the future, present + past by pulling from a divination or oracle deck daily.
What medicine is being offered? What are the stories that your week long spread share with you?
2) Bring an amethyst, lapis lazuli, clear quartz, selenite, or any other mineral ancestor that resonates with you to your third eye.
Rest. Rest in the tranquility and vibration of being one.
What is coming through to you?
How do your ancestors understand the future and the generations to come?
What practices, rituals, and tools are used within your traditions to see into the future, present, and past?
MEDICINE SHARES
giving gratitude to each other
giving gratitude to each other
as we descend into our culminating models, spirit is calling us to hold each other in gratitude. a way that we give gratitude to the land, the spirits, each other is through offerings. our closing medicine shares, which will take place on our 1st December gathering, are both a gift we literally send to each other, and also a reflection of some learning, some deepening, some compassionate holding we held during these 9 sacred months together.
until we gather next, you are invited to ask your heart: what medicine do I want to share with my beloved circle? this medicine may be herbal medicine, herbal food infused, prayers, poems, songs, art, anything your heart is dreaming about. this is a medicine that reflects a learning you are taking with you and want to leave with your beloved siblings in circle.
we will go through a process of figuring out how to get medicine out to everyone, addresses, and logistics next time we gather.
until we gather next, you are invited to ask your heart: what medicine do I want to share with my beloved circle? this medicine may be herbal medicine, herbal food infused, prayers, poems, songs, art, anything your heart is dreaming about. this is a medicine that reflects a learning you are taking with you and want to leave with your beloved siblings in circle.
we will go through a process of figuring out how to get medicine out to everyone, addresses, and logistics next time we gather.
remember to share any love, update, or ask for any support you are needing from our collective over the next few of weeks we are apart.
REMEMBER TO RESPOND THE FOLLOWING INFO
when can you gather?
wanna offer during our WE ARE SPIRIT second November gathering: https://forms.gle/QXKUAT1NQc6vxYkZ8
wanna offer during our WE ARE SPIRIT second November gathering: https://forms.gle/QXKUAT1NQc6vxYkZ8
PREPARING FOR MODULE 8
Week 1: CACAO [Theobroma cacao]
Week 3: CANNABIS [your preference of sativa or indica, in what ever form you want to work with them]*
*since i am not working with Cannabis internally, i will be working with an oil or sitting with the leaves + flowers
Week 3: CANNABIS [your preference of sativa or indica, in what ever form you want to work with them]*
*since i am not working with Cannabis internally, i will be working with an oil or sitting with the leaves + flowers