Are plants simply useful chemical tools to be harnessed for human healing, or something much deeper? Your heart already knows the answer!
Join Tatiana Lustre Dawn and Stephanie Hazel of The Elder Tree to explore the age-old relationship between plants and healers - one that is practical, mystical and most definitely mutual. 
Part seminar, part exploratory workshop, this session aims to uncover the ways we can honour the plants ever-more-deeply as teachers in our lives and in our practice.

 

Living in a post-reductionist world, swimming against the tide of mechanistic thinking that turns both human bodies and medicine plants into machines can be challenging. In a time when data is king, learning to listen to plants with the heart and honour the plants we work with as truly living teachers takes courage. Ritual, reverence and cultivating the art of deep listening is key.

 

We will unravel the layers of disconnect that have become deeply embedded in modern society and find our way back into living in reciprocity with the plants.  We will look at the importance of bringing the sacred into our work with the plants, the importance of ritual and ceremony, as well as the importance of stillness and deep listening.

 

Topics will be explored through small group dialogue and embodied practices, covering:

•⁠  ⁠current state of plant-herbalist relationship in Australian herbalism

•⁠  ⁠⁠reductionism and the loss of plant spirits

•⁠  ⁠⁠animism and the living world

•⁠  ⁠⁠deep listening to plants

•⁠  ⁠⁠single plant use vs formulas

•⁠  ⁠⁠sacred properties of plants and personal transformation

•⁠  ⁠⁠ritual & reverence