Illuminating Ourselves, Illuminating the Beings of the Forest
The School of Forest Medicine provides many ways for plant medicine people to deepen their relationships with the plants of the Pacific Northwest and with themselves. Through the Immersion Course and our weekly Plant Teacher Circles and Plant Teacher Groups we are actively working to open and strengthen the channels of communication between the human and plant spirit realms. Through meditation, ritual, and song we learn to work with the spirits of the plants and with the spirits and ancestors of this land. We seek to uncover and remember how to connect with and live in harmony with the spiritual beings of this land so that we and our children can be truly initiated, i.e. fully attuned to the spiritual matrix of the place where we live and to remember who we are and what we are here to do.
Immersion Course
On this 9-month Odyssey that traverses the vibrant landscapes of the Cascadia Bioregion, the plants will be our guides and their songs will be our vehicles as we weave our spirits with the forces of nature, restoring the connections between the human and spiritual realms through song, ritual, and prayer.
This program, focused on psycho-spiritual Plant Medicine Healing, is firmly grounded in the basics of Ethical Wildcrafting, Medicine Making, and Plant Identification. It is designed to be a transformative, initiatory experience that reawakens and strengthens the experience of deep plant/human relationship.
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Plant Teacher Circle
In addition to their physical healing properties, all plants possess a particular spiritual insight and wisdom. We have been meeting on a weekly basis for several years, sitting in meditation with Pacific Northwest native plants in an effort to explore these physical and psycho-spiritual healing properties. By coming together with this intention, we create a container that amplifies the plant’s effects and allows us to have a direct experience of the sometimes profound insights, teachings, and healings that they have to offer. These weekly meetings are a great way to learn how to develop and deepen your relationships with plants and to sharpen your skills of inner perception.
Every Tuesday night 7-9:30pm. For updated scheduling and nights off see the schedule or subscribe to our Mailing List. Click here for more info.
The School of Forest Medicine Manifesto
We do this work to strengthen our ability to connect with the spirit realm and to learn about ourselves; to see how our psyches operate and to reveal and energetically transform those parts of ourselves that get in the way of connecting on a deep level with our true Selves and with the spirits of the plants.
We do this work to develop deeper relationships with our guides and to be more firmly grounded in ourselves so that we are able to contain and allow stronger healing energies to move through our beings.
We do this work to support each other as we learn to establish these relationships, channel these energies, and create and hold sacred space.
And most importantly, we do this work to illuminate the plant spirit beings-to feed, honor, and support them; to give back to them for all the healing, nourishment, and wisdom that they have offered humans; and in doing this, we help them to be more accessible to all of humanity here on the material plane.
