Spiritual Herbalism : The Magic and Medicine of the Plants

Spiritual Herbalism unlocks the powerful, magical, and transformative gifts of the plant world and invites you to engage in a reciprocal relationship with our green allies and their medicine. Over many years of teaching, Josh Williams has watched students develop incredibly potent relationships with plants, creating change that is healing, visionary, awakening and restorative. Whether you are a trained or traditional herbalist, tea-drinker or tincture-maker, gardener or forager, wild wanderer or city-dweller, the blessings of the plants are available to you - as they have always been to your ancestors. The book offers many tools and insights along the path of this exploration, presenting new perspectives on the virtues of herbs and how we might relate to them as medicine for the soul, as well as the body. Chapters encompass the breadth of spiritual herbalism including its history, the systems of synergy in the body, along with rituals, ceremonies, recipes, guidance for harvesting, making and taking herbal medicine - and detailed explorations of the spiritual nature of 19 herbs including yarrow, rose, hawthorn and elder. Written for trained herbalists and student alike, Spiritual Herbalism opens up the possibility of stepping into a sacred space where the personality and potency of each herb unfolds in magic and deep medicine. Unlock the powerful, magical, and transformative gifts of the plant world and engage in a reciprocal relationship with our green allies and their bountiful medicine. Over many years of teaching, Josh Williams has watched students develop incredibly potent relationships with plants, creating change that is healing, visionary, awakening and restorative. Whether you are a trained or traditional herbalist, tea-drinker or tincture-maker, gardener or forager, wild wanderer or city-dweller, the blessings of the plants are available to you - as they have always been to your ancestors. The book offers many tools and insights along the path of this exploration, presenting new perspectives on the virtues of herbs and how we might relate to them as medicine for the soul, as well as the body. Chapters encompass the breadth of spiritual herbalism including its history, the systems of synergy in the body, along with rituals, ceremonies, recipes, guidance for harvesting, making and taking herbal medicine - and detailed explorations of the spiritual nature of 19 herbs including yarrow, rose, hawthorn and elder. Written for trained herbalists and student alike, Spiritual Herbalism opens up the possibility of stepping into a sacred space where the personality and potency of each herb unfolds in magic and deep medicine. In this volume, Williams issues a call for us to redefine our connection to the natural world and invites us to embrace the powerful and transformative blessings that arise when we cultivate our relationship with the plant world. The author offers many tools and insights along the path of this exploration, presenting new perspectives on the virtues of herbs and how we might relate to them as medicine for the soul, as well as the body. Chapters encompass the breadth of spiritual herbalism including its history, the systems of synergy in the body, along with rituals, ceremonies, recipes, guidance for harvesting, making and taking herbal medicine – and detailed explorations of the spiritual nature of 19 herbs including yarrow, rose, hawthorn and elder. --From publisher description Unlock the powerful, magical, and transformative gifts of the plant world, and engage in a relationship with our green allies and their medicine. Spiritual Herbalism offers an invitation to enter into and explore an engaged relationship with the individual plants we encounter, and with plants as a spiritual grouping. This powerful book encourages us to step into a sacred space where the personality and potency of each herb unfolds in magic and deep medicine. Within this pages, Josh Williams offers many tools and insights for this journey, presenting new perspectives on the virtues of herbs, interpreting the virtues handed down by our predecessors, and giving practical examples of what spiritual herbalism looks like when it is truly engaged. "Spiritual Herbalism is a call for us to redefine our connection to the natural world. It invites us to embrace the powerful and transformative blessings that arise when we cultivate our relationship with the plant world. From lay to professional herbalists, gardeners, wild wanderers or city dwellers, Josh Williams makes it abundantly clear that the life-changing magic of the plants is available to us all -- as it has always been to our ancestors."--Cover page 4