The Plant Spirit Podcast with Sara Artemisia

#47 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Clinical Master Herbalist Yarrow Willard (aka Herbal Jedi) on building relations with the natural world and bridging the connection between our internal and external environments. In this episode, Yarrow shares deep herbal wisdom on how plants and wild spaces support the experience of grounding and realignment. He offers profound insight into how pla...

#46 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Clinical Herbalist & Teacher Sam Coffman on how incorporating multiple paradigms in clinical herbalism can support an effective and truly integrative approach to health. In this episode, Sam shares first-hand experiences on working with the healing power of herbs in Echinacea, Comfrey, Horsetail, Prickly Pear, and others in wilderness medicine, wi...

#45 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbal Teacher, Dancer, and Martial Artist Shereel Washington on the vital experience and lineage of Black North American Herbalism. In this episode, Shereel shares herbal wisdom honoring her lineage of healing with Black Elders and why having a multicultural knowledge of plants helps us to understand them more fully. She also offers historical and f...

#44 - Join us for a lovely conversation with Author and Earth Advocate Jen Frey on communicating with plants and the value of connecting with Nature through heart-based practices. In this episode, Jen shares wisdom on plant communication, her experience with Yarrow, and how working with the intelligence of the heart allows us to come into a state of coherence. She also offers some simple practices...

#43 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Medical Herbalist Lucy Jones on working with herbs as individuals and the profound healing that can occur when we listen to the inherent wisdom of plants. In this episode, Lucy shares deep herbal wisdom from the experience of her Celtic healing lineage and extensive background in clinical western herbalism and Tibetan Medicine studies. She also offer...

#42 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Women’s Health Practitioner Khetnu Nefer as she shares about foundational plant wisdom she learned from her grandmother, how the path of herbalism has changed her life, and the power of being a conduit for healing and resource. Khetnu also shares the inspiration that guided her to create The Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering, an incredible herbal confer...

#41 - What healing wisdom awaits when we study the ancient maps and walk deeper into the forest? Join us for a wonderful conversation with Rongoā Māori Healer Joanne Hakaraia on the mauri, or life force, of plants and how she connects with the primordial wisdom and energy that comes from being in the ngahere (forest). In this episode, Joanne shares an incredible honoring of her ancient lineage wit...

#40 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Certified Flower Essence Practitioner and Educator Ruth Toledo Altschuler on how the elements, plants, and flower essences offer templates of wholeness that support the experience of coming home to the living world with our whole being. At a time on the planet when the human species has become so disconnected from the experience of the fabric of life,...

#39 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Acupuncturist and Author Lindsay Fauntleroy on how flower essences address the root patterns of imbalance and support archetypal emergence and awakening in the healing process. In this episode, Lindsay shares powerful insights into what we can learn from African and Indigenous healing systems, and practical tips for how to connect directly with Nat...

#38 - Join us for an amazing conversation on Plant Allies with the incredible Herbalist and Author Rosemary Gladstar.   Depression, sorrow, grief, and strife seem to be raging right now. But so is hope, beauty, love, kindness and Plant Power. We can learn from the plants how to root deep, hold fast, and weather the storm. And, perhaps, even how to make magic and beauty in the midst of it all. In t...

#037 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Holistic Herbal Chef Wilnise Francois on the nourishing, sensual connection we have with food and how plants help us to reawaken the light body.  In this episode, Wilnise shares wisdom on the experience of Manje Limyè (eat light) in connection with plants, and physical and spiritual wellness. She also offers profound insight on how her lineages in...

#36 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Plant Medicine Teacher, Researcher, and Herbal Practitioner Nikki Darrell on plant consciousness and the value of listening to the inspirations we find in Nature. In this episode, Nikki shares wisdom on plant sentience and how people and plants communicate with each other. She also offers helpful insights on the importance of slowing down and noticin...

#35 - Join us for an amazing conversation on the magic & medicine of flowers and our relationship with Nature with Renee K. Smith (Ifagbaye Esubola Ayelaagbe Egbesina), flower essence practitioner and founder of Akika Flower Essences & Apothecary. In this episode, Renee shares how flowers can help to open layers of awareness in the process of healing and transformation, and how they help u...

#034 – What wisdom can we learn from the Mushroom of Immortality? Join us for an amazing conversation with Brandon Gilbert, founder of Hyperion Herbs. In this episode, Brandon shares about the supportive and life-changing power of adaptogens and tonic herbs. He offers profound insight into the nature of Reishi, long known as the Mushroom of Immortality, and why it’s important to know plants and mu...

#033 – Join us for an incredible conversation with Nana Xochiketzalli on the powerful healing practice of Curanderismo and ancestral medicine. In this episode, Xochiketzalli shares about working with plant limpias in the ancient healing practice of Curanderismo and her experience of training with maestras and K'iche Mayan Curanderas Nana Tomasa & Nana Sebastiána. She also offers wisdom on...

#032 - Join us for an amazing conversation with Flower Farmer, Floral Designer, and Flower Fairy Melanie Plies on the joys of collaborating with flowers throughout the seasons. In this episode, Melanie shares how working closely and being in relationship with flowers can support the healing journey, with special insight into the timeless wisdom of Tulsi Basil. She also offers ways to connect deepl...

#031 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with 5th generation Australian herbalist Ian White on the power of flower essences as a potent modality for healing. In this episode, Ian shares about the power of listening and collaborating with the plant realm and some specific essences that are supportive for collective challenges people are currently experiencing, particularly with stress and sleep...

#030 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Storyteller, Writer, and Herbalist Robin Rose Bennett on the joy and wisdom of connecting with our Plant Elders. In this episode, Robin Rose shares about the power of connecting with joy as medicine and how herbalists can help connect people with plants for healing. She also offers deep insight into the nature of Rose medicine and how we can embod...

#029 - Join us for an amazing conversation with seed grower Chris Hardy on the regenerative power of biodiverse seed saving, and why this practice is so key for supporting long-term food systems. In this episode, Chris shares about regenerative farming practices, how people can get involved with the heritage grain seed library, and how connecting with ancient diverse grains around the world have i...

#028 – Have you ever had a plant teacher whose clarity and depth of humble wisdom resonates as clear as a bell in the core of your being? Olatokunboh Obasi is an herbal teacher like this, and in this very special Plant Spirit Podcast episode, she shares profound insight into the nature of our connection with plants, the elements, and all Nature. She also offers wisdom on the value of connecting wi...

#027 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Flower Essence Practitioners Kathleen Aspenns & Rochana Felde on how flower essences offer wisdom and support to people in times of transition and healing. ⁠ In this episode, Kathleen and Rochana share key messages from essences they’ve been working with recently and why flower essences are such an effective medicine for highly sensitive people....

#026 – What are the ancient teachings of primordial plants, and what messages of healing are they offering to us now? Join us for a very special Plant Spirit Podcast conversation with Culturalist and Alchemist Ke’oni Hanalei, who honors the ancient plant medicine lineage of his Maui grandmother (tūtū), Kau'ikeonalani, in his work and connection with plants. In this episode, Ke’oni offers prof...

#025 - What can plant music teach us about being human? Join us for an amazing conversation with Plant Music Composer & Sound Healer Shane Mendonsa on his experience of co-creating with the plants through generative music. In this episode, Shane offers deep insight into how connecting with plants through plant music can help us connect to a state of healing. We first recorded this for the Plan...

#024 - What does it mean to be a Green Witch? Join Sara Artemisia for an incredible conversation with Herbalist Lupo Passero of Twin Star Herbal Education and Community Apothecary on the experience of remembrance and the path of the Green Witch. In this amazing Plant Spirit Podcast episode, Lupo shares about the importance of listening to plant and human elders, how we all have plant people in our...

#023 - Join us for an amazing conversation with flute player and crafter Geri Littlejohn on the reciprocal nature of our relationship with trees and the sacred process of making and playing flutes. In this episode, Geri shares about her process of connecting with the spirit of trees and the experience of working with the breath as an instrument. She also graciously plays a song on an Elder tree fl...