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Distilling the Feminine: Exploring Archetypes through Aroma, Plants, & Landscape

Distilling the Feminine: Exploring Archetypes through Aroma, Plants, & Landscape

The aromatic distillation workshops that I lead are, therefore, an attempt to foster a deeper relationship with the plant kingdom, a relationship full of metaphor, story, and personal myth, while simultaneously developing deeper relationships with ourselves and our unconscious. As the plant material is transformed into hydrosol and essential oil, we too are transformed. In this regard, each distillation provides a platform for self-discovery and exploration of the natural world and our place within it.

Recognizing Burnout: Filling an Overflowing Teacup

Recognizing Burnout: Filling an Overflowing Teacup

I can’t really pinpoint the moment when my relationship with plants changed...when I stopped actively listening to them and in turn stopped learning. What I do know is that I have been frustrated and burned out on my herbal journey for quite some time, which if you make a living as a teaching herbalist, is not a comfortable realization.