🌐 Link to our Guest and Books: Web : Appalachia Feel Good appalachiafeelgood.comPhilipp’s Book:As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.🌐Spiritual Parenting: https://amzn.to/4pnBwRL # Ad #tammywood, #healingherbs, #floweressences, #naturalmedicine, #herbalismIn this episode of Holistic Circle, Philipp Kobald speaks with Tammy Wood, a yoga instructor and herbalist, about the core themes, discoveries, and questions explored in this conversation and why they still matter in a world drowning in information. Is it possible that plants have a language we can understand if we only learn to listen? How can ancient wisdom and modern skepticism coexist in the realm of natural medicine? What does restoring a pesticide-poisoned farm reveal about healing the earth and ourselves? Tammy shares her journey as an herbalist and yoga teacher who listens to flowers to understand their healing powers, revives a 300-year-old family farm, and leads herbal excursions that reconnect people with nature’s subtle medicine. Philipp and Tammy explore how nature’s messages may not be as random as they seem, diving into ancient wisdom, vibrational healing, and modern skepticism. What we discuss The practice of flower essence creation and the energetic connection to plants. The debate between chemical compounds and vibrational healing in natural medicine. Tammy’s mission to restore a historic farm and promote sustainable hemp cultivation. Yoga practices focused on energy clearing and grounding, including farm yoga with rescued animals. The radical healing power of simply “doing nothing” and connecting with the earth. Main Takeaways Healing with plants is both chemical and vibrational, requiring presence and intuition beyond scientific trial and error. Sometimes the greatest medicine is rest, connection, and listening to what nature wants to tell us. Nature’s cycles and the prevalence of certain plants may reflect collective human needs and messages. Community, laughter, and shared stewardship are essential for healing land and spirit alike. Yoga and movement serve as grounding practices that clear energy and calm the nervous system, and simple embodied practices can open people to subtle medicine. Quotes "Everything is created in its divinity, and that it’s already got that structure in it, just like our DNA, and that it’s a blueprint that’s in flowers and plants and, you know, in us." — Tammy Wood "If we learn to listen, learn a little bit shaking it loose, that there is a path. All we have to do is just, you know, listen." — Philipp Kobald About our Guest Tammy Wood is a yoga instructor, herbalist, and creator of Wood Botanicals Flower Essences, dedicated to reconnecting people with Appalachian plants and restoring her family’s historic farm. She offers herbal excursions for foraging, remedy making, and flower essence creation and teaches yoga practices that center grounding and energy clearing. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 04:00 The alchemy of flower essences: colloidal gold and shiso vinegar carriers 08:00 Chemistry vs. vibration: the dual nature of plant healing 14:00 The improbability of trial and error in herbal discovery 20:00 Observing nature’s messages through plant prevalence and healing needs 28:00 Herbal excursions: foraging, remedy making, and flower essence creation 34:00 Tammy’s unique yoga offerings: private, farm, and chakra yoga 43:00 The mission to restore a 300-year-old family farm and hemp cultivation 53:00 Creating custom flower essence blends and empowering self-healing 56:00 Closing reflections on listening to nature and healing together P 20 26 (E0141) 8. Mail 2026