The Plant Spirit Podcast Sara Artemisia

#50 – What are the secrets of the wildflowers? Join us for an amazing conversation with Forager, Plant Lover, and Artist Nina Veteto on how plant lore helps us connect with each other and the green world.

In this episode, Nina shares her love of flower folklore and how we are wired to connect to the plants through stories. She also offers key insights into how stories provide a way of accessing our heart connection with the green world, and she shares the secret folklore and lineage of her family’s history with Violet, one of her most beloved plant allies.

Nina Veteto is a long time forager, explorer, plant lover & art maker. She’s the Founder of Blue Ridge Botanic and lives in the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains surrounded by the inspiration and materials that she brings to her art.

Nina loves growing plants & flowers, making art and teas, and sharing about flower folklore. A former public school teacher and environmental educator, she has turned her passion for plants and their stories into a successful Instagram series called “Secret Stories of the Wildflowers,” which has gained over 100k followers to date. She has also just launched a new substack called Flora and Forage, where she shares articles on foraging, plant ID, folklore, conservation issues, flower fairies, wild tea, and more.

You can find Nina at: https://www.blueridgebotanic.com/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blueridgebotanic/
Flora and Forage newsletter on Substack: https://msha.ke/blueridgebotanic
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#49 - Join us for a wonderful conversation with Herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt on how connecting with wild medicinal plants supports an experience of joy and deep fulfillment in our relationship with the Earth.

In this episode, Rosalee shares about the transformative experience of working with some amazing herbs including St. John’s Wort, Elderberry, and Hawthorn, and how a sense of curiosity and wonder arises when we witness Nature. She also offers insight on the current phenomenon of plant blindness, and how getting to know herbs inspires an inherently joyful relationship of reciprocity in our experience with the Earth.

Rosalee is passionate about inspiring people to turn to the healing gifts of medicinal plants and nature connection. She finds daily inspiration in the beauty of the Methow Valley in WA state where she has lived for the past 15 years. She is the author of the bestselling books Alchemy of Herbs: Transforming Everyday Ingredients into Foods and Remedies that Heal and co-author of Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine.

Rosalee is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and was an herbal clinician for 6 years before dedicating her offerings to herbal education. In addition to writing books she teaches many online herbal courses about herbalism, nature connection, and medicine making. She is also the host of the Herbs With Rosalee podcast and YouTube channel.

You can find Rosalee at: herbswithrosalee.com
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rosaleedelaforet/
On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HerbalRemediesAdvice/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/HerbsWithRosalee
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia

Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#48 - Join us for an incredible conversation with Herbalist and Educator Lupo Passero on the power of deepening our relationship with the medicinal plants of our ancestors.

In this episode, Lupo shares about her recent experience of traveling to her ancestral homeland in Sicily and how working with ancestral plants helps us connect with a deep remembering of who we are in relationship to the Earth. She offers profound wisdom on the power of reclaiming her Strega lineage and the experience of connecting with many plant allies in Southern Italy including Rosemary, Bay, Olive, Pomegranate, and Calendula. She also shares key insights on the importance of learning recipes, songs, stories, and ancestral practices of spiritual protection and healing with the plants.

Lupo grew up in hardwood forests of the Northeast. Her paternal Grandmother was a wise woman, a Strega, from Italy. Her paternal Great Grandmother came from Knocknashee, the Druid Hill of the Fae, in Sligo, Ireland.

Since childhood she has been studying plants, creating circles, hosting ceremonies, and holding ritual space for others. At 18 she was pulled to the heart of the Appalachian Mountains where she began her botanical studies. As a young mother, Lupo’s greatest teachers have been her two (now grown) children. Her humble beginning of studying herbs and flower essences as a young mother in the 90's inspired her to learn and go on to teach others.

Lupo is the Founder and Director of Twin Star School of Herbal and Energetic Studies. For over two decades she has had the privilege to teach thousands of students, in both Asheville NC, CT/NYC area as well as around the globe, the art of energetic and spiritual herbalism. Her recent trip to Sicily to visit her homeland, has greatly deepened her love and connection to her Sud Italian heritage and reclaiming her birthplace as an American Italian Strega. A true a teacher at heart, Lupo continues to deepened her relationship within her own lineage, as well as many others, by sitting at the feet of and learning from as many teachers as possible.

You can find Lupo at: https://www.twinstartribe.com/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twinstartribe/
On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twinstartribe
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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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 plants speak in a pattern language and the value of staying connected to a sense of childlike wonder on the plant path.

Yarrow also shares about his experience with some amazing medicinal plant teachers including Devil’s Club, Self Heal, Dandelion, Burdock, Blackberry, Hawthorn, and Plantain, and how they help with building resilience and reconnection from the inside out.

Yarrow Willard (aka Herbal Jedi) is a second generation Clinical/Master Herbalist who has spent his lifetime exploring the art and science of Plant Medicine and holistic health. As an educator, philosopher and medicine maker, he delivers rich and original content, focused on reclaiming health and deepening connection with the natural world. Yarrow's social channels and extensive collection of YouTube videos are packed with valuable knowledge and a healthy dose of inspiration.

Professionally, Yarrow is an international speaker and YouTuber by the name of The Herbal Jedi. He is Co-founder/Formulator at Harmonic Arts, Director of the Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine, and Co-creator of the Canadian Herb Conferences.

You can find Yarrow at: https://harmonicarts.ca/, https://herbconference.com/, https://herbconference.com/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herbal_jedi/, https://www.instagram.com/harmonic_arts/, https://www.instagram.com/canadian_herb_conference/
On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Herbaljedi/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Herbal_Jedi
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia

Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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, wilderness first aid situations, and complex clinical cases.

He also offers deep wisdom on how his journey in many different realms of life including clinical herbalism, martial arts, the Special Forces, linguistics, philosophy, music, western medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has shaped his relationship with the Earth.

Sam Coffman (MSAOM, RH[AHG]) began his medical education in the Army as a Special Forces Medic (aka Green Beret medic) in 1989. Over the years that followed, he looked toward herbalism as a way to provide sustainable health care in remote and post-disaster regions for chronic, acute and physical trauma care.

Over the following three decades, Sam’s primary goal has become the creation of an integrative medical model that embraces vitalistic, TCM and western medical approaches to herbalism into a collaboration with western orthodox models of diagnosis and treatment for acute and chronic health care conditions.

Sam has taught herbalism for over 30 years and has worked as a clinical herbalist for over 15 years. He founded and runs Herbal Medics Academy (AKA The Human Path), which offers four primary programs - Clinical Herbalism, Austere Medicine, Advanced Medicine Making, and Family Herbalism.

You can find Sam at https://herbalmedics.academy and https://herbalfirstaidgear.com
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/herbalmedicsam/ and https://www.instagram.com/thehumanpath/
On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ahgherbalmedic
On Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheHumanPath 
Herbal Medic book: https://herbalfirstaidgear.com/product/the-herbal-medic-book/


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Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/

#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 familial stories of plants that she loves, and tips for people who would like to connect with a more multicultural approach to herbalism.

Shereel is an instructor at the Berkeley Herbal Center, Scarlet Sage's Community Classes, the Land of Verse Apprentice Herbal Certification Program, and at the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium (NCWHS).

She is a speaker and was a guest panelist for the Sonoma County Herb Exchange Live Virtual Panel: “Honoring The Roots,” Naomi Love’s: Wise Womb Way Virtual Symposium, and a three-time panelist on Women of Color: “Do You Walk In Our Shoes'' and "Sprouting Liberation" at the NCWHS.

Shereel also teaches Dance and Qigong at the Deep Root Center for Spiritual Studies MOVE: Spirit & Rhythm Dance Program in Oakland, CA, and she is the Founder of Ixalted natural body care & botanicals.

You can find Shereel on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ixaltednaturalbody/
On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ixaltednaturalbody
For more info visit Sara's website at: https://www.multidimensionalnature.com/
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facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/plantspiritherbalism
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@saraartemisia

Learn how to communicate with plant consciousness in the free workshop on How to Learn Plant Language: https://www.learnplantlanguage.com/