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Random Musings: Diagnosis in a Connected Systemic View
After exploring some of my own healing, I was thinking about connections in the body, illness and diagnosis of them. But let’s start with a riddle – so what can: Ringing in an ear Itch in one...
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Random Musings: Can You Hear Me Now?
Originally, I had a completely different idea of what I was going to write about this week. But after reading the latest always wondrous post by Lucinda over at Whispering earth, I decided to go in a...
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Ayurveda – Initial Explorations
A few weeks back I met with an Ayurvedic health counselor and it started me on a bit on an exploration of Ayurveda which inspired some thoughts. One of the reasons I went was because I was interested...
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Spirit, Spirituality and Intention in Practice and Working with Herbs
The other day I saw a post online where the author was complaining about not finding yoga spiritual as part of a tirade about how corrupted the US is and pure India is. Yada, Yada. But it did trigger...
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Dem Bones and more – Anatomy fun with a yoga focus
I’ve been a kick lately of studying anatomy mainly coming out of my yoga studies but it is, of course, very applicable to herbalism as well. So I’d thought I’d share the random collection of resources...
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Book Review – Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like...
I recently finished reading Hell-Bent: Obsession, Pain, and the Search for Something Like Transcendence in Competitive Yoga by Benjamin Lorr for a book club discussion and have to admit that it, and...
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Pondering the Finger or the Moon
I’ve been thinking a lot about a Zen teaching concept – “Finger Pointing at the Moon” – and just how valuable a lesson it is in so many aspects of my life from my yoga practice, in herbalism, etc. The...
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Book Review: Planet Medicine: Origins, Revised Edition: Origins by Richard...
I recently finished reading Planet Medicine: Origins, Revised Edition: Origins by Richard Grossinger and what a ride it has been. At its base, this book is an anthropological survey of healing...
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Enjoy Everything!
It feels to me that the past few months of winter, with their relentless cold and storms, have been especially soul wearing this year. And I know from talking to others that I’m not the only one...
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Herbal Madness
As I mentioned the other week, I’ve been busy lately editing the Herbstalk blog lately, but as we head into the final couple of weeks before the Herbstalk Festival - and you know you want to go don’t...
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No, no, no – seriously no.
It’s Fall. Despite any denial to the contrary. We’ve had the calendar shift, the clock change and the weather, despite New England’s always amusing dance of the many temperatures and weather...
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