Mirco-Dose Self-Initiation Plant Dieting at ElderMoon
Connecting To One Plant
We tease out a 3-4 day modern plant diet initiation retreat into a few weeks of time within your daily for weaving restorative and explorative soul work while sitting with one plant teacher.
We circle on-line while micro-dosing on a sacred elixir, vinegar, or infusion daily, together.
It's potent. It's beauty. It's connection.
A traditional, well-worn, ancient path stands before us here and is obscured somewhat by modern ways. We can see though, and call forth our tools to clear the path as we take our time to unfold deeply to this way of learning and being where we sit with one plant. Plant Diets are an ancient practice so beautifully pertinent to now for adapting to our rapidly changing environments. It's more than physical. The plants meet us at the crossroads for deeper work into our heart, soul, and emotional well being. Our current times require us to take what we've known, bring it to the inner altar, listen for new ways of working, and return to integrate and offer up who we become in the process. Within all plant diets we consider:
- Reverence & Reciprocity with Nature
- Befriending Shadow & The Work
- Resurrecting our Dreamwork
- Honoring Grief, Death, & Ritual
- Feeding & Restoring our Wisest Feminine & Masculine
- Seeking & Creating Beauty
- Cultivating Our Sense of Belonging
This practice honors plants as our 'Wise Green Elders’ for counsel.
We're guided as patient and healer towards growth and healing with the support of moving forward by turning back to our roots of engaging
symbolism, dreams, and body wisdom.
What Is Plant Dieting?
Plant medicine people and traditional healers have been ingesting the plants to learn from them directly since our beginning as human. It’s actually nothing new. We’re simply carrying ancient ways forward that support modern ways of growth and change. The simplest explanation is we partner with one plant and modify our diet to take this plant in on the physical level. Yes, this means ingest it, bring it deep into our bellies for circulation throughout our whole body. It begins with the 'yes' in our heart and mind. We then prepare. This includes exploring intentions for healing.
In-person dieting, also known as a Plant Initiation or Dieta, is a retreat for 2-4 days, and longer, to fast with water and a few ounces of a ceremonially made plant elixir taken numerous times per day while unearthing what needs to be worked within you by the chosen plant you're dieting with. The traditional plant diet or dieta for training a traditional healer can last for months to years in length.
Here we begin within your personal space and life. Where you land and end-up is between you and the plant, mushroom, or tree as our teachers.
A Feminine Style Quest for Deep Listening and Connection
Our focus here? It’s about exercising our capacity for nourishment, restoration, and healing within the context of our daily regular life. We’re teasing out this usual 2-3 day plant diet initiation retreat to a one month plant dieting journey to create more space within the diet for deepening our connection to this one plant and to a community willing to learn directly from the plant. Walking as a healer sometimes means staying engaged with our daily life AND learning to make space for the soul work that calls too. Yes, it's possible.
Consider any particular life circumstance you know you're seeking support with and bring this intention. Another way to come to this work intentionally is from a place of deep trust that what comes up for you is what is needing your tending. The medicine is uniquely personal and just for you.
FEES: See our library and current courses as fee vary.
What is a Medicine Bundle? This is a fabric wrapped supportive bundle with 3-4 items specifically curated for our live on-line micro-dose self-initiation plant diet. The sacred elixir made ceremonially by me is included in this bundle. Elixir dose at 1-3 drops 2x/day, or more if called, during our time.
Instructions for making your own micro-dose self-initiation plant diet elixir, water based infusions, or vinegars are given at the start of each live on-line self-initiation together. Ideas for sourcing your medicine bundle items are given too. You can always purchase this from the start or later if you decide you want this. You know you. I have you covered if you decide to delegate this to me. Elixir making takes a few hours to 3-5 days to process depending on the option you choose from our resource library. The library opens 2 weeks prior to our start. Seeking and preparing the medicine + preparing ourselves is part of the plant diet medicine and healing.
For 2 years I made each sacred plant elixir for all participants. It felt important to have us all work with the same remedy from our soil here. And that was true then. However, some were held up in customs, or charged high customs fees, some never arrived, and some we never bothered sending because the participant knew it would never make it. The response? I started curating elixir recipes for these people.
And guess what?
It worked. It worked great!
This is how the plants encourage us working together figuring, seeking, responding to rapid change (wink wink), and getting our hands down into the medicine making. Some believe that plants cultivate humans. Think about it....
This DIY step makes good potent medicine. Your brain grows while making these connections to the plants. You and your people grow too. Love it! You might even become an herbalist for your people. Yes, we need more front line primary healthcare workers of the plants. So you get a juicy PDF with ideas on how to proceed with medicine making and sourcing materials needed to make the medicine yourself.
You will be asked to make some dietary shifts during our time in support of your experience with the plant, mushroom, or tree we journey with for the month. What you consider for you to be clean and simple eating is recommended.
Our Tools
Journey, guided meditations, creating altars, learning your own medicine making, micro-dosing with our plant elixir or infusion/vinegar, day and night dream work, journal work, (live webinar) healing sessions with our one plant, audio and video lessons, ritual work, tarot and divination work, group sharing via zoom, and more in support of your exploration into your personal medicine from each plant, tree or mushroom.
Plant medicine people and traditional healers have been ingesting the plants to learn from them directly since our beginning as human. It’s actually nothing new. We’re simply carrying ancient ways forward that support modern ways of growth and change. The simplest explanation is we partner with one plant and modify our diet to take this plant in on the physical level. Yes, this means ingest it, bring it deep into our bellies for circulation throughout our whole body. It begins with the 'yes' in our heart and mind. We then prepare. This includes exploring intentions for healing.
In-person dieting, also known as a Plant Initiation or Dieta, is a retreat for 2-4 days, and longer, to fast with water and a few ounces of a ceremonially made plant elixir taken numerous times per day while unearthing what needs to be worked within you by the chosen plant you're dieting with. The traditional plant diet or dieta for training a traditional healer can last for months to years in length.
Here we begin within your personal space and life. Where you land and end-up is between you and the plant, mushroom, or tree as our teachers.
A Feminine Style Quest for Deep Listening and Connection
Our focus here? It’s about exercising our capacity for nourishment, restoration, and healing within the context of our daily regular life. We’re teasing out this usual 2-3 day plant diet initiation retreat to a one month plant dieting journey to create more space within the diet for deepening our connection to this one plant and to a community willing to learn directly from the plant. Walking as a healer sometimes means staying engaged with our daily life AND learning to make space for the soul work that calls too. Yes, it's possible.
Consider any particular life circumstance you know you're seeking support with and bring this intention. Another way to come to this work intentionally is from a place of deep trust that what comes up for you is what is needing your tending. The medicine is uniquely personal and just for you.
FEES: See our library and current courses as fee vary.
What is a Medicine Bundle? This is a fabric wrapped supportive bundle with 3-4 items specifically curated for our live on-line micro-dose self-initiation plant diet. The sacred elixir made ceremonially by me is included in this bundle. Elixir dose at 1-3 drops 2x/day, or more if called, during our time.
Instructions for making your own micro-dose self-initiation plant diet elixir, water based infusions, or vinegars are given at the start of each live on-line self-initiation together. Ideas for sourcing your medicine bundle items are given too. You can always purchase this from the start or later if you decide you want this. You know you. I have you covered if you decide to delegate this to me. Elixir making takes a few hours to 3-5 days to process depending on the option you choose from our resource library. The library opens 2 weeks prior to our start. Seeking and preparing the medicine + preparing ourselves is part of the plant diet medicine and healing.
For 2 years I made each sacred plant elixir for all participants. It felt important to have us all work with the same remedy from our soil here. And that was true then. However, some were held up in customs, or charged high customs fees, some never arrived, and some we never bothered sending because the participant knew it would never make it. The response? I started curating elixir recipes for these people.
And guess what?
It worked. It worked great!
This is how the plants encourage us working together figuring, seeking, responding to rapid change (wink wink), and getting our hands down into the medicine making. Some believe that plants cultivate humans. Think about it....
This DIY step makes good potent medicine. Your brain grows while making these connections to the plants. You and your people grow too. Love it! You might even become an herbalist for your people. Yes, we need more front line primary healthcare workers of the plants. So you get a juicy PDF with ideas on how to proceed with medicine making and sourcing materials needed to make the medicine yourself.
You will be asked to make some dietary shifts during our time in support of your experience with the plant, mushroom, or tree we journey with for the month. What you consider for you to be clean and simple eating is recommended.
Our Tools
Journey, guided meditations, creating altars, learning your own medicine making, micro-dosing with our plant elixir or infusion/vinegar, day and night dream work, journal work, (live webinar) healing sessions with our one plant, audio and video lessons, ritual work, tarot and divination work, group sharing via zoom, and more in support of your exploration into your personal medicine from each plant, tree or mushroom.
Micro-Dose Self-Initiation Plant Dieting at EMS is for you if:
- You're intuitive. You know this and want to engage this gift further for understanding your unique gifts for personal, family, community and global expression.
- You desire exploring Earth Medicine based healing that's grounded in personal growth, humor, and the simple act of showing up with more authenticity. You also suspect or even know that no other spiritual practice can keep pace with humans better than Nature.
- You're a curious beginner and feel overwhelmed at the herbal offerings today. Starting with just one plant for a deeper walk on the spiral path of your relationship with medicine plants feels potent.
- You're feeling a call for exploring how your relationships, energy, and soul growth can create healing change in the deepest places within you. Plants Heal. You know this.
- You believe in the unexplained, mystical, natural forces of the plants and Earth and want to lean in closer for listening and learning.
- You know a dedicated practice is essential to building your relationships and knowledge with the medicine plants.
- You've walked with the medicine plants for a long time and wish to deepen this in a new way in a community circle for learning and healing.
- You know the plants in their evolutionary walk with humans are whispering new ways. Slowing down to listen to just one plant works for you.
- You're deeply empathic and learning how to walk with this gift further. You know a retreat and fasting with many people you’re unfamiliar with is too much. You know you need to be in your space to open this way and explore your own boundary tending skills.
- You want to try plant dieting but are wavering for some unknown reason OR logistics make it tough with a 3 day traditional fasting retreat. This is another way to connect.
- Fasting, even the idea of it, brings up too much for you at this time. Nourishment during our feminine style quest for connection and receiving is in deeper alignment for you now. .
- Your soul work calls you. Plants support. You know this.
FEES + DETAILS
- FEES are specific to each offering and discounted later as a self-paced initiation journey - Each includes instructions for making your own Sacred Plant Elixir, infusion or vinegar for daily micro-dosing.
- Each Sacred Plant Elixir made my me runs $18/1oz. + S/H within the contiguous US. International shipping is $25.
- If you choose the elixir purchased from ElderMoon, the Sacred Plant Elixir is curated to 15-20% alcohol content using handmade tinctures from the ElderMoon gardens and wild places. This helps preserve it during our dieting time. Micro-dosing at 3-5 drops twice daily, or more, will be our pace. Yes, we have more elixirs for each diet should you decide that's needed to continue. Our library has resources for learning how to make your own as well + with alcohol free options. (Instructional PDF for making all options is sent when you register.)
- Alcohol sensitive? You choose none at this time. Yes, you can still participate. An instructional PDF is provided with options for making alcohol free plant diet elixirs. Misting fresh infusion on your body after bathing, sleeping with a dried bundle of our plant under your pillow, or having it near you in a medicine bundle or pouch all work well too if you choose not to ingest at this time.
- Ruzuku on-line is our community Healer’s Lodge. All discussions take place privately in Ruzuku without fragmenting off to other platforms. One circle, one plant. Sharing is encouraged and also optional to you. Dedicating your time and your journal while with our plant teacher is what is asked.
- Content is delivered in drip irrigation style in the weeks prior as the library fills with suggestions to gently and consciously prepare for us our unique work with the medicine. I open the space 1 month prior to honor we are in active preparation with our plant. During our 4 week treatment time you can consider 15-20 minutes each day with the medicine of our chosen plant, mushroom, or tree. Post care is about 1 week as we integrate the medicine.
- One Scheduled Healing Session per week for about 30 min (x4 for the month held on Wednesdays) with our plant, mushroom or tree guiding us through, along with discussions and Q&A time, and two live Zoom circle-ups. All is recorded for later viewing and available in self-journeys after our live offerings.
- Prerequisites: None. Beginners welcomed. And knowing 'nothing' about herbs may even have advantages (smile).
- To be clear, we're not 'fasting' here. We're choosing a nourishing restorative pace to support healing during this month together. You may choose to intermittently fast during our time. Delicious and completely optional recipes are shared for easy supportive soups during our weeks together.
- High speed internet required.
- Our Healer's Lodge space + Library opens 4 weeks prior to our start date for live offerings with access to our resource library dripped in to give supportive suggestions for preparing for our plant dieting journey. In there will be instructions for making or sourcing your own plant elixir, infusions, or vinegars. Full library access available at purchase of self-initiation journeys.
Micro-Dose Plant Dieting
On-Line Mirco-Dose Plant Dieting Self-Initiation Journeys at ElderMoon School
PLANTS AS TEACHERS - Who's calling:
Juniper Tree, Yarrow, Elecampane, Ash Tree,
Mugwort, St Johnswort, Tulsi, Angelica, Rose, White Pine Tree, Hawthorn Tree
Being on my mailing list will keep you as one of the first to know once I set a date for the next plant diet self-initiation live journey.
Juniper Tree, Yarrow, Elecampane, Ash Tree,
Mugwort, St Johnswort, Tulsi, Angelica, Rose, White Pine Tree, Hawthorn Tree
Being on my mailing list will keep you as one of the first to know once I set a date for the next plant diet self-initiation live journey.