ElderMoon School's Mission...
Nature first. We humans and the plants have walked side by side since our beginning as an extension of Nature. Our bodies have evolved based on the plants we've lived around and taken in as food and medicine, for fiber, building and shelter. Here in herbal school this is the core or central knowing as we honor one aspect of this larger picture, the plants for healing. Ancient and modern ways are consulted as we learn about the nature of plants as the original medicine carriers for healing. ElderMoon School is a gathering place for connection and community among people who feel the same deep in their heart about the plants. This journey, be it online or in-person, awakens a deeper connection to the cycles of Nature as we hone within us a range of ancient and traditional skills and tools to serve ourselves, families, communities, and humanity.
ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine is based in New York and dedicated to respecting one's choice in healthcare by providing an integrative form of wise herbal knowledge during a time where many are combining different schools of healing, both ancient and modern.
The mission here at ElderMoon School is to bring this 'walk in two worlds' or the ancient and modern medicine experience together to provide for integrative ways of healing that are based in Nature first. We honor healing through engaging the power of simple green plants for healing through the entrainment of our bodies to follow Nature. This requires more than a 'take this for that' and 'come back when your symptoms are worse' mindset. Herbal medicine is a primary healthcare system rooted back in time to each of our ancestral lineages. And the truth is herbalism IS AND REMAINS the primary health care for many in the world today.
Our common ground is being human upon Earth, within Nature. ElderMoon supports the AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT, the BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, the LGBTQ MOVEMENT, FAIR HEALTHCARE FOR ALL REFORM, and we support WELCOMING IMMIGRATION Policy. We are a multi-racial house AND organization and have zero tolerance for oppression in any form against any human. We're in this together as we unlearn the lies. Our goal is to connect to the natural forces that support health and healing and bring us together.
Learning directly from the plants is the path. Beginning now, as you are, is the first step. Thank you for dropping in for a bit. Welcome. -Jen
ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine is based in New York and dedicated to respecting one's choice in healthcare by providing an integrative form of wise herbal knowledge during a time where many are combining different schools of healing, both ancient and modern.
The mission here at ElderMoon School is to bring this 'walk in two worlds' or the ancient and modern medicine experience together to provide for integrative ways of healing that are based in Nature first. We honor healing through engaging the power of simple green plants for healing through the entrainment of our bodies to follow Nature. This requires more than a 'take this for that' and 'come back when your symptoms are worse' mindset. Herbal medicine is a primary healthcare system rooted back in time to each of our ancestral lineages. And the truth is herbalism IS AND REMAINS the primary health care for many in the world today.
Our common ground is being human upon Earth, within Nature. ElderMoon supports the AMERICAN INDIAN MOVEMENT, the BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT, the LGBTQ MOVEMENT, FAIR HEALTHCARE FOR ALL REFORM, and we support WELCOMING IMMIGRATION Policy. We are a multi-racial house AND organization and have zero tolerance for oppression in any form against any human. We're in this together as we unlearn the lies. Our goal is to connect to the natural forces that support health and healing and bring us together.
Learning directly from the plants is the path. Beginning now, as you are, is the first step. Thank you for dropping in for a bit. Welcome. -Jen
Jen's BIO: Getting to know me a little...
What does change look like? It can take the form of a total deconstruction and reconstruction. It can look like spending two years apprenticing with an herbalist and visionary on a beautifully rustic farm living in community and close to the land in the early 1990s in the Hudson River Valley region of New York where the world of healing plants and Earth Medicine ways shifted everything. It can look like being asked to listen more, question more of what we're taught and walking towards traditional, ancestral ways carried forward to infuse with our modern times and needs. And all the while carrying two little boys on my back too who chose that time and place with me. A third son, also carried for years on my back joined us later as we walked towards what you see here at ElderMoon School.
That’s some of how it all began.
Cultivating spiritual wellness seekers, practitioners, and teachers through many of my on-line and live programs includes, ‘Birthing and Herbalist in 13 Moons’, ‘The Monthly Herbal Councils’, and 'Micro-Dose Self Initiation Plant Dieting'. 'Walking The Herbal Path The Earth Medicine Way’, is held at The ElderMoon School of Herbs studio and gardens in Woodstock, NY but has been on pause as we navigate our new landscape for living and business.
Medicine making is a passion, an inquiry, and a creative exploration with the plants that anchors me into the beautiful cyclic dance with Nature and healing. I've tended an apothecary as an extension of Nature at my fingertips for over 30 years. It's always changing and evolving through that creative process with life that tends to health and healing. It's sort of like a living, breathing bio-feedback call and response with the gardens, Bees (yes, we're Bee keepers here) and wild places where the medicine lives. So I spend some beautiful time listening and creating plant medicines from gardens tended with biodynamic, permaculture, and organic principles employed in relationship to the calling of the land here. The ElderMoon Apothecary is where one can find supportive herbal products for healing. I work as an independent practitioner and teacher of folk herbalism, plant spirit medicine, earth-centered spirituality, deep ecology, and ethnobotany.
I happen to be a Botanist-Environmental Scientist & Teacher via academia within the SUNY system here in NY. I went 'Herbalist' 30 years ago, and later became an RN - Nurse 15 years ago. I started as a nurse in cardiac, then ICU, ER to OR, with Hospice homecare on the side. I currently work in the operating room and float to the ICU to care for our people during our collective coronavirus journey. I consult privately as an Herbalist and often find myself saying, "I'm an Herbalist first." and I'm honored to mean it, deeply. I also offer free and low cost services for the underserved, provide Earth Medicine Craniosacral Sessions, and occasionally lecture on Botanical Medicine at hospitals, universities, and herbal conferences. I work in blog writing about medicine plants, integrative medicine, and healing to an international following and now have set up camp in Patreon as of 2021 and love it there. I've lived all my life in the Hudson River Valley of New York, and live in Woodstock, NY with my second husband Jay of 26 years, and my third son Cyrus, now almost 18.
Thank you for coming. May our paths cross soon. Many Blessings Always & Safe Journey To You, Jen
That’s some of how it all began.
Cultivating spiritual wellness seekers, practitioners, and teachers through many of my on-line and live programs includes, ‘Birthing and Herbalist in 13 Moons’, ‘The Monthly Herbal Councils’, and 'Micro-Dose Self Initiation Plant Dieting'. 'Walking The Herbal Path The Earth Medicine Way’, is held at The ElderMoon School of Herbs studio and gardens in Woodstock, NY but has been on pause as we navigate our new landscape for living and business.
Medicine making is a passion, an inquiry, and a creative exploration with the plants that anchors me into the beautiful cyclic dance with Nature and healing. I've tended an apothecary as an extension of Nature at my fingertips for over 30 years. It's always changing and evolving through that creative process with life that tends to health and healing. It's sort of like a living, breathing bio-feedback call and response with the gardens, Bees (yes, we're Bee keepers here) and wild places where the medicine lives. So I spend some beautiful time listening and creating plant medicines from gardens tended with biodynamic, permaculture, and organic principles employed in relationship to the calling of the land here. The ElderMoon Apothecary is where one can find supportive herbal products for healing. I work as an independent practitioner and teacher of folk herbalism, plant spirit medicine, earth-centered spirituality, deep ecology, and ethnobotany.
I happen to be a Botanist-Environmental Scientist & Teacher via academia within the SUNY system here in NY. I went 'Herbalist' 30 years ago, and later became an RN - Nurse 15 years ago. I started as a nurse in cardiac, then ICU, ER to OR, with Hospice homecare on the side. I currently work in the operating room and float to the ICU to care for our people during our collective coronavirus journey. I consult privately as an Herbalist and often find myself saying, "I'm an Herbalist first." and I'm honored to mean it, deeply. I also offer free and low cost services for the underserved, provide Earth Medicine Craniosacral Sessions, and occasionally lecture on Botanical Medicine at hospitals, universities, and herbal conferences. I work in blog writing about medicine plants, integrative medicine, and healing to an international following and now have set up camp in Patreon as of 2021 and love it there. I've lived all my life in the Hudson River Valley of New York, and live in Woodstock, NY with my second husband Jay of 26 years, and my third son Cyrus, now almost 18.
Thank you for coming. May our paths cross soon. Many Blessings Always & Safe Journey To You, Jen
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