MONTHLY HERBAL COUNCILS
at ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine
Come join the Herbal Council Meetings each month at EMS for one hour/month as we do what herbalists do and 'speak plant' while turning our attention towards the plants, our own needs, the needs of our people, the nature of healing, and the healing of Earth by becoming good medicine.
If you've ever turned to a plant for healing then there's an herbalist within and definitely a seat for you in this council. Learning the language and walk is easier than you think. Come and absorb.
All currently enrolled EMS Birthing an Herbalist in 13 Moons herbal students receive access to these councils for FREE as part of your study time to expand on topics touched upon lightly during course time. This allows us to go deeper into pertinent topics you desire to know more about.
Topics are announced 2-3 weeks prior and are often prompted by our current EMS herbal students as we deepen our walk as 'Herbalists'. We've opened these to beginners and seasoned herbal folk looking to connect in council on behalf of Nature and the deepening of our connection as people walking this land together. Our stories are rich and need to be told, together. Should you be completely new, this is great. Come anyway. Allow the language to wash over you and you'll see how quickly you pick it all up. You may even start your first home apothecary a few months in (wink wink). Much Love, Jen
If you've ever turned to a plant for healing then there's an herbalist within and definitely a seat for you in this council. Learning the language and walk is easier than you think. Come and absorb.
All currently enrolled EMS Birthing an Herbalist in 13 Moons herbal students receive access to these councils for FREE as part of your study time to expand on topics touched upon lightly during course time. This allows us to go deeper into pertinent topics you desire to know more about.
Topics are announced 2-3 weeks prior and are often prompted by our current EMS herbal students as we deepen our walk as 'Herbalists'. We've opened these to beginners and seasoned herbal folk looking to connect in council on behalf of Nature and the deepening of our connection as people walking this land together. Our stories are rich and need to be told, together. Should you be completely new, this is great. Come anyway. Allow the language to wash over you and you'll see how quickly you pick it all up. You may even start your first home apothecary a few months in (wink wink). Much Love, Jen
OUR CURRENT Monthly Herbal Council:
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We sit in council together near the Full Moon each month for herbal infused depth work. We meet 1 hour+ for an herbal, health, or environmental discussion. THIS MONTH: Activating The HIVE Mind - Our Collective Tending of Honey Bees & Their Cooperative Medicines WHEN: 6/23/2021 12pm Noon EST - Always Recorded & Archived. 2 OPTIONS TO JOIN: You can drop in for the session for a one-time fee or join the monthly BEE BALM level in Patreon. |
We were gifted Honey Bees by a friend after helping her as she followed the amazing and incredibly challenging call to tending to her dying mother for several years.
This sweet and bold friend of mine is a bee, chicken, and goat keeper (and more). So some of our time was spent sharing food and cooking together, some was just tending to the daily as usual with keeping a house afloat, and sometimes we would take her to the movies where she would get the best naps as we flanked her and just smiled. Some of the most amazing time was helping her with tending her Honey Bees and the many hives she lived with.
It's like that sometimes. You set to do one thing and land into this other thing that wasn't part of the original plan of just adopting a friend deeper into your tribe to help.
So these Bees came to us through supporting life AND supporting death. This is no little thing to go unnoticed for me. The Bees know the life-death-life cycle and will teach us about our own fear of death that can keep us from fully knowing life There's much that is misunderstood in these times.
It's a complex relationship with Bees and even while helping our friend, we weren't sure it was a calling. We didn't run to "have" Bees or "get the liquid gold" or "get honey".
When I think back to childhood, I grew up near "Mary the bee keeper" and lived so close to the honey farm that I never thought about tending bees either back then. None of us had to. Mary did. We just loved supporting her and her family with trips to the farm for honey products.
So 4 years ago, several months after our friend's mother died, she showed up unexpectedly with a beautiful Warre hive and a package of bees! Once the shock and excitement eased a little, she showed us how to start a hive. We knew much already with helping her with so many other tasks with her 6-7 hives. We even went with her on rescue missions of wild hives threatened by humans as we all just go about our lives and sometimes things don't work well. These are stories for another time and it was beautiful and tragic every time we went out as we attempted to repair the Bee to Human connection. So, we were over the MOON excited and also felt the weight of truly committing and accepting fully the YES we were saying.
After years of thinking about them as part of our family here as we tend to all of us, I have some ways that we all can help even if bee keeping is not your thing, or at least not right now. There are ways to make ripples for each of us that goes beyond "saving the bees" to looking at the activation of our innate HIVE Mind, the cooperative and collective way of existing that the Bees have been sharing for thousands of years with us.
We'll cover honey and hive products as medicine and how to make a few as you tend your apothecary, discuss conservation considerations, how to support bees from your beautiful life and home, land, or apartment, and what questions you want to see answered in your attempt to find a bee keeper you want to support and receive medicinal hive products from.
I'll gather many resources too. See you soon.
COUNCIL TIME: Wednesday 6/23/21 @12 Noon for 90 minutes to speak of these beauties as a medicine, healing guide and one that needs conservation considerations too. We also accept the invitation for a collective journey, together, into the mysterious world of Honey Bees
Thank you for sharing. Much Love, Jen
This sweet and bold friend of mine is a bee, chicken, and goat keeper (and more). So some of our time was spent sharing food and cooking together, some was just tending to the daily as usual with keeping a house afloat, and sometimes we would take her to the movies where she would get the best naps as we flanked her and just smiled. Some of the most amazing time was helping her with tending her Honey Bees and the many hives she lived with.
It's like that sometimes. You set to do one thing and land into this other thing that wasn't part of the original plan of just adopting a friend deeper into your tribe to help.
So these Bees came to us through supporting life AND supporting death. This is no little thing to go unnoticed for me. The Bees know the life-death-life cycle and will teach us about our own fear of death that can keep us from fully knowing life There's much that is misunderstood in these times.
It's a complex relationship with Bees and even while helping our friend, we weren't sure it was a calling. We didn't run to "have" Bees or "get the liquid gold" or "get honey".
When I think back to childhood, I grew up near "Mary the bee keeper" and lived so close to the honey farm that I never thought about tending bees either back then. None of us had to. Mary did. We just loved supporting her and her family with trips to the farm for honey products.
So 4 years ago, several months after our friend's mother died, she showed up unexpectedly with a beautiful Warre hive and a package of bees! Once the shock and excitement eased a little, she showed us how to start a hive. We knew much already with helping her with so many other tasks with her 6-7 hives. We even went with her on rescue missions of wild hives threatened by humans as we all just go about our lives and sometimes things don't work well. These are stories for another time and it was beautiful and tragic every time we went out as we attempted to repair the Bee to Human connection. So, we were over the MOON excited and also felt the weight of truly committing and accepting fully the YES we were saying.
After years of thinking about them as part of our family here as we tend to all of us, I have some ways that we all can help even if bee keeping is not your thing, or at least not right now. There are ways to make ripples for each of us that goes beyond "saving the bees" to looking at the activation of our innate HIVE Mind, the cooperative and collective way of existing that the Bees have been sharing for thousands of years with us.
We'll cover honey and hive products as medicine and how to make a few as you tend your apothecary, discuss conservation considerations, how to support bees from your beautiful life and home, land, or apartment, and what questions you want to see answered in your attempt to find a bee keeper you want to support and receive medicinal hive products from.
I'll gather many resources too. See you soon.
COUNCIL TIME: Wednesday 6/23/21 @12 Noon for 90 minutes to speak of these beauties as a medicine, healing guide and one that needs conservation considerations too. We also accept the invitation for a collective journey, together, into the mysterious world of Honey Bees
Thank you for sharing. Much Love, Jen
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Have a notebook, delicious tea, your questions, and some uninterrupted time for absorbing. We address conditions of health, individual plants, land tending, homesteading, growing and making medicine, and much more.
All sessions are recorded & archived to our ElderMoon Herbal Library.
Have a notebook, delicious tea, your questions, and some uninterrupted time for absorbing. We address conditions of health, individual plants, land tending, homesteading, growing and making medicine, and much more.
All sessions are recorded & archived to our ElderMoon Herbal Library.
Raven oversees the Library.
The Building Of Our Archived Herbal Council Library...
2017
March 2017 - Deepening our Understanding of Ayahuasca from the Amazon Region
April 2017 - Emmenagogues & Abortifacients - Hard & Wise Discussions
May 2017 - Cacao: The Medicine & Magic
June 2017 - All Things Teasel - Plant Profile Materia medica
July 2017 - Herbal Care For Our Eyes
Bonus Council: Demystifying Comfrey - Walking With A Wounded Reputation
August 2017 - Exploring Adaptogen & Sacred Basil
September 2017 - Pine Tree Medicine
Bonus Council - Climate Repair Project - Being Medicine For Earth
October 2017 - Understanding Sepsis & Herbal Therapeutics
November 2017 - Poke Medicine - Working with Poisonous Plants - Phytolacca americana
December 2017 - Refining Our Tincturing Skills ~ How To Make Weight-to-Volume Tinctures
2018
January 2018 - Herbal Mouth Care
February 2018 - Herbs for Brain & Mood Enhancement
March 2018 - Plant Profile: Usnea barbata - Forest Medicine For Boundaries
April 2018 - Herbal Support for Seasonal Allergies
May 2018 - Plant Initiations - Deepening Our Practice with an Ancient Tool
June 2018 - Seeking Home with Elecampane
July 2018 - Walking with Change & Lady's Mantle
August 2018 - Rhythm Reset with Blue Vervain
September 2018 - Anxiety: The Restless Heart - Tools & Medicine for 'triggered states'
October 2018 - Elder & Honoring Life & Death
November 2018 - Making Holiday Prayer Ties
December 2018 - Enjoy Your Holiday Break
2019
January 2019 - Herbalism & The Moon - Boosting Oxytocin!
February 2019 - Gatekeeping Herbs for the Inflammation Cascade
March 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 1 - Basic Botany
April-May 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 2 - Stems & Leaves
June 2019 The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 3 - Flowers
July 2019 - Herbal Steams, Flower Bathing & Sitz Baths
August 2019 - Pauses happen - Thank you for doing the same. To be made-up.
September 2019 - Tending Our Elders
October 2019 - THE PRICE of BONE: Osteoporosis & Osteopenia Herbal Therapies
November 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series- Part 4 - Roots
December 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 5 - Seeds
2020
January 2020 - Completion of our Herbalist & The Botanist Series
February 2020 - The Not-So-Secret Life of Germs
March 2020 - Covid-19 Support - 5 session (6+hr) series
April 2020 - Making More Elderberry - Rooting New Plants + The Medicine of Flower, Berry, & Leaf
May 2020 - Berberine-Rich Anti-Inflammatory Plants - Getting To Know Barberry
June 2020 - Becoming a Seed Keeper - 2 Part Council on seed sovereignty and making a seed library
July 2020 - Getting To Know BONESET - A Plant Profile
August 2020 - Homemade Herbal Land and Foliar Sprays & Land Stewarding
September 2020 - The Tale of Horsetail - LOVING Equisetum arvense
November 2020 - "The Plant" & The Herbalist - Part 1 Council on our rapidly changing landscape.
December 2020 - "The Plant" & The Herbalist - Part 2
2021 - NEW Digital Library Building - Individual Recordings + PDFs Available $21
January 2021 - #8 Adrenal Restoration - RECORDING HERE + PDF
February 2021 - #9 Apothecary Care for Fungal Infections - RECORDING HERE + PDF
March 2021 - #10 The Apothecary - Recovery & Covid - RECORDING + PDF HERE
April 2021 - #11 Spirit of Place - Land Connections & How This (In)Forms Us - RECORDING + PDF HERE
May 2021 - #12 Sitting with Indian Pipe - RECORDING + PDF HERE
June 23, 2021 - #13 - Activating The HIVE Mind: Our Collective Tending of Honey Bees - (recording to come)
July 2021 - #14 - TBA
March 2017 - Deepening our Understanding of Ayahuasca from the Amazon Region
April 2017 - Emmenagogues & Abortifacients - Hard & Wise Discussions
May 2017 - Cacao: The Medicine & Magic
June 2017 - All Things Teasel - Plant Profile Materia medica
July 2017 - Herbal Care For Our Eyes
Bonus Council: Demystifying Comfrey - Walking With A Wounded Reputation
August 2017 - Exploring Adaptogen & Sacred Basil
September 2017 - Pine Tree Medicine
Bonus Council - Climate Repair Project - Being Medicine For Earth
October 2017 - Understanding Sepsis & Herbal Therapeutics
November 2017 - Poke Medicine - Working with Poisonous Plants - Phytolacca americana
December 2017 - Refining Our Tincturing Skills ~ How To Make Weight-to-Volume Tinctures
2018
January 2018 - Herbal Mouth Care
February 2018 - Herbs for Brain & Mood Enhancement
March 2018 - Plant Profile: Usnea barbata - Forest Medicine For Boundaries
April 2018 - Herbal Support for Seasonal Allergies
May 2018 - Plant Initiations - Deepening Our Practice with an Ancient Tool
June 2018 - Seeking Home with Elecampane
July 2018 - Walking with Change & Lady's Mantle
August 2018 - Rhythm Reset with Blue Vervain
September 2018 - Anxiety: The Restless Heart - Tools & Medicine for 'triggered states'
October 2018 - Elder & Honoring Life & Death
November 2018 - Making Holiday Prayer Ties
December 2018 - Enjoy Your Holiday Break
2019
January 2019 - Herbalism & The Moon - Boosting Oxytocin!
February 2019 - Gatekeeping Herbs for the Inflammation Cascade
March 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 1 - Basic Botany
April-May 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 2 - Stems & Leaves
June 2019 The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 3 - Flowers
July 2019 - Herbal Steams, Flower Bathing & Sitz Baths
August 2019 - Pauses happen - Thank you for doing the same. To be made-up.
September 2019 - Tending Our Elders
October 2019 - THE PRICE of BONE: Osteoporosis & Osteopenia Herbal Therapies
November 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series- Part 4 - Roots
December 2019 - The Herbalist & The Botanist Series - Part 5 - Seeds
2020
January 2020 - Completion of our Herbalist & The Botanist Series
February 2020 - The Not-So-Secret Life of Germs
March 2020 - Covid-19 Support - 5 session (6+hr) series
April 2020 - Making More Elderberry - Rooting New Plants + The Medicine of Flower, Berry, & Leaf
May 2020 - Berberine-Rich Anti-Inflammatory Plants - Getting To Know Barberry
June 2020 - Becoming a Seed Keeper - 2 Part Council on seed sovereignty and making a seed library
July 2020 - Getting To Know BONESET - A Plant Profile
August 2020 - Homemade Herbal Land and Foliar Sprays & Land Stewarding
September 2020 - The Tale of Horsetail - LOVING Equisetum arvense
November 2020 - "The Plant" & The Herbalist - Part 1 Council on our rapidly changing landscape.
December 2020 - "The Plant" & The Herbalist - Part 2
2021 - NEW Digital Library Building - Individual Recordings + PDFs Available $21
January 2021 - #8 Adrenal Restoration - RECORDING HERE + PDF
February 2021 - #9 Apothecary Care for Fungal Infections - RECORDING HERE + PDF
March 2021 - #10 The Apothecary - Recovery & Covid - RECORDING + PDF HERE
April 2021 - #11 Spirit of Place - Land Connections & How This (In)Forms Us - RECORDING + PDF HERE
May 2021 - #12 Sitting with Indian Pipe - RECORDING + PDF HERE
June 23, 2021 - #13 - Activating The HIVE Mind: Our Collective Tending of Honey Bees - (recording to come)
July 2021 - #14 - TBA
