Welcoming Spring with Nayla, an herbalist and permaculture specialist to start being a seasonal guest on The Muse Podcast.
Living by the Seasons starts with a “Bitter Spring” to invite color, taste, related organs and emotions in our awareness for us to attune to the natural world of plants.
Community, as I came to understand it, was not just a physical place or a group of people tied by geography or blood. It was a state of being, a shared sense of purpose, and a web of relationships that nurtured and supported growth. It was a place where individual healing and growth could be…
As shamans commonly express, the plants were the ones who told them. They know the poisonous plants as well as the antidotes, which usually grow near the latter. They know what part of the plant to use, when, where and how to use it, the period of time to take it and in combination with…
She looked up and felt engulfed by a pure wave of care. Time stopped and brought her tears to a halt. Frozen, she started melting in the warmth of the earth and spacious skies. Her limbs collapsed and just before she gave in to this being’s embrace that carried her before touching her body,…
Moon, where are you?
Where is the light
In my night sky?
How many times
I looked at your face?
How many rhymes
Hummed with your grace?
You disappeared
Without leaving a trace?
When secrets were shared,
And prayers were raised.
“Remember beautiful, remember,
You are still breathing, surrender,
Feel me in you, oh so…