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Sunday Mar 06, 2016
Sunday Mar 06, 2016
Secret Medicines From You Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality, and Magic
Aired Sunday, 6 March 2016, 2:00 PM ET
Allayah presents to you, the trailblazing author, Ellen Evert Hopman. As spring approaches in the northern hemisphere. Our thoughts are drawn to the renewal of all plant consciousness and their healing properties. We will have a chance to hear her journey and explore her newest book release, Secret Medicines From You Garden: Plants for Healing, Spirituality, and Magic.
A guided exploration of herbal lore and healing plants found in yards, forests, meadows, and hedgerows. Draws on traditional knowledge and remedies from around the world, including Native American, Celtic, and Egyptian traditions. Provides simple recipes to safely make herbal remedies from local plants and honey for first aid, immune support, and treatment of common ailments.
Explains how to work with plant spirits, herbal astrology, and Animal Spirit Medicine. Weaving together ancient wisdom, mystical folklore, and modern plant research, master herbalist Ellen Evert Hopman explores the many uses of flowers, trees, common weeds, and ornamental plants for food, medicine, spiritual growth, and magical rituals. She reveals the herbal lore surrounding each plant, drawing on traditional knowledge and remedies from around the world, including Native American, Celtic, and Egyptian traditions. She includes recipes throughout so you can make medicines from wild and domesticated plants easily found in yards, forests, meadows, and hedgerows, and she discusses what to plant to ensure you have leaves, berries, and flowers all year.
About the Author Ellen Evert Hopman
Ellen Evert Hopman has been a teacher of herbalism since 1983 and is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild. A member of the Grey Council of Mages and Sages and a former professor at the Grey School of Wizardry, she has presented at schools and workshops across the United States and Europe. A Druidic initiate since 1984, she is a founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile), a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, and a Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana. A former vice president of The Henge of Keltria, she is the author of “A Druid’s Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine; A Druid s Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year”; “Walking the World in Wonder”; “Being a Pagan”;” Tree Medicine”, “Tree Magic”; and “Priestess of the Forest”. She lives in Massachusetts.