77. Herbalism is Homecoming & Our Senses Are Portals of Connection - Marysia Miernowska
Medicine Stories
Amber M Hill
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🗓️ 20 April 2021
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
For most of human history, herbalism hasn’t had a name. It was just a way of life, part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ancestors have deep nourishment to offer us, and are an antidote to the depleting and disheartening realities of modern life. Let us reclaim an embodied relationship to plants, come into alignment with the regenerative currents of nature and ourselves, and get back to the root of the root of the root.
TOPICS:
- Remembering parts of ourselves through plants and storytelling
- Learning simple herbalism at her great-grandmother’s feet in Poland
- The many uses for nettle, including urtification or the application of the sting on the body
- Herbalism as homecoming
- Cultivating embodied presence in relationship with the plant realm
- Earth’s electromagnetic frequency brings us into the brainwave states where healing can happen
- Body portals (chakras) in relationship to plant healing
- Noticing where in your body a plant lands
- Flooding the body with nourishment: drinking herbal teas & infusions every day (sometimes)
- Blending fresh spring greens to create herbal “juices”
- The most ancient herbal healing tradition on earth (v the way herbalism is often practiced today)
- Seasons and cycles: harmonizing ourselves to the regenerative currents of nature
- Midwifing death & dismantling structures in our own lives and society at large
- The dark womb of the universal mother: a personal, powerful medicine story in which names, archetypes, ancestral threads, and healing are interwoven
- The plants and the magic of Beltane
LINKS:
- School of the Sacred Wild website
- The Witch’s Herbal Apothecary book
- Marysia on Instagram
- The book’s illustrator Maggie Eileen Lochtenberg
- Sharon Blackie’s book If Women Rose Rooted
- My interview with Sharon on Episode 54: Lineage, Calling, and the Mythic Imagination
- Judith Berger’s book Herbal Rituals
- My interview with Judith on Episode 59: Herbal Rituals, Rhythms, and Remembrance
- Article: Urtification or Stinging Nettles on the Skin
- Marysia’s article on The Pagan Roots of Easter
- Sage Mauer and The Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education
- Medicine Stories Patreon (podcast bonuses!)
- My website MythicMedicine.love
- Take our fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? Quiz
- Medicine Stories Facebook group
- Mythic Medicine on Instagra
- Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | vastness of the whole network of the web of life and then the uniqueness of what is the medicine |
| 0:07.6 | for us, what is the medicine for me, what is the medicine for you, and knowing that we each |
| 0:13.1 | have our own unique portal and golden thread of connection. |
| 0:24.1 | Hi friends, welcome to the Medicine Stories podcast where we are remembering what it is to |
| 0:29.4 | be human upon the earth. I am Amber Magnolia Hill, this is episode 77, with Marisha Mirnauska. |
| 0:38.3 | For most of human history, herbalism hasn't had a name. It was just a way of life |
| 0:43.3 | part of being human upon the earth. The folk traditions of our ancestors have deep nourishment |
| 0:48.6 | to offer us and are an antidote to the depleting and disheartening realities of modern life. |
| 0:54.4 | Let us reclaim an embodied relationship to plants, come into alignment with the regenerative |
| 1:00.7 | currents of nature and ourselves and get back to the root of the root of the root. Two Patreon |
| 1:08.0 | offerings go along with today's episode. The first is open to everyone over at the Medicine |
| 1:15.9 | Stories Patreon, so you don't have to be a patron. And as you know, if you've been listening to |
| 1:22.9 | this podcast for a while, that means it's a giveaway. And you know my favorite things to give away |
| 1:27.5 | are books. So this is a giveaway of Marisha's beautiful book, The Witches Erbil Apothecary, |
| 1:36.0 | rituals and recipes for a year of earth magic and sacred medicine making. It will be signed to you |
| 1:44.0 | if you win. And all you have to do is head over there and leave a comment. The second offering |
| 1:50.7 | from Marisha is for patrons at the $2 a month level. Thanks y'all. It is a video recipe |
| 1:58.8 | tutorial for her cosmic bliss blue lotus chia pudding dessert. Yes. So this is from her online |
| 2:09.0 | herbal apprenticeship, which we talk about at the end. I didn't even know it existed until our |
| 2:15.1 | conversation, but I'm very intrigued, which goes through the wheel of the year, which is all about |
| 2:23.1 | what Marisha's work is all about, seasonal, cyclical, living and pain attention to life, |
| 2:31.0 | death and rebirth cycles of both nature, plants and ourselves. I know that's three things. So both |
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