We need it to examine our personal harvest with a healthy detachment that leaves room for self-forgiveness.
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Applying ginger to the skin is recommended by some other health advisors to ease certain chronic pains in the back or abdomen, assist in drug detox treatments, and gradually improve infertility.
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A holistic health coach supports clients in making the dietary and lifestyle shifts that can lead to sustainable, resilient, health.
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Moon rituals have been practiced throughout the world for millennia. This celestial body has long been revered for its power to control the tides of the oceans and those within our own bodies, to influence our emotional self and our access to our inner knowing.
A New Moon ritual is a tool that can help you identify the intentions you want to set and manifest as the moon waxes toward fullness.
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One anti-racist practice to which we can commit is to learn from, honour and enable the work of Black voices. As a school that has built upon, and benefited from, the wisdom of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) healing knowledge, we want here to highlight a handful of Black farmers, healers, herbalists, chefs and food justice advocates whose efforts are deeply needed in our world.
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Winter is recognised as a potent time of cooling, contracting energy, of inward focus. It is the fertile darkness out of which all things will soon arise. In the cold night of winter, we do best not to cleanse, but to build ourselves up, to conserve our resources and nourish ourselves with stillness, with warmth.
The season is associated with the element of water and its salty flavour, with the blue-black colour of the depths of the seas or the night sky and, predictably, with the Kidney-Bladder organ system within our bodies.
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Today marks the Winter Solstice here in the Northern Hemisphere, the shortest day of the year, and one recognised the world over with festivals of light that gratefully celebrate the gradual return of the sun.
During this current moment of such upheaval, the solstice reminds us that the dawn indeed follows each dark night. When that night is long and we feel weary, we can easily lose sight of the fact that all things move in cycles. Each point in that cycle has significance; we honour the darkness as a teacher and as the fertile soil of all re-creation. Its challenges transform us.
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The progressive slowing down of growth in autumn is understood to have an affinity with the metal element. In the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) system, the qualities of balanced metal are apparent when we similarly are able to hone our focus and know a shining mental clarity (indeed, metal is associated with a clear or white colour). We also experience this in a sense of self-worth that lets us set healthy boundaries and structures for ourselves.
The organs associated with autumn gives us a clue as to how we protect ourselves at this physically and emotionally vulnerable time of year. Our Lung-Large Intestine system, through the actions of inhalation and elimination, teach us that we don’t hold on to what we absorb. We feel it, use only what is vital, and release the rest.
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According to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the particular element associated with Late Summer is Earth, which provides us with our physical and emotional stability, and gives so generously of itself at this time of year.
In the same way that Earth nurtures us, this season calls us to nourish and strengthen ourselves after the expansive growth and outer-directed movement of summer, to once again ground and centre ourselves. We take special care of our own centre, our Stomach and Spleen and digestion, what is most in need of regeneration during this season.
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Human beings are designed to appreciate sweetness. Sweet is the taste of the first nourishment we know (breastmilk being somewhat sweet), and the flavour most prevalent in foods. This connection between the sweet flavour and mother’s milk reflects the way many cultures see the earth itself as a mother. It also highlights Traditional Chinese Medicine’s (TCM) association of the earth element with the sweet taste.
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