Shortly into my first herbalist training I learned that plants and trees are deeply conscious, intelligent beings. Through playful experiments I found that they loved when I sang to them! After a year of herbalist training I took my first trip to Peru to sit with the Grandmother teacher, Ayahuasca. After returning from that profound and life-changing trip, I began to sit in sacred meditation with plant spirits. I called them in with a song, asking for their loving guidance and presence to assist me in my own healing and awakening. This led me to make regular offerings to the plants in my garden and neighborhood. I later learned, during shamanic training, that offerings were an important part of plant spirit communication and I felt validated that what I had felt intuitively was in fact a long established practice by shamanic people.

I went back to Peru for another Ayahuasca retreat and talked in depth with the people there about the plant “diets“ they did with the Shipibo people in the Amazon. I felt deeply resonant with the idea of sitting for long periods in sacred communion/diet with plants, but I wanted to do it with plants that I already knew, plants from my local region. Having already had many profound healing experiences with plants like violet and mugwort and blue vervain, I knew I didn’t need to go to the Amazon to learn and heal from them.

On a new moon in Taurus, through a series of coincidences and following advice from a friend, I ended up in a zoom call with herbalist and plant spirit healer Pam Montgomery. In that call, Pam told me about the Plant Spirit Initiations that she and two other women (from the UK) were holding for others. It was exactly what I’d been looking for. And she was doing a year long training to teach others to hold these Initiations! I was beyond delighted to find that people were doing “plant diets” with plants in their local region! (Because the medicine you need grows where you are.) After the call with Pam, I signed up for her first year long training to learn how to hold “Plant Spirit Initiations” for others.

Sacred plant medicine is right outside your door. Magic is in the plants you’ve known all your life. Nettle, White Pine, Dandelion, Violet, Apple, Oak and Maple. The plants have so much to teach us, and I am deeply honored to be a bridge between you and the plants, helping you remember your birthright to be fully and vibrantly connected nature and the plant kingdom.

I am still in training to hold group Plant Spirit Initiations and this one-on-one container is a hybrid of what I’ve learned so far in my training with Pam and the other healing/shamanic tools I already use in client sessions and retreats.