Insight Herbalism
Insight Herbalism is a simple but profound practice of guiding you back into your own intuition. It offers a space of integration, deep personal reflection and the space for true healing and understanding to unfold.
In the fast paced modern world it is gift to have the opportunity to slow down, reconnect with nature and rediscover our path when we may have begun to feel lost.
The plants are our kin, once we befriend and get to know them they can support us in a multitude of ways.
Health is intrinsically simple - it is about bringing things back into balance, and listening to and learning from them when they are not.
But in a world that is rapidly become complicated yet reductionistic, and our day to day lives move further way from being in direct contact with nature, the solutions we may be presented with have become more complicated and reductionistic.
Insight Herbalism embraces it all. It is not an alternative, something separate outside of the world, but it is about giving space outside of the everyday to bring yourself back into your centre within it all.
How it works
During a session together we will explore your history and your story, fully taking in the impact this has had on you on all levels. We will meet plants through simple guided tea meditation, and meet layers of your body and being through gentle Listening Touch bodywork, which both helps to reveal more of what your body is experiencing and to help integrate what we are discovering.
There is subtly and potency of working with plants in this way. More often that not, things are far more simple than we think, and often not what they seem. I hold space for you to sink into this simplicity and untangle the knots of your being.
Often our world view of conventional medicine and complementary models of healing work in polarisation with each other. One or the other (depending on what your world view is) deems itself to be more superior or more long lasting that the other.
I do not work in this way. I know from clinical practice and personal experience, that herbalism and allopathic medicine can work hand in hand. Modern health concerns often call for modern medicines, I can help you to untangle and discern what the best path is for YOU, and guide you into deeper level of healing beyond ridding the body of symptoms.
Session will encompass any other modalities of treatment you may be pursuing. All is in alignment with YOUR best interest and not a dogmatic answer to healing.
A space to stop, slow down.
Be seen, heard and nurtured.
To be met in the fullness of who you are, with what is taking place in your life.
To find integration and wholeness.
Exchange
Initial consultation is £120 and lasts two hours. Follow up sessions are £90 for 90 minutes. Available in Person at Ruskin Apothecary in Nailsworth, and online.