Transition Skills For Earth And Body WillowWayWellness.com
Willow Way Wellness provides workshops, training, and private sessions in applied knowledge for healing the land and healing our bodies, and understanding the connection between them.
The common thread in all of these offerings is that they help us shift our way of being in the world so that we sense and are sensitive to the living world around us. Thus, enabling us to integrate the information coming to us-both from our bodies and the earth-and respond with contributions toward a healthy, harmonious balance with all beings.
We offer:
. sustainability education, including the Permaculture Design Course, workshops, internships and consultations.
. The Plant Communicator Training
. Holistic Body therapy including Aston-Patterning, Aston Fitness, Aqua Alma Aquatic Bodywork, and massage.
Enjoy our site. If you take the time to have a look, there is a lot of information here on these diverse offerings.
Sincerely, Zia Parker
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Chamomile or Camomile Matricicaria chamomilia – German Chamomile Anthemis nobilis – Roman Chamomile 
Brief
Stress reliever, sleep aid, digestive aid, antibacterial, liver tonic, anti-inflammatory, anti-spasmodic
Medicinal Properties
Chamomile has a well established reputation at a remedy to strengthen digestion, it is useful to calm stress, relieve colic and promote restful sleep. It is safe for all ages and can be used as to prevent or as a remedy for children’s nightmares.
As a digestive aid, chamomile works to relax the smooth muscles lining the digestive tract and is
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Raspberry Leaf Rubus idaeus 
Brief A bitter and drying herb, extremely nourishing, used often in treating women’s ailments. Anti-inflammatory, antispasomdic, astringent, cardiotonic, hormone tonic, immune tonic, liver tonic, kidney tonic, mucous membrane tonic, oxytoxic, phytoestrogenic, postpartum tonic, prostate tonic, uterine tonic, stimulant.
Medicinal Properties Very nourishing high mineral content. Great herb for men and women, although often praised as the ultimate tonic for pregnant women– tonifies the uterus, nutritive to the mother and developing baby, prevents miscarriage and false labor, facilitates birth and placental delivery.
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Borage Borago officinalis 
Brief An edible, moist, and cooling plant. Anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, mily laxative, demulcent, decongestant, diaphoretic, febrifuge, diuretic, refrigerant, emollient (flower).
Medicinal Properties Borage clears heat and reduces inflammation. The flowers and leaves of Borage have been used in treating coughs, colds, fevers, bronchitis, bladder infection, pneumonia, and hypertension. Borage has been used to treat emotional conditions and disturbances like depression, grief, and worry.
Borage seed oil has anti-inflammatory properties and is often used in salves. Borage can be used topically as a compress
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Horehound Marrubium vulgare 
Brief Bitter, antiseptic and antibacterial, decongestant, expectorant, demulcent, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, laxative, stimulant. Safe to use with children.
Medicinal Properties A safe herb used to stimulate the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, expelling phlegm, clearing heat and toxins, and detering infections. Essential oils dilate arteries and relieve lung congestion. Horehound tea is used to treat a variety of respiratory conditions, and its expectorant and decongestant properties make it a good herb for treating coughs and colds. It has been used to ease childbirth and
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Stinging Nettles Urtica dioica
Brief Wonderful herb that can also be used in cooking as a super-nourishing cooked green. Nutritive, tonic, alterative, antiallergenic and antihistamine, anti-inflammatory, astringent, blood tonic, circulatory stimulating, decongestant, kidney tonic, uterine tonic, nervine, vermifuge (seed), endocrine tonic (seed).
Medicinal Properties Nettles are a wonderful nourishing and mineral-rich herb that support many of the body’s different systems. Nettles improve the body’s resistance to allergies, stimulate the circulatory system, reduce inflammation, support healthy blood clotting, and promote healing. It is a cleansing and
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Arrowleaf Balsamroot, Balsmorhiza sagittata
Brief Analgesic, disinfectant, antirheumatic (internal), oral/throat aid, cold remedy, antidiarrheal Medicinal Properties Dermatological aid, venereal aid, gynecological aid, urinary aid, diaphoretic, eye medicine, burn dressing, cathartic, tuberculosis remedy, dietary aid, cold remedy, febrifuge (lowers fevers), gastrointestinal aid, sedative, beverage, candy, food
Other Indications • The sap can be used externally as an anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and antiseptic. • The root can be ground and cooled and used in decoctions for headaches, rheumatism, and as a diuretic. It can also be chewed for toothaches. • These large leaves can be used externally to wrap minor cuts,
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Register and pay for the Fry Creek Permaculture Design Course at Johnson’s Landing, British Columbia, Canada 2011 either by mail or electronically:
Cost: $950. Additional: $200 for shared house rental (means you have a bed)…$100 for floor space and free for camping. A limited number of work-trades are available for up to 50% of the course fee.
By mail: Print and fill out this registration form, then send the form and registration fee to Susan Grimble, Box 1, RR1S4C1, Kaslo, BC V0G1M0.
Electronically: Copy and paste this form into an email and send it to ziaparker@yahoo.com. Then go to paypal.com and send your registration fee to ziaparker@yahoo.com. Note that it is payment for the Fry Creek Course. Continue reading Registration for the Fry Creek Permaculture Design Course
FOR WORKSHOPS ONLY, SEE BELOW.
The Permaculture Design Course provides the integrative matrix for designing sustainability into your life. The PC principles and ethics offer a bedrock foundation for assessing your wildest brainstorms and transforming them into pragmatic maximum yields– for social structures and community designs as well as veggie gardens and energy-smart dwellings.
Susan Grimble and Richard Taylor are hosting the Permaculture Design Course at their beautiful homestead at the north end of Kootenay Lake, in the small community of Johnson’s Landing. This site has received so much loving care and good-sense development over the last
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Sage (Broadleaf) Salvia Officinalis
Brief
A popular and versatile home remedy, and culinary herb, sage has antiperspirant, antifungal, antiviral, antibiotic, astringent, antispasmodic, and hypoglycemic properties. Appropriately, its latin name, “salvia,” means “to heal.”
Medicinal Properties
Traditionally an external folk medicine, bruised leaves were applied to treat sprains, swelling, and bleeding.
Sage’s antihydrotic quality makes it effective in stopping night sweats, reducing excessive menstrual bleeding, and drying up a mother’s milk. The herb is also useful to quiet nervousness, remedy digestive disturbances, treat respiratory problems, improve circulation and memory.
Sage is
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Rosemary Rosemarinus Officinalis
Brief
This antioxidant, antimicrobial, diuretic, and aromatic herb is commonly used in everything from lamb stew to shampoo, as well as in teas and oils.
Medicinal Properties
Traditionally, rosemary has been used medicinally to improve memory, relieve muscle pain and spasm, stimulate hair growth, and support the circulatory and nervous systems. It is also believed to increase menstrual flow, act as an abortifacient (causing miscarriage), increase urine flow, and treat indigestion.
Several studies done in the last several years show that rosemary leaf oil can help prevent the development of
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Red Clover
Trifolium Pratense
Brief
Rich in isoflavones, red clover is a detergent, sedative, antispasmodic, diuretic, and expectorant, as well as being a favorite food for grazing cattle and other animals.
Medicinal Properties
Red clover is rich in isoflavones, which are plant-based chemicals that produce estrogen-like effects in the body. Isoflavones have shown potential in the treatment of a number of conditions associated with menopause, such as hot flashes, cardiovascular health, and osteoporosis.
Red clover is a source of many valuable nutrients including calcium, chromium, magnesium, niacin, phosphorus, potassium, thiamine, and
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Yarrow Achillea millefolium 
Brief
Used as a cold and flu remedy, digestive aid, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory; also used topically to treat wounds and burns.
Medicinal Properties
Yarrow is used as an antiseptic, antispasmodic, astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, emmenagogue, stimulant, and tonics, vasodilator and vulnerary. Yarrow is used against colds, cramps, fevers, kidney disorders, toothaches, skin irritations, and hemorrhages, and to regulate menses, stimulate the flow of bile, and purify the blood.
Medicinal tea is a good remedy for severe colds and flu, for stomach ulcers, amenorrhea, abdominal cramps, abscesses, trauma and bleeding, and
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