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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Eco Building and Hands-on Natural Plaster Experience
July 10 Gather at the whimsical Jamestown Town Hall to learn about ECOLOGICAL BUILDING including Passive Solar Design Strawbale Construction Building with Natural Materials (including adobe, cob, natural plaster) Cordwood Construction and appropriate technology and energy conservation related to shelters, and apply that knowledge in a village design exercise. Then, go to a wild and funky strawbale home, where we’ll team up for two projects: mixing and applying earthen plaster to create a natural plaster wall and upgrade the home’s rainwwater harvesting system.
LEARN WITH YOUR
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Vervain, Verbena, Wild Hyssop
Vervain, Verbena, blue hyssop, wild hyssop Verbena hastata
Brief
Many herbalists consider vervain to be one of the most useful of medicinal plants to keep on hand. It is recommended for treating over thirty complaints. It is astringent, diaphoretic, antispasmodic. It is useful for treating fevers, ulcers, pleurisy, colds, respiratory inflammation. It is sedative and promotes a feeling of well being. It can calm nausea & vomiting. Used externally it helps heal deep sprains and bruises.
Medicinal Properties
Native Americans used vervain to
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Echinacea Purpurea
Purple Coneflower Echinacea Purpurea, Echinacea Angustifolia
Brief
Antibacterial, antiviral, immunostimulating, antiseptic, antifungal, antinflammatory
Medicinal Properties
Several species of Echinacea are native to the American Great Plains. They were the most widely used medicinal plants used by Native Americans. Scientific studies have shown that Echinacea boosts immunity by increasing the body’s production of T-cells and by boosting white blood cells’ abilities to destroy germs. Echinacea is useful for use in treating infections of the respiratory and urinary tract systems. It is commonly used to
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Blackberry, leaves
Blackberry Rubus, many varieties from around the world Rubus fruticosus (a common European variety) Rubus villosus (a common American variety)
Brief
Astringent, tonic, helps treat wounds, burns, mouth sores, sore throat, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, menstrual cramps
Medicinal Properties
There are said to be at least 40 European varieties of Rubus and numerous American varieties. These include many species of blackberry, raspberries, dew berries, cloud berries and thimble berries. Most people are familiar with many of these berries for their eaten fruit which may also be useful
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Summer Savory Satureja hortensis (Summer)
Winter Savory Satureja montana (Winter)
Brief
The two varieties of savory are cooking herbs with a spicy flavor and smell that is similar to that of thyme. In addition to their use in cooking, they may be used medicinally as a cough remedy and to sooth stomach complaints. Because savory is mild and easily tolerated, it is especially useful for treating these complaints in children. The two varieties of Savory can be used
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Thyme, Garden Thyme Thymus vulgaris, Thyme
Mother of Thyme, Wild Thyme Thymus Serpyllum, mother of thyme
Brief
The well known cooking herb, thyme is also a very valuable medicinal herb. Thyme is antiseptic, antifungal, antispasmodic, expectorant, decongestant, astringent, antiparasitic, tonic and carminative.
Medicinal/Culinary Properties
Thyme is one of the most commonly used cooking herbs. It is used fresh or dried in soups, stews, stuffing, sauces, pickles and to flavor meats, cheeses and vegetables. It also has long been
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The Willow Way Flower essences all come from the Colorado Rocky Mountain alpine country. The energy of these flowers is potent! The life force of an entire year is expressed in these exquisite blossoms, with their amazing morphology and color displaying for only a few weeks. All of these essences are flowers that I have developed relationship with over decades. The process I use to make the essences is an energy medicine, which is similar to homeopathy. The blossoms are not harmed or destroyed, yet the energy frequency of the flower is preserved in an alcohol matrix. These
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Cranesbill, Wild Geranium
Wild Geranium (North American), Cranesbill, Alum root, stork’s bill Geranium maculatum
Brief
Styptic, astringent, tonic
Medicinal Properties
Geranium is used to treat piles and to stop internal bleeding. Taken internally it can calm diarrhea or dysentery. It is used to treat cholera in children and is useful for gargling. The English variety of geranium can be used in a similar manner.
Dosages are 15 to 30 grains of herb. To make an infusion steep 1 ounce of herb in one pint of water.
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Holy Basil, Tulsi
Holy basil, Tulsi Ocimum Sanctum
Brief
Kills intestinal parasites, heals acne and other skin infections, stimulates the immune system, digestive aid, appetite stimulant, promotes lactation in nursing mothers. Used in Chinese medicine for stomach, kidney and blood ailments.
Medicinal Properties
Holy Basil has been used to treat a wide range of ailments for thousands of years. It is effective in killing intestinal parasites and has long been used to soothe the stomach and treat a broad range of intestinal ailments.
One animal
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Pleurisy Root
Pleurisy root, Butterfly weed, Orange Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa
Brief
Antispasmodic, diaphoretic, expectorant, tonic carminative, diuretic, relaxant and mildly cathartic
Medicinal Properties
Pleurisy root is best known for its use in treating lung ailments such as colds, bronchitis and pleurisy. It acts as an expectorant helping to expel excess mucus from the lungs, it calms inflammation, mitigates pain and relieves breathing difficulties.
It is useful to treat scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, bilious fever, typhus, measles and all high fevers. It can also be used
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Pennyroyal
Pennyroyal, fleabane, tickweed, mosquito plant, squawmint Mentha pulegium – European Hedeoma pulegoides – American
Brief
Insect repellent, decongestant, cough remedy, digestive aid, promotes menstruation, induces abortion
Medicinal Properties
To repel insects the pennyroyal plant can be crushed and rubbed onto the skin or pennyroyal tincture can be incorporated into skin lotions.
According to one source, to repel insects on pets, a garland of pennyroyal may be hung around the pets neck or a bag of pennyroyal can be hung on a regular collar.
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Melissa Melissa, Lemon Balm, Bee Balm, Sweet Balm Melissa Officinalis
Brief
Antispasmodic, calmative, sedative, encourages menstrual flow, helps release gas from the intestinal system, promotes perspiration, antiviral
Medicinal Properties
Melissa is helpful for depressive illness and restlessness. It can be used to relieve tension related migraine headaches, especially those with associated digestive upset. Melissa can be helpful to calm a nervous, acid stomach and with a wide variety of digestive upsets. It can help those with poor circulation by relieving the sensation of being too cold or too
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