PLANT MEDICINE

Working with the medicine of the land is one of humanity’s oldest and most universal healing traditions. Long before modern systems of medicine, humans learned by listening, by observing how plants grow, where they thrive, how they affect the body, emotions, and spirit. Across cultures and continents, plants have been recognised not only for their physical properties, but for their consciousness, intelligence, and spirit.

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In many indigenous and earth-based traditions, plants and trees are understood as teachers and allies. They carry specific qualities and work with us on multiple levels. Deepening our relationship to the natural world involves presence, respect, ritual, and reciprocity. We don’t “take” medicine, we enter into dialogue with it.

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Here in the UK, we are blessed with a rich lineage of native plant and tree medicine, even though much of this knowledge was suppressed or fragmented over time. The land itself still remembers.

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These beings have been companions to the people of these isles for thousands of years. They appear in folklore, seasonal rites, hedge witch traditions, and Celtic cosmology. Many are deeply connected to the Wheel of the Year, marking thresholds, initiations, death and rebirth, protection, and fertility. When we reconnect with native plants we are remembering what has always been here.

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In a modern context, this reconnection is especially important. Many people feel disconnected from nature, from their bodies, and from ancestral roots. Working with the plants and trees of this land can restore a sense of belonging, grounding, and continuity.

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My work with plant and tree medicine is rooted in nurtured relationship, intuition, and lived experience. I hold space for you to create your own relationships to these spirits in a way that is organic to you.

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The medicines I predominantly work with (but not exclusively) are Mugwort, Yew, Willow, Silver Birch, Pine, Rose, Oak, Ivy, Holly & Hawthorn