Earth Medicine
Deepen your connection with the earth and yourself through direct engagement with the natural world.
The land knows you, even when you are lost. - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Skyroots Holistic Healing offers herbal consultations and eco-therapy practices for people seeking to build a more a conscious relationship with the earth and themselves. These practices can serve as vital doorways for helping us to slow down and deepen our connection and understanding with the natural world.
Herbal Consultations
The plants have enough spirit to transform our limited vision. -Rosemary Gladstar
Through herbal wellness consultations I hope to reawaken your connection to the natural world and empower you with simple earth-based practices that can be integrated into your daily life for building mind-body regulation and healing. I am passionate about helping you to learn more about the wild medicinal plants and trees that grow right outside your doorstep, whether you live in the city or someplace more rural.
In our one hour consultation we will identify areas of physical, emotional and spiritual dysregulation that need attention and care and create a holistic roadmap for restoring a feeling of deep nourishment and aliveness. We will explore potential intuitive earth-based practices that you can begin to incorporate into your daily life such as doing a daily meditation with a specific tree on your commute to work, sipping rosemary tea or simply getting to know the wild dandelion growing through the concrete right outside your door. We can also explore the possibility of working with a “plant ally” and getting to know this herb or tree deeply, over a sustained period of time.
Eco-therapy
To see a World in a Grain of Sand and a Heaven in a Wildflower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour. -William Blake
Earth-based Meditations
I deeply believe that our mental and physical health is strongly tied to our connection to the earth and our sense of belonging in the world. I offer earth-based therapy rooted in mindfulness for both individuals and groups, on zoom and in-person outdoors. In an increasingly fractured world, reconnecting with nature can ground us to our self and at the same time expands our sense of identity beyond ego identification, to all living beings. By slowing down to notice the numerous ways the earth meets us and nourishes in any given moment, we can begin to abandon the false belief that we are separate from others and nature. Through guided mindfulness practices such as feeling the ground beneath our feet, leaning against the trunk of a tree or holding a weighted rock in the palm of our hand we can begin form a more intimate relationship with the world around us. For many of us, it is through this awareness and remembrance of these natural living supports where our healing can truly begin.
Herbal Meditations
Additionally, I offer herbal meditations where we work with individual plants through tea or tincture form as the main anchor of our meditation. Utilizing all of our senses, we will commune with a different plant ally each time we gather and attune to the specific physical and energetic medicine that each herb holds. Over time, this deep listening and attunement can help shift us into a more direct relationship with nature and all of life and break the myth of our aloneness.
Earth-based Ceremonies
Additionally, I offer earth-based ceremonies where we will co-create personally meaningful rituals for significant life transitions and passages or for helping to move stuck emotions where traditional talk therapy has failed. Ceremonies may be rooted in the four directions (air, fire, water, earth) by symbolically working with related materials such as feathers, a candle, shells or flowers. We may also choose to create earth-based art or mandalas made of natural materials found in nature such as sticks, flower petals, rocks or pine needles, imbuing our creations with healing intentions. Sometimes, the simple act of slowing down to create and play in the seemingly ordinary yet magical world around us, can be potent soul medicine.