It's Spring! No doubt you have noticed the coming of spring with plant life pushing upwards from the earth. The sun is rising earlier and we can too, to participate in the active nature of spring. We can work with the profound cyclic effects of the seasons on our...
Month: March 2012
Wonder-Marvel-icious Retreat
Beyond the edges of the Universe . . . Beyond all space and time . . . And yet, here, now . . . Greeting the morning with meditation and Tai Chi . . . The Bright Path Ishaya teachers, including me, and students of The Bright Path Ishayas' Ascension meditation...
Slippery Elm
You guessed it, Slippery Elm comes from Elm trees that grow in the Eastern United States. The inside portion of the bark, the cambium, is what is used. The mucilage, starch and sugars in it make it "slippery." It will soothe inflamed or damaged tissue, which in...
Gemmotherapy & Phytoembryotherapy
When I first heard about Gemmotherapy, I thought, yeah, that's the therapeutic use of gem stones. I could not have been more wrong. Gemmotherapy, sometimes called Phytoembryotherapy, is a branch of Botanical medicine that is the traditional medicinal use of plant buds...