The energetic shaman

The energetic shaman **Sacred elements** is the healing path of John Castner—herbalist, alchemist, and modern-day shaman.

Blending ancient earth wisdom with energy medicine, John guides others to reconnect with nature, awaken inner power, and heal from the root. John Castner is a skilled vitalist .herbalist ,alchemist and shaman skilled in energy healing with over 25 years of experience .He has studied shamanic practices with the four winds and the shaman soulution, were he also mentors classes on the medicine wheel john grows his own herbs for spagyric tinctures and natural remedies and has training in chi gong ,nutrition, and various movement arts. integrating holistic practices for wellness and spiritual growth.

💰🔥 **The Cost of Over-Giving: Money, Time & Energy During the Holidays**The holidays don’t just stretch our wallets —the...
11/19/2025

💰🔥 **The Cost of Over-Giving: Money, Time & Energy During the Holidays**

The holidays don’t just stretch our wallets —
they stretch our **time**, our **peace**, and our **life-force.**

If you feel depleted, overextended, or pressured this season…
you’re not alone — and you’re not doing anything wrong.

Here’s what’s really happening ⤵️

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# # **💛 The 3 Currencies of the Soul**

This season drains three levels at once:

# # # **1. Money**

pressure to buy more, give more, impress more

# # # **2. Time**

endless events, rushing, overcommitting

# # # **3. Life-force (energy)**

holding emotional space, old family roles, constant stimulation

When any of these are overspent, your nervous system collapses under the weight.

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# # **🔥 The Energetics of Over-Giving**

Over-giving is not generosity.
It’s **self-abandonment** dressed in holiday colors.

You can feel it:

• saying “yes” when your body says “no”
• buying gifts from guilt instead of love
• taking on emotional labor
• trying to meet expectations you never agreed to
• giving your energy to keep peace in the room

This doesn’t create connection —
it creates resentment and depletion.

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# # **🌙 Your Presence Matters More Than Your Presents**

You don’t need to overspend.
You don’t need to overschedule.
You don’t need to perform.

Your presence — grounded, authentic, open —
is worth more than anything wrapped in paper.

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# # **🌿 Create Your ‘Sacred Yes’ & ‘Holy No’ Lists**

# # # **✨ Sacred Yes**

What brings expansion?
What nourishes your spirit?
What feels aligned?

Examples:
• meaningful time with loved ones
• making herbal gifts
• fire ceremony
• slow evenings
• rest

# # # **✨ Holy No**

What drains your energy?
What contracts your body?
What feels forced?

Examples:
• overspending
• rushing
• attending everything
• fixing everyone’s emotions
• saying yes out of guilt

Your body knows the truth.

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# # **🌬️ A Quick Energy Reset**

Close your eyes.
Place a hand on your heart.
Say quietly:

**“I release what is not mine.”**
**“My time is sacred.”**
**“My energy is precious.”**

Take one breath.
Feel your field return to you.

---

# # **🌿 Herbal Allies to Rebuild Life-Force**

• **Nettles** — restores depleted systems
• **Milky Oats** — nourishes frazzled nerves
• **Reishi** — anchors spirit into body
• **Tulsi** — clears mental fog + brings clarity

Plants help refill the well when the world drains it.

---

# # **✨ Remember This**

You can give from love without draining your life-force.
You can show up without abandoning yourself.
You can create a season that nourishes your soul.

Your energy is your most valuable currency.
Spend it with intention.
— **The Energetic Shaman**

🌑✨ **The Quiet Chair at the Table: Grief & Loneliness During the Holidays**Not everyone feels joy this time of year.For ...
11/18/2025

🌑✨ **The Quiet Chair at the Table: Grief & Loneliness During the Holidays**

Not everyone feels joy this time of year.
For many, the holidays awaken:

• grief
• loneliness
• memories of those no longer here
• the ache of what never was
• tender emotions just beneath the surface

If this season feels heavy for you, you’re not broken —
you’re **honest.**

Here’s what’s really happening ⤵️

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# # **💛 Grief Gets Louder in December**

The holiday field stirs:

• nostalgia
• regret
• longing
• old stories
• unmet expectations
• emotional memories
• the absence of loved ones

Grief isn’t a problem.
Grief is **love in a different shape.**

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# # **🌙 Loneliness Isn’t a Failure**

You might feel:

• alone in a room full of people
• disconnected
• like you don’t fit the “holiday script”
• pressure to be cheerful

Loneliness is not a flaw —
it’s a signal from the soul:
**“Go inward. Listen. Honor what’s real.”**

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# # **🕯️ A Simple Grief-Honoring Practice**

Try this when your heart feels heavy:

1. Place a hand on your heart
2. Close your eyes
3. Bring to mind someone you miss, or something you’re grieving
4. Imagine a small candle inside your chest
5. Whisper:
**“My grief is sacred.”**
**“I honor what my heart carries.”**

Let the emotions move.
You don’t have to hold them alone.

---

# # **🔥 Rituals for a Tender Heart**

• Light a candle for someone you miss
• Create a small ancestor or memory altar
• Write a letter to a loved one who has passed
• Place a quiet symbol at your holiday table
• Share a story about someone no longer here
• Take a slow walk to release what you’re carrying

Ritual gives form to the feelings we can’t speak.

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# # **🌿 Herbal Allies for Grief & Loneliness**

• **Hawthorn** — heart protection & warmth
• **Motherwort** — soothing the overwhelmed heart
• **Skullcap** — calms emotional turbulence
• **Chamomile** — softens and soothes
• **Rose** — gentle medicine for sorrow

Plants help soften the weight without suppressing the truth.

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# # **✨ Remember This**

If your heart feels heavy this season:
You are not alone.
There is no “right way” to feel during the holidays.
Your grief is valid.
Your loneliness is understood.
Your tenderness is sacred.

May you be held in softness.
May your grief be honored.
May you feel the presence of those you miss.
— **The Energetic Shaman**

🌿✨ **Old Stories, New Choice: Healing Holiday Family Triggers**The holidays have a way of waking up the **old versions o...
11/17/2025

🌿✨ **Old Stories, New Choice: Healing Holiday Family Triggers**

The holidays have a way of waking up the **old versions of ourselves** —
the child who tried to keep the peace,
the one who held everyone’s emotions,
the one who went quiet to stay safe,
the fixer, the pleaser, the strong one, the invisible one.

If you’ve been feeling emotional, reactive, or like you “shrunk” around family…
you’re not regressing.
You’re **resonating** with familiar patterns.

Here’s what’s really happening ⤵️

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# # **💛 Why Family Triggers Feel Bigger This Season**

Holiday gatherings amplify:

• old roles
• childhood wounds
• ancestral patterns
• emotional memories
• unspoken expectations
• the part of you that learned to survive

This isn’t weakness.
It’s your system responding to familiar energy.

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# # **🌙 Your Inner Child Isn’t the Problem**

The inner child may feel:

• unseen
• pressured
• overwhelmed
• responsible for others
• afraid to disappoint
• unsure if it’s safe to be themselves

They don’t need fixing —
they need *you.*

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# # **🌬️ A Simple Inner-Child Reset**

Try this before or after gatherings:

1. Close your eyes
2. Picture your younger self in a holiday scene
3. Sit beside them
4. Say gently:
**“You’re not alone anymore. I’m here now.”**

This one moment shifts everything.

---

# # **🔥 You Get to Choose Different Now**

You don’t have to:

• play the old role
• hold the emotional weight
• rescue everyone
• shrink your truth
• abandon yourself

Your adult self is here.
Your boundaries are valid.
Your presence is powerful.

---

# # **🌿 Herbal Allies for This Work**

• **Hawthorn** — heart protection
• **Rose** — tenderness + softness
• **Skullcap** — calms overstimulation
• **Motherwort** — holds the wounded heart

Let the plants soften the edges as you navigate this season.

---

# # **✨ Remember This**

If you feel activated around family, it doesn’t mean you’re failing.
It means something tender inside you is asking for care.

Your sensitivity is wisdom.
Your healing is real.
You are allowed to show up as the adult you’ve become —
not the child you once were.

May your inner child be held this season.
May your heart stay sovereign.
May you walk in your light.

— **The Energetic Shaman**

🌿✨ **Rooted Presence: Grounding & Boundaries for the Holiday Season**The holiday field is **loud**, charged, and full of...
11/16/2025

🌿✨ **Rooted Presence: Grounding & Boundaries for the Holiday Season**

The holiday field is **loud**, charged, and full of old patterns.
If you’ve been feeling scattered, overwhelmed, drained, or “not yourself,” it’s not a personal failing — your **nervous system** is responding to a high-intensity environment.

Here’s how to stay rooted and sovereign during this season ⤵️

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# # **🌱 Why Grounding Matters Right Now**

This time of year amplifies:

• over-stimulation
• emotional pressure
• family dynamics
• crowded environments
• old memories + expectations

When you’re ungrounded, you absorb more than your system can handle.

Grounding brings you back home to *your body, your truth, your center.*

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# # **🔥 Signs You’re Ungrounded**

• spacey or unfocused
• easily irritated
• anxious / overwhelmed
• drained by others
• feeling “buzzing” instead of breathing
• losing your sense of self around family

These aren’t flaws.
They’re signals: **“Come back to yourself.”**

---

# # **🌿 A Quick Grounding Reset**

Try this anywhere:

1. Put both feet on the floor
2. Slow your breath
3. Imagine roots growing from your feet into the Earth
4. Pull steady Earth-energy up into your belly and heart
5. Say:
**“I return to myself.”**
**“I am held. I am grounded.”**

Even 30 seconds changes everything.

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# # **🛡️ Energetic Boundaries (The Shamanic Way)**

Visualize a soft bubble of light around your body —
permeable to love, truth, and connection…
impenetrable to chaos, projections, or emotional debris.

Whisper:
**“Only what serves my highest good may enter.”**

This is your shield of sovereignty.

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# # **💛 Practical Boundaries for Holiday Events**

• Time boundaries: “I can stay for 2 hours.”
• Space boundaries: sit where you feel safe.
• Topic boundaries: “Let’s shift the conversation.”
• Body boundaries: take breaks, step outside.
• Social boundaries: you do **not** have to attend everything.
• Digital boundaries: protect your attention.

Boundaries are not walls — they’re self-respect in action.

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# # **🌿 Herbal Allies for Grounding**

• **Ashwagandha** — roots you into your body
• **Reishi** — strengthens your energetic container
• **Hawthorn** — heart protection + emotional clarity
• **Mugwort** — shields sensitive fields

Plants help you stay steady when the world speeds up.

---

# # **🌟 Remember This**

You don’t have to absorb every emotion in the room.
You don’t have to hold old family roles.
You don’t have to over-give or overextend.

Your grounded presence is medicine.
Your boundaries are sacred.
Your sensitivity is your gift.

May you walk through this season rooted, sovereign, and whole.
— **The Energetic Shaman**

🌿✨ **The Energetics of Holiday Stress** # # # *Why This Season Feels So Intense — and How to Stay Grounded*The holidays ...
11/15/2025

🌿✨ **The Energetics of Holiday Stress**

# # # *Why This Season Feels So Intense — and How to Stay Grounded*

The holidays carry a **collective energetic weather** that many sensitive and intuitive people feel deeply.

It’s not just the lights and noise.
It’s not just schedules or gatherings.
It’s the **field** — layered with expectation, memory, ancestry, and emotional charge.

Here’s what’s really happening ⤵️

---

# # **🔥 Holiday Energy Is Amplified**

This season activates:

✨ Old family roles
✨ Childhood memories
✨ Collective grief and nostalgia
✨ Pressure to “be okay”
✨ Sensory overload
✨ Emotional density

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, spacey, irritable, exhausted, or emotional:
**Nothing is wrong with you.**
Your system is responding to a loud energetic environment.

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# # **💛 Stress Is Information**

Holiday stress is not a failure — it’s a message.

Ask yourself:
• *Where is my energy going?*
• *What am I carrying that isn’t mine?*
• *What needs grounding?*
• *What feels heavy vs. what feels sacred?*

Stress is a signal, not an enemy.

---

# # **🌬️ Reset Your Field**

Try this simple practice:

Place a hand on your heart. Breathe into your belly.
Ask: **“What belongs to me? What can I return to Source?”**

Let the heaviness slide off your field like water.
Come back to your center.

---

# # **🌿 Herbal Allies for This Season**

Supportive herbs for the sensitive system:

• **Tulsi** — uplifts + clears emotional fog
• **Lemon Balm** — calms the nervous system
• **Milky Oats** — deep nourishment for frazzled nerves
• **Hawthorn** — heart protection + grounding

A warm cup of plant medicine can be a powerful anchor.

---

# # **🌟 You Are Not Alone**

This season can be beautiful and tender—and also overwhelming.
Your sensitivity is not a burden. It is your medicine.
You feel deeply because you *are* deeply connected.

May this season meet you with softness, grounding, and clarity.
May you walk through it with your own light leading the way.

— **The Energetic Shaman**

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 8* # # # **Integration — Becoming the Herbal Alchemist**---Herbalism is not j...
11/14/2025

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 8*

# # # **Integration — Becoming the Herbal Alchemist**

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Herbalism is not just a skill.
It is a **path of becoming.**

By now you’ve learned:

* the energetic body of a plant,
* temperature and moisture patterns,
* elemental herbalism,
* chakra energetics,
* somatic emotional healing,
* intuitive plant communication,
* and the threefold medicine of spagyrics.

Lecture 8 gathers it all into one living truth:

> **You are not just learning herbs.
> You are learning *yourself.*
> And the plants are guiding you home.**

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# # 🌱 What Is an Herbal Alchemist?

An herbal alchemist works with:

* **body** (physical medicine)
* **energy** (pattern and flow)
* **spirit** (intuition, presence, guidance)

They don’t memorize herbs.
They *feel* them.
They listen.
They follow the subtle signs.

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# # 🌬 The Three Pillars of the Herbal Alchemist

# # # **1️⃣ Presence**

Nothing works without presence.
When you slow down and listen,
the plants begin to speak.

Presence opens the channel.

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# # # **2️⃣ Relationship**

Herbal medicine is a relationship between:

* land
* plants
* body
* breath
* soul

It is not extraction.
It is communion.

You approach the plant with respect,
and the plant reveals its medicine.

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# # # **3️⃣ Embodiment**

Knowledge means nothing until you embody it.

Feel:

* what warms you
* what cools you
* what opens you
* what grounds you
* what softens you
* what ignites you

Your *body* becomes the textbook.
Your intuition becomes the teacher.

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# # 🌿 The Path Forward

To become an herbal alchemist:

* build daily relationships with herbs
* taste and feel your medicine
* meditate with the spirit of the plants
* notice how energy moves inside you
* trust the sensations
* allow plants to teach you who you are

This is not about mastering a system.
It is about becoming a vessel for the living wisdom of nature.

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# # ✨ Integration Ritual (for students)

Tonight, choose one herb you’ve worked with during this series.
Hold it. Breathe with it.

Ask:

> “What part of my healing journey are you guiding me through now?”

Sit in silence.
Let the answer rise on its own.

This is where the series becomes real.
This is where your path begins.

---

# # 🌱 Reflection

After working through all 8 lectures…

What’s the biggest thing you’ve learned about **yourself**
through the plants?

Comment below.
Your insight may be the medicine someone else needs.

*Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 7* # # # **Spagyric Herbalism — Body • Soul • Spirit**---Most herbal medicine f...
11/13/2025

*Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 7*

# # # **Spagyric Herbalism — Body • Soul • Spirit**

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Most herbal medicine focuses on the **body**.

Spagyric herbalism goes deeper.
It asks:

> **“What if the plant has a body, a soul, and a spirit — just like you?”**

This is the alchemical path of herbal medicine, where the plant becomes a teacher, an initiator, and an energetic ally.

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# # 🌱 The Threefold Medicine of Spagyrics

# # # **1️⃣ Body — The Physical Plant**

This is what most people know:

* tincture
* tea
* glycerite
* salve

The body holds the plant’s minerals, chemistry, and structure.

**Element:** Earth
**Medicine:** grounding, nourishing, stabilizing

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# # # **2️⃣ Soul — The Plant’s Emotional & Energetic Essence**

This is the subtle level:

* emotional healing
* energetic resonance
* mood, feeling, and somatic shifts

The soul is what you sense when you *feel* a plant working before you see any physical change.

**Element:** Water
**Medicine:** intuition, emotion, memory

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# # # **3️⃣ Spirit — The Consciousness of the Plant**

This is the highest level:

* guidance
* vision
* clarity
* transformation

The spirit is what you meet in ceremony, journeying, dreams, and intuitive practice.

**Element:** Fire + Ether
**Medicine:** insight, awakening, transmutation

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# # 🌙 What Makes a Spagyric Different?

A true spagyric:

* **extracts the body** through alcohol/macération
* **releases the soul** through essential oils or subtle essences
* **reclaims the spirit** by burning the plant to ash,
then adding purified mineral salts back into the tincture

This reunites the plant’s:
✨ Body
✨ Soul
✨ Spirit

into one medicine.

> **It becomes whole — so it can restore wholeness in you.**

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# # 🔥 How Spagyrics Feel in the Body

People often report:

* faster energetic effects
* deeper emotional shifts
* clearer intuition
* “warmth” or “light” moving through the system
* a sense of being guided by the plant

It’s not subtle.
It’s **alive.**

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# # 🌿 Plants That Shine in Spagyric Form

**Tulsi** — spiritual clarity, joy, lightness
**Mugwort** — dreamwork, intuition, the liminal
**Rose** — heart expansion, softness, emotional release
**Yarrow** — boundaries, sovereignty, energetic protection
**Blue Lotus** — visioning, ceremony, inner sight
**Calendula** — light activation, emotional warmth
**Pine** — strength, courage, core integrity

These plants become **more themselves** once their salts are restored.

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# # ✨ Reflection

Have you ever worked with a spagyric tincture?

Comment:
**YES**, **NO**, or **CURIOUS**.

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 6* # # # **Plant Intuition — The Medicine of Presence**---Most people approac...
11/12/2025

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 6*

# # # **Plant Intuition — The Medicine of Presence**

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Most people approach herbs through books, charts, and lists.

But the deepest herbalists don’t start with the mind.

They start with **presence.**

> **If you’re thinking, you’re not listening.**

Herbal intuition is the art of letting the plant tell you what it is.

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# # # 🌱 Plants communicate through:

* Sensation
* Subtle shifts in emotion
* Imagery or inner visuals
* Words dropping into awareness
* An unexplained feeling of “yes”

A plant may speak as warmth in the chest,
or as a sudden memory,
or as a knowing that arrives without thought.

That *knowing* is intuition.

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# # # 🍃 Intuitive Herbalism looks like:

Instead of asking:

> “What is this herb *good for*?”

Ask:

> “What does this herb *want to do*?”

One comes from control.
The other comes from relationship.

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# # # ✋ Try this (5-minute intuition ritual)

1. Hold the plant (tea, leaf, tincture, bottle).
2. Close your eyes.
3. Breathe into your heart.
4. Ask:

> “Where in my body do you want to work?”

Don’t try to figure it out.
Let the plant show you.

You may feel:

* tingling in the hands
* warmth in the belly
* a softening in the chest
* a clear image or word

The body knows before the mind understands.

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# # # 🍃 Herbal Allies for Intuition

**Blue Lotus** — opens perception and inner sight

> *“See beyond the obvious.”*

**Mugwort** — dream, vision, womb of intuition

> *“Trust what you feel.”*

**Tulsi** — clears mental noise so intuition can speak

> *“Come home to clarity.”*

**Rose** — drops you from the mind into the heart

> *“Lead with softness.”*

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# # # 🌬 Key teaching:

> **Intuition is not a special ability.
> It is a natural state that returns when the mind gets quiet.**

Herbs don’t require belief.
They require relationship.

Presence is the doorway.

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# # # ✨ Reflection

Which plant have you felt *drawn to* lately, without knowing why?

Comment with its name.
That plant is speaking to you.

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 5* # # # **Somatic Herbalism — Plants, Emotion & Trauma Release**---Your body...
11/11/2025

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 5*

# # # **Somatic Herbalism — Plants, Emotion & Trauma Release**

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Your body remembers everything.

Every unprocessed emotion, every constriction, every moment where you weren’t safe to feel —
the body stores it.

Herbs don’t *force* the body to change.
They **invite** the body to soften.

> **You don’t heal by thinking your way out.
> You heal by feeling your way through.**

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# # # 🌱 Somatic Herbalism:

Herbal medicine + embodiment

Instead of asking:

> “What herb fixes this symptom?”

Ask:

> “Where is the energy stuck in the body?”

Herbs stimulate movement:
physical movement, emotional movement, spiritual movement.

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# # # 💚 Herbs That Speak to Emotional Memory

**LINDEN** — *Unwinds tension held in the heart + nervous system*
Message:

> “Let yourself be held.”

**HAWTHORN** — *Protects the heart during emotional vulnerability*
Message:

> “You can open without collapsing.”

**YARROW** — *Strengthens energetic boundaries*
Message:

> “You are allowed to stay sovereign.”

**ROSE** — *Softens armor around the heart*
Message:

> “You don’t have to defend your tenderness.”

**BLUE VERVAIN** — *Releases neck + shoulder tension from emotional control*
Message:

> “Relax your grip.”

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# # # 🌬 Emotional Release Happens When…

* you exhale fully
* tears move
* shoulders drop
* the body finally feels safe

Herbs don’t heal for you.
They create a **safe internal environment** where your body finally can.

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# # # 🌙 Try this:

Hold a cup of tea (Rose, Linden, Hawthorn, etc.)

Ask the plant:

> “Where in my body do you want to work?”

Close your eyes.
Feel the answer.

Somatic herbalism is a conversation.

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# # # ✨ Reflection

Where do *you* feel tension or tightness in your body when you’re stressed?

Jaw?
Chest?
Gut?
Shoulders?

Comment with one word.

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 4* # # # **Chakra Herbalism — Plants & The Energy Centers of the Body**---Her...
11/10/2025

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 4*

# # # **Chakra Herbalism — Plants & The Energy Centers of the Body**

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Herbs don’t just work on the physical body —
they work on the **energy body.**

Every plant has an energetic resonance that interacts with a specific chakra.

When the chakra opens, energy moves.
When energy moves, healing begins.

> **Plants shift consciousness. Not just symptoms.**

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# # # ❤️ ROOT — *Safety • belonging • embodiment*

Energy imbalance: fear, disconnection from the body
Herbal allies:
🌿 *Nettle • Burdock • Reishi*
Message:

> “You are safe to be here.”

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# # # 🟠 SACRAL — *Creativity • sensuality • fluidity*

Energy imbalance: emotional stagnation, guilt, numbness
Herbal allies:
🌿 *Damiana • Calendula • Tulsi*
Message:

> “Pleasure is medicine.”

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# # # 💛 SOLAR PLEXUS — *Power • confidence • vitality*

Energy imbalance: doubt, exhaustion, collapse of will
Herbal allies:
🔥 *Ginger • Holy Basil • Rosemary*
Message:

> “You are the fire.”

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# # # 💚 HEART — *Love • compassion • emotional healing*

Energy imbalance: guardedness, heartbreak, grief
Herbal allies:
🌹 *Rose • Hawthorn • Linden*
Message:

> “Softness is strength.”

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# # # 🔵 THROAT — *Truth • expression • boundaries*

Energy imbalance: suppressed voice, resentment, fear of speaking
Herbal allies:
🌿 *Peppermint • Marshmallow • Sage*
Message:

> “Your voice is a spell.”

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# # # 🟣 THIRD EYE — *Intuition • vision • clarity*

Energy imbalance: confusion, overthinking, mental fog
Herbal allies:
💫 *Mugwort • Ginkgo • Blue Vervain*
Message:

> “See from the inside.”

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# # # ✨ CROWN — *Spirit • connection • remembrance*

Energy imbalance: disconnection from purpose
Herbal allies:
🌸 *Blue Lotus • Holy Basil • White Sage*
Message:

> “You are the light.”

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# # # 🌱 Remember:

> **Herbs don’t just heal tissues —
> they restore the flow of energy through the body.**

Stop asking:

> “What herb is good for anxiety?”

Start asking:

> “Where in my energy body is the stagnation?”

When you learn to feel the energetics,
the plant reveals itself.

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# # # Reflection

Which chakra is asking for support right now?

Comment with the color or the chakra name. 💚🟠💛🌹✨

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11/09/2025

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🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 3* # # # **Elemental Herbalism — Earth • Water • Fire • Air • Ether**---Herba...
11/09/2025

🌿 *Energetics of Herbal Medicine — Lecture 3*

# # # **Elemental Herbalism — Earth • Water • Fire • Air • Ether**

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Herbalism is not just medicine.
It is **relationship with the elements of nature.**

Every plant expresses an elemental archetype.

When you learn to read the *element*, you understand the *medicine.*

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# # # 🌍 EARTH — *Nourishing / stabilizing / grounding*

Earth plants feel like:

* exhale
* coming back into your body
* safety returning to the nervous system

Examples:
🌿 *Burdock • Oatstraw • Ashwagandha*

Earth plants are chosen when the body or spirit says:

> “I’m exhausted. I need to come home.”

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# # # 💧 WATER — *Cooling / softening / emotional healing*

Water plants:

* soothe heat and inflammation
* soften rigidity (physical + emotional)
* invite rest + receptivity

Examples:
💧 *Marshmallow • Linden • Rose*

Water plants are chosen when the system says:

> “I need gentleness.”

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# # # 🔥 FIRE — *Activating / energizing / transformative*

Fire plants:

* heat the core
* spark digestion, energy, action
* break stagnation

Examples:
🔥 *Ginger • Cayenne • Holy Basil*

Fire plants are chosen when life force whispers:

> “Wake up.”

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# # # 🌬 AIR — *Clearing / uplifting / expansive*

Air plants:

* clear fog from the mind
* open perception and intuition
* create space and movement

Examples:
🌬 *Mugwort • Tulsi • Spearmint*

Air plants are chosen when the soul says:

> “I need space to breathe.”

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# # # ✨ ETHER — *Spiritual / subtle / consciousness-opening*

Ether plants:

* open portals of perception
* connect you to intuition + spirit guidance
* thin the veil between seen and unseen

Examples:
✨ *Blue Lotus • Cacao • White Sage*

Ether plants are chosen when the heart whispers:

> “I’m ready for the deeper truth.”

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# # # 🌱 Here’s the magic:

> **The element reveals the medicine.**

Once you learn to feel a plant’s element,
you no longer need to memorize what it’s “good for.”

You simply **know.**

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# # # ✨ Reflection

Which element are *you* working with right now?

Drop one word:

🌍 Earth
💧 Water
🔥 Fire
🌬 Air
✨ Ether

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