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Helping people in perimenopause feel more grounded during intense shifts and sleep more peacefully using practical, personalized botanical wisdom.

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We are so thrilled to announce our inaugural Botanical Immersion coming in January.

Our topic for 2027 is Perimenopause Rage.

We will be spending a year with plant wisdom and curiosity around the intense fiery feelings that can arise at this empowering impasse in life.

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#perimenopause
#femininerage
#plantwisdom by @knowthymedicine

Convince me otherwise. 🙃

The plants have always held us in loving support. 🌱

#MenopauseTalk #HerbalWisdom #PlantMedicine #MenopauseSupport #HerbalistLife #SacredCycles #CyclicalLiving #HerbsForWomen #WiseWomanTradition #RootedInNature by @knowthymedicine

Outubro é um tempo de equilíbrio, quando a luz e a escuridão dividem o espaço igualmente. Mas há um momento de transição em que esse equilíbrio começa a mudar. Podemos sentir um reflexo disso na perimenopausa, em nossas emoções, quando começamos a perder a paciência, a ter menos tolerância ou a nos irritar com mais facilidade.

Nossa **Imersão Botânica 2027 sobre a Raiva na Perimenopausa** nos convida a explorar essas experiências juntas, em companhia das plantas. Estamos muito felizes em receber **Nalu Mendes Ponãn** como nossa educadora convidada do mês de outubro.

Nalu pertence ao povo Puri, de Minas Gerais, Brasil. É erveira e educadora em ginecologia natural, e seu trabalho convida a conversas cuidadosas sobre os ciclos, as plantas e a consciência corporal.

Entre 2016 e 2023, Nalu aprendeu com a Mestra Dona Flor do Moinho, com foco na saúde ginecológica e nas plantas medicinais, incluindo as práticas tradicionais de enemas de Dona Flor para o cuidado digestivo.

Nalu já ministrou aulas sobre saúde menstrual e ginecologia natural e atua como doula, integrando práticas corporais e seu **Método L.A.R.E. de Massagem Nativa**.

Estamos muito felizes porque nosso encontro de outubro será bilíngue, em português e inglês, com a participação da nossa incrível intérprete Carolina Amaral De Sa carolinadesa .

🌿 Para saber mais sobre a imersão, acesse o link na nossa bio.

October is a time of balance, when the light and dark share equally, but there is a shift that happens where the balance tips. We can feel a mirror of this in Perimenopause in our emotions as we may begin to lose patience, become less tolerant or more easily agitated.

Our 2027 Botanical Immersion on Perimenopause Rage allows us to explore this together alongside the plants. We are excited to have Nalu Mendes Ponãn joining us as our October faculty.

Nalu is of the Puri people of Minas Gerais, Brazil. She is an erveira and natural-gynecology educator whose work invites careful conversation about cycles, plants and embodied awareness.

Nalu learned with Mestra Dona Flor of Moinho from 2016 to 2023, with a focus on gynecological health and medicinal plants, including Dona Flor’s traditional en by @knowthymedicine

Wednesday, November 11.
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[ladies night Sandpoint Idaho, downtown Sandpoint, mocktails in Sandpoint] by @knowthymedicine

July in the Southern hemisphere is a time of winter. In the north we often associate winter as cold and stagnant. However, in Rongoā Māori, winter is understood as a profound period of rest, inward reflection and internal cleansing.

Our July faculty for the 2027 Botanical Immersion on Perimenopause rage is Awhina Henry, a Kairongoa which is a traditional Mãori Healing practice. Awhina specializes in healing with native plants and trees and has helped a lot of women navigate the different stages of their wahinetanga, or life as a woman, using plant medicine, Mãori healing practices and connecting to wairua or spirit.

We will be working energetically with Awhina’s native plant that will be introduced.

To learn more, please visit the link in our bio, by @knowthymedicine

Expanding the circle of care for menopause rage to fold in a traditional lens allows room for curiosity, plant relationship and wisdom, nuance / complexity and sovereignty. by @knowthymedicine

Spring comes in April in the North, a time in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) that corresponds with the wood element and governs the liver & gallbladder meridians.

It makes sense that our April teacher for the Botanical Immersion on Perimenopause Rage chose this time of year to teach.

Dr. Skye Van Munster is a Doctor of Acupuncture with sixteen years in clinic and twenty years spent studying Chinese medicine.

She trained in her home city of Sydney, Australia, then interned at an integrated hospital in Nanjing, China, working across the gynecology, pediatric and internal medicine wards.

She now practices in Calgary, Canada, where she is also a mother of two.

Most of her practice is spent with women moving through fertility, pregnancy, the postpartum months and perimenopause.

In Chinese medicine, anger belongs to the Liver, the organ that stores Blood and keeps everything flowing, and Skye has spent years listening to what perimenopausal rage has to say about the body underneath it.

Skye’s clinic is The Acupuncture and Health Centre located in Calgary Alberta. by @knowthymedicine

January comes during winter in the North, the time we will begin our Inaugural Botanical Immersion.

We chose perimenopause rage as the topic for 2027. An opportunity to slow down, sit with the wisdom of the plants and get curious about the very real human experience of intense fire rising from deep within at an empowering crossroads in life.

I remember Asha being the first person I asked to join the faculty, having just read her book, “You Are the Medicine.” When she agreed to lead us in our immersion, it gave me hope.

She is a best selling author, indigenous healer and a speaker on the medicine within. She’s recently released her new book, The Inner Winter, Indigenous Wisdom for Slow Medicine, Rest, and Renewal in Every Season.

Her life work is to help you to connect to the medicine that has always been within you. The spark. The illumination. The power. It’s all there, waiting to be seen, felt and claimed.

Asha grew up on and currently lives on Anishinaabe, Huron-Wendat and Haudenosaunee land. Her maternal and paternal lineage and relatives originate from many First Nations across Ontario, Canada (Turtle Island). Asha is from the Crane Clan (Aji-jaak Dodem) and holds membership at Neyaashiinigmiig (Cape Croker) First Nation.

She believes if you are drawn to Indigenous Medicine ways, that you too, have power and beauty in your own lineage waiting to be discovered.

Asha’s Indigenous Healing work can be found at

Website: https://ashafrost.com

Socials: @asha.frost

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#medicinewithin
#slowwellness
#perimenopause
#plantmedicine
#wisewomen by @knowthymedicine

It’s such a beautiful path.
Feeling grateful.
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#sandpoint
#herbalism
#plantmedicine
#autumnvibes
#herbalistsofinstagram by @knowthymedicine

I’m not a fan of using the terms “menopause” and “perimenopause” to describe this time in our lives. It’s so much bigger than the “cessation” of cycles. Our language for this phase of life is really lacking and falls short.

And because of this, each aspect of it is nuanced and collective support needs to be nuanced as well. We need traditions, culture and community as much as we need medical support.

That’s why we’ve created the 2027 Botanical Immersion for Perimenopause Rage.

To create space to slow down, explore and get curious.

To learn more, Comment below.

#plantmedicine
#menopause
#perimenopause
#rage
#femininerage by @knowthymedicine

Thank you for spreading this without paid meta ads. 🙏

The rage immersion is a guided, year-long group experience for exploring anger and emotional intensity during perimenopause through physiology, plant wisdom, meaningful practice and compassionate community.

We’ve curated a faculty of four quarterly guest teachers and myself as the primary, each from around the world from different traditional backgrounds.

Each month we will spend with one plant, one question related to menopause rage.

Please comment below to learn more. We’d love to have you.

And again, thank you for spreading this without paid meta ads. 🙏
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#menopausewisdom
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#rage by @knowthymedicine

According to Stanford medicine, 40–60% of women in perimenopause and menopause experience sleep difficulties.

And… caffeine has some amazing benefits!

So it makes sense that to keep up energy throughout the day, we reach for coffee.

Sometimes when the herbalist suggests removing caffeine to help with sleep at night, it’s the one final thing we hold dear!!

Here’s what you can do to keep your coffee but still support your sleep:

1. Limit your amount to two cups.

2. Finish coffee before noon, and if you’re sensitive to caffeine then before 10am.

3. If you use caffeine for an afternoon pick me up, try switching to green tea.

4. To offset afternoon fatigue without caffeine, try switching things up. Go for a walk. Drink water or an herbal tea. Do some stretching or movement such as QiGong to move and invigorate your Qi.

Keep in mind that caffeine is shaped enough like the “nucleoside” (the component in the brain that builds up in the day to promote sleep) that it can bind to its receptors, which means that sleep promoting brain support is blocked. Because of this, after 5-6 hours HALF the caffeine is still in the body! In a meta analysis, when drunken even HOURS before bed, caffeine cut sleep by up to an hour and sleep efficiency by 45%. That’s a lot of our sleep when we’re already struggling.

#perimenopausesleep
#sleep
#coffee
#herbalism by @knowthymedicine