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If you incorporate only one herbal practice into your daily life, let it be this: drinking a nourishing herb infusion every day! Nourishing herbs like nettles, oat straw, dandelion, chickweed, burdock, red clover, cleavers, and red raspberry leaf— are abundant, nutrient-rich wild plants that flood the body with nourishment & vitality 🌿 I had the invitation from my mentor @marysia_miernowska as part of the School of the Sacred Wild to embrace this as a daily practice & it has been a deeply life changing ritual so far 🌿

Nourishing herbs are unparalleled sources of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes. They support gut health, aid digestion, alkalize the body, and help us absorb nutrients more effectively. They nourish the circulatory system, build blood, and tone the heart. Gently detoxifying, these herbs assist the organs of elimination in releasing toxins in a slow and balanced way, supporting deep cellular renewal.

Nourishing herbs are grounding, weaving us into the ancient intelligence of the Earth and reconnecting us with her wild spirit. They quench a deep, unrecognized thirst for the vitality of the wild.

By dedicating time to a single herb, you’ll develop a deep and personal relationship with it. This connection helps you understand how it’s unique healing manifests in your being. After a month, you can explore another. This is the best way to learn about plants!

🌼How to Prepare an Overnight Infusion🌼
~ Add a handful of herbs to jar
~ Fill the jar with hot water, covering the herbs completely.
~ Close the lid tightly and allow the infusion to steep overnight.
~ Strain the infusion in the morning and carry it with you throughout the day.

#herbalism #schoolofthesacredwild #nourishingherbs #overnightinfusion #herbalmedicine #wildfolk #sacredwild taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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I think one of the antidotes to disconnection in the diaspora is reconnecting to our hands. Reconnecting to crafting with natural elements, to the human skills we not only once needed for our very survival ~ but that are fundamental for connection, belonging, and true understanding of our symbiosis with the living world 💚🌿

The Foundational Herbalism short course is being created with this intention in mind. An online space you can return to, to learn traditional herbal crafting skills that you’ll will have for life ~ empowering you to build your at home apothecary to support yourself & your community.

Comment “learn” to join the waitlist 💌
#herbalism #herbalmedicine #shortcourse #belonging taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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Menstruation is such a psycho-somatic experience ~ how our bleed shows up is a reflection of the entire cycle. There’s so many factors that goes into our experience of menstruation ~ but we can always count on herbs to support! For those with complex or chronic symptoms relating to menstruation, I offer 1:1 care and personalised herbal blends, though here are some wonderful allies that I love during this tender season.

Nettle for replenishment and supporting gentle detoxification, and a teacher of creating boundaries. Raspberry leaf and cramp bark for pain or discomfort. Chamomile for a deep exhale. Lemon balm for a warm hug that lifts the spirit. Save this for the next time you bleed 🌿💌

What are your favourite plant allies for your moon? 🩸

#menstruation #wombwellness #womanhood #herbalmedicine taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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Honouring the sacred rite of passage from maiden to mother 🤎

Naturopathic postpartum care offers a space to be nourished and supported with what your body needs for vital motherhood.

This specific mother care offering is inspired from my own journey as a mother to my beautiful sun, and my background as naturopath & medical herbalist ~ igniting a passion for working with mothers in this sacred season of profound transformation, to support an empowered entry into motherhood.

My vision for Wildfolk postpartum care is to provide nourishing, mother-centred support to honour this rite of passage.🌀

#mothercare #herbalism #motherhood #postpartumcare taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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FINAL APOTHECARY SALE 🌿 I only have few bottles left of the beautiful herbal remedies I crafted at @mangaroafarms from organic and wild-crafted plants slow brewed over many moons 🌙

Herbal throat spray & immune support, Peacekeeper drops & Dreamweaver drops still available.

Once they’re gone, they’re gone ✨ Use the code HERBLOVE at checkout. taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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Hey folks! I’ve been integrating into my new life on the beautiful island of Waiheke, a new season of motherhood with my son at kindy twice a week, and the ups and downs of running my own business amidst the whirlwind of change & general life humanness in the age of rapidly advancing AI etc, etc. Spaciousness always brings inspiration ✨

I’m excited to be back in service in a new and evolved rhythm 🌿

I have some fun new collaborations and offerings emerging, and a few spaces available for naturopathy and postpartum care for the rest of the year. This is 1:1 care & herbal medicine for all stages of womanhood 🌷

AND I have a verrry exciting self paced herbal learning journey coming soon that is years in the making, inspired by own journey of connecting with the plants, experimenting, and ultimately reclaiming the fundamental & deeply rewarding human skills that are the practices of foraging & making medicine.

You can explore all of my offerings at the link in my bio or at www.wildfolk.nz ✨

Peace 🤎 taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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🫐 IMMUNE-SUPPORT ELDERBERRY SYRUP 🍯 full recipe below ~ save this for when you need it 🍂

An elderberry syrup is a simple and easy recipe you can make for both acute infection and prevention support (if you’re a parent you need this because we all know how easy it is to get sick from your kid 🫠). You can use whatever you have on hand!

Elderberry is the heart of it with its high vitamin C, expectorant + immuno-stimulating properties. I’m also using elderflower for its diaphoretic fever support, astragalus & echinacea for their immune building and anti-inflammatory properties, ginger & cinnamon for their antimicrobial qualities, warmth, & ability to enhance the circulation and absorption of the medicine. Olive leaf, thyme & reishi are other add ins I love!

INGREDIENTS
1 cup dried elderberries
3 tbsp dried elderflower
3 tbsp astragalus root
3 tbsp echinacea root/leaf mix
2 tbsp cinnamon bark or 2 cinnamon sticks
2 tbsp fresh ginger, grated
5 cups filtered water
1 cup raw honey or more for desired taste/consistency

METHOD
1. Add all herbs to pot of water. Bring to boil and reduce to simmer with lid on for 35-40 minutes.
2. Remove from heat. Strain through a fine sieve or cheesecloth, pressing to extract all the goodness.
3. Let the liquid cool until just warm, below 40°C, before stirring in the honey. This keeps its living enzymes intact.
4. Bottle up! Keeps in the fridge for 2-3 months, or freeze in small portions for longer.

Take 5-10ml (2.5ml-5ml for little ones) daily through the colder months for prevention, or every 2 hours at the first sign of sickness 🌀

#elderberrysyrup #plantmedicine #herbalism #immunesupport #herbalmedicine taken in New Zealand by @wildfolkherbal

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Next Wednesday 7-9pm NZST we gather live to journey with Cacao ~ exploring her medicine through ceremony and storytelling. We’ll dive into cacao’s origin story dating back over 7,000 years, her traditional uses, biochemistry, and explore her journey as both a sacred medicine & world commodity ~

We’ll explore the message that this beautiful plant ally might have for humanity at this time 🪶 You’ll also have access to an online portal of resources to deepen your connection to cacao, including an exclusive workshop with @seleno.health 🤎

Comment CACAO or visit link in bio for the details 🌿 taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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A return to the roots 🤎 a huge evolution on my journey happened 6 years ago when I was studying naturopathy and started working for the team at @seleno.health just as they launched their ceremonial cacao. This lead me on a profound journey of working deeply with the medicine of cacao, and sharing it across Aotearoa.

Through my relationship with this plant over the years I’ve experienced the alchemy of my inner and outer world ✨✨ an expanded capacity to experience love & joy, and an opening in my awareness to the story that each and every plant has to share when we enter intentional relationship.

Cacao shows us the subtle language of nature that communicates through the heart space 🤎

There is so much beauty that emerges when we sit in ceremony with a plant, learn its origin stories, and study its medicine. This foundational experience of mine with cacao has been the gateway & inspiration to exploring other plants together in the Earth Medicine Circle.

This journey is an introduction to the 3 month container starting in September, a taste of the modalities we are going to be exploring with Nettle, Oat straw & Red clover.

It feels incredibly special to come full circle and host my teachers & friends, Corin & Sally from @seleno.health for an interview on all things cacao, their mission to share ethically sourced cacao & preserve indigenous tradition, including an insight into their 3rd cacao variety coming soon to NZ, which completes the trilogy of the Andean cosmovision 🌀🦅

Comment below to get the details for the journey 🌿 #cacao #cacaoceremony #foodofthegods taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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Tune into the medicine wheel within 🌀 the energetic architecture of nature. The directions, elements, and seasons are the universal blueprint of nature, of everything seen or unseen.

To understand plants, ourselves, others, and the healing process through the lens of the medicine wheel, enables us to move into deep levels of healing and transformation.

Working with the Medicine Wheel is one of the key teachings within the Earth Medicine Circle that I truly love sharing about.

Comment “ELEMENTS” below to get exclusive access to my introductory guide to working with the elements & the medicine of the 7 directions 🌀

✨✨✨ #medicinewheel #innerseasons #7directions taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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This knowledge continues to exist despite centuries of erasure, because it originates from the innate feminine wisdom that lives in all women 🌀 The wise woman tradition is our guiding philosophy in the Earth Medicine Circle (and all of @wildfolk.nz offerings) because it is my hope all women return to this wisdom, as the deepest medicine for the world 🌿

For most of human history, healing was the Wise Women’s medicine. Long before written language, people relied on direct relationship with plants, passed down orally through generations of women who gathered, prepared, and administered remedies as part of daily life. This was medicine practiced in the home, inseparable from cooking, tending children, birthing, and dying.

Heroic & Scientific traditions arrived with the rise of formal medical philosophy in ancient Europe. Hippocrates and later Galen introduced the idea of humors, a body that could fall out of balance and needed active intervention to correct it. This gave rise to centuries of bloodletting, purging, and other interventions meant to expel what was believed to be causing illness. It also introduced hierarchy into healing, with trained physicians positioned above the folk practitioners who had come before them, often women, whose knowledge was gradually pushed to the margins or persecuted outright.

But it has never been destroyed, and never will be.

Beautiful art is Madre Tierra by artist Cha Gutiérrez🙏🏼✨ taken in Aotearoa by @wildfolkherbal

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