Third Session: THE GIFT OF THE FLOWERING WAND
Third Session: THE GIFT OF THE FLOWERING WAND

Third Session: THE GIFT OF THE FLOWERING WAND

Early Summer: July 8-12, 2026

During this week at the flowering peak of summer we focus on the healing plants. At this time many herbs aerial parts are at their peak potency so there will be lots of herb harvesting for medicine and medicine making. By the third session, the second year, you’ll be ready to meet the plants spiritually.

The spiritual unseen world and the physical reality are both completely present in plants. During this week at the flowering peak of summer we focus particularly on the healing plants. Once again in a day-long ceremony I will take you through the process of reconnecting with your intuition and reclaiming our ancestral legacy as healers. Many of the practices you will learn are known as ‘Shamanic’ or intuitive healing practices, yet we all have these latent abilities.

This is because we have co-evolved with all the wild plants that surround us for a couple of million years, back to our most ancient rodent mammalian ancestors. As humans these plants have not only fed us and kept us healthy but they have saved us countless times from starvation and fatal diseases. There was a time not long ago when everybody knew all the main healing plants needed to help us heal and stay healthy from birth to death. Plants are meant to be our teachers and healing allies. This session’s teachings have come to me in part from doing years of “intuitive healing with herbs” workshops. As unbelievable as it seems, plants can communicate with us as fluently as you speak English, we just need to learn their language.

I teach you the doctrine of signatures, protocols for honouring the plants, and ceremonies for receiving their medicine and teachings. This is what herbalism is meant to be, we’ve just forgotten. Our scientific paradigm has bulldozed a spiritual ecology in which we are all healers, and in its place put a hierarchical guild and pharmaceuticals factories.