This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and current practices of rewilding. Rewilding offers a transformational paradigm shift in conservation thinking, and as such is increasingly of interest to academics, policymakers, and practitioners. However, as a rapidly emerging area of conservation, the term has often been defined and used in a variety of different ways (both temporally and spatially). There is, therefore, the need for a comprehensive assessment of this field, and the Routledge Handbook of Rewilding fills this lacuna. The handbook is organised into four sections to reflect key areas of rewilding theory, practice, and debate: the evolution of rewilding, theoretical and practical underpinnings, applications and impacts, and the ethics and philosophy of rewilding. Drawing on a range of international case studies the handbook addresses many of the key issues, including land acquisition and longer-term planning, transitioning from restoration (human-led, nature enabled) to rewilding (nature-led, human enabled), and the role of political and social transformational change. Led by an editorial team who have extensive experience researching and practising rewilding, this handbook is essential reading for students, academics and practitioners interested in rewilding, ecological restoration, natural resource management and conservation.
Enrich your Reiki practice by connecting with the healing spirit of plants and the natural world • Explores a new way of channeling Reiki energy for both personal healing and professional practice by intuitively connecting with plants and the natural world • Provides simple exercises, meditations, and Reiki practices to help the reader intuitively work in partnership with plants as part of their Reiki practice • Emphasizes healing exchange with plants and the self-practice of Reiki in partnership with the spirit of plants to heal our essential nature • Explains how to raise the vibration of your community and the world by connecting with green spaces, nature beings, and habitats under threat In this practical workbook, Fay Johnstone demonstrates how energy healers and Reiki practitioners can partner with plant spirit allies and the forces of nature for powerful healing for themselves, others, and our planet. She explains how to include plants and nature in your Reiki practice, both the spiritual/etheric components of plants and the physical plants themselves. She offers many practical exercises, techniques, and meditations as well as case studies and personal experiences to show how best to harness the power of plants on all levels, along with other energy flows, to support the healing process in much the same way that crystals are used as energetic healing aids. She explains how plants connect with the Reiki principles and explores plant spirit allies, chakra work, and healing with the elements of nature. She details how to enhance self-healing and Reiki treatments for others through “bringing the outside in,” creating a healing space, use of plant preparations, and other sacred forms of plant medicine. Fay also explores how to support the healing of plants and nature itself through your Reiki/healing practice. She provides guidance on how to raise the vibration of your home and community, how to impact nature positively with regard to climate change, and how to send distance healing to the Earth, nature beings, and endangered habitats across the world. She inspires you to reach out to the vital force that flows through the natural world and open your intuition to discover guidance and support from nature. By deepening our conscious cooperation and partnership with nature and the plant kingdom, in a sacred healing way, we come to recognize that in healing ourselves, we are also healing our Earth.
This book is for anyone concerned about the current state of our planet; for plant lovers; for rewilders; and for anyone who has glimpsed more layers to reality than we are currently being sold.Wildness in the wider world and equally within ourselves, has been tamed by modern culture and society. We are experiencing the consequences of domesticating our wildness everywhere we look. In the wider world we find ourselves both in the midst of a mass extinction event and at a point where true wilderness is vanishing. Internally, our sense of disconnection from the rest of the natural world runs deep and is manifesting amongst the human population as mental and physical health crises, and all manner of addictions and avoidance techniques.Yet wildness is the essence of Earth, it still exists everywhere, including within each one of us. To revivify that wildness we need a paradigm shift. We need to change the way we experience the world around us and our relationships to it.Rewilding & The Art Of Plant Whispering is a practical and deeply thought provoking guide to creating that necessary shift. Explore and rekindle your sacred relationship with all beings. Restore your ability to use your senses with acuity, and listen to the wisdom of your body. Delve into your own personal shadowlands and unearth what may be holding you back from claiming your true place in wild communion with your more-than-human relations. This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth guide to interspecies communication. Rachel Corby draws on her wealth of experience as she invites you to join her on a soulful journey of self and spirit. A deep dive into living relationships, into remembering our place as equals among other beings. A journey of plant enchantment, where recognition of those other beings as animate, en-spirited and intelligent, opens the door to a whole new way of being. The author will lead you through a variety of methods to help you engage and enhance your natural ability for plant whispering. Learn how to initiate communication and how to listen for the response. Build your ability to perceive directly with your heart. From the most simple form of communication between self and plant you will be encouraged to embark on a path of attentive noticing, so that you can unfold such interactions with confidence, and develop personal relationships with plants.In demystifying access to plant consciousness, this book will equip you to draw communication with plants into your daily life. The art of plant whispering is not just about ceremony or occasional work, but for all day everyday. Communicating with plants can help change everything, influencing how we behave and enriching our lives with intimacy and meaning. In developing the art of plant whispering for yourself you will begin to unlock the sacred medicine of the plant realms, and receive personal messages imbued with deep meaning. Forge relationships with plants so that they become your allies, mentors, and companions. As the plants direct us on our individual medicine journeys, the journey to wholeness, they can help us find our purpose and deepen our sense of belonging in the wild heart of Gaia.Reach into the realms of single plant immersion, dream work, shamanic drum journey, sacred elixirs, entheogens, fasting, and much more, to find avenues that will take your communications and understanding of self and Gaia ever deeper. As you align with your inherent intuitive abilities, the wild will rise up to meet you, and guide you back into communion with this living animate Earth; and to a wilder, more hopeful, future.
The Medicine Garden is an easy to use guide for making herbal remedies at home. The book encourages you to first look at the plants growing around you, in your garden and along the routes you regularly walk or drive. Within the pages of this book you will discover the therapeutic benefits of the plants with which you share your immediate environment. You'll be amazed at the potential medicines you can find everywhere. The Medicine Garden guides you through when to collect and how to preserve different plants; allowing you to confidently gather ingredients and create your own herbal preparations. The book initially concentrates on plants that grow close to home beginning with culinary herbs, it then features plants commonly found in the lawn, flower borders and vegetable garden. Later chapters cover plants found in hedgerows and beyond to include meadows, rivers, moorland and eventually the coast. The book features over 130 plants in all. The Medicine Garden includes growing and harvesting tips for each plant along with step by step methods for making a variety of preparations; from tinctures and infused oils to salves and vinegars. Within the individual plants description the book details which specific part of each plant, whether it is roots, bark, leaf, or fruit, is used to treat each particular ailment and condition. Learn how to treat everything from headaches and colds to anxiety and insomnia, naturally and organically, with local plants. Making these simple home remedies is empowering and has its own satisfaction, you will feel more deeply connected to your local environment as you save money whilst lovingly crafting healing elixirs for yourself and your family.
A New York Times bestseller from the yoga instructor who inspires more than one million followers on Instagram every day. Whether she’s practicing handstands on her stand-up paddleboard or teaching Downward-Facing Dog to the masses, Rachel Brathen—Instagram’s @Yoga_Girl—has made it her mission to share inspirational messages with people from all corners of the world. In Yoga Girl, Brathen takes readers beyond her Instagram feed and shares her journey like never before—from her self-destructive teenage years in her hometown in Sweden to her adventures in the jungles of Costa Rica, and finally to the beautiful and bohemian life she’s built through yoga and meditation in Aruba today. Featuring spectacular photos of Brathen practicing yoga with breathtaking tropical backdrops, along with step-by-step yoga sequences and simple recipes for a healthy, happy, and fearless lifestyle—Yoga Girl is like an armchair vacation to a Caribbean spa.
The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works, and philosophical discourses. Recent scientific research in the field of plant cognition similarly highlights the capacity of botanical life to discern between options and learn from prior experiences or, in other words, to think. The Mind of Plants offers an accessible account of the idea of "the plant mind" by bringing together short essays and poems on plants and their interactions with humans. The texts interpret the theme broadly--from the ways that humans mind and unmind plants to the mindedness or unmindedness of plants themselves. Authors from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences have written about their personal connections to particular plants, reflecting upon their research on plant studies in a style amenable to a broad audience. Each of the authors has selected a plant that functions as a guiding thread to their interpretation of "the mind of plants." From the ubiquitous rose to the ugly hornwort, from the Amazonian ayahuasca to tobacco, the texts reflect the multifarious interactions between humans and flora. These personal narratives, filled with anecdotes, experiences, and musings, offer cutting-edge insights into the different meanings and dimensions of "the mind of plants." Contributors to The Mind of Plants are key figures in the fields of ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, plant behavior and cognition, and critical plant studies. Included are simple, thumbnail-style, black-and-white illustrations of the plants to enhance readers' appreciation of the narratives.
The Plant Healer's Path is the first of two volumes by Jesse Wolf Hardin, cofounder of Plant Healer Magazine, with enchanting tales, medicinal plant profiles and favorite herbal recipes by Kiva Rose, as well as contributions by David Hoffman, Phyllis Light, Paul Bergner and more. Hardin tackles topics vital to an effective, empowered herbal practice, including many never addressed before, with suggestions for taking control of and enjoying our lives, and tips that can benefit herbalists and non-herbalists alike. Paul Bergner says“Whether just beginning or already walking the path, The Plant Healer's Path provides a panoramic road map of the terrain – both internal and external – for any person called to healing with plants... with thought-provoking essays on the issues most important to our work,” and Phyllis Light writes that this book “does more than provide a working model of herbal practice, it also addresses our hopes, our fears and concerns as herbalists, acknowledging the differences, the uniqueness that each brings to their art, craft and science. What more could we ask for?”
Whether you live in a mountain cabin or a city loft, plant spirits present themselves to us everywhere. Since its first printing in 1995, Plant Spirit Medicine has passed hand-to-hand among countless readers drawn to indigenous spirituality and all things alive and green. In this updated edition, Eliot Cowan invites us to discover the healing power of plants—not merely their physical medicinal properties, but the deeper wisdom and gifts that they offer. Enriched by many new insights, this guide unfolds as a series of chapters on how plant spirit medicine helped Cowan resolve specific challenges in his own healing journey and in his work with others. In the telling, we learn how plant spirits can directly communicate with and aid all of us, including: Plant spirit medicine's five-element view of healingWays to assess our own states of health and balanceReceiving guidance from plants, including those found within herbal preparationsNew passages on community and sacred plants such as peyote, marijuana, and tobaccoAdditional interviews with plant shamans across diverse traditions, and more
Let this book take you on a journey with plants, beyond just the aesthetic and edible pleasures they provide, to an in depth understanding and usable knowledge of how, with just a handful of versatile plants, you can transform your outside space into a diverse and resilient living store of building materials, fuel wood, medicines and raw materials for creating furniture, fabric and household utensils. Allow yourself to be inspired, to experiment in growing and creating some of the home comforts you are more used to purchasing. Choose the right plants for you and watch them grow, nurturing them to the point of harvest, then fashioning the finished product with your own skill and handiwork. This is an essential book for anyone interested in how we will continue when fuel has peaked.
