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Many of you have reached out asking for guidance on plants and herbs that would be most supportive in this time, and I wanted to bring someone on the show that worked with plants in a multidimensional way and focused on accessibility + community support. That’s why we’re speaking with Renée Camila of La Yerba Buena Herbs. I LOVED this conversation, we touched on so much, here are some highlights...
Renée shared ways we can work with our plant allies and herbal medicine to support ourselves during this pandemic - she touches in on the energetic and spiritual elements. We talk about finding ways to reorient ourselves to our medicine in a way that feels accessible and reciprocal. Renée shares some of her favorite plants for working with grief, visioning, change, and boundaries + protection and how to work with them including important considerations for foraging and wildcrafting.
We also talk about how to get radical with plants in the kitchen (including an amazing herbal resource for you), plus how Renée is supporting her own family with special recipes. She shares some well-needed advice for those experiencing panic in this time, why Renée believes working with your ancestors is so helpful and how radical self-care is a form of ancestral work. Renée also shares about her upcoming herbal apprenticeship and free herbal workshops.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
How remembering our ancestors and their
What health sovereignty means to Renée
How we have an opportunity to examine
Finding ways to reorient ourselves to our medicine in a way that feels accessible and reciprocal
Respectful and accessible ways of working with plants
Ways we can work with our plant allies and herbal medicine to support ourselves during this pandemic
Why Renée begins with the energetic and spiritual, and ways we can assess our individual and collective patterns
Some of Renée’s favorite plants for working with grief, visioning, change and boundaries + protection and how to work with them
Important considerations for foraging and wildcrafting + why it’s important to rethink your relationship to the living plant world
How to get radical with plants in the kitchen (including an amazing herbal resource for you), & how Renée is supporting her own family with special recipes
How sun dehydrated shiitake mushroom can provide sun energy and vitamin D during the winter time
Renée’s personal story - how she came into the plant path, the profound anxiety, panic attacks & insecurities she experienced, and how plant medicine + mentors “saved her life”
Advice for those experiencing panic in this time and why Renée believes working with your ancestors is so helpful, and how radical self-care is a form of ancestral work
Working with water and wind for soothing your nervous system
Renée’s upcoming herbal apprenticeship and free herbal workshops
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Connect With Renée Camila
Renée’s upcoming online apprenticeship: Now and Then Herbal Apprenticeship
Resources
Herbal resource during the pandemic: Get Radical Boil Roots, A Kitchen Witch's Guide to Wellness in the Time of Covid-19
The Herbal Highway Podcast can be streamed online here or wherever podcasts are found
Klamath Siskiyou Herbal Alliance: Renée and local herbalists started a phone herb clinic in response to the pandemic. Info can be found here.
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