How it all Begins
Natural medicine is one part plants, nine parts everything else.
Hi everyone! Welcome to my blog, where you’ll find my weekly musings about basically everything. Those of you who’ve taken my classes or seen me privately in my practice know that I am a deeply curious being. I’m constantly jumping feet first into multiple rabbit holes, mulling over the exact way to lacto-ferment watermelon rinds while perfecting the mom-sneak hacks of baking almonds, oats, beans, and nuts into cute looking muffins that my kid will eat. This Substack is me sharing a corner of my ever going Vata mind with all of you. Think of this as a bridge between a short social media reel and an action packed slumber party. Each week, expect musings that help you maximize your health and wellness based on season, course announcements (I teach a lot), as well as any stories from my life that I think you will enjoy or relate to.
Please have patience.
In out instant gratification capitalist world, being polished or neatly unpolished is kinda the only thing we seem to have the tolerance for these days. This Substack may wander.
And I think that’s a good thing.
In many modalities, including permaculture, they talk about the river’s edge as among the most diverse areas in nature. Along the rivers you’ll find the land animals and plants, the water animals and plants, and a third group of species that only live in the ‘in between’ of the naturally winding river’s edge. I loved learning this, as it is a direct call to meander, cause that is where we truly have the best chances at finding our answers. It is a reminder that the road we take to get there truly is the point. City planners often struggle when they shift rivers from winding threads of poetry to direct pathways, as when strong rains come, the city is ill prepared to deal with the force of rushing water running straight through the center of their metropolis. The erosion is fierce, as is the flooding without the proper precautions. Precautions that they wouldn’t have to even think about if they just let the river exist in its vast natural saunter.
We can apply this perspective to us as a species. If humans were allowed to truly be in the pace of our lives, we’d have enough time to eat without multi-tasking, to drive without texting, to spend more than a couple hours a day with our own kids. Instead, we are moving forward, fast paced, in a direct line towards our end goal without much thought or regard put to the cost it bears. This cost is our immune systems, our mental health, our spiritual center, and our connection to ancestors, lineage, and community. So even though I’m a super Type A personality in a gazillion ways, I am also a perpetual student in the Art of the Saunter, meander mode in full effect.
Fall is a season of transition in Ayurvedic medicine, a season governed by Vata dosha. If we slowed our pace in this season of movement, we would get enough rest, nourishment, laughter, and peace to bolster our immunity and spirits and be able to appreciate instead of dread the upcoming winter, where the cold and dark can easily bring depression and sickness.
So consider this blog my call to slow down, to rest, to walk relaxedly in a zig zag, enjoying the sites and breathing deeply. Your gift from a Rroma woman whose people understand that movement is an art that, at the proper pace and cadence, can bring about abundance everyone benefits from.
Fall Class Offering
Click here to read the formal write up and register. Below is the saunter version.
I LOVE teaching this course! We eat mindfully, try new foods, and learn how to eat for our specific body types and constitutions. This course utilizes Ayurvedic, Buddhist, and Circadian approaches to eating. We also explore what our lineage foods are, how they helped our peoples flourish, and ask dynamic questions that get to the bottom of the why and and for what reasons our traditional cuisines have been (temporarily) pushed to the side. This class can be taken stand alone or as credit toward the Plant Medicine Certificate offered through the University of New Mexico. LIVE ONLINE Tuesdays Oct 6- Dec 3.
And in closing…
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