before we begin, we bow.
dandelion, rose, nettle, raspberry.
(one for each direction.)
the nearest tree to where you sit.
the tenacious ‘houseplant’ in the corner.
without these generous beings, we would not be.
no food, no tools, no medicine, no air.
and so, we bow…
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Welcome here.
This is where I weave my work as a mover and a healer, writer and artist. I teach classes in qigong and movement, I see clients in group clinic and individually as a clinical herbalist. I formulate medicine, both individually and for the collective. I write and teach in support of holistic healthcare, embracing animism, and a return to our place as ‘nature’. I welcome you to walk with me here.
medicine
following the plants, who know how to heal.
I practice herbal medicine using the Daoist cosmology, a view that includes the whole. This complex system includes the seasons, the elements, and the cyclical nature of time in our own health. Working with me will bring a lot of tools to the table that western, allopathic medicine doesn’t recognize and focuses on addressing stagnation and achieving circulation, which can be applied to any area of our lives.
Ultimately, we each know ourselves better than anyone else, and I work to support - and stretch - this innate intelligence, with the help of potent plant medicine and medicinal movement.
sessions are available in-person in Montague, MA and remotely
Consider: you are an integral
part of the natural environment.
You are not in nature, surviving nature,
here to steward nature.
You are of nature. ~David Wei
movement
in-person and online opportunities to practice.
Qigong is the taproot of Daoist Medicine, the IChing, and 5 Element Theory. Learning through our own moving experience is the surest way to understand what we are made of and how to take care of ourselves.
Join my class community and invite the poetic, physical ritual we call qigong to transform your week. Getting quiet and attuning to your inner health for an hour is well documented to make you happy!
Elemental Vessel is a collection of workshops and immersions in collaboration with Dana Iova-Koga investigating how we relate to the ecological networks we are a part of, the seasons, our web of relations, the human organism, and creative processes.
your body is the map,
the plants are the path.
stories
a home for my writing, artistic expression and dialogue.
free to subscribe, option to contribute