What Is a Plant Spirit Healing Session?

Our herbal allies can help us to find the sacred center within in many ways. They are ancient, wise, and powerful beings who have been with us since the very beginning, watching as we grow and evolve as people across the ages. My work with Plant Spirit Energy focuses on connecting you to specific plants that resonate with your own defined goals and needs through a variety of journey and experiential processes- all leading to you having a deep and personal connection to plant spirits who are there for your journey.

While each session is given time and space to meet the unique needs of each person and call forth any of the many methods and tools the plants offer, they generally include:

• A beginning dialogue where we look at what you’re working on, where you’d like the support of the plants, and how the rest of the session might unfold. It’s important here to remember that while we think of herbal medicine as being exclusively for physical wellness, this work can bring the power of the plants anywhere you need it… whether inside yourself or out into the life path around you. Anything goes, all good goals welcome! Our opening dialogue lasts about 10 minutes.

• Together we will define a goal or several goals, and usually craft a phrase of power around the goals (galdor) to help anchor it in the rest of the session- and in your continued experiences in the days and weeks that follow.

• Based on our conversation and connections, I will help find a single herbal ally to act as guide for the rest of the session. This plant will be one who voluntarily stands up during our time based on my own connections to them (very important!) and makes sense from the folkloric, clinical, and practical angles based on your goals.

• While you get cozy in our gravity chairs loaded with the most comfy blankets and pillows, I’ll head to the apothecary and gather some of the dried herb we’ll be working with. From there, I’ll begin a very mild tea infusion with the herb while we get you relaxed, receptive, and engaged in heart coherence work. We’ll establish a baseline Heart Rate Variability reading during this time as well to help support homework suggestions.

• We’ll take the tea together, you’ll get to recline and relax, and I’ll guide you through a variety of focuses, journeys, visualizations, and cues. We’ll dialogue to make sure things are going in the right direction.

• Along the way I will offer energetic work to help release, move, open, charge, or otherwise bring in the energy of the plant based on your experiences. I do this most often with a light or no-touch hovering or sweeping of my hands above your body or sometimes by the laying-on of herbal material, oils, balms, smoke, or sigils.

• The journey aspect of your session generally lasts about 30 minutes but typically feels like an hour.

• We’ll wrap up with a gentle return to usual consciousness, centering support as needed, and some unpacking of the experience. I’ll take notes for you so that you can stay in the deeply relaxing space of plant connection. I will also share the results of your heart coherence monitoring during the session.

• I’ll send you home with remedy crafted from the plant we worked with along with resources and suggested continued practices to continue the connection and the healing. You can come back as often as you like, but most people find that a monthly session is a really powerful addition to their overall sense of magic and medicine.