While soothing the symptoms of a yeast infection is simple enough, addressing the underlying imbalance that gave rise to it in the first place is essential. When our lives are out of balance, we often
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Wise Guides
Digging Deeper
QUENTIN MONGE a guide for White people ready to do the real work The following guide covers practices for dismantling White supremacy in ourselves and in the world. The practices are separated into
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Formulae
Pelvic Steaming
Pelvic steaming is a simple yet profound ritual that can easily be enjoyed at home. It is a practice that fortifies us not just physically, but spiritually and creatively. In my own life,
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Seasonal Wellness
What To Do Right Now
Take a long, slow, deep breath. Now close your eyes and take one more, letting it out with a sigh. Open your eyes and look around. Really see where you are right now. What sounds
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City Guides
Austin, TX
The more I drink Texas in, the closer I feel to this Land. I sip Yaupon Holly and gather fallen Pecans; collect the precious heat of Chili Pequin and offer the steam of Lantana as medicine
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Wise Guides
Herbs For Dreaming
Dreams are where we go to meet the divine. Herbs can help us find our way. We have all we need within us to access the power of our dreams. Plant medicines are not necessary for receiving
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Wise Guides
Practices For Dreaming
Dreaming is an essential practice for a world in crisis. When we open ourselves to the world of our dreams, personal healing is radically accelerated, and collective healing becomes possible. Individuals versed in the language of dreams
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Musings
A Ritual For Global Healing
Click Here To Access The Audio Version While the New Year, as defined by the Gregorian calendar, may be arbitrary in many ways, the cultural narrative of fresh beginnings that
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Seasonal Wellness
How To Rest
In Winter, our bodies ask for rest—gently at first and then with passionate longing. In the dark half of the year, we naturally crave sleep, warmth, and the regenerative gift of doing nothing. Our bodies
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Travel
Portland + Beyond [ part two ]
In part two of our Guide to Portland + Beyond I’m doing something I have very consciously, never done before. I’m choosing to share some of the most special places I’ve had the opportunity to connect with in
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Seasonal Wellness
The Medicine of Summer
Summer is a time to let your mind wander, to allow daydreaming to take hold, and to drift into a kind of restorative boredom. Remember the kind of boredom that once gave rise to blanket
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Travel
Portland + Beyond [ part one ]
Mostly by accident, I’ve spent the last three Summers in and around Portland Oregon. Born and raised in Texas, the delightfully cool temperatures and positively luscious flora are all the reason I need to make a
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Practices
Medicine Is Everywhere
We are defined by the spaces we inhabit—and in turn, they are defined by us. No matter where we go, the medicine we need will find us; our every presence calls it forth. Notice now what
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Interviews
Mariee Sioux
Mariee Sioux’s music is a balm for the soul. The first time I heard her song Two Tongues, over a decade ago, something ancient and undiscovered arose within me. It was a part of myself I’d
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Wise Guides
Rites of Springtime
Here in Texas, the sweet scent of fresh blooms fills the air as primroses and bluebonnets burst forth, lining the hills and highway-sides in distinctive hues of blush and blue. The red-breasted Cardinals have begun
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Daily Practices
Just Breathe
Breath is a technology that transcends time. It can be employed as a vehicle for achieving altered states of perception, as a means for physical healing, and as a tool for experiencing a connection to
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Wise Guides
APHRODISIA
Herbs For LovemakingA P H R O D I S I A a guide to herbs for lovemaking When lovemaking becomes a sacred practice, its potential for healing is truly limitless. Making sex sacred need not be
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Daily Practices
Time: An Ancient Perspective
“It is not more time that we need, it is more timelessness that we need.” – Michael Meade – The Ancient Greeks understood two distinct kinds of time. The first, Kairos, refers to the
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Wise Guides
Welcoming The New Year
The future is unwritten, and it is our sacred responsibility to be clear about what we want that future to look like—for ourselves and for the world. What we write becomes real. As our words materialize
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Daily Practices
Solstice Rituals
The weeks and months leading up to this day mark a time of waning light in the Northern Hemisphere — and with the lessening light, our own vitality and sense of hope often wane as well. Our ancestors, knowing this to be the case, took special care to fan their inner flames of vitality during this descent into winter. They intentionally courted the seasons of renewal that they knew lay still ahead.
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