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Alchemitrix Cristina Trujillo

Alchemitrix Cristina Trujillo

Susun interviews Cristina Trujillo.
Cristina is an Alchemitrix, which signifies the ways she distills various lineages into her own platform (Phoenix House). These especially include the solar priestess lineage, sacred medicine work, and healing work with herbs and food. Responding to the needs of current times, she emphasizes the importance of integration, embodiment, and impeccability.
She is an adopted member of the Native American Church and is legally approved and protected by this ministry as a medicine woman and Sacrament carrier.
Cristina offers an impeccable container for ceremonial gatherings that honors authentic relationship, cultivates sacredness, and supports the restructuring of the cellular and light body matrix. Here, soul-family connection reignites. She also demystifies traditional practices that hold overlays unnecessary to our current times, bringing essential skills and inner navigation tools to help us all reconnect to our planet and embody our capacities as conscious co-creative beings.
In her individual session work with people, Cristina serves as an oracle, open and receptive to higher aspects of consciousness delivering what is transmitted. The specifics of this intimate and intuitive work is unknown until the precise moment arrives when questions, curiosities, and/or concerns lead us forward. Through this process, what no longer serves can be released and restored to greater Divine alignment.

Red Earth Herbal Gathering's Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich

Red Earth Herbal Gathering's Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich.

Susun interviews Astrid Grove & Lorene Wapotich.
Astrid Grove is the founder and organizer for Red Earth Herbal Gathering. She celebrates life with her husband, her two daughters, her two cats and her many chickens. Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women's empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony. To learn more about her offerings, go to www.astridgrove.com
Lorene Wapotich, MEd, will be co-facilitating the red tent at Red Earth this year as well as co-facilitating the community wide coming of age ceremony. She is an author and the founder and director of Feet on the Earth Programs, a non-profit organization in Boulder, Colorado. Her work focuses on creating regenerative culture and community by mentoring children into healthy young adults through deep nature connection and community-based rites of passage. Lorene recently completed a memoir and is currently working on a guide for parents and community members about how to create powerful coming-of-age ceremonies for girls and adulthood initiations for women.



this episode Q&A includes:
• shingles or herpes- fresh flowering tincture and infused oil from hypericum perforatum..
• Travel Kit..
• sonograms, vaccines, autism..
• deep splinter- yarrow and comfrey..
• kitty cat with cystitis- cornsilk tea mixed with milk, changing food, uva ursi..
• alfalfa for infusions?
• poulticing sprained ankle with comfrey..
• and much more...

Teleseminar with Linda Conroy & Susun

'Creating a Woman's Herbal Conference' with Linda Conroy & Susun.

 Teleseminar tonight, Monday, 4/22/19, at 9:00pm Eastern.


Join us as we muse on the unfolding of The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference. Putting together a conference requires many skills and is a process. Holding a vision, fostering community, networking and paying attention to the details are a few of things we will discuss. Creating an intentional space / a container for women to be nourished requires skill and insight. Whether you are planning a large or small event, you will enjoy some of the insights shared in this teleseminar.

Click for more info and Registration link:
http://susunweed.com/teleseminars.html

Midwest Women's Herbal Linda Conroy

Midwest Women's Herbal Linda Conroy
Susun interviews Linda Conroy.
Linda Conroy the founder and one of the organizers of The Midwest Women's Herbal Conference. With a legal and Social Policy background one might find it a surprise to find that she dedicates her life to connecting with the green world. Linda is committed Herbal Educator and Practitioner, provider of Workshops and Apprenticeships for her local community and is a skilled 'wild food and medicine' gatherer. She offers workshops and consultations as well as handcrafted herbal wares through her business Moonwise Herbs.
For more information see www.moonwiseherbs.com and/or wwwmidewestwomensherbal.com



this episode Q&A includes:
• knowing your value- it's not self care, it's caring for ourselves..
• scar tissue- castor oil, violet, calendula..
• growing herbs in small spaces..
• working with fasia after a car wreck..
• veganism, sibo, victim stories, chronic pain..

Botanical Medicine Jill Stansbury

Botanical Medicine Jill Stansbury

Susun interviews Jill Stansbury.
Dr Stansbury is an ethnobotanist and outdoor enthusiast and leads Ethnobotany field courses in the Andes and Manu region of the Peruvian Amazon each July. She has built a humble home in Cuzco and hosts studies in cultural anthropology, oral history collection, ethnobotany, and the mystical and healing traditions with four different tribal communities. She is presently documenting and organizing traditional ethnobotanical wisdom in order to give it back to the various tribes when the time is right. She became adept at the Spanish language to conduct this research, and know plants names in 4 additional tribal languages including Matsigenka, Bora, Wachiperi, and Yaguas.
She is the mother of two adult children, and her hobbies include art, photography, playing the guitar and singing with friends, gardening, camping, cooking and studying quantum and metaphysics and international travel. When she’s not traveling or working, she can most likely be found in her garden.
Dr Stansbury can be reached at [email protected].

PWHC's EagleSong Evans Gardener

PWHC's EagleSong Evans Gardener

Susun interviews EagleSong Evans Gardener.
EagleSong Gardener is a gardener/herbalist, grandmother/earth-keeper and a pilgrim-adventurer from the Pacific Northwest corner of North America. She is woman with a passion for culture which she notices grows from the connection of people, plants and earth, EagleSong is founder of RavenCroft Garden in Monroe, WA. where she tends heart and soul at the hearth of RavenCroft. She is the Director of the Pacific Women's Herbal Conference. A gathering for women interested in tending life the wise woman way.
A daily practice of natural health, simple living and herbal medicine anchors her herbal apprenticeships for those interested in the rigorous journey of being human.

Red Earth's Astrid Grove & Ixeeya Lin

Red Earth's Astrid Grove & Ixeeya Lin

Susun interviews Astrid Grove & Ixeeya Lin.

Astrid Grove currently lives in the Colorado mountain town of Nederland with her husband, her two daughters, and two cats. Her passion lies in facilitating and supporting women’s empowerment through midwifery, hands on healing, plant medicine and sacred ceremony. She is in the process of revamping her website and you can expect that soon at www.astridgrove.com.

Ixeeya Lin is dedicated to restoring the feminine back to her full embodied glory to support sacred union on our glorious planet! Through rite of passage coaching, bodywork and rituals she helps you awaken deep meaning, awaken confidence and authenticity and value your feminine genius. Ixeeya has been on a wild adventure, trained and certified by a variety of wild wise women around the globe in restorative movement, ceremonial arts, womens yoga, Maya abdominal womb centering, shamanism and folk herbalism, somatic healing, sotai, holistic pelvic care, reiki, tantra, south indian temple dance and a variety of global dance forms. More about Ixeeya at WomensTent.com



this episode Q&A includes:
• sore breast tissue- parsley poultice..
• hypericum species- perforatum is medicinal because it holds the red oil in it..
• histamines in the body freaking out causing excess mucous in the nose and eyes? find what is flowering, osha tincture..
• oil pushing or pulling?
• burning sores in the mouth- Saint Joan knows about burns, honey, cocoa and honey..
• craving chocolate? you may need more minerals..

Plant Medicine Singer Johanna Warren

Plant Medicine Singer Johanna Warren

Susun interviews Johanna Warren.
On the national US record release tour for her new album "Gemini II,"singer-songwriter Johanna Warren is blending her musical path with her passion for herbalism. On her recent "Plant Medicine Tour," she aligned with local herbalists, farmers and activists in every city she visited to share about their work, sell their medicines and connect with their communities.



this episode Q&A includes:
• passionflower- passiflora incarnata is the only medicinal variety..
• monotropa uniflora is used incredibly sparingly..
• headache that has to do with the liver with pain behind the eyes- chinese medicine perspective..
• using hypericum perforatum for symptoms of Lyme..
• not recommended for anyone to be gluten free that is not celiacs..
• copperhead snake bite and options for herbs to relieve inflammation..
• why not to get a mammogram..
• creating a sacred time when bleeding can stop cramping- antispasmodic herbs..

'Hado Bear's Secret' Kathleen Caputo

'Hado Bear's Secret' Kathleen Caputo

Susun interviews Kathleen Caputo.
Kathleen Caputo is an ordained interfaith minister who focuses on providing positive and life affirming resources to children of all cultures, religions and backgrounds. Following a 30-year career as a business executive, she founded Hado Bear, Inc. and a nonprofit organization, Source of Guidance, Inc., both dedicated to helping children and families to have happy, healthy and fulfilling lives and to better respond to life’s challenges including those facing crises and serious illness. Kathleen is a staff minister at The Center For Spiritual Living in Hicksville, New York and has led more than 100 programs for children. She also taught workshops on creativity and guided imagery for the New York City School System, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and City University of New York.
Kathleen’s children’s book, Hado Bear’s Secret, is the first in a series of books she is authoring to teach children that we are all perfect just the way we are, and that our thoughts, beliefs and words have the power to change our life energy and transform experiences from negative to positive.



this episode Q&A includes:
• age is unlikely to effect your fertility , but does effect your genetic material..
• success story of what to do when you are bit by a tick and prevention..
• ex anorexic and bulimic that has followed Susun's advice and now loves her body, food and nourishing herbal infusions..
• japanese knot weed has taken over property- get pigs, make remedies..
• massage technique to relieve headaches that start in the neck and connection to the liver..
• you do not need to hurt yourself to heal.

Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower & Lacy Johnson

Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower & Lacy Johnson

Susun interviews Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower & Lacy Johnson
Marguerite is an RN, Clinical Herbalist, Wild Crafter and, is also a cautious wild foods forager. She is co-founder and director of Plant Pioneers, a Human-Plant Relations Movement, where her work invites the beginner to the experienced to become interested in plants, through hands-on, outdoor Nature experiences, that bridges wild crafting, traditional herbal medicines, plant intelligence science and phenomena. In recent years, her outdoor explorations have additional tools that connect humans to plants: Music of the Plants and Cymatics.
Lacy Johnson - co-founding Plant Pioneers member; she was born and raised in Texas and moved to the Catskill area in 2015. The move led her to her current studies in herbalism with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, where she is now entering her 2nd year. Additionally, Lacy plans on adding to her studies as an ecology major in the near future.