Celebrate Susuns birthday!

Celebrate Susun & Justines upcoming birthdays!
(February 8th and March 14th)

When I get home (from Costa Rica), it will be close to my birthday: February 8. I will be 70 this coming year. (Yikes! Social Security!) My daughter, Justine, turns 50 a month later, on March 14. I want you to help us celebrate this once-in-our-lifetime event: Our 70/50 birthdays.

There are four celebrations!

Celebrate with birthday cards and emails. Send cards to POBox 64, Woodstock, NY 12498 or post at Facebook. Send emails to wisewoman@herbshealing.com

Celebrate by enjoying fifty-years worth of rare, archival, mother-daughter photos, which I will be publishing for you, week by week for the next few months, on the Ezine. 

Celebrate by dining with me at the Mid-Hudson Buffet in Kingston, New York, on February 7 at 5:30pm. I will pay for your dinner. You don’t need to make reservations with them or with me. Do let me know of your intention to come, and please understand that there will be no response, I won’t be up for being a hostess after traveling so much. Walk-ins are encouraged.   

Celebrate by joining us at the Edge conference in Costa Rica, March 3-6. I will be teaching. Justine and family will be attending. This wonderful conference reminds me of the Breitenbush herbal conferences of twenty years ago, with teachers and attendees spending much of their time basking in thermal pools and renewing their commitment to green medicine.  

Because life is worth celebrating!

Green blessings.
Susun

Plantain the band aid plant

Plantain the band aid plant

Susun Weed and her granddaughter, Monica Jean, teach us about Plantain, the "Band-Aid" plant.

Weed indentification

Weed identification - with Susun Weed

Susun talks about weed identification and hypericum perforatum aka Saint joan's wort.

Embracing the Goddess: A Sacred Journey to Bali; June 12 - 20 2016

Embracing the Goddess: A Sacred Journey to Bali; June 12 - 20 2016  


Join us on a journey to Bali where we will walk in our beauty nature and reflect our light into the world. We will weave our sacred circle at Bagus Jati, where we will stay in luxurious villas on hillside gardens among lush tropical forests in the mountains outside of Ubud.. In addition to circle time and yoga, we will journey to a traditional Balinese village, trek in the jungle where we will experience the magnificent variety of flora and fauna and be a part of a purification ritual and blessing ceremony at a nearby temple and waterfall.

 For more information, www.islawomensretreat.com or email info@islawomensretreat.com .

Madame Yarrow

Madame Yarrow



Susun Weed talks about yarrow as an insect repellent and as a first aid remedy.

Meeting the wildflowers

Meeting the Wildflowers



Susun Weed takes you on a nature walk and talks about the wildflowers and herbs growing along the way.

Being a "Flower child"

Being a "Flower child"



Susun Weed shows Monica Jean and the rest of us how to be flower children by eating the flowers growing around us.

Wild Ginger

Wild Ginger

Susun Weed and Monica Jean tell us about the rarely and specially used herb, wild ginger.
Wild ginger is not the same as ginger you would cook with. It is a rare plant and used only in small amounts.
The root is tinctured and a few drops may be used by midwives for difficult births.

Bloodroot

Bloodroot

Susun Weed talks shows a bloodroot plant, and it's bright red root.
One drop of Bloodroot tincture at a time, kills bacteria in the mouth.

Linden Infusion

Linden Infusion


Susun Weed, with the help of her granddaughter, Monica Jean, continues her series of videos about nourishing herbal infusions by making an infusion of linden.
She shows the difference between commercial cut and home harvested linden and discusses the benefits of this valuable herb.

Comfrey Infusion

Comfrey Infusion

Susun Weed and Monica Jean show the difference between commercially available comfrey and home-grown comfrey leaf. Then Susun discusses the benefits of comfrey and makes a nourishing herbal infusion.
Comfrey is a wonderful ally for strong bones and fabulous for healing tendons and ligaments.

Red Raspberry Infusion

Red Raspberry Infusion

Susun Weed and her granddaughter, Monica Jean demonstrate making a nourishing herbal infusion of Red Raspberry leaf.
Red raspberry leaf is renowned as an herb for pregnancy.

Red clover infusion

Red clover infusion

Susun Weed and her granddaughter, Monica Jean demonstrate making a nourishing herbal infusion with red clover blossoms.
Red clover helps prevent cancers, and strengthens the immune system & the nervous system.

Stinging Nettle Infusion

Stinging Nettle Infusion

Susun Weed and her granddaughter, Monica Jean demonstrate making a nourishing herbal infusion using stinging nettle.
Nettle gives us energy, rebuilds the adrenals, & kidneys, keeps our mood elevated, makes our brains function well and more!

Nourishing Herbal Infusions

Nourishing Herbal Infusions

Susun and Monica Jean discuss herbs to use for nourishing herbal infusions.
Herbs for infusions should always be nutritive herbs like, red raspberry leaf, hawthorne leaf & flower, red clover blossoms, comfrey leaf, nettle, oat straw, hibiscus, corn silk and linden flowers.

Cronewort Vinegar

Cronewort Vinegar

Susun Weed and her granddaughter, Monica Jean demonstrate making cronewort, aka artemisia vulgaris or mugwort, vinegar.
Cronewort vinegar is good for the liver and digestion.

Dandelion Flower Vinegar

Dandelion Flower Vinegar

Susun and her granddaughter, Monica Jean make dandelion flower vinegar.

Cedar Smudge

Cedar Smudge

Susun and her granddaughter, Monica Jean demonstrate how to smudge with cedar.

Roasting Seeds with Susun Weed

Hawthorne Berry Tincture

Hawthorne Berry Tincture

Blood Mysteries

Blood Mysteries In the beginning, according to the Wise Woman tradition, everything began, as everything does, at birth. The Great Mother of All gave birth and the earth appeared out of the void. Then the Great Mother of All gave birth again, and again, and again, and people, and animals, and plants appeared on the earth. They were all very hungry. "What shall we eat?" they asked the Great Mother. "Now you eat me," she said, smiling. Soon there were a very great many lives, but the Great Mother of All was enjoying creating and giving birth so much that she didn't want to stop. "Ah," she said smiling, "now I eat you." And so she still does. We all come from the same mother. She is the wise woman. We all return to her embrace, her bloody-rich womb place, when we die. Every woman is a whole/holy form of her, able to be whole/holy mother of all life, able to be whole/holy destroyer of life. Her power is her blood that flows and flows, her blood which is life and gives life. Every woman's menstrual blood and birth-time blood is a holy mystery. What are the blood mysteries? Why are they central to the understanding of the Wise Woman tradition. Blood mysteries teach that menstrual blood and birthing blood are holy blood, power blood, healing blood. The blood mysteries teach us to remember that life and healing come from and return to woman, to the wise woman, to the woman who bleeds and bleeds. And does not die. Blood mysteries reveal that menstrual (moontime) blood and birth blood are so holy, so full of potential, so full of the void, that they are to be used only to heal, to heal by nourishing. Holy woman-blood is nourishing blood, blood of love, blood of abundance, blood that heals the earth. Blood mysteries recall the immense power of the bleeding woman. Power enough to share in great nourishing give-away from mother to matrix, give-away of nourisher to nourisher. When we bleed into the ground (in reality or fantasy) our power regrounds as our blood flows through the personal root chakra and into the earth. Read more .... http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Blood_Mysteries.htm