In Our Element is a healing resource that integrates flower essences, acupuncture theory, yoga, and spiritual principles from the African Diaspora.
About In Our Element:
This beginner-friendly book introduces the five elements—water, wood, fire, earth, and metal—as a system for understanding the cycles and rhythms of your body, mind, and soul. With a practical approach that weaves together Eastern medicine, western psychology, and African ancestral principles of spirituality, author Lindsay Fauntleroy teaches you how to use the elements to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
In Our Element features:
✨the soul lessons and spiritual gifts of the Five Elements
🤜🏾🤛🏽 The meridians of East Asian medicine illustrated on diverse bodies
🌸 detailed descriptions of flower essences and how to use them
🧘🏾♂️ Yoga poses to embody nature’s wisdom
🎶 music playlists that are a whole mood
⚡️ soul medicine ‘morning quickies’ and lifestyle recommendations
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The traditions and modalities Lindsay shares are made clear, creative, and culturally connected…
Fire Element- Small Intestine Meridian
In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash Your Personal Power is a revolutionary and refreshing exploration of ancient healing systems as modern medicine. Lindsay is a wise, generous, and trustworthy guide who has managed to make these profound teachings accessible, relevant, and delightful without compromising their depth. The traditions and modalities Lindsay shares are made clear, creative and culturally connected. Filled with wise storytelling, illuminating insights, and helpful practices, In Our Element is a bold and brilliant introduction to the power and pertinence of wisdom that can often seem esoteric and obscure.”
— Sebene Selassie, author of You Belong: A Call for Connection
…an invitation to open your eyes to the potent magic of the world around you….
In Our Element is an expression of Lindsay’s many years of passionate devotion and fierce commitment to transformational healing. The book brings together her research, personal inner work, and extensive clinical experience with flower essences, Chinese medicine, yoga, and indigenous psychology to create an invaluable guide to the practice of Soul Medicine.
In Our Element will help you heal, grow, and know yourself more fully. It is an invitation to open your eyes to the potent magic of the world around you. Read it, live with it, enjoy it and share it widely. The world needs this wisdom now!
—Lorie Eve Dechar, author of Five Spirits and The Alchemy of Inner Work
Wood Element- Gall Bladder Meridian
In Our Element is a rich tapestry of knowledge, storytelling and healing practices, woven with passion and creativity. Lindsay Fauntleroy is a master healer and teacher. She has the rare ability to make the principles of subtle healing accessible to our daily lives, invoking her own experiences, case examples, cross-cultural references, music and film. Lindsay’s integration of flower essence therapy into the soul journeys of the five elements demonstrates a truly alchemical understanding of the marriage of opposites, and just one of many “aha” moments you will discover In Our Element.
— Richard Katz and Patricia Kaminski, Directors of the Flower Essence Society
Read it, live with it, enjoy it and share it widely. The world needs this wisdom now!
Water Element- Bladder Meridian
“When you’re in your natural element you feel healthy, happy and whole. In her book, In Our Element, Lindsay teaches us that cultivating a relationship with nature, through the use of flower essences, along with ancient diasporic and indigenous practices, offer pathways to health, happiness and well-being. She takes us on a step-by-step journey through the five elements of nature, Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal, and reminds us that we are not separate from nature; that nature is our mirror reflecting back to us our deepest needs. This book is medicine for the soul.”
— Gail Parker, Ph.D. author of Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma
Lindsay’s scholarship is deeply embodied… It crosses continents, cultures, traditions and centuries…
Earth Element- Spleen Meridian
" Lindsay has written an insightful journey through the 5 Elements of Chinese medicine, seen through the dynamic and powerful interface of Indigenous and Diasporic medicine. In Our Element is guidance for an embodied journey of the soul, richly designed to inspire and inform a path for deep healing -- and a crucible for the cultural transformation our times long for. Lindsay’s scholarship is deeply embodied. It crosses continents, cultures, traditions and centuries – and is made all the more powerful by her personal and thoughtful reflections on our life and times. This book is a real contribution to our field... and to our world. I highly recommend In Our Element for all who are inspired to seek, support and integrate the healing both we and our world long for.
— Alaine D. Duncan, Author of The Tao of Trauma: A Practitioner’s Guide for Integrating Five Element Theory and Trauma Treatment
Lindsay’s wisdom, passion, knowledge and generosity as an instructor continue to introduce me to new ways to fall in love with nature… and by reflection, myself.
-Babalawo Ifasanmi Fayemi, Ile Ose Oluson