Weaving the Sacred:
Integrating Plants, Prayer and Ritual into Your Personal and Professional Healing Practice
This course supports your integration of spiritual elements of healing into your personal and/or clinical work. Earth-based practices, prayer, ritual and ancestral wisdom are a few of the spiritual multidisciplinary domains we will explore together. Working in concert with the natural world and one’s spiritual allies and practices is co-creative; with safe and respectful application, this approach can enliven transformative change and support healing on seen and unseen levels.
For experienced practitioners, this course will deepn your understanding of the Flower Essence Society’s Metaflora 7, and how to support your clients’ relationship with the spiritual core and Transcendent Self. Those who are new to flower essences will discover remedies to support your spiritual life and personal ritual.
This course covers:
The role of intentional language, prayer, and spells in healing work
Strategies to develop personal ceremonies and rituals that align with the client’s worldview
Cultivating psychic hygiene and energetic protection in and outside of the treatment space
Ways to avoid traps of cultural appropriation
Earth and plant-focused practices and allies
How to work elementally and co-creatively in the therapeutic process
Course Details
Schedule
This course meets for 4 live virtual sessions via Zoom, on bi-weekly Wednesdays from 7- 9pm EST/ 4-7pm PST.
Session 1: February 12- Safety, protection and spiritual hygiene
Session 2: February 26- Your Spirit team and Benevolent Ancestry
Session 3: March 12- Ritual and prayer in medicine making
Session 4: March 26- Prayer and ritual as a liberation practice
80% attendance and assignment completion is required for certification credit. This course offers 4 credits towards practitioner certification.
Pre-Requisites:
This is an open-level course, with assignments designed for those who are taking the course for personal healing, as well as those on the Spirit Seed practitioner track.
Resources
Recommended Books & Resources:
Though specific readings will be posted to the course forum, Weaving the Sacred draws from the texts listed below. We encourage you to invest in the ones that speak to you!
The Uncommon Book of Prayer: A Guide to Co-Creating with the Universe (2024) by Heidi Smith:
You Belong: A Call for Connection (2022) by Sebene Selassie
The Art and Practice of Spiritual Herbalism: Transform, Heal, and Remember with the Power of Plants and Ancestral Medicine (2022) by Empress Karen Rose
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1999) by Starhawk
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants (2015) by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Earth has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life (2002) Meredith Sabini
In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine (2022) by Lindsay Fauntleroy
The Bloom Book: A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance (2020) by Heidi Smith
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present (2020) by Byung-Chul Han
Our African Unconscious: The Black Origins of Mysticism and Psychology (2021) by Edward Bruce Bynum
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World (2024) by Prentis Hemphill
Additional reading selections will be available on the Spirit Seed student forum
Facilitator
Meet Heidi!
Heidi Smith, MA, RH (AHG), is a psychosomatic therapist, registered herbalist, flower essence practitioner, and the author of The Bloom Book. Within her private practice, Moon & Bloom, Heidi works collaboratively with her clients to empower greater balance, actualization, and soul-level healing within themselves. She is passionate about engaging both the spiritual and scientific dimensions of the plant kingdom, and sees plant medicine and ritual as radical ways to promote individual, collective, and planetary healing. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her partner and two cats..
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Two monthly payments of 87.50. Non-refundable $50 deposit reserves your space in the course, and is applied to your first payment.
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