Welcome to Nourished Root
Welcome to Nourished Root
NOVEMBER
Join the November Plant Spirit Meditation
Watch the video below for instructions for making your Shatavari Root infusion
To make your overnight infusion of Shatavari:
Add a handful of Shatavari to your glass jar and pour over hot water. Close the jar to seal in the medicine. Let infuse overnight or for 8-10 hours. You can also make a decoction of Shatavari by simmering it on the stovetop, covered, for 20 minutes. In the morning, strain your Shatavari and enjoy your tea at room temperature or heated up. Feel free to compost your leftover Shatavari. Enjoy!
Shatavari Plant Spirit Meditation Recording
Theme of November
Give Thanks & Restore
In the United States, we celebrate Thanksgiving, a complicated holiday that often erases the experience of the Native people whose lands were taken from them just a handful of generations ago.
For us, learning how to hold the grief and the love in our hearts is part of our spiritual practice. We call upon the medicinal herbs that calm our nerves and open our hearts so we can be rooted, more expansive, capable of deeply listening and loving. Linden leaf & flower and Tulsi are two wonderful medicinal teas that calm the mind and bring us into the heart. This vibration they guide us into is helpful for moving through all aspects of the holiday season!
Doing our part in loving the land we live upon and adding our energy towards a reciprocal relationship can look like many different things! This can be a fun question to explore with your family or friends and to bring some ideas, offerings and practices into the month within your social circle.
Here are some ideas. Please share yours below:
Find out who the indigenous people are of your home. Here is a really neat interactive map: https://native-land.ca/
See if you can donate to a local indigenous non profit or support a movement towards habitat restoration, watershed preservation, native plant gardens, etc.
Love up on your land! You live upon a part of the Earth Mother’s body and any patch, however small, of her soil is a direct source of connection between you and the Earth Mother. In the fall, pouring compost tea over your plants or at the base of a tree at a local park will be much appreciated by the soil and Earth.
Leave your leaves! They are important food for the Earth. Mulching and covering the bare garden soil supports the Earth in her rejuvenation and rest, giving back to the gardens that gave us so much.
Organize an eating local challenge with your friends. Visit the farmers market and feast on the bounty of your bioregion, supporting local farmers and allowing the land you call home to fill your heart and cells.
Sing a song to a wild place or leave an offering.
Feed the birds, see if you can support the habitat of the non human who share the land with you.
Cook an ancestral dish and invite friends over, sharing stories.
Watch the beautiful, uplifting and inspirational documentary “Gather” and seek out other stories from the land you call home.
The month of November begins in the pagan cross- quarter holy-day of Samhain // Day of the Dead. It is said that this is one of the two moments all year when the veil is the thinnest between our waking reality and the spirit realm.
In many cultures around the world, this is a time to honor our ancestors, to bring offerings of food, music, prayer and candlelight to the resting places of our loved ones.
The practice of speaking to our deceased loved ones and ancestors has been forgotten by many of us modern people, yet beyond the forgetting lie centuries of practice of asking our ancestors for help, protection and guidance.
As we embrace the interwoven energies of life & death this autumnal season, we weave our hearts with the threads of the past and future, memories and hopes, grief and gratitude - all woven together in wholeness through a grateful and humble heart.
We learn from the Earth, the sweet medicine of release — as the trees release their leaves from their limbs, the decaying leaves are food for new life to come next spring. What are you ready to release and let go of? What are you ready to return to the fertile darkness?
November is also a month when celebrate the last of the year’s harvests, grateful for the abundance we rely on from the Earth. We root our practices and time in nourishment, fostering togetherness and intimacy as we prepare for the winter ahead. We honor the ancestors and the indigenous people upon whose lands we live, while reflecting upon how we can help restore right relationships on behalf of all life to come.
An offering of flowers on a compost heap
GIVE THANKS & RESTORE
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GIVE THANKS & RESTORE 〰️
Watch the November Visual Spell
