Teachers
show us how to learn, but Susun's dramatic and colorful yet easy and
friendly teaching style sets her apart. As a green witch, she approaches
healing medicine as a living manifestation of the Goddess. She offers
us a chance to get to know plants from the inside out, slowly, with
the same respect and patience we show people who are revealing their
personalities. When we open to the mysteries of the plant world and
flow from the heart, when we honor the Earth and learn to heal with
nourishment, compassionate listening, and simple ceremonies, then
we are dancing in the Tao, spiraling through grief and joy, healing
the Wise Woman Way.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Our weekend together will be created to satisfy your needs and desires.
We will choose from a basket brimming with possibilities: weed walks,
shamanic trances, hands on herbal medicine, plant lore, optimum nutrition,
eating weeds (powerhouses of minerals), as well as singing, welcoming
back the fairies, and touching the magic afoot. Susun delivers profound
and practical advice as she entertains and delights. A joyous spirit
and a powerful presence, she teaches with such confidence and clarity
that some people feel shocked, even offended, but when they listen,
they realize she doesn't teach what she hasn't experienced. Her main
message is to reclaim our simplicity, to regain our connection with
the earth by growing our own food, making our own medicines, loving
each other well, and knowing how and when to use other forms of medicine
for our benefit. Helping 
people
and communities become more caring of each other is the essence of
spirituality, enabling us to be the best we can be. You will take
away a newfound confidence in your ability to use the earth's gifts
of food, medicine, and pleasure to bring energy, power, and health
back into yourself. Your health and your life will never be the same!
THE WISE WOMAN WAY
What is the Wise Woman Way? It is neither alternative
nor orthodox medicine. Orthodox scientific medicine heals by fixing
the machine. Alternative or heroic medicine heals by cleaning, by
trying to get rid of what is dirty, bad, or wrong. The Wise Woman
tradition, however, heals by nourishing the wholeness of the unique
being. To the wise woman, all things are interconnected and already
perfect. The task then is not to create perfection but to make ourselves
available to it, to acknowledge and trust our bodies as perfect manifestations
of our wholeness, accepting life and death, health and sickness as
part of the spiral. The Wise Woman tradition is more than 50,000 years
old. As a "backwards pioneer," Susun brings this ancient
wisdom to our modern lives, saying "I speak for the earth. I
am the voice of the plants, bringing the ways of the Ancient Grandmothers
to the sacred sister spiral of today."
ABOUT SUSUN WEED
Susun Weed, author of four
best-selling books, and founder of the Wise
Woman Center, is here to wake us up to the earth's gifts, to entice
us to bend over and pick a weed and taste it. She loves to see the
enchanted glow that lights our faces when we realize all we need for
health and nourishment is right here for free, a give away of the
earth's abundance. She reminds us that our bodies are organic, changing
entities, not machines, and that we can trust ourselves to renew and
transform.
Susun S. Weed has studied and taught about plants and their uses
for more than 30 years. Her encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health
make her one of the most respected healers of our age. As the voice
of the Wise
Woman Tradition, she has opened tens of thousands of hearts and
minds to the magic and medicine of the green nations. Susun is founder
of the Wise Woman Center, editor in chief of Ash
Tree Publishing, a high priestess of Dianic Wicca, a member of
the Wolf Clan and the Sisterhood of the Shields, a Peace Elder, and
a devoted goat keeper. Her four books:
Wise
Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
Healing Wise, the Second Wise Woman Herbal
Breast
Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way
New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way
are used by more than half a million women world-wide. Susun currently
offers her wisdom through her website www.susunweed.com,
her correspondence
courses, her apprenticeships,
and workshops with her
at home in the Catskills.
"My goal in life is to get as old as I possibly can, to have
as much fun as I possibly can, and then die." -- Susun Weed
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun
Weed has garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking
lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges
conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast
encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman,
her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly
provocative. Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal
medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Learn more at www.susunweed.com
WHO:
Susun S. Weed, herbalist