HOLDING THE HEART: Herbal Gateways for Emotional Resilience

HERBS FOR HOLDING THE HEART

Discover herbal allies to comfort the heart and invite emotional resilience

Uplifting the heart can be challenging at times. In times of loss, change, or overwhelm, it can be difficult to keep the heart open without feeling overly vulnerable or weighed down. The world often asks us to stay strong, but we can find ourselves becoming disheartened or shut down, unable to access joy and easy engagement. 

Sometimes our heart hurts

This workshop is an invitation to explore herbs and flowers that bring comfort, resilience, and ease to the heart. We’ll delve into the wisdom, mythology, and psychospiritual qualities of key plants that offer nourishment and strength. Discover how they can help anchor back the spirit, soothe the nervous system, and restore your sense of balance.

Through stories, practical guidance, case examples and experiential practices, connect more deeply with Rose, Hawthorn, Lemon Balm, Motherwort, Borage and Pink Flannel Flower. Learn to recognise when each herb is most needed—whether to strengthen, soften, cool, uplift or be protective—and how to integrate them into your life for emotional support and healing. 

This workshop is practical, informative and rooted in the guidance from the plant spirit consciousness of the herbs. 

What you'll receive:

-  Discover the history, medicine, and mythology of key heart-healing herbs such as Rose, Motherwort, Hawthorn, Lemon Balm, and Borage.

-  Differentiate herbal actions and energetics, choosing the right ally for specific symptoms and emotional needs.

- Explore somatic practices to connect with the spirit of the plants, deepening your understanding of their unique guidance. 

- Experience a plant spirit meditation to receive personal insights and healing from these sacred allies. 

- Learn simple techniques to support vagal balance, anchoring the heart and calming the nervous system. 

- A replay link will be sent to everyone registered. 

This is a sacred space to reconnect with your heart’s wisdom, guided by the nurturing energies of plant medicine and the lineage of the Sisterhood of the Rose. 

Date: Sunday, February 23, 2025

Time: 10.30-12pm, Sydney time AEST

Cost: $28

This is the second of the HERBAL GATEWAYS series, exploring the profound ways that plants support your psyche, body and heart on emotional, energetic and mental levels. Our beautiful herbs are not just adjuncts to physical health—they are potent holistic allies, fostering reconnection and harmony between body, mind, heart, and spirit. 

See also:
Workshop 1: Strong Roots: Herbal Gateways for Power and Grounding
Date: Thursday January 30, 7.00-8.30pm
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Workshop 3: Herbs for the Grieving Heart
Date: Sunday March 16, 10.30-12pm
More info...  

Workshops are $28 each or a discount 3 bundle for $75

YOUR FACILITATOR

JACQUI BUSHELL has been loving the wild abundance of the earth for much of her life.  Founder of the Sacred Presence School of Embodied Wisdom and creator of the Magdalene Oils of Anointing, she is an inspiring teacher, storyteller, transformational healing practitioner, Reiki teacher and plant spirit alchemist.  For 30 years, Jacqui has been facilitating women’s circles, workshops, training programs and retreats around the world, to enhance a deep sense of belonging through reconnecting with nature and the sacred feminine. Jacqui inspires people to live passionately and creatively, in communion with the earth, spirit and their soul wisdom.   

FB Jacqui Bushell  or  jacquibushell@me.com