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Medicine Stories

25. Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll

Medicine Stories

Amber M Hill

Herbs, Health & Fitness, Ancestry, Alternativemedicine, Herbalism, Alternative Health, Dreams, Healing, Society & Culture, Psychedelics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2018

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Herbalism is vast, the second song of a plant, a powerful stone medicine story, and more...

Maia Toll spent a life-changing year apprenticed to a traditional medicine woman in Ireland. She mentors spiritual wellness seekers, practitioners, and teachers through her online program, The Medicine Keepers Collective, and is the founder and owner of Herbiary, a natural products store with locations in Asheville, North Carolina, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Maia has taught botanical medicine at West Chester University and at the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research in the Peruvian jungle. She lectures at hospitals, universities, and herbal conferences and runs her own Deep Magic Retreat in the North Carolina mountains during the witchy twilight of autumn. She blogs to an international following at maiatoll.com and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.

In the Intro:

  • Coming into relationship with nature
  • Become a kitchen witch
  • Herbalism is vast

In the Interview:

  • The layers within

  • A fantastical Herbal

  • Opening to the second song of a plant

  • How a health problem, an unraveling life, and a dream message set Maia on the plant path

  • Apprenticing to a medicine woman in Ireland

  • When having a diagnosis isn’t helpful

  • Deep self attunement for stopping illness before it becomes too big

  • A major weakness herbalists face when we’re ill

  • The Healing Relationship

  • Stone medicine & a story of healing with morganite

  • How we create the sacred

  • A meaningful swan sighting, union & transformation, and the myth of Caer

  • We talk about how neither of us wanted to get married and now we’re both wives, and also the stories of our wedding rings

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0:00.0

There are worlds within, you know, the subtle realms, a lot of them I think exist within us, to a cell in your liver.

0:09.6

Your mind is a god. Hello friends, it's me, Amber Magnolia Hill, and this is episode 25 of the Medicine Stories podcast

0:26.7

where we explore the mythic journeys we undertake when coming to know ourselves

0:30.9

through interviews with herbalists, storykeepers, ancestral listeners, consciousness

0:36.2

explorers, earth dreamers, and other wise folk.

0:40.4

Story is medicine, magic is real, healing is open-ended and endless.

0:46.0

As we discover in this conversation today with Maya Toll,

0:52.0

Maya is the author of the illustrated herbiary, a new book that just

0:57.0

came out. And in this conversation we talk about the layers within a fantastical herbal opening to the second

1:06.4

song of a plant. How a health problem and unraveling life and a dream

1:11.8

message, a very strong and specific dream message,

1:15.8

sent Maya on the plant path, set Maya on the plant path,

1:20.8

apprenticesing to a medicine woman in Ireland, when having a diagnosis isn't helpful,

1:27.0

deep self-attunement for stopping illness before it becomes too big, too deeply embedded. A major weakness that

1:36.2

herbalists face when we're ill, the healing relationship, stone medicine and a story of Healing with Morganite, how we create the sacred,

1:48.6

a meaningful swan sighting, union and transformation, and I talk about how neither of us wanted to get married and now we're both wives and we also share the stories of our wedding rings.

2:03.0

So Maya and we also share the stories of our wedding rings.

2:11.4

So Maya is giving away two really awesome online courses as a part of this interview that we did.

2:14.5

One of them is for everyone.

2:16.5

Anyone listening right now can access it.

2:18.8

And then the second one is for patrons of the podcast

2:21.9

at the $2 level. So first I'll tell you about the one that's for

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