Pathways to Herbal Mastery
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
I know the beginning of the year is when a lot of us take a step back and look at our lives from a greater perspective. Perhaps we're looking back on the past year and thinking about what we'd like to change or do differently...
... Or we're looking forward and planning out how we want our lives to look and resolving to make it that way.
Hopefully as an herbalist, you're thinking about your plant path as well, and considering how you plan on taking your understanding of herbalism, people and plants to the next level so you can be a better practitioner.
The way I see it, there's so much to learn as an herbalist that it never really ends. The pathway to herbal mastery is to always be a lifelong student. But sometimes it can be hard to know how to get there or where we need to focus our studies and practice.
This very special audio was an issue of Materia Medica Monthly from a few years ago. But I think it's so relevant to herbalists around this time of year I wanted to share it with you too.
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path is a window into the world of herbal medicine. With perspectives gleaned from traditional Western herbalism, Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, Alchemy, Medical Astrology, and traditional cultures from around the world, The Plant Path provides unique insights, skills and strategies for the practice of true holistic herbalism. From clinical to spiritual perspectives, we don't just focus on what herbs are "good for," but rather who they are as intelligent beings, and how we can work with them to heal us physically and consciously evolve.
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ABOUT SAJAH
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Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical Western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy.
His mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances the science and spirituality of plant medicine, focusing on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. This is only achieved through understanding and working with the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of the plants. His teachings embody a heartfelt respect, honor and reverence for the vast intelligence of plants in a way that empowers us to look deeper into the nature of our medicines and ourselves.
He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the plant path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey there everybody, Sagea Popham here, and I wanted to do something a little special, a little bit different for this month's issue. |
| 0:31.6 | You know, this time of year, coming around the end of this year and coming into a new year. I always find that myself |
| 0:39.8 | and a lot of other people I know tend to engage in a lot of kind of internal reflection. Obviously |
| 0:45.1 | we're moving into the winter time. It's an incredible time to kind of go inward. You know, |
| 0:50.1 | sun's not out quite as much. It's a lot darker. It's colds. We're all around the fire more often. |
| 0:57.0 | And I just find that wintertime is a really good time for that internal reflection. |
| 1:02.0 | And getting clarity, to me this time of year is an incredible time to gather clarity, |
| 1:09.0 | gather a deeper understanding of what you learned over the past year, |
| 1:14.3 | and really kind of starting to look forward into the new year. |
| 1:17.8 | You know, there's this whole dynamic around New Year's resolutions and all that stuff. |
| 1:22.3 | And I do think there's something to it, you know. |
| 1:24.4 | I don't think we have to wait until a new year to create, |
| 1:28.0 | to have a new level of resolve within ourselves to make positive changes in our lives. |
| 1:33.8 | But nonetheless, this is the time of year when a lot of people are doing that. So what I wanted |
| 1:37.8 | to do in this issue is share with you some pathways to herbal mastery. You know, if there's one thing that I can say |
| 1:46.4 | that is critically important for you to become an incredibly effective and efficient and just |
| 1:54.8 | good practitioner, how to be a great herbalist, it's good to have a strategy, right? It's good to have |
| 2:00.5 | an approach. It's good to kind |
| 2:02.1 | of take a step back and look at your plant path, you know, look at where you've been on your |
| 2:08.7 | plant path, how much you've learned, how much you've grown as an herbalist, what new skills, |
| 2:13.8 | new strategies, new principles you've learned over this past year, especially here with |
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