The Calling to the Plant Path
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Each one of us has a story of how we ended up walking the plant path. Many stories I've heard have been a mixture of a dark night of the soul kind of healing crisis - meets - falling head over heels into the world of herbalism kind of love story with plants.
Though each herbalist has their own tale to tell, there's one thing we most likely have in common - there was a pivotal moment where a plant touched something deep within that awakened the calling to share their healing medicine with others.
This episode is an account of that pivotal moment that changed my life and set me upon the plant path. It's a distillation of the reason I get up every morning to follow the work the plants have set before me as an herbalist - to pollinate the healing power of the plants, helping them to spread their medicine out into the world where it's needed.
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ABOUT WHITNEY
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Whitney Popham is an herbal practitioner and educator, pollinating the medicine of the plants to bring healing & beauty into the world. She has devoted her life to being a humble vessel for the plants to touch people's lives and do their healing work through her. Her calling to herbalism began from a deep passion for activism and a vision for creating healing and positive change in the world.
Through her own health challenges as a young adult, she experienced the profound healing gifts of plant medicines and then committed her life to helping others reach vibrant levels of health. In her clinical practice she facilitates healing on the emotional, spiritual, and physical levels of health through the multifaceted lens of herbalism, nutrition and Ayurvedic lifestyle coaching.
She lives in the serene beauty of Southern Oregon with her husband Sajah Popham, where they live and work together on their 120 acre homestead in the mountains. Together they founded The School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where they teach clinical and transformational plant medicine to heal people, culture and planet through their online programs they offer year-round and workshops they have on the land. She prepares traditional Spagyric herbal remedies from the lineage of Hermetic Alchemy through their product line, Organic Unity, which are used by doctors & practitioners around the world.
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Plant Path podcast. I'm Whitney Popham, co-founder of the School of Evolutionary |
| 0:06.8 | herbalism. I just want to thank you for joining me here today. If you've been following our |
| 0:11.7 | podcast for a while, you're familiar with hearing my husband Sage's voice here. But I've been getting |
| 0:17.1 | a lot of messages, people asking me to also step up and share here on our |
| 0:21.8 | channel. So I'm following all of your requests and I'm really grateful for the encouragement |
| 0:28.4 | to step out and share here more about how the plants have touched my life and how I work with |
| 0:36.2 | them and hopes that it may inspire you. |
| 0:40.9 | Sej and I named this podcast The Plant Path because to be an herbalist, it really is a way of |
| 0:47.6 | life. It's not just about a job or a hobby or something you do on the side, if you've really been touched by the |
| 0:56.2 | plants and feel that calling to work with them, you'll know inside of you that it's a calling. |
| 1:02.9 | It's a way of life. It's a way that you walk in the world. And so I just want to share a bit |
| 1:10.1 | about my own story around how the plants touched me. |
| 1:14.4 | And I know every herbalist I've talked to has their own story of the way that a plant has |
| 1:21.4 | touched them or heal them or move them or help them through something really difficult |
| 1:25.8 | in their life. |
| 1:27.3 | And so there's a depth of connection there from what they've gone through. |
| 1:32.7 | And they've been moved in a certain way to then step out and share plant medicine with other |
| 1:39.5 | people to help continue that healing that they received out into the world to help other people. |
| 1:47.0 | And so I grew up on a little island in the Pacific Northwest and grew up in nature a lot around |
| 1:57.6 | plants a lot, which I'm extremely blessed and grateful for that my parents had |
| 2:02.6 | that foresight to want to be out in the country and out in a place where we could live |
| 2:08.6 | simply you know with nature and so plants have always been a part of my life and from |
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