Vitalist Self-Care Practices
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Do you wish that you felt more vitality? Many people wait until they have time to take a vacation or staycation to recharge, but postponing self-care until you truly need it can leave you feeling burned out.
Instead of seeing self-care as an uphill battle, you can take small and achievable steps that enrich your day and make you feel great. In today's blog post, I share simple yet life-changing self-care practices you can do that are rooted in the vitalist model of healing.
In this week's episode, you'll discover:
- How rising with the sun can change your day
- The correlation between your digestion and vitality
- What a simple walk in nature can do for you
- The importance of rest and how to budget it into your day
- Best practices for embracing the changing seasons
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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. |
| 0:25.2 | Hey there, everybody. I'm Seja Popham, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:30.0 | And I've been getting some questions in from the community lately as I've been sharing more |
| 0:36.0 | about vitalism and vitalist traditions of herbalism and, |
| 0:40.8 | you know, a little bit on how it's really transformed and impacted my life as just a human, |
| 0:47.5 | but also as an herbalist and also looking at how the principles of vitalism really extend beyond herbal medicine |
| 0:56.0 | and influence how we work with people as a healer. |
| 1:00.5 | And as we try to live a life, a healthier life, a vibrant, vital life. |
| 1:06.9 | But a lot of people have been asking like, what does this actually look like? |
| 1:15.6 | You know, how do we, in like our daily life and our daily practice? What are things like practical things that we can do in order to just live in accordance |
| 1:22.6 | with some of these principles? |
| 1:24.6 | And so I thought I would share some really simple things on how we can do that, |
| 1:31.3 | how we can live a life that follows the vital intelligence of nature. And, you know, to me, |
| 1:38.9 | this is so much of what vitalism is about, is about, well, first off, recognizing that nature is intelligent, |
| 1:48.0 | that our body is nature, we are nature, and that we have the capacity to learn from nature |
| 1:55.7 | and study nature and understand how that nature externally is also within us and seeing that |
| 2:07.4 | pattern between the macrocosm and the microcosm. |
| 2:11.6 | And so I wanted to share a little bit of really what that looks like in terms of kind of |
| 2:17.2 | our daily life, like our day simple, |
| 2:19.8 | like these are super, super simple daily practices. |
| 2:23.9 | Um, but they're actually really quite profound because what they do is they start to |
| 2:29.3 | establish our rhythm and aligning our rhythm to the rhythms of the seasons, to the rhythm of the daily cycle, |
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