Working with the Whole Person
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever noticed how stress can make your body ache, your heart beat increase, or upset your digestion? Or vice versa and you eat a food your intolerant too and you get edgy, irritable or brain foggy? This happens because our mental, emotional, and physical health are all connected. Sadly, people often treat these aspects separately, which lead to treatments that don't address the whole picture.
In my journey with herbalism, I discovered something amazing. Plants can heal more than just physical health issues. They can also help with deeper physical, mental, and emotional problems. By understanding how these parts are linked, you can learn how to make your body, mind, and emotions work together and unlock the potential for a healthier, happier you.
In today's episode, you'll learn:
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What it really means to work with the WHOLE person and discover a holistic approach to healing
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The secret to seeing the connections between the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels in people
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Why you need to go beyond the surface to see results in your practice
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How to spot your clients' limiting patterns and help them break them, becoming a guide on their healing journey
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Ways to turn your "poison into your medicine" and achieve transformational healing
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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. |
| 0:25.1 | Hey there, everybody, Saja Popham here again, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, |
| 0:30.1 | and welcome back to the plant path here. |
| 0:33.2 | And hopefully you've been enjoying this, had a little series I've been sharing with you over the last number of weeks, |
| 0:39.6 | just introducing some of the core concepts and approaches and kind of ways of seeing things |
| 0:46.4 | of, you know, the way we do things here at the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:51.9 | And, you know, in today's episode and the next one |
| 0:55.9 | you're gonna get next week are ones that are really dear |
| 0:59.7 | to my heart. |
| 1:00.1 | I mean, obviously it's all very dear to my heart, |
| 1:02.0 | but I really love talking about this approach |
| 1:06.7 | of really working with and understanding |
| 1:10.5 | the whole person and the whole plant. |
| 1:13.6 | Obviously, share a lot about, you know, the dynamics around what I see holistic herbalism being all about. |
| 1:22.6 | And I think very important part of that is understanding the whole person, right? As I was sharing in the last |
| 1:31.3 | episode on vitalism, you know, I think it could be really easy sometimes, especially when we're |
| 1:37.9 | just starting to work with people or, you know, especially for those of us raised in, you know, |
| 1:43.1 | more of a culture where allopathic |
| 1:47.1 | medicine is the primary way medicine is practice, right? You just grow up going to doctors and |
| 1:53.3 | taking prescription over the counter medications. It's easy for a lot of those kind of approaches |
| 1:59.1 | to carry over into our approach to herbal medicine |
| 2:03.9 | and the way we think about people and sickness and disease and the way we administer plants to |
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