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Plant Medicine – 1-Day Fall Class on Immunity & Staying Healthy! :) Sat. 11/10

Classes, Homepage Recent Posts, Qigong ClassesBy Karen Joy Fletcher November 1, 2018

Let’s learn about plants and how their medicine can keep us healthy and strengthen our immune system!! This is our first of a series of seasonal Plant Medicine and Nourishing Life Classes held on Saturday, November 10th from 9:30-4ish. In this class, entitled Optimum Wellness and Immunity During the Fall, we’ll: learn how to keep ourselves healthy during cold and flu season (Yay!); learn how to make remedies with local forest plants and simple ingredients in our kitchen (so empowering!!); make some herbal infusions, a tincture, and our very own cough medicine to take home! (Fun and good medicine for the whole family!); learn about our immune system from an energetic and holistic point of view based on Chinese Medicine. (way cool!!:)); and gain simple concepts, acupressure points and exercises to increase our vitality and strengthen our immunity to stay healthy (and they’re fun! :))

A Portal of Magic & Fruition ~ 5 Days with 28 Visiting Taoist Masters & Scholars for Our “Opening Light” 開光 Ceremony

Homepage Recent Posts, QigongBy Karen Joy Fletcher June 5, 2018

Yay!!! What an amazing several days! My husband Nate is a long time student and disciple of Harrison Moretz, Taoist Master and founder of the Taoist Studies Institute (TSI). This past week marks a magnificent and even magical fruition of some of Harrison’s amazing life’s work and over 4 decades of cultivation. 28 Taoist Masters…

Rooted Branch Form & the Raven

Earthgym, Homepage Recent PostsBy Karen Joy Fletcher May 11, 2018

In early April, I had the honor of being on a team with 2 other awesome women. Our task was to facilitate an amazing Wild Women’s Weekend at Wilderness Awareness School for a group of 25 women from various walks of life. We all left transformed, empowered, enriched with the aliveness that comes from deep…

The Medicine of Free & Easy Wandering

Earthgym, Homepage Recent Posts, Qigong, Wonder WandersBy Karen Joy Fletcher May 1, 2018

Are you a “free and easy wanderer”? If not, it’s a fun way of being to consider. Plus it’s good for your health!! During the spring months, the 2nd half of my Moon (menstruation) cycle, I take a Chinese herbal formula called Xiao Yao Wan – literally meaning free and easy wandering. ☺ You see, I’m…

Going Out is Coming in

Earthgym, Homepage Recent PostsBy Karen Joy Fletcher May 11, 2017

I realize in going out into the Wilderness, I am really going in. I love going out to go in – I love it so very much and I feel my heart pulling me to go out into the mountains more and more and more. There is so much to see, so many peaks to…

Sister Stick Dance

Earthgym, Homepage Recent PostsBy Karen Joy Fletcher May 11, 2017

May 15, 2015 Karen Joy Fletcher I used my grip, grabbing with my pinky first, then wrapping my other fingers around the stick to hold on tight. This gives me my tightest grip. I held with both hands and felt my feet sink into the earth with my soles. As I grabbed, she, on the…

Entering into Enchantment

Earthgym, Homepage Recent Posts, Wonder WandersBy Karen Joy Fletcher May 10, 2017

March 2, 2015 Karen Joy Fletcher My practice is Enchantment. When I enter into a state of enchantment, I enter “Narnia”, I enter a magical world, the Faerie world, or as JR Tolkien aptly named it, I enter into Middle Earth. As a child, I loved to play outside. I have a twin sister and…

Hammering ~ My First Dance

Earthgym, Homepage Recent PostsBy Karen Joy Fletcher May 10, 2017

I am beginning to understand – to understand the alchemy of training, toning, musing with my muscles and what it means to grip, grin and ground and pull as one muscle. So much time is spent floating…floating in our thoughts, floating in worries, floating down the roads in cars, floating over the earth in buildings,…

A Gift of the Cedars and Full Moon Glow

Homepage Recent Posts, QigongBy Karen Joy Fletcher November 29, 2016

They loom tall. They are friendly giants. They stand in silence, and are dark against the shimmering stars of the night sky and the full autumn blood moon eclipse. I inhale, take another inhale and another. Oh the freshness of these trees, their strength, their majesty taken in through my breath, fill my own living…

Standing for Trees!

Earthgym, Homepage Recent PostsBy Karen Joy Fletcher September 6, 2015

I’m on my pilgrimage Hohme, into the sacred mountains of OM (Olympic Mts). I make this pilgrimage frequently….it’s part of my training, my study, my immersion, devotion to Master OG (Old Growth), learning from my greatest teachers, our forest trees, mountains, living waters, our beloved Mother Earth. My pilgrimages are filled with awe, love,…

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