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HERBAL ALCHEMY TRAINING SESSIONS A FREE WORKSHOP SERIES FROM THE SCHOOL OF EVOLUTIONARY HERBALISM Only available until October 14th, 2020 SIGN UP NOW This episode of the HerbRally podcast is part two of four in Sajah Popham's Alchemy and Herbalism series. Enjoy!

HERBAL ALCHEMY TRAINING SESSIONS A FREE WORKSHOP SERIES FROM THE SCHOOL OF EVOLUTIONARY HERBALISM Only available until October 14th, 2020 SIGN UP NOW This episode of the HerbRally podcast is part one of four in Sajah Popham's Alchemy and Herbalism series. Enjoy!

Today we'll hear from Brighid Doherty of The Solidago School of Herbalism on her upcoming online course, Nourish Yourself. This course teaches you how to incorporate common herbs, in simple ways, into daily life. Brighid inspires people to be more self-reliant in their health and healing process, and she teaches the home herbalist how to bring herbal medicine into their lives by relating to plants in their bodies, kitchens, gardens, and the wild. The next course starts October 6th and runs through mid-December. Click here to find out more! For more from Brighid, visit her on Facebook and Instagram. Brighid Doherty is an herbalist honoring the Wise Woman Tradition. She resides on Deer Isle, a bridged-island in Downeast Maine. Brighid is a passionate herbal health educator and a professional gardener. She is the founder of The Solidago School of Herbalism. Brighid began her connection with herbs while playing in her mother's gardens as a child, their scents and beauty attracting her curiosity. For the past two decades, Brighid has worked with medicinal plants in a variety of ways; as a student and a teacher, a gardener and a forager, a medicine maker and health consultant. She received a BA focused in Organic Agriculture and Herbal Medicine from Evergreen State College. She has had many wonderful herbalist mentors including Susun Weed, Rosemary Gladstar, Katja Swift, and KP Khalsa. She teaches a variety of workshops for the home herbalist, including medicinal plant walks, herbal spas, an Herbs for Health series, and hands-on medicine making. Brighid also offers an online course, called Nourish Yourself. Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

FREE Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel by LearningHerbs! Today we'll hear from herbalist Heather Irvine as she goes in-depth on lobelia. Whether you're new to this plant or not, you're sure to learn something! To read the monograph in its entirety: www.herbrally.com/monographs/lobelia Visit Heather online: Giving Tree Botanicals Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

FREE Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel by LearningHerbs! Today we'll revisit an episode from frequent HerbRally contributor, Heather Irvine. She delves into five body systems and five herbs to consider using — hawthorn , calendula, licorice, triphala, and eleuthero. Note: This episode was recorded in 2019. The SARS study referenced was not on the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

FREE Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel by LearningHerbs! In today's episode we'll hear a chat between herbalists and authors Rosalee de la Forêt and Emily Han. Rosalee and Emily have spent the past couple of years collaborating to write the book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. And that's what we'll get to hear about in this episode! You'll learn about the origins of the book, the writing process and so on. They also cover a few of the featured plants from the book such as chickweed, violet, elder, and more. Emily and Rosalee also teach us about harvesting techniques and even give us some recipes. Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

FREE Taste of Herbs Flavor Wheel by LearningHerbs! Listen in as herbalist and author Rosalee de la Forêt talks all about the hops (Humulus lupulus). Before trendy bars started highlighting their hoppy brews, the hop plant was used as a traditional herbal medicine. With their aromatic and pungent scent, hops strobiles have been prized for their ability to help people relax. This use dates back thousands of years, at least since the ninth century. Check out Rosalee's monograph HERE. Thank you for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

Anna Fernandez joins us today to share details on the upcoming Great Lakes Herb Faire virtual event, being held free of charge September 12th-13th. Through the weekend, until September 27th, you also have free access to video classes as well as past recordings from the Faire. Don't forget to stop by their virtual marketplace to pick up handcrafted goods from artisans in the Great Lakes region! Click here for virtual herb faire schedule: www.greatlakesherbfaire.org/virtualfaire.html Visit their website: www.greatlakesherbfaire.org/ Find them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/greatlakesherbfaire/ Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

On today's special episode, join the talented Johanna Warren near her home in Wales for a private concert. Enjoy her plant-inspired lyrics as she is surrounded by the sounds of the forest. Johanna recently lent her voice to Netflix series 'The Midnight Gospel' and released her fifth solo album Chaotic Good on Carpark Records. Beyond her musical artistry, Johanna is a mystic, herbalist, Reiki Master, and advocate for the healing powers of Nature. For more from Johanna, catch her upcoming livestream concert on October 1. Tickets on sale now! "I've been thinking of life as one big roleplaying game," Johanna Warren offers when asked why she chose to title her new album after a Dungeons & Dragons reference. "There's chance, there's choice, and there's alignment—what forces in the universe do I choose to align myself with?" Chaotic Good is Warren's fifth full-length album and first for Wax Nine/Carpark Records. It represents a moment of rupture in the singer-songwriter's career as she transitions away from the quiet, folk-adjacent work that defined her early solo albums with a bold statement piece that demonstrates the breadth of her ambition. Here, Warren flits between crushing admissions set to spare piano solos and muscular declarations of independence that have more in common with grunge acts of bygone years than anything we've heard from Warren in the past. "The last few years I've had an urge to change my name, or create some alter-ego," she says. "But I've come to realize that 'Johanna' is already just a character. We think we know who we are based on what's already happened, but we're allowed to make new choices." The oceanic, soothing single "Bed of Nails" illustrates that realization perfectly when Warren sings: "I tried a little bit too hard to be myself/It turned me into something else." Recording Chaotic Good was an exercise in self-reinvention. Warren decided to produce the album on her own, borrowing recording equipment from a friend to do much of the preliminary tracking alone in a garage. She enlisted a few key collaborators to fully enliven her vision, most notably former Sticklips bandmates Chris St. Hilaire and Jim Bertini. On the raucously resilient "Part of It," Warren is joined by her musical brethren as she addresses a noncommittal narcissist and—a trademark of Warren's work—the narrator's complicity in her own suffering: "Don't look at me like I'm the one holding you back/and I won't look at you like you have something I lack." Adding to the album's dynamism is the fact that it took shape over the course of four years in studios across the United States while Warren was touring her most recent albums Gemini I and II. Warren uses words like "patchwork" and "scrapbook" to describe Chaotic Good; it is a collection of sonic snapshots that transport her to specific places in time with each listen. "This album is about learning how to be with myself after a lifetime of codependent relationships," Warren says. You can hear that especially well on "Twisted," which finds her confronting a former lover, and ultimately, letting them go. "I'm a warrior, but I give up," Warren howls, the surrounding production warping and distorting as her raw vocal crests to an acidic scream. Though her lyrics are resigned, her delivery is anything but. It is a moment of total abandon, when the multitudinous aspects of a personality coalesce to form something at once dazzling and monstrous. "Chaotic Good is a metamorphosis," Warren says. "It's my phoenix moment. Everything I've done before was just building the funeral pyre." Johanna Warren is a multi-instrumentalist and producer who began her career as a singer/songwriter in the Brooklyn-based psych folk band Sticklips. The group released two albums before disbanding in 2012, and after a stint performing backup vocals for Iron & Wine, Warren self-released her debut solo album, Fates, in 2013. The album prompted her to tour nationally under her own name, and since then, she's led a nomadic existence, calling cities across the United States home for short periods of time. Over the past few years, Warren has toured alongside Mitski, Julie Byrne, and Marissa Nadler, but a life on the road hasn't slowed her output. In 2015, she released her sophomore album nūmūn to acclaim, propelling her to the forefront of artists to watch in the second half of the decade. Warren dedicated the spellbinding collection of acoustically-driven songs to the phases of the moon and to the divine feminine — forces of great power and consequence that are all-too often overlooked. The following year, Warren announced a twin set of albums released on her own label Spirit House, which promoted a radically inclusive, artist-friendly ethos. Each of the songs on Gemini I corresponds with a song on Gemini II, which debuted later, in 2018. The two albums are in conversation with one another, offering up a character sketch of dueling personalities vying for acceptance. To contrast nūmūn, which was rendered using a simple palate of acoustic instruments, the arrangements on Gemini I and II integrated a wide array of instrumentation and more palpable percussion, furnished with help from a small cohort of Warren's longtime collaborators. Following the release of Gemini II, Warren embarked on her extensive Plant Medicine Tour, during which she invited local herbalists, farmers, and activists to come and share resources with attendees about alternative remedies. In the spare moments between tour stops, Warren recorded her latest album in studios across the United States. Entirely self-produced, Chaotic Good is Warren's first album for Wax Nine/Carpark and it is her boldest to date, finding her in a state of transition as she introduces listeners to a new phase of her artistry. Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com

Herbal Academy is having their back-to-school sale through September 13th with savings up to 35% off courses! Click here to browse all Herbal Academy courses! In this episode, we'll hear from Herbal Academy in a spoken lesson about adaptogens with herbalist teacher Heather Irvine. The episode is a blend of Heather's impressions of adaptogens and seven specific adaptogenic herbs — what they do, how they work, which herb to choose for who — and it also provides you an example of the balanced information, from introductory to advanced, you'll find in Herbal Academy's courses, particularly the Stress Management Course. You'll learn a bit about how herbs can gently and positively influence the nervous system, endocrine system, and immune system (as well as how these work together.) She'll talk about the nuances and some common constituents of many adaptogens; saponins, complex polysaccharides, and antioxidants such as flavonoids in herbs like ashwagandha, eleuthero, gotu kola, licorice, reishi, holy basil, and rhodiola.Here are a few of Herbal Academy's course offerings, deeply discounted through September 13th: Intro Course Intermediate Course Entrepreneurial Course Advanced Course And as the fall season is nearly upon us, not to be missed is my personal favorite: The Mushroom Course! To learn more about the Herbal Academy's courses or stay in the loop about deals and freebies, sign up for their newsletter. You'll also receive a free ebook, '9 Familiar Herbs for Beginners.' Thanks for listening! HerbRally www.herbrally.com Breitenbush Herb Conference www.herbalconference.net