We engage our thoughts, our intentions, our wishes, our prayers for our souls, our family, our community, our loved ones and even the world and bless them with our tea.
Welcome to the Herbal Medicine Circle!
As we seek to know what we need and what is best to do during this time, let’s take a moment and make tea together.
We will gather our hearts and minds and infuse the herbal medicine we make with love and care.
With decades of experience gathering herbal medicine circles together, I know the healing power of focusing our hearts and hands into making one single medicine.
I am joined by 2 wonderful Herbal Medicine Woman that I love and am inspired by the work they do in the world in service of the plants. Please join myself, Lani Kamauu Yamasaki and Jolie Elan in our Herbal Medicine Making Circle. I am so grateful to Lani and Jolie for their generosity and the powerful teachings in their tea ceremonies.
Who will you be making tea for, besides yourself? You can make your tea as a healing blessing for anyone, even if they won’t be drinking it.
What are the thoughts and intention that you would like to fill yourself with and radiate into the world right now?
Your words and wishes can be whispered into your herbal medicines and offered for healing, just like a song or the care you give to a loved one.
Take a moment and let’s drop into our hearts, make our medicine with love and serve up some healing tea during this time of great change.
This is the medicine for these times!
The intention of this Medicine Circle is to help us come together; to help all of us see the value of the medicine circle. If you haven’t created your herbal medicine circle, let this experience guide you to gathering the people that you make herbal medicine with.
One thing that nobody ever taught me but that I saw time and time again in my herb classes for the last 30 years, is that when we stop and all make one medicine together and then infuse that medicine with our heart and our prayers, the medicine takes on another form.
I invite you to create your medicine circle even if it’s with one other person where you put your love and intention into the tea. I have many students that have created medicine circles and have been meeting for years. The medicine that they make together, that they pray and sing with, when they come home, everybody wants that medicine because people know that it is special, you can’t buy it.
This isn’t just about making the best elderberry syrup. This is about infusing our medicine with care.
We are going to create something that is not just with our head, but we are going to drop down, activate, infuse our tea blends with our heart and our belly with all of who we are.
We engage our thoughts, our intentions, our wishes, our prayers for our souls, our family, our community, our loved ones and even the world and bless them with our tea.
In this process of working with the plants, of working with the tea, of making whatever medicine you make, we become more whole. The plants engage us. They engage our emotions, our senses and more of who we are. They help us to wake up. We can begin to hear our inner voice and the voice of the earth.
When I make my tea, when I work with the rosemary, peppermint or ginger, I come back home and I set my energy. I allow the herbs to help me set my energy in a way that’s healing for me and those around me. I want to say thank you as we create this circle together. This is about us being medicine makers. We need the medicine makers now. We need the earth stewards.
How do you infuse your herbal medicines with love?
If infusing your energy into a medicine is new for you, this isn’t a religion. This is about you finding what your medicine is. What is your medicine path? How do you potentiate your herbal medicines with your hands, your heart and your love?
Thank you for joining us in this Herbal Medicine Circle and for making tea. May this tea bring healing to you, your family and your loved ones. May it open our hearts so that we know the story that we are creating with love.
We will gather our hearts and minds and infuse the herbal medicine we make with love and care. Come infuse your herbal tea with love and blessings from around the world.
May your healing tea be blessed with the gift of health and well-being for all
Here is a message from Lani Kamauu Yamasaki, about this Virtual Herbal Medicine Circle:
Aloha dear friends,
Letʻs make tea together! In Hawaiian healing traditions, when we gather and focus our hearts, intentions and prayers to create laʻau or herbal medicine it is imbued with tremendous mana.
Mana = divine and miraculous power
Over the past several weeks, many of you have asked these questions, “How do we increase our feelings of well-being…boost our immune system…bring more comfort to our ʻohana (family) and community…reduce stress?”
In speaking with our elders, it became clear that we must gather and bring together our intentions, prayers, aloha and mana…aligning our hearts and energies to create laʻau for our collective healing.
When we heal, our Ancestors heal, those around us heal and those yet to be born heal. This is a traditional Hawaiian belief which is now validated by modern day scientists.
On “cue” Kami McBride, herbalist and Medicine Woman received ʻike’ – a divine inspiration to create a global Herbal Medicine Circle. She reached out to invite Jolie Elan (Herbal Medicine Woman) and I to join in Circle…to create laʻau…to create herbal tea for healing.
One single tea, blessed by everyone…. Including YOU. Imbued with our collective aloha, intention, prayers and mana for healing.
E mālama pono – nurture your light within!
-Lani Kamauu Yamasaki
Virtual Herbal Medicine Circle Day #1 with Kami McBride
Virtual Herbal Medicine Circle Day #2 with Lani Kamauu Yamasaki
Virtual Herbal Medicine Circle Day #3 with Jolie Elan
Download Ginger Root Tea Recipe With Lani Kamauu Yamasaki
Lani Kamauu Yamasaki is a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner from the Lono family. For over 35 years she has globally empowered individuals and communities to steward their trauma, build resiliency and self-sufficiency through incorporating Hawaiian healing practices such as la’au lapa’au – healing with plants and ho’oponopono. https://laniyamasaki.com/
Download Peppermint Tea Recipe with Jolie Elan
Jolie Elan is the Director of Go Wild Institute which works to weave science, myth and spirit to find a balance in the great web of life. Jolie teaches Botany for Herbalists and has worked on ethnobotany and restoration projects on four continents. She helps people listen to the guiding wisdom of Mother Earth during these uncertain times. https://www.gowildinstitute.org/
Download Rosemary Tea Recipe with Kami McBride
Kami McBride, author of The Herbal Kitchen and www.plantwisdom.online has been leading Herbal Medicine Circles for 30 years.
Thank you! I have watched you for a little while. I appreciate you! I want to use herbs to help with things like congestion, and, right now, intestinal pain! Thank you!
It sounds like a wonderful healing to spread and share with others.
My sister and daughter, both with breast cancer.
This is so amazing! I love tea so much I drink everyday my brazilian yerba mate tea and Always mixed with lavender, lemongrass, ginger & lemon, peppermint and so on. Thank you 🍃💐💓
Thank you I appreciate it!
Thank you so much….so very grateful for this lovely offering.