Join us at the Apothecary Garden, Butleigh, Somerset, BA6 8TF for a one day immersion learning plant spirit connection practises, alchemy and medicine making with Charlotte Pulver. This is a very specially focused Medicine Making Day working with the Mistletoe plant in discovering its' incredible healing benefits and ways. This will be a highly informative, transformational and joyous day.
Traditionally in Celtic cultures druid priests would always harvest and make mistletoe medicine on the waxing moon either side of the winter solstice. The 12th Jan is indeed one of those ripe and right days.
What’s Included
Knowledge of the system of alchemy, neuroscience and foundational practices in connecting to yourself and the natural world
Learn plant spirit connection practises
Learn foundational alchemical knowledge in making your own physical medicines in life.
Sharing of mistletoe lore and botany
Go away with your own bottled mistletoe hydrosol, tincture, anointing oil, vibrational essence, incense and tea.
You will also be given a ‘Plant Spirit Connection’ booklet to go away with, written by Charlotte Pulver to continue your connection with mistletoe and the natural world.
Member’s of Botanic Shed will receive an invitation to discuss the study and experience on zoom with Lara Cowan who attended the course in 2024 and discussed her experience of BBC Gardeners World.
Morning session
PLANT SPIRIT CONNECTION
Learn the most important technique there is in making a medicine in life. A technique which ensures that any medicine that you make is infused with the vitality and consciousness of the plant(s) that you are working with. These are foundational practices which are at the heart of the ancient practice of Alchemy. Where you will be taught how to meet and commune with the consciousness of plants and how to facilitate healing for yourself and others when making medicines with plants.
These ancient yet very simple techniques can also be applied in communicating with any aspect of nature - be it the river, trees, rocks, stars and animals too. Thereby helping facilitate a deeper embodiment and connection to the natural world and all of life.
Because we are all a part of nature, this session will help you awaken your natural birth right in communicating with the natural world whilst also accessing your own innate ancestral wisdom and knowledge.
Afternoon session
PLANT SPIRIT WATERS: THE MAKING OF HYDROSOLS
Discover the world of hydrosols, also known as hydrolats or ‘plant spirit waters’. Hydrosols are distilled plant waters which contain a wealth of powerful plant compounds including microparticles of essential oils in these cellular waters.
In Alchemy hydrosols physically embody the plant's Spirit, it's intelligent animating life force. They are complete plant water medicine, saturated with the plant’s essence infused in each molecule. Distillation is an ancient art with evidence of it going back at least 5000 years. Widely practised in Eygptian, Greek, European, Roman, Chinese and Persian cultures and systems of medicine. Taking the time to make a hydrosol is truly a magical, sensory and wonderful ritual experience.
This will be a master class in hydrosol making and how hydrosols are made with smaller stills and even on your own kitchen stove. You will also have the chance to make a mistletoe tincture, sacred anointing oil and vibrational essence too.
LOCATION:
At the Apothecary Garden, Butleigh, Somerset, BA6 8TF. Set within working apothecary gardens, which lay 5 miles south of Glastonbury town.
ONSITE ACCOMMODATION:
Stay at the Apothecary Garden, an organic working apothecary garden in Somerset in one of their bespoke built cabins or converted 17th-century barns. Full details can be found here: https://www.apothecarygarden.co.uk/stay
