Welcome to the first ever Wild World podcast!
I was so excited to get this opportunity to chat with the incredibly inspiring Tatiana Dawn from Alchemilla Herbals and the Elder Tree, about her upcoming herbal medicine course ‘Meandering Medicine’, The Elder Tree Project and her herbal origin story.
Tatiana Lustre Dawn aka Twiggy is the owner and manager of Alchemilla Herbals. She is a Mother, Herbalist, Permaculturalist, Geneologist, Lomi Lomi, Reiki and Attunement Therapy Practitioner, Sahumadora, Sacred Song Carrier and Oneironaut.
Tatiana is passionate about growing, harvesting and making medicines and also has a keen interest in wild/naturalised medicines. She loves connecting people to the plants and also to their own ancestral roots, with her genealogy offerings.
She has been entranced by plant medicine for as long as she can remember and honours the plants as teachers with deep reverence and respect. Ceremonial work is an important aspect of her life and she works closely with traditional medicine keepers of different lineages. She has a strong calling to learn, carry and teach sacred devotional medicine songs from different cultures. She has have been initiated as a sahumadora and work with fire, smoke and ash for healing, purification and protection.
She believes that with knowledge comes responsibility, so she uses an array of social media platforms and other online spaces to share her experiences and knowledge, as well as regular workshops, classes and an apprenticeship program. Tatiana is a regular guest speaker at many different community events and herbal gatherings around Australia, she writes regular articles for Australian magazines and newsletters, and is currently writing a book about how to grow, harvest/wild harvest and manufacture plant medicine to extract and retain the potency of the herbal constituents.
Tatiana is the founder of The Elder Tree, a not-for-profit organisation which is currently gathering the resources to set up a grassroots herbal education centre on the Atherton Tablelands, Far North QLD. She is also the founder of The Elder Tree podcast which has 4 presenters, each with their own herbal segment.
Links for The Elder Tree Project
You can go to our website here.Facebook page here.
Instagram page here.
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Links for The Elder Tree Podcast
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You can join The Elder Tree Trove (on Patreon) here to support us by paying $2 per week, while getting access to amazing material from the guests from the podcast.
Links for Alchemilla Herbals
Website:
Patreon:
https://patreon.com/alchemilla_herbals
Mailing List URL
Social Media:
https://www.instagram.com/alchemillaherbals/
https://www.facebook.com/AlchemillaHerbals/
Meandering Medicine Course:
www.alchemillaherbals.com.au/meanderingmedicine
I would like to acknowledge the Kabbi Kabbi/Gubbi Gubbi peoples on who’s lands I live and work. I acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded and pray this truth be acknowledged and respected by all who live, work and govern these lands.
Wild World Podcast: Tatiana Dawn: Reinventing Herbal Education