Transition Skills For Earth And Body WillowWayWellness.com
Willow Way Wellness provides workshops, training, and private sessions in applied knowledge for healing the land and healing our bodies, and understanding the connection between them.
The common thread in all of these offerings is that they help us shift our way of being in the world so that we sense and are sensitive to the living world around us. Thus, enabling us to integrate the information coming to us-both from our bodies and the earth-and respond with contributions toward a healthy, harmonious balance with all beings.
We offer:
. sustainability education, including the Permaculture Design Course, workshops, internships and consultations.
. The Plant Communicator Training
. Holistic Body therapy including Aston-Patterning, Aston Fitness, Aqua Alma Aquatic Bodywork, and massage.
Enjoy our site. If you take the time to have a look, there is a lot of information here on these diverse offerings.
Sincerely, Zia Parker
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Raspberry Leaf Rubus idaeus 
Brief A bitter and drying herb, extremely nourishing, used often in treating women’s ailments. Anti-inflammatory, antispasomdic, astringent, cardiotonic, hormone tonic, immune tonic, liver tonic, kidney tonic, mucous membrane tonic, oxytoxic, phytoestrogenic, postpartum tonic, prostate tonic, uterine tonic, stimulant.
Medicinal Properties Very nourishing high mineral content. Great herb for men and women, although often praised as the ultimate tonic for pregnant women– tonifies the uterus, nutritive to the mother and developing baby, prevents miscarriage and false labor, facilitates birth and placental delivery.
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Borage Borago officinalis 
Brief An edible, moist, and cooling plant. Anti-inflammatory, antirheumatic, mily laxative, demulcent, decongestant, diaphoretic, febrifuge, diuretic, refrigerant, emollient (flower).
Medicinal Properties Borage clears heat and reduces inflammation. The flowers and leaves of Borage have been used in treating coughs, colds, fevers, bronchitis, bladder infection, pneumonia, and hypertension. Borage has been used to treat emotional conditions and disturbances like depression, grief, and worry.
Borage seed oil has anti-inflammatory properties and is often used in salves. Borage can be used topically as a compress
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Horehound Marrubium vulgare 
Brief Bitter, antiseptic and antibacterial, decongestant, expectorant, demulcent, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, laxative, stimulant. Safe to use with children.
Medicinal Properties A safe herb used to stimulate the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems, expelling phlegm, clearing heat and toxins, and detering infections. Essential oils dilate arteries and relieve lung congestion. Horehound tea is used to treat a variety of respiratory conditions, and its expectorant and decongestant properties make it a good herb for treating coughs and colds. It has been used to ease childbirth and
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Stinging Nettles Urtica dioica
Brief Wonderful herb that can also be used in cooking as a super-nourishing cooked green. Nutritive, tonic, alterative, antiallergenic and antihistamine, anti-inflammatory, astringent, blood tonic, circulatory stimulating, decongestant, kidney tonic, uterine tonic, nervine, vermifuge (seed), endocrine tonic (seed).
Medicinal Properties Nettles are a wonderful nourishing and mineral-rich herb that support many of the body’s different systems. Nettles improve the body’s resistance to allergies, stimulate the circulatory system, reduce inflammation, support healthy blood clotting, and promote healing. It is a cleansing and
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