Wild and the Moon

When I came to Norway from living and working in Iraq, I didn't know the herbs that were growing here. I'd just become a new mom, in a new country, without my safety networks to take care of me. I set out to learn the plants by sitting with one-two plants each year and cooking with them, making tea, herbal infused oils, tincture, exploring their medicine for body, mind and soul.

That's when I started to see patterns, first signs of Spring: daphne mezereum, lady's mantle, shepherd's purse, lemon balm, nettle, then dandelion, oregano and raspberry. In late summer: mugwort and yarrow and slowly, but surely I developed a relationship with the spring, and summer for harvesting, and to the fall, for medicine making.

Working with plants has also expanded my relationship with time to a more cyclical way of understanding cycles within and cycles without. The cycles of body, of life, of the seasons.

I realized that learning plants is about building your unique relationship with them, more than learning what they are and what they do from a book.

If you are looking to explore the world of herbs in an easy, embodied, and fun way, I invite you to 🌿Herbs for Hormone Health: From Menstruation to Menopause 🌿

🌿🌿Think about this as a mini retreat. We'll work with different local plants, learn to make some of the most common herbal preparations, like herbal infusions (tea), herbal baths, and infused oils, explore herbal practices to ground your nervous system and balance your physiology and focus on nutritives, adaptogens, uterotonic and nervine herbs that grow locally. 🌿🌿

🌿REGISTER HERE: https://forms.gle/boVh51sBYAjM4vTr9

🌿Date: Sunday, October 20th, 2024

🌿Time: 13-16

🌿Cost: 1200 NOK

Location: Ellingsrud, Oslo

🌸 BONUS - at the workshop you will be gifted with a gift bag including a herbal tea blend, an herbal infused oil and herbal tincture.

Looking forward to meeting in person and sharing herbal wisdom in circle.

Autumn Hugs, Johanna

Hey there, have listen to this podcast episode. A vulnerable conversation on motherhood, activism, women's health and much more!

Honoring international woman day with Johanna L. Rivera | Måne Get more from Måne on Patreon

Dear woman,
As we are honoring women world wide the 8th of March, I share my conversation with Line S. Efraidsen for her podcast Måne.

Johanna is a mother, entrepreneur, creative, intuitive, women health activist and educator weaving the scientific with the traditional. Her background is in Public Health, Chemical Engineering, and Pharmaceutical Sciences and also in traditional modalities like herbalism and sound medicine.
She had a medicalized birth experience which got her to question the way we approach women’s bodies and health. Johanna is currently the vice-president of PCOS Norge and her mission is to educate women to address the root causes of hormonal imbalances holistically and bring their whole physiology back in balance.

Thank you Johanna for sharing your voice and wisdom with us!
To find our more about Johanna and her work:
Insta: wild.and.the.moon
Music: Premium Beat

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