25. Self Attunement & the New Myths We're Making - Maia Toll
Herbalism is vast, the second song of a plant, a powerful stone medicine story, and more...
Maia Toll spent a life-changing year apprenticed to a traditional medicine woman in Ireland. She mentors spiritual wellness seekers, practitioners, and teachers through her online program, The Medicine Keepers Collective, and is the founder and owner of Herbiary, a natural products store with locations in Asheville, North Carolina, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Maia has taught botanical medicine at West Chester University and at the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research in the Peruvian jungle. She lectures at hospitals, universities, and herbal conferences and runs her own Deep Magic Retreat in the North Carolina mountains during the witchy twilight of autumn. She blogs to an international following at maiatoll.com and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
In the Intro:
Coming into relationship with nature
Become a kitchen witch
Herbalism is vast
In the Interview:
The layers within
A fantastical Herbal
Opening to the second song of a plant
How a health problem, an unraveling life, and a dream message set Maia on the plant path
Apprenticing to a medicine woman in Ireland
When having a diagnosis isn’t helpful
Deep self attunement for stopping illness before it becomes too big
A major weakness herbalists face when we’re ill
The Healing Relationship
Stone medicine & a story of healing with morganite
How we create the sacred
A meaningful swan sighting, union & transformation, and the myth of Caer
We talk about how neither of us wanted to get married and now we’re both wives, and also the stories of our wedding rings
Links:
Secrets of the Illustrated Herbiary FREE course!
Maia's website MaiaToll.com
My website MythicMedicine.love
Medicine Stories Patreon (get The Kitchen Witch's Workshop online course here!)
Take my fun Which Healing Herb is Your Spirit Medicine? quiz
Mythic Medicine on Instagram
Music by Mariee Sioux (from her beautiful song Wild Eyes)