Why we plant Wild Ginger on the other side of the road?
Human beings built a road that separates the forest. Ants are enlisted to regenerate this primeval place, but we must help them.
This is a busy time of year for us because it is when the big melt happens in the high country and we must begin our efforts to restore the forest understory and meadow habitat. We must also restore Cottonwoods and other wild species that support drainages. Clearcut logging is killing the Earth, and you and I can do what corporations, institutions and governments are not doing...we can go out and fix the damage that they have created...if we don't who will?
Illumination becomes the cipher for better intentions and it becomes the reason why we will transplant the Wild Ginger to the other side of the road. The plant speaks of itself as a filter, gathering up all the sweetness that flows through the soils that reside in the rainforest.
Here it seeks to populate the place and along with a community of others becomes the groundcover that instills the towering trees with dreams cultivated by the rain. Spreading a vast network of roots she weaves a web that will catch seeping waters and then forms their flow into slow moving catchments that know themselves as a great sponge.
This condition causes the Wild Ginger to spread and grow in the shadows. But her rootstock grows at such a slow pace that messengers are required to move her where she is needed. Ants serve this community well; sheltered by the Wild Gingers leafy over story they move her sweet seeds into areas so that she may form new communities in far away soil freshets.
The Ants very purposefully replicate all that was the origin of things so that the great balance can be maintained in the rainforest. All of this has been working in such a way for as long as there have been memories in the forest – for as long as there has been water and soil; for as long as there have been great trees and Wild Ginger; and for as long as there have been Ants.
But then the human beings built a road that would separate and create two disturbed forests. No longer is this a primeval place.
The road is a vast desert to an Ant, and to all beings in the rainforest; it is a lifeless thing that is maintained to remain a lifeless thing.
Seeking to recover the disturbed place and restore the primeval forest the small Ants struggle to cross the road with the seeds; they drop them in the desert in hopes of bringing life to this place – but traffic and graders destroy their work, again and again....and again.
At the end, the Wild Ginger ceases to be on the other side of the road – the balance in the rainforest is lost – and this imbalance goes largely un-noticed by humans.
This is why we must plant Wild Ginger on the other side of the road. This is why we are wildcrafters.
The photo in this message is of Wild Ginger at the Wildcraft Forest – it serves as a reminder that 68 percent of plants are in danger of going extinct and this process of extinction is largely unknown to us.
Plants are localized which means they have a very difficult time migrating to a different location in order to protect themselves. Extinction will be inevitable unless they are either helped to relocate or are protected. Humans are not helping when they are needed; in fact plant species are going extinct—about 5,000 times faster than they should. This represents one of the reasons we started the Wildcraft Forest School.
Program Specials at the Wildcraft Forest School
At the Wildcraft Forest School we offer skills, insights and inspiration for creating good stewardship and positive change in the world. We engage our participants in transformative education that includes wild dynamics, personal empowerment, responsibility and co-mentorship. Our courses integrate experiential learning and ancient wisdom within the context of wildcrafting.
Here are our current offerings we have on special:
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guide Certification Training
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Guide Certification provides participants with an opportunity to set up an independent practice in Forest Therapy
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Practitioner Certification Training
Yasei Shinrin-Yoku Practitioner Certification provides training for participants to deliver a 12-Session Forest Therapy Program with an opportunity to set up an independent practice and provides planning support for practitioners to establish a Yasei Sanctuary Forest.
Forest Biotics Health Coach Training
Training in nature-based energy work that includes mind, body and soul intervention practices. As a Forest Biotics Health Coach you can assist clients as they navigate various health treatments and supplements, such as how to create “living water” and the importance of having at least a minimal amount of nature in one’s life.
Shamanic Coach Certification Training
This training program takes a practical approach towards contemporary Shamanism as an important tool for nurturing “meaning and purpose” within individuals, families and groups. This series is ideal for people interested in spirituality and the science of body, mind and spirit and has been developed to support cross cultural understanding, and methods for making “First Contact” with energies, beings and ideas. This online lesson series is also ideal for professionals in the fields of counseling and alternative healthcare.
Yasei Shinrin Yoku Ayurvedic Head Massage Practitioner Certification
Special Introductory Offer - 5-Day Camp Program for Clinical Forest Therapy and Yasei Ayurvedic Head Massage
Link to Specials:
http://www.wildcraftforest.com/ForestSchoolSpecials.html
Learn about our Distance Learning Programs at the Wildcraft Forest School and find your cause…
http://www.wildcraftforest.com/Rewild.html
Join us for plant spirit medicine in the forest all year long…our Community Sanctuary Forest Membership helps with the planting, growing, care and harvesting of wild systems; at the same time members learn various aspects of plant spirit medicines, which include Yasei Shinrin Yoku Programs. Members stay and retreat into nature for quiet times.
Visit our Membership Page
http://www.wildcraftforest.com/Membership.html
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