Plant Medicine Summit
Building Plant Relationships: Deepening Your Understanding of The Plant World
By listening to our own innate wisdom, as well as to the wisdom of nature, we are offered the ability to learn directly for the plants themselves. We will discuss how to deepen our understanding of the medicinal, spiritual and emotional healing aspects of plants and flowers and how they communicate with us. When we understand the "language" of plants, it offers us the ability to build a deeper spiritual relationship to them as well as to our healing practice.
In This Session:
- Tapping into our own innate wisdom of the plant world, though our personal ancestry and lineage. Remembering that we carry this wisdom in our DNA and simply need to be reminded of what our ancestors have always known.
- Tapping into the plants wisdom. Using the doctrine of signatures, colors, habit, form, etc, it tells us who it is. Along with our own senses (and heart connection) to understand what the plants uses are medicinally, emotionally and energetically
- Painting the picture, putting it all together. Recognizing that the answers are with in us and within the plants. Ways to test and try out this new understanding and how to build upon this practice
Lupo Passero
Intimately connected with the plant world from an early age, Lupo Passero has studied botanical medicine from a variety of perspectives. A mother twice blessed, Lupo has a first hand passion for helping the family enjoy healthy and holistic experiences with pregnancy, childbirth, children and teenagers! Her humble beginning with herbs and flower essences as a young mother in the 90's inspired her to learn and go on to teach others. Lupo spent over a decade developing an intimate relationship to the diverse medicinal plants of the Appalachians Mountains of North Carolina, where she lived for many years and studied herbalism at the North Carolina School of Natural Healing. It was in the healing community of Asheville where Lupo began her career as an herbalist, offering classes and workshops on traditional herbalism and flower essences at various institutions (including The Appalachian School of Holistic Herbalism, The Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and The One World Healing Institute). Her classes have since evolved to cover a variety of topics including folk herbalism, plant spirit healing, plant identification/communication, the medicine woman way, herb justice programs and a variety of spiritual and indigenous healing traditions from around the globe.
In 2009, shortly after moving back to her home state of Connecticut, Lupo launched Twin Star Herbal Education and Apothecary in New Milford, where she continues to share her passion for the natural world. She has been invited to teach at various institutions around New England including, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Western Connecticut State University, Yale University and The Graduate Institute. Lupo’s immense love for travel has lead her to teach numerous herbal trainings and retreats throughout the country as well as Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom. She has had the privilege of studying under the tutelage of many great teachers including Himani Ellis, Rosemary Gladstar, Pam Montgomery and a host of traditional Medicine Men and Woman across the globe. Lupo is a retired two-term Secretary and board member of the American Herbalist Guild, an organization pioneering professional modern herbalism. Having grown up in Newtown, Connecticut Lupo has worked extensively promoting the concept of Herbalism in Action, using herbalism to help support communities after tragedy, after closely using the wisdom of the plants to help support her community of Sandy Hook. She and her family currently reside close by. When she is not traveling and teaching she can be found in her medicine wheel garden or traipsing through the woodland, almost always with her camera in hand.
