By Misch Beck | Healing Arts Facilitator
One of our Healing Arts Imaginative Care Unit (HAICU) facilitators is an herbalist and has beautiful gardens. We were able to spend three of our days over the summer in her garden space. We open the day by each drawing an oracle card that will give us messages for the day and for what is going on in our personal lives.
We spend time walking around the gardens until we find the plant that is calling us to work with it. We sit with the plant for a while and meditate with it and ask for any messages the plant has for us. We each cut a piece of our plant and place it in a crystal bowl of water in the sun. We leave this with Susan and it becomes a flower essence containing all our special plants that we each get a bottle of.
We each do a drawing or watercolor painting of our plant.
We built an Apacheta in the garden which comes from Incan tradition and did a ritual around this. It is a large stone cairn where you leave your prayers.
One afternoon in the garden a local practitioner came and taught us the Sedona Method.
We spent a day connecting with an animal guide, did a collaborative drawing about what we love about summer, made greeting cards and participated in a couple art shows. We drew what happy looks like to each of us.
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