Woman’s School of Healing Arts

03/06/2021

12/04/2021

The interaction between the gut and the brain is based on a complex system that includes not only neural but also endocrine, immune, and humoral links.

The vagus nerve is an essential part of the brain–gut axis and plays an important role in the modulation of inflammation, the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis, and the regulation of food intake, satiety, and energy homeostasis. An interaction between nutrition and the vagus nerve is well known, and vagal tone can influence food intake and weight gain.

Moreover, the vagus nerve plays an important role in the pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders, obesity as well as other stress-induced and inflammatory diseases.

Vagus nerve stimulation and several meditation techniques demonstrate that modulating the vagus nerve has a therapeutic effect, mainly due to its relaxing and anti-inflammatory properties.

Extinction paired with VNS is more rapid than extinction paired with sham stimulation. As it is currently approved by the Federal FDA for depression and seizure prevention, VNS is a readily available and promising adjunct to exposure therapy for the treatment of severe anxiety disorders.

Vagus nerve stimulation is an effective anticonvulsant device and has shown in observational studies antidepressant effects in chronic treatment-resistant depression. Because the vagus nerve sends information to brain regions is important in the stress response (LC, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, hippocampus, and amygdala), this pathway might be involved in perceiving or manifesting various somatic and cognitive symptoms that characterize stress-related disorders.

Psychotropic drugs, such as serotonin reuptake inhibitors, have effects on both the brain and the gastrointestinal tract and consequently should be understood as modulators of the brain–gut axis.

Research investigating the interaction between nutritive factors, somatic factors, such as heart rate, psychological and pharmacological treatments, and vagal activity has the potential to lead to integrative treatment options that incorporate VNS, nutritional approaches, drugs, and psychological interventions, such as mindfulness-based approaches, which can be tailored to the needs of the individual patient.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00044/full

The vagus nerve represents the main component of the parasympathetic nervous system, which oversees a vast array of crucial bodily functions, including control of mood, immune response, digestion, and heart rate. It establishes one of the connections between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract....

14/11/2020

Always walk away feeling deeply honoured to hold space for woman as they allow themselves to be vulnerable, unpack, and connect to their Truth and Being. Our last circle for the year and I look forward to what the next year holds! 🙏🏻

01/11/2020

“Don’t bow your head too long in the river of despair. Its undercurrents are strong and may pull you into always travelling downstream. Make a choice against its worship. Thank it in earnest for the softening it makes of the hard ground in you, for the vitality it ushers into the stale riverbed of unfeeling, bracing, and holding. But know the true altar of your worship is with the love that broke you open.

Worship at the altar of your being supported. After all, you are the receiver of too many generosities to count. Count them anyway. As Wordsworth wrote, pleasure “is an acknowledgment of the beauty of the universe…a homage paid to the native and naked dignity of man…” Even thinking about pleasure brings pleasure. At any given moment we can attune ourselves to well-being, which is a tributary of belonging. It is that place in our hearts where we are grateful for all that we’re receiving and, for a moment, want nothing more.”

Excerpt From Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner (belongingbook.com)

11/10/2020

When a cherished part of us is dying, either by way of our own discernment or by the hands of fate, we find ourselves at a crossroads. I call these Crawling on the Belly times because it’s as if our legs are knocked out from under us, and we’re forced down by the elemental gravity of loss. Though others may surround us, we exist alone in exile from what we loved, and the only way forward is through the dirt.

The Crone is our psychic home. She is the mature place of inner knowing that you have earned by fighting your way out of the underworld.

01/10/2020

The Divine mother offers me her rose. 🌹How rich that gift may be! I tear my flesh on her thorns and my blood flows. I curse myself for carelessness and yet, in my desire to grasp this gift, it happens again and again. Then I realise such is the scent, it’s beauty; how can I be tentative in my approach? My senses are drenched in its beauty and I long to inhale its exquisite perfume, to reach for the velvet dew of the petals, soft and delicate under my touch. Perhaps I will be scraped and I will bleed; yet that is not enough to deter me, to prevent me from accepting this gift. The magnificence of the bloom renders the struggle to enjoy it as a worthy, noble, essential pursuit. Of course I understand something so precious should be protected; it must be allowed to live, more than this, to thrive! So those thorns are hooks that allow for growth for those that would bare the pain of the ascent to the Roses blooming heart. And those thorns are barbs that keep away those that would consume the creation without appreciating its worth and beauty. Yes, those thorns serve essential purpose. I cannot begrudge them. For I love the rose - and so I love what is necessary for her to be - so I love the thorns too. 🌹- Alana Fairchild 🙏🏻 **ra

01/10/2020

Wild Organic Red Rose Tincture 🌹

A very small batch of wild rose tincture has completed its journey of maceration.
This particular tincture was placed under the new moon in Virgo and the full moon in Pisces. It received 30 days transfusion and was blessed and prayed upon every day while it transformed into what it is today. 🌹

Grown in the flow of biodynamic gardening. This tincture is all about heart expansion and unfolding into heart intuition. Perfect to bring one into the vibration of self-love, emotional connection and embodiment, promotes security and strength, stability and integration. This tincture is perfect for this time and the trials that the collective consciousness are facing. It is also deeply supportive of the reproductive system, fertility, and the birth of life or creative expressions. Because Rose is 320 MHz, it is the highest frequency of all tangible things that we can literally put in our body and for this reason, it is the closest thing we have access to (to date) to teach us love. In my opinion, rose is the herb we all need during 2020.

Investment into this bottle of nature’s magic is $35 (not including shipping). Safe to rake while pregnant and breastfeeding. PM to purchase 🌹🙏🏻🌹 (only 6 bottles left ❤️)

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28/09/2020

“Too often, we fall into the misguided belief that the outside world is our source of vitality. We wait for its cues and its permissions and forget to honour, petition, and receive from the well within. Unconsciously, we’re terrified to turn away from the world; we think we’re putting our ‘heads in the sand,’ or that we’ll lose everything if we don’t keep pace. But the truth is that there is a different rhythm trying to temper us from within. If we shift our responsiveness from the outer to the inner world, allowing for a periodic ebbing of our external effectiveness, we come to see that it’s in service to a more harmonious way with our own bodies and with our greater earthbody.”

Excerpt from “Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home” by Toko-pa Turner (belongingbook.com)

26/09/2020

It is always such an honour to hold space for incredible woman on their journey towards soul. I always leave feeling humbled, with a full heart. So many woman having deep realisations and releases. Seeing them show up for themselves, be vulnerable, and connect to intuition. What a gift 🙏🏻🌸🌻

May the spirals of Manifestation continue to flow within your lives as the days progress. 🌼🌻🌸🌻🌼🌸🌻🌼🌸🌻🌼🌸🌻🌼🌸🌻🌼

Thank you to
Deanna Webb
Janna Kremez
Kate Porter
Jeni Drew
Sarah Louise
Rachel Lauren

For trusting me to support you on your path!
Hand to heart, I feel deeply grateful. 🌹

25/09/2020

Soil ☀️ Soil 🌱 Society
Human 🌻 Humility 🌼 Humus 🌿

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/satish-kumar-soil-soul-society

We are losing connection with the soil. Satish Kumar wants us to understand the connection between soil, soul and society and drop ego in favour of eco

25/09/2020

“One day when you wake up, you will find that you have become a forest. You have grown roots and found strength in them that no one thought you had. You have become stronger and more beautiful, full of life giving qualities. You have learned to take all the negativity around you and turn it into oxygen for easy breathing. A host of wild creatures live inside you and you call them stories. A variety of beautiful birds rest inside your mind and you call them memories. You have become an incredible self sustaining thing of epic proportions. And you should be so proud of yourself, of how far you have come from the seeds of who you used to be.” - Nikita Gill

24/09/2020

“Forget transcending your sadness, your longing, your heartbreak. Forget the disgusting lie of “permanent bliss”. Weep yourself into the arms of the Beloved. Break yourself on Her altar.

Surrender, my love. Surrender to all of yourself, the divine and the muddy, the sacred and the sh*tty. It is the safest thing of all, to let yourself be filled with anger, fear and sorrow, filled with LIFE. To let these dear spiritual friends rise and fall in you like ocean waves.

Be penetrated by all that you fear.
Surrender to all that you run from.
And come alive...”

- Jeff Foster