Herbal Circle

20/01/2025

Dear Sisters, I hope you are finding some positives as we navigate the early part of this new year. I know how challenging these times can be and so please know that I appreciate where you may be at.

I am having to reconsider how I share the herbal knowledge as I feel that Zoom is not easy for many, including myself to manage.

I have reached a point with my own healing which requires conscious and conserted effort.

It has been quite a thing to prepare what I feel are the easiest and most useful sessions, often doing this in pain or wobbling and due to the challenges of zoom, my preparations have not been fully shared.

I'm sure I'm not the only one in this group who is experiencing difficulties and so I would like to ask instead for you to consider about accessing some of the materials that I have created for you in another way.

I would like to offer what will be a combination of useful herbal information and practical advice in different formats, slideshows, little videos, music, receipes and more so that you can feel you are gaining/awakening your knowledge of the Herbs.

I will me making it available to you via my website, which is lounoblemusic.com. My Herbals Page will contain the links.

The links will follow on this page in the coming days and weeks.

This will be on a pay as you feel basis. I can see that that is the only fair and reasonable way for these times. Consider how much you value this knowledge and how much you can afford.

I will be offering some spring foraging walks so that we can connect fully with each other and the herbs for those in Brighton. I'll let you know closer to the time.
The time is now for us to gain and use this knowledge for our own health and for those close to us.

I don't want practicalities to get in the way of this sharing. Adapt I must.

Best wishes and love
Lou
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The picture is of an echinacea flower.

14/01/2025

Hello Hello
Lovely Sisters, We will meet next week on tuesday for those who are around.
For those who aren't and would still like to benefit from some herbal knowledge expansion - I have a new little creation in the form of digital download - 'Slide-show / Powerpoint " coming soon.
This week still feels too soon for the session and there's alot going on for a lot of folk!

Sending loads of love
Lou
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06/01/2025

Hello Sisters, Happy 2025 to you all!
I hope that you've had a peaceful Christmas and that you're still ready to join me in expanding your herbal knowledge through these Zoom sessions.

I am very exited to see you all and to be re-commencing these sessions after a brief seasonal pause.
The plan is to start with our Tuesday sessions again from tomorrow, Tuesday 7th of January at 1pm.

Here is the link to the meeting, just click the link at 12.55 so that we can be ready to start at 1.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81431922628?pwd=tY6huwq9pYav1AaXJABMxHtuyHw9aF.1

There is a £5 fee for the session, which you can pay via PayPal to nobleleafArt@gmail.com.

All you will need is a notebook and pen or just join and be present and willing to receive and share.

We will be covering:

* Recap on Habitat from past sessions
* Easy Access Herbs
* The Nervous System

I appreciate that it's still early in the new year and what can be an overwhelming time.
I would like to turn this into a positive.

Whilst the world is still snoozing, let's do something useful, pro-active, begin a new habit. Herbs.

No excessive energy is required for these sessions, just turn up.

Please give me a little thumbs up in the comments so that I can get an idea of who's going to be coming along to play!

Sending masses of love and rrrrrahhhhh for 2025!

Lou
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24/12/2024

Have a beautiful Yule lovelies!.. Hope it's a peaceful one. Sending love and glad tidings
See you in the New Year
Tuesday January 7th X

17/12/2024

There will be no Herbal Circle today due to seasonal bizzi-ness - sending you all love and best wishes for Yule & Solstice-times. We'll meet back on the 7th January @ 1pm as usual on Zoom.

Alternatively, if tuesdays are proving difficult - Herbal-Hisbal is the new circle I'll be hosting from the 14th of January, wednesdays at 7pm.

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Sisters & Brothers
Herbal Knowledge Circle

11/12/2024

I just wanted to share my website - because it's new!

You can go to the 'Noble Essence Herbals' to find the
Body Systems Herbal -
click on the link to receive your copy!

She has shared her music with audiences for over 30 years at folk-clubs, private parties, festivals, weddings, clubs and around firesides in this country and across the world. 

01/12/2024

Tuesdays @ 1pm on Zoom

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81431922628?pwd=tY6huwq9pYav1AaXJABMxHtuyHw9aF.1

See you there
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Passcode: 482941

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27/11/2024

Lovely to see Sisters in the room yesterday even though it was a small group.

I just wanted to check in to see if there was any particular reason for any of you not being able to make these sessions?

Is it the time, day or a tech issue?

Let me know as I am eager to make these sessions work.

I appreciate life is hectic right now and showing up is often impossible, I get that.
I want to give you my word that I will be showing up every Tuesday at 1 and the zoom link will be on here. For those who haven't managed to make it, I want to welcome you to join us on this journey to explore herbs that we can easily access to support our health, right now.

By doing this, just by bringing herbs into your consciousness, by talking with others about herbs, we heal. By acknowledging their importance and power, we are in fact healing.
Joy comes to the faces as a story of a herb as we honour this potent wisdom. It re-connects us with our ancestors and in doing so we take back our power of what has been hidden from us for so long.

Let that thought sink in for a moment.
Let it give you the strength and stamina to join these sessions.

Re-cap on yesterday's session:

More herbs sprang to mind from, Mint, Marjoram, Thyme, Soapwort, -

Looking at the Herbal Monograph - the way we find out about a herb from it's therapeutic actions, it's uses, contraindications, uses and parts used.

A mention of Active Constituents - For example, Saponins. (found in soapwort)

This week's suggested activity:

* Once you have your lined A5 notebook
* Take a page a herb.
* Give 10 pages per body system
* Focus on 1 herb at a time.

Cleavers is a good one!

I've attached a little table I made to help you with organising the information - then it's easier to make sense of it when you need it.

26/11/2024

Today's Zoom meeting link:
814 3192 2628
Passcode: 482941

See you in 20 mins X

22/11/2024

For those who didn't make this week's Herbal Circle,
please know that you are welcome to the 2nd which will be held on zoom, meeting link in the post below.
Rebecca Iverson, Charmaine Evans, Becky Packman, Gosia Will, Alexandra Edwards, Joy Youngman, Freya Louise Brisley, Jessii Cat, Dakini Lou, Nikki Lev, Poppy Lindsay.

Please let any others you know who would like to take part to follow the Herbal Circle so that they can find the Zoom meeting link.

Please be prepared with a notebook and pen, although I will share all important information.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you with the technical side of getting on a zoom meeting.

If you aren't able to make tuesdays, please give me some other times/days that would suit. I am trying to work out another suitable time so that sisters don't miss out.

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Lou

19/11/2024

Next Tuesday's (26/11/24)
Zoom Meeting link:

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19/11/2024

Thank you to Hannah, Emma, Katy and Liylah for navigating to today's zoom session!! It was great to see you all and hear about initial interests and experiences with herbs. So, to re-cap:

Suggested Activity 1.

* Explore your habitat - Go outside and find what is growing close by.
* Where will you find herbs close by? - Away from roads - find hedgerows in fields/ waste-land.
* Get yourself an A5 lined exercise book - (useful to be lined)
for organising information about herbs.

I've attached my little herbal book, 2 pages, 1 on Hawthorn and 1 on Cleavers (as we mentioned these today).

This is what is known as a herbal 'monograph' and it includes the following information:-

* Common Name. *Latin binomial.
* Body system abbreviation (i.e. D.S (Digestive), I.S (Immune ) etc)
* Therapeutic Actions
* Contraindications
* Uses
* Active Constituents
* Dosage

I appreciate that this may be a lot of information to take in but don't worry, I will go through each area and you will always have the chance to ask questions if things are unclear.

I just need to work out how to share my screen on zoom so that I can share other visually stimulating and engaging material.

Thank you for you energy and commitment Sisters, It means a lot and I'm very exited about what we can do together.

Please if you could pop your donation into my Paypal - send to nobleleafArt@gmail.com.
Many thanks.
I look forward to next Tuesday and I will post the link again.

For those that didn't make it, don't worry - we'll do it all again next time.

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