Southside Shiatsu

06/29/2025

Plant 🌱 walk out at Holland Lake on Sunday, July 6th. Register on Website.

04/17/2025

Our society teaches us to repress and suppress our emotions.

But especially our anger.

Anger can, when channeled appropriately and creatively, be exactly what is needed to make change.

A transformative force that rises up from the depths like the sap running in the sugar maples.

If you tap that rising energy, and know how to use the creative fire of the heart and spirit energy to transform it, you can arrive at the sweet reward of moving what is stuck, making joy out of frustration.

All around us the energy of spring is ascendant, emerging from the thawed ground in a wide range of green geometry.

Small green hands of Motherwort. Saw toothed smile of Dandelion. And the Prickly boundary setting hairs of Nettle.

Plants are our relatives, our teachers, and the plants of early spring are often filled with the bitter medicine we need to remove blockages, and find the courage to get unstuck.

On Sunday, April 27th. Join for for an online class focusing on how the emergent plants or spring can assist us in cleansing the body and activating our strong intentions for 2025.

Learn how to make a Spring Tonic that will help with sluggish digestion, headache pattens, and spring allergies.

Sunday, April 27th from 3-4:30 pm

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=13414216&appointmentType=76007179

04/01/2025

SPRING CLEANSE - TRANSFORMING ANGER INTO CHANGE

Sunday, April 13, 2025
3:00 PM 4:30 PM

This Zoom workshop will teach you how to make a Spring tonic to help improve digestion, sleep, mood, and the smooth flow of vital energy in the body.

You will learn protocols for a day long, three day long, or week long fast that uses herbs, and plant allies to help return the body to optimal health!

One of the first plants to emerge in the Spring where I live here in Minnesota is Motherwort.

Small green hands reaching up towards the Sun from the thawing ground. It’s leaves full of a bitter medicine. Bitter like so many of the earliest greens that surround us as Winter rolls slowly into the green roar of Spring. Dandelion is another. Saw-toothed warrior that grows in the cracks of concrete, and helps heal the broken ground. Whose leaves are diuretic, helping the kidneys gently expel their burden, and whose roots are a gentle yet determined push to that organ most associated with Spring: the Liver.

Stuck energy in the liver can lead to frustration, headache patterns, and overall dis-ease.

Learn how to work with the emergent plants and self-help acupressure to assist in getting these blockages to our vital energy moving again!

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=13414216&appointmentType=76007179

01/02/2025

New Year’s Day 2025,

and for the third year running

I’m offering my year long course:

A Year in Plants 🌱.

It’s an online course designed to give participants a deep dive into plant identification, herbal astrology, wildcrafting, and herbal medicine making…from a Celtic cultural perspective.

How to shift from extractive consciousness to relational consciousness, and to build a year long relationship with the plants of the woodlands, wetlands, and prairies of Minnesota.

The course will include plant identification walks that can be in person if you live in Minnesota/Wisconsin, or virtual if you reside elsewhere.

The course can be taken as a whole, or in “chapters” - month by month.

You can review the entire course at

www.roottobloomwellness.com

Go to “about” and click on “Year in Plants.”

This year each month will include a Zoom class that will cover the main topics of each Month or Chapter.

January’s classes include:

Introduction to Herbalism: how to engage the five senses to open the sixth sense. Plant flavors/colors/plant signatures.

Plant actions: Learn how plants are grouped into categories (alternatives/diaphoretics/carminatives/anti-virals/anti-bacterials…etc…) depending on their actions in the body. Learn the language used to by Herbalists to refer to Plants and their medicinal actions.

Simples: a plant simple is singular plant that resonates with you, that your body needs. An herbal ally that is particular to your overall health needs.

Herbs for Winter Health: learn to work with Plants to strengthen the immune system, support the lungs and improve overall health during the winter months.

The land: a land acknowledgment, and a presentation of Treaty Rights and being in right relation.

February’s classes will include Herbal Astrology, Plant biochemistry, and a more in depth look at Herbs to support specific body systems.

The in person plant 🌱 walks will begin in March/April depending on our ever changing climate:

If you have questions message me!

11/10/2024

06/13/2024

This wet Spring has the green energies all abuzz and erupting everywhere in flower. And because of the early warm weather most plants are around two weeks or so ahead of last year in terms of their yearly life cycles.

I’ll be taking folks on a Plant 🌱 walk on Sunday, June 23rd from 4-6 pm out at Holland Lake in the Lebanon Hills Park District.

Join us to learn about the plants of the woodlands, wetlands, and prairie, and many of their medicinal, gastronomical, and metaphysical attributes, and how many of them have a long tradition in the apothecaries of my Celtic ancestors.

Drop a comment and/or DM me if you’re interested!

05/16/2024

My next plant 🌱 walk will be Sunday, May 26th from 3-5 pm out at Holland Lake in the Lebanon Hills Park district. Join us to learn about the many benefits of the many plant allies growing all around us..woodland plants, wetland plants, prairie plants. Suggested donation $6-$60. DM me if you have any questions.

04/14/2024

The nettle pesto…heavy on the garlic and olive oil. Fair bit of Parmesan and olive oil. Backyard medicine chest never tasted so good!!!

04/09/2024

The whole world is a kitchen,
at its center, hub of flame,
sending earthly aromas to the heavens,
cardamom, turmeric, garlic,
wheel of time zones
spinning in our stomachs,
kneaded by planetary revolutions,
churning up green fields,
autumn wheat filling the streets
with the joy of the smell of baking bread,
future possibilities leavening,
like a table set and shared with strangers,
who will arrive to eat this feast,
down dusty, tired roads,
treatise on the daily grind,
how will we keep cooking
up tomorrows,
seeing future generations
toasting last year’s grapes of sorrow,
where men lie about the world,
say that it is all a battlefield,
an endless factory of the dead,
a wasteland of famine,
how will we raise their names
up from the ash like Fufu,
tortillas full of la tilapia,
to our broken mouths,
and sing them a song,
in this holy alchemy,
where all our Mamas dance,
where all out Papas tend the grill,
know when even the gods
smile at the smell.

03/05/2024

Time to get in for your Spring Tune up! Acupressure for the liver and gallbladder and overall emotional/energetic. regulation.

02/14/2024

Picking up a beautiful bouquet 💐 arranged by for my sweetie at . Standing in front of a beautiful mural by .

11/24/2023

Black Friday/Small Business Saturday Gift Certificate Special. This holiday season give the gift of relaxation, balancing, healing, and pain relief! To purchase gift certificates and book your appointment go to

www.roottobloomwellness.com

Root to Bloom Wellness offers shiatsu massage, herbal consultations, and health coaching.