Chaga: Preparation Instructions and Recipe for Chaga Chai

Chaga is a polypore, meaning it does not have gilles. In fact, technically it is not-quite a mushroom.  My understanding is that chaga is clustered mycelium- which is probably why it is so much more potent than the actual medicinal mushrooms.  Regardless, Chaga forms very dense hard woody clumps, or nodules on the sides of…

Never Meditate After Sex

  My teacher of meditation told us to never meditate after sex. Wait for an hour at least or more, he said. On the other hand when you start to understand what happens in meditation and see that, while meditating, you release habits of thought that block you from seeing the truth and when you…

Grounding: Physical and Energetic Benefits of Connecting to Nature

I was just reading an interesting article about some of the physical benefits, or rather physiological benefits of grounding. It talked about the importance and benefits of going barefoot. Also,  I remember in my herbal training, we talked a good bit about how the feet absorb minerals from the ground and grass.  That’s a pretty…

Water Is My Soul

The tree of light inside the pain The yellow matures inside of pain It grows like a tree Made of all the personalities that I gathered But losing them all in the light My background is pain and freedom mixed together Green is my mother Pain is my father And water is my soul.  …