Updated June 6, 2023
We invite you to participate in Earth Water Alliance’s virtual free summer series “Connecting with Plants and Earth” to be held the third Saturday in June, July, and August. Be part of an exploration of how we communicate and work with nature to shape our shared future and craft a new human identity that is in harmony with the Earth.
Wild Edibles
June 17, 2023 at 6:30 PM EST
Presented by Janis Fallon
We’ll look at some of our common lawn “weeds” and trees that our ancestors, and those who walked the Earth before us used. Plant herbal history includes many traditional, medicinal, historical, and downright shocking uses! We’ll also go over foraging & wildcrafting basics, getting to know these plants, how they are used in modern times for health and wellness, and simple recipes you can make at home.
Ways to Heal with Nature
July 15, 2023 at 6:30 pM EST
Presented by Amelia Loomis
In the continual now of the Circle of Love, we will explore how we listen to All Life through feng shui, gardens as healing spaces, forest bathing, nature journaling, meditation, deep knowing, and dowsing. We will listen and explore our relationship with the Healing Source of All Life. In gratitude, each of us connects in this Circle, giving and receiving with Earth and all her Creatures. Our skills as intuitives can help us fine-tune our connections with our guides, power animals, power plants, trees, and the elements, enhancing the way we experience our giving and receiving. Join Amelia “Amy” Loomis, Alison Squier, and Margo Nelson for a fun and illuminating experience.
— And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. Khalil Gibran
Herbs for Health and Well-Being
August 19, 2023 at 6:30 PM EST
Presented by Janis Fallon and Dreama Brower
Every plant has a story and knowledge to share. Discover herbs – how to grow and dry them. Get to know them and their use for health and wellness with easy to make recipes. We’ll also share folklore and stories from our ancestors and those who walked the earth before us. You’ll look at your kitchen herbs in a new way!
Janis Fallon
Amelia Loomis
Dreama Brower
Janis Fallon is a northern New York environmental attorney, engineer, herbalist, Master Gardener, and dowser. Her lifelong passion for working with the plants has included several 10-month intensive herbal apprenticeships with Rosemary Gladstar in northern Vermont, continuing plant and herbal education, and decades of growing and making fun herbal projects and remedies for friends and family.
Amelia “Amy” Loomis, MSW, CCHt is a certified clinical hypnotherapist, trainer, consultant, writer and grants consultant, program developer and administrator, and former school and clinical social worker. She completed her Masters in Social Welfare at UC Berkeley and continued training in the Science of Intuition, Shamanism, QiGong, Imagery in Medicine, PSYCH-K, Reconnective Healing, and Addiction, Recovery and Spirituality. She teaches precision intuition methods including consciousness dowsing, collaborative decision making, mindfulness guidance, ideomotor knowing, and soul scar transformation (LodeStar Transformations).
Dreama Brower was introduced to dowsing as a child when she watched a Dowser locate water. As an adult, she was reintroduced to the art of divining and now uses it in most aspects of her life. She believes water and soil are our most precious resources and we have the power to combat poverty and social injustice by assuring the availability of adequate clean water and healthy foods. Dreama believes we can mend our relationship with the Earth by actively seeking and listening to Nature’s wisdom. She has been a Director of several profitable renewable energy businesses and non-profit organizations and is actively involved with several climate action organizations.
Looking forward to the series and all we can learn from each other’s experiences with Nature Communications.