We’re very excited about our lastest Everything Herbal CSA box released this week. We outdid ourselves, and the boxes are overflowing with premium products. We have several of our unique formulas that will help greatly with common health concerns in the Autumn and Winter. It’s a wonderful addition to your home medicine chest! The CSA newsletter is published online, so you can learn more about these fantastic herbal products.
Our next Everything Herbal CSA box is scheduled for the end of January. We’ll keep you updated with what’ll be going into the box and more info on how to sign up. In the meantime you can visit the website for TurkeyTail Farm, where the herbs for the CSA are grown.
Thank you to all of our CSA subscribers for supporting local herbal medicine farming!
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Mojohito is excited to begin teaching a series of nutrition classes covering hot topics. We’ll begin with an overview of the why and how of home cleansing and detox. That’s coming up:
November 6th, 2011, 2-4pm
at
Padme Yoga Center in Sacramento
Mojohito wrote a short article introducing the class. Read Why Should You Care About Cleansing?
Learn more about the class and register here!
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One of our favorite ways to use herbs is in their concentrated form as essential oils. When diffused around the house essential oils have demonstrated incredible ability to reduce airborne pathogens, and enhance respiratory health. They even seem to boost immunity! Essential oils are powerful, so a little goes a long way.
We’re big fans of Floracopiea Aromatic Treasures for their unsurpassed commitment to fair trade and sustainable harvesting of rare species. The company advocates grassroots healthcare (such as herbal CSAs), and offers a great educational resource in their sister-site MedicineCrow.
So we’re helping to spread the word about their current sale: 15% off oils and diffusers ending October 28th.
Now is a great time to stock up on essential oils. Visit the Floracopeia store to order online.
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We’re truly grateful for your interest and support of grassroots healthcare and botanical medicine!
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The Grass Roots Vitality clinic was rather quiet during the month of August, as your proprietors Mojohito and Heatherlee Richerson von Tchudi were on pilgrimage in search of the deeper meaning of yoga. The physical postures of yoga asana are commonly known, with several high-profile studios in Chico; most large towns and cities feature a variety of yoga classes.
With the movement of this ancient practice into the mainstream view, the benefits of regular practice are becoming more widely known: the vision of the yogi as strong, lean, and flexible is commonly used in the imagery promoting the practice. Also commonly seen is the image of the yogi in meditation – and this is what we sought in our travels: what is happening in the mind of the yogi that allows them to reverse aging and even, the classical texts state, stop death itself?
We have the great fortune having some modern masters of yoga very close to home, teaching on buddhi yoga – the discipline of applying the intellect to penetrate the source of suffering and discover the true causes of lasting happiness. We see the patterns of disease in the modern world centering around stress – and thus the lasting effects of herbal remedies and massage therapy are dependent on discovering the root of stressful living conditions and instead cultivating happiness.
Lama Marut
To meet the mission of providing integrated health care through traditional natural methods, Grass Roots Vitality is hosting a regular study group focused on the classics of dharma – time-tested traditions on cultivating a happy life, according to bona fide enlightened being Gautama the Buddha. We are following the Dharma Essentials curriculum of the Asian Classics Institute as taught by charismatic American monk Lama Marut.
We hope you’ll join us Monday nights at the clinic beginning September 20th, 2010. Please RSVP by sending an email to mojohito@grassrootsvitality.com or calling us at 588-0324
A human life, all too brief, is a leaf floating from a tree, subject to climactic conditions that seem beyond our control, as we drift to our destination. Wind buffers us about as we ward off pathogens or else suffer their wrath with cold and flu. So sensitive to exposure to heat and to cold, we clothe ourselves carefully and attend to our homes to nest. When heath concerns become serious, we pursue the only avenue apparent to us – licensed and carefully regimented prescriptions and procedures which, on the path to a cure, seem daunting and terribly expensive. There is some relief offered by our health insurance plans which may buffer the great expense, but cannot offer the one and only thing our heart requires for health: happiness, protection from fear.
In many traditional societies, before the degradation of agrarian cultures, we would have had access only to fresh, local, and organic foods, attentively raised and enjoyed seasonally: whole grains and legumes, prolific vegetables, cultured dairy, pickles, and kraut to keep digestion robust and inoculate us from pathogens. Animals producing our meat, eggs, and milk were carefully tended and the value of their sacrifice was plain to see, for we would all have met the creature who grew for our food.
This simple practice, of eating the appropriate foods and kitchen herbs, creates a true foundation of health care and health insurance. The healing wisdom of the plants, and those who raise them and administer them skillfully, have deep and lasting effects that vitalize and detoxify the body tissues, and wholesome relationship with our food has lasting mental and emotional benefit.
When stronger methods are required, the community herbalist is available to recommend therapeutic diets or fasts, and offer potent herbal formulae to mobilize and invigorate our innate healing potential. We work and play hard, so healing hands live in our community to massage and align our tissues, joints, meridians, and organs.
A renaissance of natural remedies and plant-based healing is the mission of the grassroots healthcare revolution. Our work at the Grass Roots Vitality clinic is to bring these tools into our contemporary lives though education, personal guidance, and massage therapy. Our doors are open to you.
Stay in touch.
