Journey with the Plant Devas
Seven chapters. Twenty one lessons. A lifetime of friendship with the green world, and the remembering of your own magic.
There is an older way of knowing the world, and it lives in you
As a child you talked to the trees. You knew the flowers had feelings. You could sit in the grass for an hour and feel completely held.
Then life got loud, and most of us forgot.
This journey is a gentle, beautiful remembering. Over seven chapters I take you by the hand, slow you down to plant time, wake up your senses and your heart, and introduce you to the plants who have been waiting for you all along. You will learn to sense them, to listen to them and to feel their medicine, and as you do, something quite wonderful happens. You remember your own magic too.
It feels like being wrapped in the arms of Mother Earth herself. That is my promise to you.
I once forgot too
For years I was caterer to the stars in London. My catering business fed Jamie Oliver on his television shows, the cast and crew of The Hobbit and the cast and crew of The Crown. Google invited me to talk at their London headquarters about my inspirational business.
And I was utterly burned out. I had lost my sparkle and my joy.
So I did something wild. I let go of almost everything, bought a VW campervan and drove. What I thought would be a couple of months became close to four years of sleeping in forests, beside stone circles and on the shores of lochs. I lived at the foot of the Cuillin mountains on Skye near the Faerie Pools, with the wild horses of the New Forest, and with the faeries of the Scottish Highlands.
Somewhere in those years the plants began to speak to me again. Truthfully, I finally became quiet enough to hear them.
The day I sat with the Fortingall Yew
In the spring of 2019 I found my way to a little churchyard at the doorway to Glen Lyon, where the Fortingall Yew has stood for many thousands of years. She is one of the oldest living beings in all of Europe.
I arrived empty. I sat with her, and I listened.
I left with a whole new life folded up inside me. Everything I have built since, the candles, the bathing rituals, an academy for children and this very journey, began as a whisper beneath her branches.
She taught me that the plants are always speaking. We simply need to remember how to listen.
Rooted in the teachings of Stephen Harrod Buhner
Stephen Harrod Buhner was a herbalist, poet and author of The Lost Language of Plants, The Secret Teachings of Plants and Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm. He gave his whole life to deep communion with the green world, and his books gave me words for everything that had happened to me in those forests.
He taught a way of knowing plants that moves through the senses, the feeling, the heart and the imagination. It is the same way the old herbalists, the poets and the earth based peoples of every land have always known them.
His voice runs through every chapter of this journey, alongside the flower wisdom of Katie Hess and LOTUSWEI and everything the plants themselves have taught me.
The heart is an organ of perception, and the plants are waiting to be felt.
A life full to the brim with daily magic and miracles
Today I live in my dream home, a wooden lodge among the trees with a natural spring flowing beneath it.
I am surrounded by dream relationships and blessed with a marriage I treasure. I run three businesses I adore, and every single one of them feels like play.
I left school at sixteen with no qualifications. The plants have shown me I can create anything. Every bit of this beautiful life grew from listening to them, from following the little golden threads they offered me, one by one.
And now it is my absolute honour, joy and bliss to walk you down the very same path.
Gifts you will carry for life
A calm, open heart
Feel grounded, peaceful and present, held by the rhythm of the green world.
Trust in your knowing
Learn how your body says yes and no, and trust what you sense with clarity.
Real plant friendships
Meet your own plant ally and the great trees and herbs of these isles as living beings.
Your creativity awake
Watch inspiration, ideas and beauty begin to flow through you again.
Belonging
Walk through the world knowing you are part of it, loved and welcomed by the land.
Your own magic
Remember your particular way of bringing beauty, healing and joy into the world.
Seven chapters, twenty one lessons
Each lesson holds a teaching, a practice to do with your body out in the green world, journal prompts for your Plant Journal and a little closing note from me. Move at your own pace. The plants live in a slower time than we do, and this work loves patience.
Arriving
- Welcome Home
- What is a Plant Deva
- Preparing Your Sacred Space
Slowing Down
- Plant Time
- Your Sit Spot
- Softening the Busy Mind
The Body as Instrument
- The Heart That Sees
- Waking the Senses
- Knowing Your Yes
Meeting a Plant
- How a Plant Calls You
- Permission and Offering
- The First Conversation
The Imaginal Realm
- Imagination as a Doorway
- Dreaming with Plants
- Journeying to Meet the Deva
Plant Allies of These Isles
- The Elder Trees
- Hedgerow and Garden Kin
- The Plants of the Candles
Walking it into Life
- Making Medicine in Ceremony
- Creating with Your Ally
- The Journey Continues
Your journey, beautifully held
- Twenty one lessons across seven chapters, each with its own practice
- Your Plant Journal Workbook to print, scribble in and take outside
- Your Ritual and Meditation Guides, including the full guided journey to meet the deva
- Seasonal ceremonies, an offering walk, flower waters, ritual baths and blessing bundles
- Lore and medicine of the Yew, Oak, Birch, Hawthorn, Rowan and Elder, and six beloved herbs
- The plant spirits behind our Rock & Rose candles, so you can work with them through scent and flame
- Lifetime access, to return to through every season
- All seven chapters and twenty one lessons
- Plant Journal Workbook and Ritual and Meditation Guides
- Lifetime access, self paced, from anywhere in the world
The Campervan Immersion
This is how it all began for me, and now I would love to share it with you. Forty eight hours together in the campervan, out in the wild places, sitting with the old trees, walking the hedgerows, meeting your plant ally face to face and sleeping under the stars. A deeply personal, one to one journey, held with all my heart.
Enquire about the immersionBefore you begin
No experience needed
You do not need to be special, gifted or spiritual to do this. You were born knowing how. We are simply going to dust it off together.
Move at your own pace
The journey is self paced and yours for life. Some of you will want to sit with one lesson for a whole week, and that is perfect. Most practices take between fifteen and forty minutes.
Anywhere you live
A garden, a park, a tree on your street, a pot of rosemary on a windowsill; it all counts. The plants meet you exactly where you are.
What you will need
A notebook that feels special, a pen, a candle for your practices and a place outside you can return to often. If you have one of our Rock & Rose candles, she will love to join you.
Caring for yourself and the plants
Every practice is gentle. Whenever we gather, make or taste, I guide you to work only with common, safe plants, to gather with care and to check with a qualified practitioner if you are pregnant, taking medication or have any health concerns.
The plants have been waiting for you, my love. They are so glad you are coming home.
Come and walk this path with me. It would be my absolute honour.
Journey with the Plant Devas is a gentle, experiential course born from my own lived relationship with plants and the teachings of one of my greatest human teachers, Stephen Harrod Buhner. Through guided nature practices and intuitive listening, you learn to sense, communicate and build loving relationships with plants as conscious allies, reawakening an ancient way of knowing and belonging.