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Topics/Teachings:
DESIRE- Rewilding: barefoot walking, building an altar, prayer (and god!??), connecting to Earth/Body, writing, coming home to self
VISION- Reclaiming Your Power: movement practice, grounding exercises, reworking the concept of success, writing, embodiment practices
GRACE- Exploring New Edges: dancing, archetypes and censoring the judge, writing, flower essences, “light” therapy and folding spiritual support into your routine
SURRENDER- Reclaiming Your Rhythm, intuition, night walking, writing, meditation for organ healing, self-protection exercises
FORGIVENESS- BecomingNeutral: anger/power, alternative medicine, hands-on practice, writing, Ho-opono-pono
HUMILITY & HARMONY- Sacred Partnership: right relationship, reciprocal relationship, handwork, partner exercise and perception, writing, food and how to feed
Topics follow the flow and guidance of Merrill’s second Earth Medicine Book, The Path of Medicine Woman: fertility, women’s health and rewilding
Core Curriculum: Each Weekend includes: Food and how we eat, Cycles and how we harmonize, Prayer and Meditation, Movement and Reflection, which are built carefully into a choreography that rewires habits and harmonizes your daily routines with natural rhythms.
A list of required reading comes with each weekend workshop.
Groups meet 6 times a year to support community, deepening and continuity. You have 3 years to complete.
Mother of four, writer, author, practitioner of cranial sacral therapy and founder of Earth Medicine Institute Taos, Merrill brings to us a lifetime of wisdom and practice in holistic health. Her work is informed by diverse medical systems (including Western Allopathic, Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, and Shamanic practices) that she eloquently translates for the modern mind. While specializing in Women's health through transitions, she speaks easily to solutions for entire family systems, especially on topics related to stress and the nervous system. Her heartfelt practice weaves old ways into our current approach to health & healing, and elevates our understanding of what it is to be well. Her craniosacral teachers include Avi Khadir, Anna and John Chitty and Hugh Milne.
Her work has been published in Spirituality and Health Magazine, Unity Magazine, Energy Magazine, The Cranial Wave and others. Her books include Earth Medicine: A Field Guide, healing in seasons and cycles (Gracepoint Publishing 2021) and The Path of Medicine Woman: fertility, women's health and rewilding (Gracepoint Publishing 2024).