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Your gift will bring traditional spiritual healing and life-changing transformation to people. All of our programs are subsidized by the generosity of our donors.

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Support Blue Deer

The spiritual healing and transformation of one person benefits all beings.

Your gift will bring traditional spiritual healing and life-changing transformation to people. All programs are made possible by the generosity of our donors.

Blue Deer is a non-profit 501 c (3) Tax ID 22-3741704

December, 2022

December Healing Retreat

Winter 2022 – 2023

Winter Healing Retreat

April 23, 2022, 1 pm

Spring Forest Bathing

May 4 – 9, 2022

Spring Healing Intensive

July 2, 2022, 10 am

Summer Forest Bathing

August 25 – 29, 2022

Totems: Sacred Partnership with the World

September 10, 2022 6 pm

Autumn Forest Bathing

Sept. 30 – Oct. 5, 2022

Fall Healing Intensive

October 16, 2022

Advanced Totem

December 31, 2022, 1 pm

Winter Forest Bathing

March 5, 2023, 2-3 pm

(ZOOM) Eliot Cowan: A Memorial and Celebration of his Life's Work

March 5, 2023, 1-4 pm

(IN-PERSON) Eliot Cowan: A Memorial and Celebration of his Life's Work

PLANT SPIRIT MEDICINE PROGRAMS

Register for Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature

​If you haven’t read the book, Plant Spirit Medicine, written by Blue Deer Center’s founder and teacher, Eliot Cowan, we recommend you start your journey by immersing yourself right now.

Click below to buy the book in English, Spanish, French, or Japanese:

Audiobook/Kindle/Audio CD

Learn More

Plant Spirit Medicine

Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature

An introductory, on-demand course designed to give you a direct experience with the aliveness of nature and nature’s ancestral relationship with humans. This self-study course touches on the importance of nature’s influence in our lives and the amazing ability of plants to guide and heal. It inspires us to relate to plants as living beings and recognize their generous source of help in order to live a fulfilled life. 

How will you benefit?

  1. A new perspective on the natural world

  2. A more balanced relationship with the world around you

  3. Insights into humans' ancestral connection with nature

  4. Guidance to deepen your connection with plants

  5. Be more attuned with the seasons and their elements

  6. Live a much deeper and richer experience of your own life

The memory of connection to all living beings is calling us and now is the time to answer.

Who is this course for?

Level 1, Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature, is for you if you are curious about plants, want to deepen your connection and relationship with nature, learn more about your connection to plants, live in closer harmony and balance with nature, or become a Plant Spirit Medicine healer. Whatever calls you, Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature will guide you toward that goal.

This is an online, on-demand and self-paced course, which means that all sessions have been pre-recorded and you can watch any time you want. Your subscription offers lifetime access to the teachings. You can re-watch them as many times as you wish. 

What is Plant Spirit Medicine?

 

Plant Spirit Medicine is a form of healing that calls upon the plant spirits to heal. Through the opening of their senses, healers learn to listen to the root of a person’s illness, listen to the medicine of the plants, and call upon the healing power of the plants for the benefit of that person. Our ancestors lived in this way, where nature was alive and there was no illusion of separation from nature. They had a relationship with the spirits of nature and would call upon them for healing and wisdom. This ancient practice, long forgotten in the modern world, was remembered, revitalized, and reintroduced by Blue Deer’s Founder, the late teacher and healer, Eliot Cowan, and has proven to be as effective in today’s world as in past times.

 

Plant Spirit Medicine differs from many forms of herbalism in the importance it places on the relationship with the spirit of the plant. Using the common everyday plants, like the ones you might find outside your home, including the trees, the weeds, the plants growing between the cracks in the cement, or the plants growing in the wild, plants have much to offer us in the form of healing and wisdom. And, luckily for us, they are willing to share with us.  Living in this type of relationship with the living nature of the plants gives us a deeper and richer experience of life. Whether we need healing in our bodies, minds, or spirits, the plants can offer help.

 

Plant Spirit Medicine course content offered by the Blue Deer Center does not include the use of sacred plant medicine (i.e. psychedelic/ psycho-active), such as ayahuasca, peyote, datura, San Pedro, mushrooms, and other mind-altering substances. To learn more about this perspective, click here.

Why is Plant Spirit Medicine important today?

We live in a modern world with many amenities that enable us to live comfortably and with expediency. We move at a fast pace and can arrive anywhere in the world within hours. Despite many modern conveniences, many live with a sense of isolation. Without seeing the natural world as sacred or having wisdom, we feel we are separate from nature. In this age of individuality, physical and mental illness has reached unprecedented levels, yet medical science has not been as effective in relieving the despair experienced by many. By far, most afflictions today are rooted in spirit, and we need a spiritual medicine to address this spiritual crisis we are in. Plant Spirit Medicine offers such a medicine, reaching into the deepest recesses of our being to bring healing to our most troubling ailments.

 

Help Bring Plant Spirit Medicine to the World

Growing awareness of nature

Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature

An introductory, on-demand course designed to give you a direct experience with the aliveness of nature and nature’s ancestral relationship with humans. This self-study course touches on the importance of nature’s influence in our lives and the amazing ability of plants to guide and heal. It inspires us to relate to plants as living beings and recognize their generous source of help in order to live a fulfilled life. 

How will you benefit?

  1. A new perspective on the natural world

  2. A more balanced relationship with the world around you

  3. Insights into humans' ancestral connection with nature

  4. Guidance to deepen your connection with plants

  5. Be more attuned with the seasons and their elements

  6. Live a much deeper and richer experience of your own life

 

The memory of connection with to all living beings is calling us and now is the time to answer.

Who is this course for?

Level 1, Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature, is for you if you are curious about plants, want to deepen your connection and relationship with nature, learn more about your connection to plants, live in closer harmony and balance with nature, or become a Plant Spirit Medicine healer. Whatever calls you, Plant Spirit Medicine: Growing Awareness of Nature will guide you toward that goal.

This is an online, on-demand and self-paced course, which means that all sessions have been pre-recorded and you can watch any time you want. Your subscription offers lifetime access to the teachings. You can re-watch them as many times as you wish. 

What is Plant Spirit Medicine?

 

Plant Spirit Medicine is a form of healing that calls upon the plant spirits to heal. Through the opening of their senses, healers learn to listen to the root of a person’s illness, listen to the medicine of the plants, and call upon the healing power of the plants for the benefit of that person. Our ancestors lived in this way, where nature was alive and there was no illusion of separation from nature. They had a relationship with the spirits of nature and would call upon them for healing and wisdom. This ancient practice, long forgotten in the modern world, was remembered, revitalized, and reintroduced by Blue Deer’s Founder, the late teacher and healer, Eliot Cowan, and has proven to be as effective in today’s world as in past times.

 

Plant Spirit Medicine differs from many forms of herbalism in the importance it places on the relationship with the spirit of the plant. Using the common everyday plants, like the ones you might find outside your home, including the trees, the weeds, the plants growing between the cracks in the cement, or the plants growing in the wild, plants have much to offer us in the form of healing and wisdom. And, luckily for us, they are willing to share with us.  Living in this type of relationship with the living nature of the plants gives us a deeper and richer experience of life. Whether we need healing in our bodies, minds, or spirits, the plants can offer help.

 

Plant Spirit Medicine course content offered by the Blue Deer Center does not include the use of sacred plant medicine (i.e. psychedelic/ psycho-active), such as ayahuasca, peyote, datura, San Pedro, mushrooms, and other mind-altering substances. To learn more about this perspective, click here.

Why is Plant Spirit Medicine important today?

We live in a modern world with many amenities that enable us to live comfortably and with expediency. We move at a fast pace and can arrive anywhere in the world within hours. Despite many modern conveniences, many live with a sense of isolation. Without seeing the natural world as sacred or having wisdom, we feel we are separate from nature. In this age of individuality, physical and mental illness has reached unprecedented levels, yet medical science has not been as effective in relieving the despair experienced by many. By far, most afflictions today are rooted in spirit, and we need a spiritual medicine to address this spiritual crisis we are in. Plant Spirit Medicine offers such a medicine, reaching into the deepest recesses of our being to bring healing to our most troubling ailments.

Help Bring Plant Spirit Medicine to the World

Learn More

Click below to buy the book in English, Spanish, French, or Japanese:

Audiobook/Kindle/Audio CD

Register now for Growing Awareness of Nature

Plant Spirit Medicine

...I felt every teacher speaking with authenticity... I felt emotional and so grateful to listen to their wisdom... I already communicate with plants and I now feel supported.

Maria Carnibella, Australia

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