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Yarrow Willard joined us today to talk specifically about herbs, medicinal mushrooms and herbal medicine. Herbs and herbalism is a lost art. In our modern culture we have lost our roots to the plant and medicine kingdom. Our ancestors were very much connected to herbs, mushrooms and plant extracts in their environment that would help support their health. Today the average person has never even consumed and herb or for that matter a medicinal mushroom like Chaga or Reishi. The human body needs medicine in order to live. We cannot live without medicine. The question is what kind of medicine are we taking? Food should be our medicine and medicine should be our food. Unfortunately many of the astringent and bitter alkaloids have been bred out of our food in favor of texture and flavor. So not only are we not getting medicine in the food we're eating, we're not taking it separately as well. What's the result of that? Well the pharmaceutical industry will happily synthesize 1 chemical into a food, bastardize it, isolate it from the other synergistic compounds and sell it back to you in the form of a synthetic chemical (called a "medication") at a 1,000 to 1 profit. Why not learn how to work with herbs and medicinal compounds on a daily basis in order to prevent getting sick in the first place? These mushrooms and herbs taste great and are easy to work with. You can add them to soups, breads and any kind of liquid substance you consume. We need herbs and we need mushrooms my friends. Let's start bringing them back into our lives and incorporating them into our food. I hope you enjoy this show with our new friend Yarrow Willard! Thanks guys! Commercials Extreme Health Academy The Bellicon Rebounder Stockton Aloe One Omica Organics 12 Stage RO Water System Qigong Moving Meditations Relax FAR Infrared Sauna Joovv Red Light Therapy Greenwave Dirty Electricity Filters Magnetico Sleep Pad Medical Biomats For Healing Show Guest: Yarrow Willard Guest Info: Greetings, I'm Yarrow, a(n) Herbalist, Philosopher, Health Activist, and Nature Enthusiast, living in unceded K'omoks First Nation territory on the West Coast of Canada. Yarrow Willard is a second generation master Herbalist. He spends much of his time sharing practices around reclaim wellness, and deepen connection with the natural world. Professionally, Yarrow is the co-creator of Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary, and director of Wild Rose College of Natural Healing. As a speaker, entrepreneur and modern day reality hacker, he is highly engaging, dynamic and insightful. Yarrows message stems from the infusion of modern and old world knowledge, sprinkled with his own magic. Show Topic: Medicinal mushrooms and tonic herbalism Guest Website(s): http://www.yarrowwillard.com/ http://www.harmonicarts.ca http://www.wrc.net Social Websites: Facebook N/A Twitter N/A Others N/A Guest Product(s): Support Our Work: (Opens in a new window - Every bit helps us to keep delivering even better shows that help you heal & thrive!)

Visit my website for complete show notes of every episode. Or scroll down for more info and direct link."Yarrow is a Clinical/Master Herbalist, Director of the Wild Rose College of Natural Healing and Co-creator of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary. Raised by herbalist parents, he has been immersed in a world of plant medicine since birth.Yarrow is an entertaining educator who is passionate about herbs, mushrooms, superfoods, advanced nutrition and the growing science of re-claiming wellness and vibrant living in the modern age."Episode GuidePROLOGUEYarrow’s origin storyFamily mattersChild educationDiscipline & healthy boundariesParenting (leading) by exampleWild mushroom foragingLearning from the living waters in the wildHealing through the natural worldThe mycelium intelligence connectionPlugging into the “Wood Wide Web”Using distraction & pain as Jedi fuelYarrow’s hero’s journey - darkness & lightThe transformative power of deep breathing“Lingualogy” - the skills of speaking and word playLiving a simple lifestyle to optimize flow statesWhat it means to be a more effectively integrated manIt’s time for men to level up their gameMaking a case for Elderhood in troubled timesHarmonic Arts - Yarrow’s herbal companySugar, dopamine, and other addictionsKnowing why we do thingsYarrow’s recommended readingHerbal Jedi HQFacebook pageHarmonic Arts Botanical DispensaryYarrow’s YoutubeInstagramEPILOGUEThank you for your listenership. I sincerely appreciate your time and attention. For the full Whipple Sizzle, to stream this episode, read the transcription and notes, follow the links, check out the resources, and so much more, head over to the blog on my website. Follow on Facebook and engage with me and the Virtue Squad!BONUS POINTS: Give a rating and review on iTunes. Please subscribe and share this show with others.Featured musicTrack: “Fusion”Artist: Gas LabCourtesy of Village Live RecordsListen to more on SoundcloudFor the full listing of the featured music in this show, visit my podcast soundtrack page to hear more great artistry.If you would like to feature your music on my show or are interested in being a guest, feel free to contact me now. Send your direct messages here.

Skillful or Unskillful: It’s a Moving Target It is a sign of true nobility in ancient Indian tradition to have the courage to do the right thing because you believe it to be the right thing to do. In ancient times, “the right thing to do” was perhaps more clearly defined than it is in our modern period when the right to make an individual decision can leave us with a blinding number of choices.  How do we know what is the right thing to do?  We follow our internal compass, our internal GPS – our “vibe-o-meter”. Skillful or unskillful:  it is a moving target. I'm Adela, and this is Just Breathe....You Are Enough™. Together we will deepen our connection with our ourselves, strengthen our relations with others, and re-think together how we connect with our world. Thank you for joining us as we explore: how do we know what is the “right” thing to do?  Skillful or unskillful:  it’s a moving target, but we do have an internal guidance system to chart our course along the way. The courage to do the right thing because we believe it to be the right thing to do.  It is a noble quality and a strong sign of character.  How do we know what is the right thing to do? Buddhist ethics, in many ways, has as a very clear bottom line:  do no harm. How do we know what will do no harm? In this non-dualistic thinking, it is often understood that there is no such thing as good or bad, right or wrong. It is only a question of skillful or unskillful action.  Skillful action will support us in moving in the direction that we say we want to go. Skillful action will help us to accomplish what we wish to accomplish:  unskillful action will not. In a Buddhist context, what we wish to accomplish is understood to be enlightenment. Will it support our process of spiritual maturation and waking up or not?  Yet, the same argument can be applied to other contexts, to other choices and directions that we take in the course of our lives. Will it move us in the direction we say we want to go or not? How do we know? One of my students at the University recently asked me:  should she do this or should she do that? She asked me, “How do we know what is the right thing to do?’.  I replied, “It is skillful action, if it takes you in the direction you want to go. It is unskillful action if it takes you away from the direction you say you want to go. There are some challenges in the context of such advice. First, where we say we want to go, and where we actually want to go, and where we need to go must match. This is not as easy as it may appear. Where I say I want to go perhaps matches a concept I have of myself. That concept I have of myself may not reflect the reality of my situation or, in particular, the reality of my situation at this present time. Such is the way of New Year's resolutions. Often, we decide what it is that we think we want. Based on what we think we want, we decide to make a strong change, but somehow it is too separate from what or where we actually are. It becomes something that we are not, in fact, able to do. So gym memberships are purchased in January, and the gym may be busy for about four to six weeks. Then, oddly, by the middle of February, people are still paying gym membership fees, but the gym is very quiet, and there is no waiting time to use the machines. How do we move forward? How do we make change? How do we know what is the right thing to do in relation to where we actually are now. Is there such a thing as a right choice and a wrong choice? Basic Buddhist ethics, as we know, has, as its bottom line:  do no harm. This is often understood in relation to what is called “the five precepts”, the first five monastic vows and the five vows that will often be held by non-monastic Buddhist practitioners. These outline, essentially, how to do no harm. Do not take life. Do not take what is not offered. Do not cause harm by means of one's sexuality. Do not cause harm by means of one’s speech. Do not use alcohol or drugs that will cloud the mind and inhibit one's ability to do numbers one through four. These form the five precepts. Within this, however, there are many grey zones, and there is much room to move. How do we know what is skillful or unskillful? I offer that skillful or unskillful is a moving target.  What is appropriate in one context is often not appropriate in a different context. A lifestyle behaviour, for example, that may be right for me at one time may not be right for me at a different time.  It's not a matter of black or white. It's a matter of a space in-between. Do I have the insight and awareness to determine what is skillful now in the context I'm in now? Do we have sufficient flexibility of mind to allow ourselves to change and adapt as we ourselves grow and our contexts change? I was once so interested in the vegan raw food movement that I lived for a year without a stove in my house. It was a wonderful experience. I was vibrantly healthy, but, when I moved to rural Maritime Canada, it was a lifestyle that did not make sense in this new context. It did make sense in the big city context that I was living in before, where there was a similarly life-styled community. So I shifted and changed, although I will occasionally, and often in the spring, do a raw food month or two.  To cook or not to cook:  it's a moving target. Most often, I would say, I have a lifestyle which is vegan, and often it is also gluten free, but this is also very context dependent. If I am feeling tired or run down, if I am exercising intensely at the gym, I may find that I need more protein. I may find that it's good to have eggs. for example. If I'm in a period of very intensive work, and I need to reduce the time I spend in the kitchen, probably I will eat more simply ,and it may not be that tasty lovely vegan gluten free food that is in my fridge today. So, am I vegan? Probably not. I think of it as “flexitarian”. I am borrowing the expression from the very wonderful herbalists at Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary on the absolutely opposite side of the Canadian coast on Vancouver Island. To be a “flexitarian” is to ask: can I tune into what's happening in my body, and in my situation, and make a decision that makes sense in that context. Having basic tendencies and bottom lines to say I will do no harm to my body – and choosing to be basically healthy - can I work with my situation as intelligently as possible, with as much awareness as possible. It's certainly sometimes has happened that I've made a conscious choice to be a little bit less healthy in my behaviour because the situation demanded something else. I worked 20 hour days for a year and a half when I was Ph.D. writing; it’s a period when I mastered stovetop espresso-making. It was very hard on my adrenal glands and on my body generally. It taught me perseverance and put other work-intensive times in perspective.  It taught me I can do anything I set my mind to.  So what then defines healthy or unhealthy? It is a moving target. The same can be said, I would suggest, of many other contexts. Should I be in this relationship or not? Should I take this work assignment or not? Should I change jobs or not? Should I take this class or that class, or should I leave school altogether? Skillful or unskillful behaviour, action or choices: it is a moving target. So how do you know what is the right thing to do? I offer that, often enough, we know exactly what it is we need to do.  We know in our bellies, in our fingers, in our toes. Our body’s intelligence will often tell us if it's right or not right, if it is skillful or not skillful. The challenge can be: is the mind connected enough to this instinctive way of knowing to be able to hear these directions and act accordingly? We know what we need. Are we able to hear that clearly enough to be able to give ourselves what we need? When do we wake up early, and complete the challenge, and fulfill the activity of the day. When do we pull back and rest and rebuild our strength in order to think long term and sustainable? I will offer a suggestion that I have found very helpful and which I often directly teach to my students. I call it listening to the “vibe-o-meter”. It is the internal compass, the internal guidance system or GPS that knows how to feel the “vibe” of a situation, a context, a direction or choice, and which will become more alive when it connects to that which is more life-giving. What is your vibe-o-meter telling you? Let me give you an example. I have a student, and she doesn't know if she should stay single, enter into this relationship, or enter into that relationship. Whenever possible, I resist giving advice. I merely offer an environment where she can hear herself tell herself what it is that she needs to do. At most, I can be a mirror to reflect back to her what it is that she is saying in order to help her to hear her own wisdom. However, I offer that when she talks about what it is she needs to do - what is most skillful for her - her eyes will shine brighter, her back will be straighter, her body will have more presence, her voice will be stronger, and she will generally radiate more life. It is not specific or personal to her. It is very consistent. When we think about, or talk about, what it is that we most need, we become more alive. That life principle inside of us knows what it is that will most foster, support it, and give it strength.  It will respond like a metal detector that is tracking hidden gold. We all have an internal compass – a guidance system - of this kind. It knows when it's heading in the right direction, and it will make our voice stronger, and our eyes shine more brightly. Follow the shininess of the eyes, the radiance of the skin, the straightness of the back, the strength of the voice. This is the “vibe-o-meter”, the vibe detector, the internal compass, our own GPS. It knows the internal resonance of one's own life force or life principle, and it will naturally, and organically, respond if we are thinking and moving in the direction that will most support us in the journey of our lives. Listen to our internal GPS, our “vibe-o-meter”:  our life principle responds as if to a tracking devise when we are on the right track to help us become more alive.  When we follow our vibe-o-meter, this alignment of the life force in our internal and external worlds gives us energy, the energy we need that will move us forward. Should it be this career or that career? Should I move to this city or that city? Do I take a leave for self-care, or do I charge ahead? Do I plan to stay? Do I plan to go?  Is it this or that? Is it skillful or unskillful? The conceptual mind often has a concept of what it thinks we need to be, an image that it thinks we need to conform to.  It can create directions, or have us make decisions, based upon that perception of the self that we have internally, or based on  a reflex -an insecurity – that would have us conform to our perception of someone else's concept of who we are or what we need to be. The body's internal compass, our internal GPS, the “vibe” detector, or “vibe-o-meter” knows exactly where it is that we need to be, because it is connecting with the much deeper knowing that comes from the life principle itself, in a way which is far beyond the limitations of the conceptual mind. When an action or choice is skillful, it will support our becoming more genuinely ourselves, our becoming more fully alive. When we think of that, engage in that, do that, the eyes shine brightly, the voice becomes stronger, the skin becomes more radiant, the back becomes straighter, and so it is that we develop that taste for life and support our own becoming. The quality of the relationship that you have with the outside world directly relates to the quality of relationship you have with yourself.  Come see us at “justbreatheyouareenough.com” and join the JBYAE community. I'm Adela, and you've been listening to Just Breathe....You Are Enough™.  You can follow us on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. If you haven't yet, please subscribe, rate and review this podcast. Join us next time, and thank you for listening. Copyright © 2018, Adela Sandness

In this episode... I interview my friend Yarrow Willard.  Yarrow is a co-founder of Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary based out of Courtenay, BC He’s also a co-founder of the Vancouver Island Herb Gathering, now the largest herb gathering in Canada. “yes , we need to get up and fight this.  We also can’t live in fear… that’s just going to put us into a shellshocked state.  If we’re going to see the change we want to see in the world, we need to be strategic about how we spend out energy and time… not get too frantic and overwhelmed by this stuff cuz that easily happens." In the interview we start and end by talking about a very important issue for everyone who wants to be able to buy herbs in Canada.  In Sept. 2016 Health Canada proposed some changes to the regulations that cover which herbs are available on store shelves. It may not seem like a terribly radical topic, but this legislation is the sign of things to come.  The Pharmaceutical and Nutraceutical industry is trying to limit our personal and collective health sovereignty. The interview also bounces around a little.  We hit topics like the Dangers of high concentration single constituents extractions,  personal connection to the land, colonialism, and the global disease industry. I hope you enjoy it…

Yarrow Willard, Clinical/Master Herbalist, co-visionary of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary and self-proclaimed 'Herbal Jedi" is this episode's guest. He joins us to explore the potentials of plants and the natural world in training the material and non-material potentials residing in each of us. Topics explored in the episode include: how to learn from plants. microdosing wild plants, epigenetics and health through the generations, the role plants play in our material and non-material health, cultivating biological resilience, branched polysaccharides and the fungal kingdom, training the microbiome, the current state of human domestication and how we can start to free ourselves. Full Show Notes: http://bit.ly/ATTMindRadioEp30 Support The Podcast PayPal Donation Patreon Other Options (including bitcoin)

This week on the SOTT Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show, we're extremely fortunate to have a chance to speak with Yarrow Willard, Cl.H. Yarrow is a Master Herbalist and the visionary of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary on Vancouver Island, at www.harmonicarts.ca . From an early age, he was raised in the ways of natural medicine by herbalist parents. He graduated with a Clinical Herbalist diploma in 2005 and has been continually updating his knowledge base ever since. Yarrow is...

This week on the SOTT Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show, we're extremely fortunate to have a chance to speak with Yarrow Willard, Cl.H. Yarrow is a Master Herbalist and the visionary of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary on Vancouver Island, at www.harmonicarts.ca . From an early age, he was raised in the ways of natural medicine by herbalist parents. He graduated with a Clinical Herbalist diploma in 2005 and has been continually updating his knowledge base ever since. Yarrow is...

This week on the SOTT Radio Network's Health and Wellness Show, we're extremely fortunate to have a chance to speak with Yarrow Willard, Cl.H. Yarrow is a Master Herbalist and the visionary of the Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary on Vancouver Island, at www.harmonicarts.ca . From an early age, he was raised in the ways of natural medicine by herbalist parents. He graduated with a Clinical Herbalist diploma in 2005 and has been continually updating his knowledge base ever since. Yarrow is...