Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
Empowering Self-Reliance and Sustainable Living & Microbiomes
I have been on a deep and very determined dive into the world of technology lately, and it has been tedious, arduous, frustrating and, at times, completely depleting. It is also necessary. I never imagined I would spend so much time working on websites, tablets, coding, order systems, inventory flow, …
I have never been one for protocols, which is a little ironic because protocols are part of my work. I understand why people need them. I create recommendations, work with herbs, tinctures, minerals and food, and spend a lot of time looking at the terrain of the body. Personally, though, …
I have been working with Live Blood Analysis for a long time, and every person who sits in front of me adds another piece to what I understand. I do not just look at a marker, name it and move on. I look at the person who is presenting, their …
Magnesium is a funny mineral. It does not get the attention that calcium gets, and it certainly is not as glamorous as some of the supplements that come and go in popularity, yet quietly behind the scenes magnesium is involved in an extraordinary amount of what keeps us alive and …
Creating something like Living Ground Ecuador is not simply about having ideas. I have lots of ideas, probably far too many, but I can usually see the bigger picture very clearly. I think that is one of my gifts. I can look at a piece of land, a café, a …
Living Ground is opening its doors for small, hands-on workshops in southern Ecuador. Come learn Live and Dried Blood Analysis, Soil Food Web science, fermentation, herbal medicine, food as medicine and practical self-reliance, all within a working project where soil, microbes, plants, food and human health are deeply connected.
A Lesson from the Magical Forest Experience I was chatting with a friend this morning about the years I lived in the Magical Forest at Chiruisco. That happened after I first moved to Ecuador. As we talked, memories I hadn’t visited in years came flooding back. I could see the …
I am now offering Dried Blood Analysis at Living Ground. After completing my new teaching manual, I felt inspired to bring this work forward and begin offering consultations by appointment. I have never really promoted my blood analysis work. I have simply allowed the energy around it to happen. People …
I have finished a book that has been growing through my work for a long time. Dried Blood Analysis: A Practical Guide to Understanding Health Through Patterns came from my belief that this is another special tool people can learn to use to understand what is going on within their …
There has been something on my mind for quite a while now. It isn’t really about resilience, although that is where it began. It is about the way we think and how easily we accept certain ideas as truth simply because we have heard them our entire lives. I have …