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Ep. 75 Tantric Herbalism with Brooke Sullivan

I’m joined in this episode by Brooke Sullivan, Tantric Yogini and Herbalist and Founder of The Wild Temple. We dive into what it means to be a modern Tantrika and its application in medicine and herbalism. Brooke teaches in our Level 2 Ayurveda School training and I’m really excited to share this conversation with our wider audience. This is a must-listen episode to anyone interested in herbal medicine, Tantra and traditional or feminine form medicine.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Herbalism in the context of Tantra

~Tantric medicine throughout history

~The Misunderstanding of Tantra in the East and the West

~Vitalism and Energy Medicine

~Personal legitimacy and authority

~Our Truth as Kundalini Awakening

~Infrangible! Listen to learn more!

~The Prana in plants

~The methodology of “Whatever Works”

~The importance of a healthy body for spiritual practice

~Feminine Form Herbalism vs Reductionism

~Plants as Yantras

~The role of our lineage in plant medicine and healing

~Connecting to our sense of worthiness and sensuality

~Brooke’s plant recommendations for the modern gal

~Find Brooke online at TheWildTemple.com

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Fortunately Ayurveda offers us a way of understanding that the transition through menopause doesn’t have to be this way. We can approach perimenopause as a sacred rite of passage. 🥀

These are three key things Ayurveda teaches us about perimenopause:

1️⃣ It’s a natural Vata time, when the body’s energy moves inward for deep wisdom and renewal.

2️⃣ Hot flashes, mood swings and sleep changes are your body asking for grounding, deep nourishment and rest - not punishment or criticism.

3️⃣ When you cultivate ojas (vital energy) with warm food, herbs and slower living, this stage becomes an initiation into feminine power.

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These are just some of the lessons you’ll learn in our yearlong embodied study of women’s health: 💫

✔ The effects of stress on women’s health
✔ The endocrine system and its role in women’s health
✔ Regulating Agni, removing Ama and building Ojas
✔ Womb care at every stage of a woman’s hormonal life
✔ The Ayurveda approach to thyroid and balancing hormones
✔ Deeper understanding of Ojas & Soma

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What’s estrogen dominance, you ask?
 Simply pu What’s estrogen dominance, you ask?

Simply put: it’s when there’s too much estrogen and not enough progesterone in the body. It’s related to how we sleep, eat, relate and yes, stress out.

From an Ayurvedic lens, it’s what happens when our liver and digestion get overwhelmed, and the body’s natural rhythm of build and release gets backed up. Instead of flowing like a perfectly timed orchestra, our hormones get out of sync, leading us to feel heavy, chaotic and inflamed.

But here’s the good news: your body knows how to find balance again. 

Herbs, supplements, and most importantly, nervous system, sleep and lifestyle rituals can 
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If you want to dive deeper, comment BALANCE and I’ll send you my full article: Estrogen Dominance: Signs You May Be Estrogen Dominant + What to Do About It. It’s a must-read if you’ve been wondering why you feel “off” or sensing your hormones need a reset.
Anxious thoughts you can’t turn off… ⁠ ⁠ S Anxious thoughts you can’t turn off… ⁠
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Sleep that feels light, restless or non-existent… ⁠
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A body that’s either buzzing on overdrive or crashing in exhaustion… ⁠
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A diet of coffee, cold food or too many grab-and-go meals that leaves you ungrounded… ⁠
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The constant pull of screens, stress and speed that has you longing for calm. ⁠
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You’re not alone. What you’re experiencing is what Ayurveda calls a Vata imbalance—the energy of movement, change and overstimulation gone rogue. ⁠
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And the good news? ⁠
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With the right tools, Vata can be soothed, your body can re-learn safety and your mind can finally settle into clarity. ⁠
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In this FREE one-hour live class, you’ll learn: ⁠
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🌬 Somatic nervous system resets you can use anytime to calm anxiety, ground your energy and return to presence in under 5 minutes. ⁠
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🌿 The Ayurvedic map of Vata: How modern stress patterns show up in your body, mind and digestion. Vata is both a mind/body type that some of us have, but it is also present in ALL of us at this time. ⁠
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🍲 A 14-day Chill Out Vata Reset: Practical food, feminine form energy meditations and lifestyle rituals to reduce overwhelm: simple recipes, meal timing and daily energy anchors that create nervous system stability. ⁠
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🌀 Energy practices (breath, sound and subtle internal focus points) that bring prana (vital life energy) back into balance and restore the body’s natural flow of healing.⁠
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Come live to experience the practices with me, Katie Silcox, and walk away with a simple, printable Chill Out Vata Reset to start right away. Let’s slow down together. Your nervous system will thank you.⁠
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In our feminine-form Ayurveda School, we begin whe In our feminine-form Ayurveda School, we begin where all deep healing begins—with remembrance. We begin not from rules, but from love. From the feminine.⁠
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Before we talk about food lists or herbs, we start with what we call the healing climate: curiosity, openness and deep tenderness toward ourselves. ⁠
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Feminine-Form Ayurveda says: ⁠
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You are not broken. ⁠
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You are already whole, worthy and loved exactly as you are.⁠
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From that foundation, we weave in the masculine. We immerse ourselves into the structure, discipline and science of Ayurvedic health. It’s not either/or. It’s both. The dance of Shiva and Shakti—masculine and feminine—that lives inside all of us.⁠
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In Module 1, you’ll learn the roots of Ayurveda, the five elements, the doshas and how to understand both your natural mind-body type and where you’ve gone out of balance (also known as your prakruti and vikruti). 🌿⁠
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This is where your journey home to your body begins.⁠
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Ayurveda teaches that the opposite is the medicine Ayurveda teaches that the opposite is the medicine and that health isn’t one-size-fits all—sometimes that means a fired-up Pitta motivation sesh is the perfect antidote when you wanna’ stay in bed all day… 🔥😴

…and other times that means hitting snooze on your alarm and letting your body give into deep rest when it’s what you truly need. You’re the only authority on YOU. 😉🌙

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