Introduction to Wholistic Health Counsel with Greg Patch tomorrow, Fri, March 8 at Network Community Wellness, 3803 Cherry Ave, Wilmington, NC at 1 PM (no charge) I have been a practicing Western Traditional Herbalist and Fine Artist for over 30 years. My studies include Ayurvedic & TCM practices. I’ve worked with home birthing, children, adult & elderly care and the dying passage with home care. I also offer Western Humanistic Astrological approaches to health based assessments with over 25 years of study and practice. This opportunity introduces my confidential counsel where with you we would look at your intentions for your wholistic health by assessing your background, where you are now, and what you would realistically like to achieve. The process I recommend in counsel follows embracing personal whole diet, physical conditioning and connection to spiritual practice and/or understandings with energetics. email info@greenartstudio.com with your inquiry for private sessions.

introduction session is postponed, will re announce

  email info@greenartstudio.com

with your inquiry for private session

Introduction to Wholistic Health Counsel with Greg Patch

tomorrow, Fri, March 8 

at Network Community Wellness,

3803 Cherry Ave, Wilmington, NC at 1 PM

(no charge)

I have been a practicing Western Traditional Herbalist and Fine Artist for over 30 years. My studies include Ayurvedic & TCM practices. I’ve worked with home birthing, children, adult & elderly care and the dying passage with home care. I also offer Western Humanistic Astrological approaches to health based assessments with over 25 years of study and practice.

This opportunity introduces my confidential counsel where with you we would look at your intentions for your wholistic health by assessing your background, where you are now, and what you would realistically like to achieve. The process I recommend in counsel follows embracing personal whole diet, physical conditioning and connection to spiritual practice and/or understandings with energetics.

email info@greenartstudio.com

with your inquiry for private sessions.

egg carton foundation for the art (38 weeks in the compost)

just unframed and photographed these pieces from the early 80's. many of my early work are on "slides". dusty, deteriorated and more of an expense with time and money in converting to disk than I've cared to play with. what will artists and photo nostalgiacs (nouns) be facing when disks are outdated with technological advances in a few years? POOF!!! as our economic, lifestyle, personal perceptions and well being get down with the new times emerging...
life takes us in spiraling circles, some last a day, a week, the yearly ones like from March to March, etc. I'd just dropped out of the School of Visual Arts in pro test of Amerika and was living communally and illegally in a loft below Canal St on the West Side, on Greenwich St.  A high priced district today. The Twin Towers were just being constructed. We used to sit out on the empty streets at night with the other homeless folk singing songs, telling stories and staying warm with a fire, heisted food goods, wine and psychedelics large and small...
Being in a spiral I'm hoping that if I return to that scenario it will be in a more temperate zone...
Nothing like a good morning fantasy to start the day with.
and then there are the Nature Spirits...

snow spirits landscape                  9.5" x 16.5"                  pastel on paper

spirit with the land scape             13" x 18"             charcoal on paper

spirit trees land scape              14" x 17"              charcoal on paper

cooling flowering dogwood & setting March Sun 

Feel and Be, its free to look and learn with the healing environment all around us and allow your/ourself to heal with the seasons...

and/or, 

spend time preparing your/our medicines

and/or, 

spend money on a health care provider who practices with the Earth's gifts...

 I've doctored/edited the photo to express the energetic spirit of the Flowering Dogwood in its' application with healing. Its an expression of doctrine of signature and/or plant spirit medicine qualities. Flowering Dogwood as an herbal has been used as an astringent, febrifuge, stimulant and tonic. It's inner bark has been shown effective in decoction or tincture for Malaria and other fevers and has been internally applied as a substitute for Quinine. Externally it can be applied to hot or feverish sores and/or lesions in decoction, oil, salve and/or tincture forms. True Flower Essences and Essential Oils would have similar properties. 

Some American Indian tribes used the twigs/branches as toothbrushes. They were noted to have very white and clean teeth! No doubt, being the qualities of the plant.

Bach Flower remedies lists as;
"Dogwood
Positive qualities:
Grace-filled movement, physical and etheric harmony.
Patterns of imbalance:Awkward and painful awareness of the body; emotional trauma stored deep within the body.

When we say that a soul is filled with grace, we are referring to a particular fullness and flexibility of the etheric body, the most immediate sheath which surrounds the physical body. If there is repeated violation to the body-either through physical or sexual abuse, or by very harsh physical and materialistic living circumstances-the etheric body shrivels, and consequently the physical body hardens.

The soul suffers greatly from an inability to live properly within the physical-etheric body. The emotions can become hardened, and the body is felt as awkward and ungainly. Quite often such a person unconsciously repeats earlier patterns of degradation by choosing abusive relationships or exhibiting self-destructive tendencies.

The beautiful Dogwood flower essence helps to expand the etheric body and soften the physical body. The individual is able to feel more gentleness and inner sanctity, as the soul regains its state of grace through harmonious communion with the life or etheric body.

- from the 'Flower Essence Repertory', by Patricia Kaminsky and Richard Katz. The most comprehensive and user-friendly flower essence book we've found. Highly recommended for any practitioner."
In my search for a Flowering Dogwood Essential Oil I found only oils named Flowering Dogwood or Dogwood that contained combinations of other herbal essential oils without any Dogwood in them. The manufacturers were using the name Dogwood or Flowering Dogwood only. I would advise caution here. Perhaps the best solution would be to make your own or find a "kitchen Essential Oil/EO maker" you know personally with integrity.

Spirit "Nature's Way"

Third song from this concert at the Grugahalle, Essen, Germany (West Germany at the time) 5th March 1978.

Randy California died on 2 January, 1997, while trying to rescue his son from drowning (swimming in Molokai, Hawaii); he himself was pulled out to sea and drowned.

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Cauliflower budding 1 & 2

photo of Cauliflower 1 shot February 7, 2013 showing the innate spiral of the bud. Cauliflower 2 the outer fractals display as this Cauliflower evolves toward maturity...

February 7, 2013

Caulif lower bud ding

Caul if lower bud ding

March 2, 2013

Caulif lower bud ding 2

Caul if lower bud ding 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Decorated_horse_jawDSCF6970.jpg

  a carbon dated horse jaw artifact found in a cave in Wales is estimated to be @10,000 years old. the herringbone like wave patterns are typical of design artifacts found around the globe from many cultures, ancient and modern. 

the proto Indo European word "Webh" is the root word for Web, Wave and Weave and describes a knowledge and understanding of the connectedness in movement and stillness of all things.........