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Lieve Galle
Wise Woman Herbalist ~ Nature Guide ~ Urban Nomad
Deeply fascinated by nature, she started in 2000 her Herbalist's study on the European Academy of Complementary Health Care in Ghent, Belgium. A new world opened up, broadened and deepened her views. She received the Camilla Prize at her graduation, but graduating was only the beginning...
Studying Nature Guide at the Centre for Nature and Environmental Education in Antwerp gave her insight in ecosystems and ecological management, as all is connected. She observed the animal and plant life for one whole year in a nature reservation, to open her senses to subtle seasonal changes.
Enthusiast, inspired, and amazed by Nature's smallest details, she kept searching for old wisdom and new knowledge, talking to people, trees and plants and listening to their stories. She deepened her experiences during her "Sprit & Practice of the Wise Woman Tradition" course with Susun Weed.
Since a few years she joined artist collective Irmafirma to give shape to the projects "Urban Survival Kit: Edible Brussels/ Amsterdam", where the wild fauna and flora of big cities is viewed in a refreshing different way.(=> view the video on Herboristeria's blog above)
She gives lectures, courses and workshops for everyone â€“ graduated herbalists or absolute beginners- in which she stimulates people to get to know, and work with, the plants, trees and herbs surrounding them.
=> For more information on workshops, visit www.kruidencursus.com (Nederlandstalig)
=> Visit my blog @ Urban Nomad Herbalism

My Interests

herbal wild food, underground grassroots herbalism, self sufficiency, ecology, permaculture

I'd like to meet:

People thinking outside the box

Humans without cars

~I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.~
Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862

Movies:

Before the Rain
Black Cat/White Cat
Lola Rennt
Hable Con Ella
Mary Poppins
Tideland
Howl's Moving Castle
Fremmede

Books:

Healing Wise ~Susun Weed
The Cosmic Serpent ~Jeremy Narby
Plants with a Purpose ~Richard Mabey
Women Who Run With Wolves ~Clarissa Pinkola EstÃ©s
The Art of Travelling ~Alain de Botton
The Continuum Concept ~Jean Liedloff
Songs of Bleeding ~Spider
The Botany of Desire ~Michael Pollan
Anything by Gabriel GarcÃa Marquez
Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses ~Isabel Allende
Como agua para chocolate ~Laura Esquivel
Grandfather ~Tom Brown Jr.
~ the Edda ~

Heroes:

~Julia Butterfly Hill~
â€œOur deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of god. Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.â€
(Marianne Williamson)
"Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own â€“ indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process.
In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other.
That time is now.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has challenged the world to broaden the understanding of peace: there can be no peace without equitable development; and there can be no development without sustainable management of the environment in a democratic and peaceful space. This shift is an idea whose time has come."
(Wangari Maathai)

My Blog

Fremmede/Strangers

Many years ago I saw this short film on the small screen of Theo Solnik's camera. I was deeply moved by the subtleness of the story that unfolds... to me the real gem is in the end, this man is one of...
Posted by Herboristeria on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:14:00 PST