The Triathletes Guide to Run Training or Sacred Plant Medicine

The Triathlete's Guide to Run Training

Author: Ken Mierk

Many multisport athletes employ traditional training methods, ignoring technique while relying on volume and intensity of workouts to improve results. Renowned coach Ken Mierke has coached nine national multisport champions and placed 28 multisport athletes on Team USA. His research proves that athletes who achieve optimal technique show a remarkable difference not just in performance, but also in endurance. In this book he shows runners how to use the body's natural shock-absorption system to dramatically reduce impact stress and keep their training injury-free. By maximizing both conditioning and technique, as detailed in this book, runners can become faster, stronger, and more efficient athletes.

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Sacred Plant Medicine: The Wisdom in Native American Herbalism

Author: Stephen Harrod Buhner

NATIVE AMERICA / HERBALISM

“The first in-depth analysis of the processes used by Native Americans to communicate with the plant world for the purposes of healing human illness. It is a work long overdue by an author who himself ‘talks’ with plants as Native Americans have always done.”
WILLIAM S. LYON, author of The Encyclopedia of Native American Healing and Black Elk: The Sacred Ways of a Lakota

“Buhner articulates the sacred underpinnings of the herbal world and deep ecology as only a real ‘green man’ can.”
DAVID HOFFMANN, author of Medical Herbalism

As humans evolved on Earth they used plants for everything imaginable--food, weapons, baskets, clothes, shelter, and medicine. Indigenous peoples the world over have been able to gather knowledge of plant uses by communicating directly with plants and honoring the sacred relationship between themselves and the plant world. Because they locate their consciousness in the heart, they are able to use the intelligence of the heart to merge their consciousness with the consciousness of any living organism.

In Sacred Plant Medicine Stephen Harrod Buhner looks at the long-standing relationship between indigenous peoples and plants and examines the techniques these cultures use to communicate with the plant world. He explores the sacred dimension of plant and human interactions--a territory where humans experience communications from plants as expressions of Spirit. For each healing plant described in the book, he presents medicinal uses, preparatory guidelines, and ceremonial elements such as prayers and medicinesongs associated with the use of the plant.

STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER is an Earth Poet and senior researcher for the Foundation for Gaian Studies. He lectures throughout the United States on herbal medicine, the sacredness of plants, and the intelligence of nature. He is the author of nine works of nonfiction and one book of poetry, including The Secret Teachings of Plants and the award-winning The Lost Language of Plants.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword by Brooke Medicine Eagle

Preface to the New Edition

Preface to the First Edition

1    The Sacred and the Earth

2    To Be Healed by the Earth

3    Visions of Sacred Plant Medicine

4    The Sacred Song of a Plant

5    Making Sacred Relationship with Plants

6    Healing in a Sacred Manner

7    Digging for Medicine: The Wildcrafting of Medicinal Plants

8    Making Plants into Medicine: The Technology of Herbalism

9    Ceremony: Making Deeper Relationship with Plants

10   Four Sacred Plants of the Rocky Mountain Region:
         Their Sacred Qualities and Uses as Medicine

11   A Short Compendium of Plants and Their Sacred Uses

12   The Birth of Gaia

Appendix: Wildcrafting Ethics and Guidelines
                     by the Rocky Mountain Herbalists’ Coalition

Notes

Suggested Readings and Herbal Apprenticeship Programs

Index

Stephen Harrod Buhner is an Earth poet and theaward-winning author of ten books on nature, indigenous cultures, the environment, and herbal medicine. He comes from a long line of healers including Leroy Burney, Surgeon General of the United States under Eisenhower and Kennedy, and Elizabeth Lusterheide, a midwife and herbalist who worked in rural Indiana in the early nineteenth century. The greatest influence on his work, however, has been his great-grandfather C.G. Harrod who primarily used botanical medicines, also in rural Indiana, when he began his work as a physician in 1911.

Stephen's work has appeared or been profiled in publications throughout North America and Europe including Common Boundary, Apotheosis, Shaman's Drum, The New York Times, CNN, and Good Morning America.