Kayla’s Work
Kayla is an energetic herbalist, plant spirit healer, and medicine maker. Her training has been in the Western Vitalist Tradition along with Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda. Her way of seeing imbalance, diagnosing, and formulating is influenced by a blending of these energetic herbal traditions. And while she loves a good clinical dive, she was called into a deeper way of relating to plants and to those who come to her for healing…
Depending on the specific needs and desires of each client, Kayla employs a range of medicinal therapies. She offers herbal consultations where she sits in deep listening to hear all of a client’s symptoms, looking for the core energetic patterns causing imbalance. She then formulates and prepares herbal medicines that help shift the body back into a state of balance. For someone’s health to be truly transformed from the root up, herbal medicines work in cooperation with other dietary, lifestyle, emotional, psychological, and spiritual changes.
While this kind of clinical herbal therapy can be effective for many, there is often a greater capacity for transformative healing in a plant spirit communion session.
Disease finds its origin in the spirit long before it becomes apparent as our physiological-psychological-emotional ailments. When the spirit is sick and no other medicine works, when what is ailing you seems like a complex conundrum that no physician can solve, it is often a sickness of spirit that is giving rise to your diverse array of symptoms.
Just as humans have a body, mind, and spirit so too do plants have a unique form, intelligence, and spirit. Plant spirits are kind friends, healers, and allies who long for your return into the great web of inter-being. As such, they help you return to balance, heal the split in your psyche, find peace within your life, and free your spirit from sickness.
Kayla’s work is in the exploration of, and deepening relationship with, these invisible realms. As a plant spirit healer, she connects the spirit of her client with the spirit of the unique plant who is called upon to perform the healing work.
Plant spirits invite and show us the way to heal but it is the surrendered participation with the one coming in for the healing work that allows the work to be completed.
“Our role is to find and address the imbalance at its origin, and it’s the plant’s role to provide the healing. And that relationship is a good thing because the spirit of the plant is capable of reaching our spirit and bringing balance to the particular imbalance. For all its medical advances, this is not something western medicine can do.”
— Alison Gayek