About:
Embodied Elements And
Living In Tune With Nature
We use wildcrafted, organic, or homegrown botanicals and by creating our products intentionally and at optimal times we harness the vital force of the plant and make it available in its highest potency to you.
Hey, Jordan here, founder of Embodied Elements and lover of nature. Read a little bit of my story and the inspiration for starting a small, heart centered biz below.
Embodied Elements was born out of a long journey of coming home to self, which was lovingly aided by the plants.
When I left suburban Texas in 2014, and headed for the hills of California, I knew two things; that I wanted to live near clean and clear swimmable water and that I wanted to get closer to the source of the goods I was consuming.
I found myself working hard and bathing in the river during the summer. Chopping firewood and building fires in the fall. I was enchanted by the mystical fairy-like habitats during the winter rains, and fueled by the early morning bird sounds and many wildflowers of the luscious spring. I also found myself struggling physically and mentally in the depths of the dark winter, waking up in the night with anxiety as I choked on the thick smoke of the summer wildfires that infiltrated my canvas living structure, exhausted physically from caring for myself and making it through the long hours of the fall harvest, and through it all getting to know myself on a much deeper level.
After living closely with the land for a few years I wanted to know more information about plants and how we can use them, so I took some herb classes and made many, many new plant and human friends. As I began consuming the plants with intention I began see changes in my physical body as well as in my spiritual and emotional bodies. Sometimes these changes were welcomed and sometimes they felt chaotic. One of my teachers talks about how the first remedies that you give someone is part of your "diagnosis"- how we receive or react to a plant will tell us more about the pattern that we are working with in the body/mind/spirit. The patterns that I work with in Embodied Elements are based in earth, air, water and fire.
Ayurveda, TCM, Alchemy and Astrology are all traditions of medicine that are built upon a basis of the elements that are present in the environment. These elements are seen plainly or in the form of a similar pattern in the human being, animal being, plant being, etc.; as we commune with the world around us, we observe and understand the facets of the environment that we each hold within ourselves.
As I continued down the path of coming home to myself, I was aided by daily doses of herbs in the form of tea, food, and body care as well as less frequent doses of entheogenic plants. It was a combination of all of these that aided (and always continuing) me in refining my physical and energetic body. At this point on the path, snippets of understanding, tools and inspiration that I received during a 200 hr 30 day intensive yoga teacher training before I left Texas were trickling back in, in a new light. I began to put together that a life lived in tune with elements of nature, eating clean food, using plants as medicine and a yoga practice are all ways of living a wild, true, deeply integral and spiritual life.
Thus, was born Embodied Elements, a mindset where we as humans are not separate from nature, rather that we truly are nature. In Embodied Elements I get to weave my studies and experience of yoga, natural living, herbalism and astrology into a unique healthy living, spiritually inspired self-care experience that I pray will ignite these and more in others, like yourself.
In the yoga classes that I lead I focus on how energetics underly all physicality. We work with the energetics of the stars and of our innermost beings as well as the 8 limbed path of yoga to unravel into our true balance.
In our teas and body care products we use either organically grown, wild crafted or homegrown botanicals to bring a pure, luxurious and truly nourishing experience. We never use chemicals or synthetic ingredients. With the plants that we personally harvest we offer homegrown tobacco, recognize and thank the plant, and honor the vital life forces that are present within it. When possible we harvest and create our products on days the the astrology is in alignment with the essence of the product. This vital life force is available to each person to consciously and humbly receive when taking the plant into our own bodies- via the skin, mouth, etc.
Currently we are in the process of creating a wellness program that will guide participants through the elements in a deep and experiential way. We are excited to share when it all comes together!
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