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Pleasant Dreams Tea

Sweep, sweep, sweep away the mighty thoughts, giants who’ve taken residence in the mind, big strong thoughts pulling tension up the body, all that constant thinking & over-thinking. Sweep it away. With Lavender, the broom of the brain. Softly softened now with Chamomile & Linden. Mystical Hyssop & Heather. And settling down into the body with Wood Betony & Verbena.
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Pleasant Dreams is a tea I formulated to help bring energy down from the over-thinking head into the sensing body. I drink this tea in the daytime or evening if I feel nervous or anxious, and it helps take the edge off, helps my shoulders relax and helps me to breathe more deeply and slowly.
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This tea is not strongly sedating, but gently calming. A tea to help transition from Up in the Head, to Down in the Body, from hyperactive linear thoughts to pleasant dream space… Enjoy.

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Finnish Forest Soda

Finnish Forest Soda fermenting natural carbonated bubbles. Made with herbs picked while hiking in the forest, honey & yeast. So easy and you can make this too for a taste of Your Local Forest. This soda has: Spruce, Pine, Lingonberry, St Joans Wort, Heather, Blueberry leaf, Wood Sorrel, Labrador tea, Yarrow. Tastes like finnish forest. Recipe from Pascal Baudar’s book The Wildcrafting Brewer. Basically you just pick your herbs, clean your jar, utensils & hands. Place herbs in jar, add spring water, honey, yeast, mix. I used 79 g honey per L water. Add 1/2 ml yeast per L. Place paper towel on top to keep bugs out & stir 4 times a day with clean spoon. Wait 1 day for fermentation bubbles to appear. Strain into bottle, seal it, let sit 1 more day to ferment even more bubbles. Then refrigerate. Drink within a few days. So Delicious!! Also contains naturally fermented bacteria that are beneficial to intestines plus all the healing properties of the herbs. And how sweet to taste your own local forest plants while they are in season, a reminder of the time you were there walking through the forest….

Finnish forest Soda