The medicine wheel garden : creating sacred space for healing, celebration, and tranquility

Summary: Integrating plant lore, history, and tradition, the author of American Indian Healing Arts presents an illustrated guide on how to create personal sacred spaces in the form of gardens, meditation landscapes, and outdoor altars, explaining how to design, construct, and plant medicine wheel gardens filled with medicinal herbs and life-enhancing energies.

Record details

ISBN: 0553380893 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780553380897 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xviii, 349 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, c2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-341) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Creating Sacred Space: A Medicine Wheel garden -- The circle is sacred: The ancient history of Medicine Wheels -- Centering earth energies: Designing your Medicine Wheel -- Making the Medicine Wheel: Ground plans and garden styles -- Planting the Medicine Wheel garden: Securing sacred space -- Finishing touches: Peace Poles, Wind Horses, and Prayer Cairns -- Mulches: The garden's conservationists -- Personal alters: Creating a Medicine Wheel indoors -- Celebrating your Medicine Wheel garden: Seasonal healing rituals -- Part II Herbslmfor the Medicine Wheel garden -- Healing herbs from Angelica to Yucca: Fifty key plants, with illustrations and profiles -- Part III Gathering the herbal bounty: Recipes and practical herb crafting -- Harvest times: Making good use of earth medicines -- Nutriceuticals: Foods, beverages, bitters, and seasoning -- Cosmeceuticals: Health and beauty aids from the Medicine Wheel -- Aromatherapy: Bath salts, soaps, and herbal baths -- Ceremonial and ritual items: Smudge sticks, Prayer feathers, and Spirit shields -- Native plant suppliers -- American Indian craft suppliers -- Some sacred sites.