new connection where you can tune in and grow i'm your host vicky thompson you may be familiar with new connection magazine for conscious living which has been enjoyed by readers in the pacific northwest for more than seventeen years now we're excited to bring new connection to life in your home a new connection we welcome authors practitioners and visionaries to share new ideas for alternative health spirituality and personal growth today i'd like to welcome to new connection katie mueller who is affectionately known as the wizard of operations for weiss krohn dot com this portland based company teaches children how to develop their natural into a two to abilities while interacting with the natural world attention all harry potter fans gather round as we create in chanted herbal formulas with plants and positive intentions to they will learn how to create merlin's lucky charm powder and to start a sleeping spray are sue herbal apprentices caroline interest and will learn how to create these magical potions katie welcome to new connections so great to have you here it's great to be here thank you well you teach children in classes around the portland area how to make potions but the art of our biology has become really big because of the harry potter harry potter books and it was professor sprout teaching the children how to make the potions butter volage e potion making has been around for a long time you're right it's been around for thousands of years and basically our biology or all of them is just basically healing ourselves with a medicine of plants and traditionally had a seeing as just happening on the physical level but what i like to imagine is as kind of an energetic interaction between two intelligences having a plant there and having its physical intelligence interact with the intelligence of our body and from there it can open up channel blockages and help are tissues and organs realigned with the correct function that they're supposed to be that's supposed to be happening there but other than that you know our planet is more than just a physical being just like we are more than just a physical pain it has several layers of subtle energy that's going on there so plants are able to actually heal on the emotional level the mental level and several of the other subtle levels as well and in order for us to be able to receive that we have to have some ability to be able to tap in at those levels as well and fully welcome the healing that will happen there and this is where the magical characteristics of the plants come in through these subtle realms to help us with this so how can we take advantage of the healing power of herbs in everyday life well if you haven't used before what i recommend is just started starting to add them to your diet we always find excuses these days to put things off saying we don't have you know i don't have time for that but we always eat so you know if you just pick your head outside the window or the door and look at what you have in your yard as long as you can identify something that safe to consume it's probably really nutritious for you a couple of examples dandelion greens oh really those little dandelion out of our law really good for cleaning out your liver in the spring how would you prepare that would you just wash  it wash it up you can even use the dandelion heads and put them in a salad you want to be careful though with dandelion it really picks up a lot of toxins from the environment so don't pick any that are near a roadside or  you know they're not all seeds you have to either dry or slightly steamed so that it doesn't sting you but it's it's really nutritious you know and instead of taking our vitamins and pill form if we start taking these nourishing herbal teas we can supplement ourselves with the calcium that we need so nettles is really good for women who want to work on their bone density is also good for you know it has iron and zinc and so forth  well we're here talking about magic so there are the subtleties this is the subtle properties of herbs and so how can we tap into the magical subtle properties of well that's a little bit more difficult and i laugh because you know in some of my classes i'll have the kids pick up their little magic wand and they'll point it at the shelf and they'll say a little you know a magical incantation and they'll be very disappointed when things don't fall off the shelf and i say you know in the movies the wands are the things that do the magic but in real life it's the wizard who needs to be able to develop himself or herself internally so that and once we have mastered our internal world then we can start seeing results on the exterior level wonderful well let's start to see some ok results because we have a potion today that we like our prentices to help us make and it's going to make us lucky yes marilyn select the time powder yes yeah so basically what we have here we have six different our boiling greedy ants and they're all powdered and you know you can get them online powdered otherwise you get them at an herb store you can take and a coffee grinder to grind them down to a powder yeah so basically what we have here are six different ingredients that are all going to combine synergistically into our potion they all have things to do with good luck in their properties so let's go ahead interest and if you want to pull the first one this is orange peel powder and go ahead and take the lid off that and take a big with mint not to go away so what we're going to do is start off with four scoops of the orange peel potter and just put it into  but if you want to save more money you're always welcome to dry the orange bills yourself and then grind them up it probably with a greater and then maybe with a coffee grinder after that ok so the next ingredient that we  granted it brings in the good luck but it also dispels the negative energy so it's going to dispel the bad luck and bring in that kind of higher vibration of locked up pun to it is strong smelling and this one comes in little chunks here that you can buy at the store and if you just take a mortar and pestle you can really to smell that you know no sugar in there for toast but it's a really warm mean herb and it helps us to put our ideas into action and it grants us success so go ahead and put two scoops of cinnamon in moving and yet so that you can take action and exams and i always tell kids that when you're storing them up you know you've got the energy of the plants in there put the energy of your thoughts in there to imagine you know extreme success and whatever you do which are extreme success you know unfairly successful you know i want to put in one scoop of the sandal wood now that one doesn't smell as much as the traditional sandal wood that we use because the traditional standard one that most people use is endangered so we're going to go ahead and use reds down to what here ok negative vibration or the bad luck all right so the next one that we have is potentially leave and you guys aren't old enough to probably have any member of this particular scent but it does seem a little bit like dirt you that it's really it's used a lot of prosperity things and you know with the action of herbs we kind of taste in the attribute of perhaps potentially and we kind of combine it with the other so it's a synergistic thing where it kind of has intelligence of its own and it kind of knows how to act within the formula with the other yeah so there complement yes so that wisdom that's i think the magic yakking about is that it's not just a powder it came from the living pla right right combining wonderful right ok our last one there is not made and because you know you probably know what that one is to a lot of these i try to use really common herbs so kids can create them at home and a lot of them too you can get at the grocery store if not in the spice section but you can you can probably do it in the in the book herbs section and you know what you're not going to need to spoons for this one way it is like that now this one really overpowers the whole formula and i tell kids you know choose between three and nine choose your lucky number and put that many gr because it is a strong smell is a very strong however it's a very it's a very powerful good luck charm they used to drill the nutmegs and wear them around their necks with talk of beans and star enough that's good that's good good i didn't put into it i think you know what it's like this can be somewhat forgiving in that if you add too much of something you can always add something of something that smells good like orange peel powder so go ahead and stir that up and do your magic so you talked about using positive intention to use that as used or you should use it throughout the whole process  a lot of the subtle vibrational things you know when they make flourescent as for example they put the flowers in the water and they're very careful as to who comes into the room or you know the thoughts of their thinking actually even do it by the moon too sometimes to influence the subtle energetics of it so everything is very important when it comes down to this stuff so that concludes the merlins lucky charm powder and so you have any ideas caroline of how you would use it well just use it for fun you know what i tell kids is that what we do is we put them in these bottles and when you need some just shake a little bit out of your hand and rub it together really fast and get it warm and whatever intention you need to use it for just have that in your mind and then you know you can just blow it out and just push it down in there yeah that's your man coming out and it's always fun to you know go to antique stores or garage sales and find these beautiful bottles with with co create the bottles however you want to you know you can put beads on them straying crystals you can write on them yeah you can quote if you have an adult helping you you can put a waxy over the top that's always fun to do with bees wax second we are going to fill the rest of it with what change will extract which helps when we put in the assumption oils it helps the oils and the water blend together here it's always still good to shake the bottle when you right this is going to be a little lucky sleeping pattern so we're just filling most of the top here it's not an exact science when it comes to magic ok so then i'm going to have you guys help me put in these ingredients here right what we have here are a bunch of different essential oils that help us with getting to sleep and do you guys have any idea what essential oils are  the way that they make essential oils as they take if we take lavender for example it takes two hundred pounds of lavender to make one pound of essential oil and it goes through a steam distillation process where they basically extract the essential our aromatic liquid from the plant and that's that's what this says so it's amazing two hundred pounds yeah that's for one pound of this liquid  quite dense they can get kind of expensive but lavender is pretty inexpensive one of the other ingredients that we have in here is rose and that gets really expensive unless you get it a little  she go ahead and go ahead and put twelve drops in there and just be careful not to get it on your skin you know going to have to tip it all the way and just wait for it to go when kids are working with essential oils it's always best while it's actually very necessary to be with adults because it's it can be very hard on your skin expression if you have sensitive skin  and you never want to apply these directly on the skin usually like to use a little bit of eye dilution oil well what happens if you get it on your skin and you can get a rash if it's too strong  lavender you know i don't worry about too much because a lot of people actually apply that directly to the skin when they have burns or mosquito bites or something like that but some of the other ones you know like clove oil can get a little harsh ok so let's go these at the end when we shake it all up if you think it doesn't smile quite right we can always add something of a certain ingredients that you think that means it ok so the next one we have here is rollers and this is a deluded rose it has a couple different varieties of rose in there which makes it a little more affordable i see you yawning does that mean not kidding make you sleepy that is very calmly but the rose helps us feel nurtured in it so i'm loving i dropped you know what go ahead put it in there or a little more that's fine too rose never does any harm ok this next one we have here assist us and you guys probably haven't heard of this of the mediterranean plant ornamental plant it's really good for helping to induce sleep you know what let me do this one because have any smell the way that they make the flower essences as they have a big bowl of water and they put the flowers on top of the water and let the vibration of the flowers infuse into the water in them and just bottle up the water so that really works on the more subtle levels and helps with our emotional body and the first one that we have is white chestnut and really helps with that monkey mind when you're trying to go to sleep but your mind just won't be quiet at home yeah i've had that before and had really hard to get rid of it if you like so it's like i heard it like felt like i was like a job and i had like a boss feeling when i couldn't go to sleep those caught up in my thought and the last one camera and we have these some joy but here's the flower essence again so go ahead and put in six drops of that all right sounds good so now we put the lid on and shake it up a little bit and take some turns or just be careful tightly we don't want to wake up