Selecting areas to hold specific intentions.ģ. Mary Reynolds has, for the purpose of the book, distilled her design system into five basic elements:Ģ. The most important part is establishing a mutually beneficial relationship. Her method of garden design is intuitive. It is based on the acknowledgment that Nature is a real, present, and conscious living entity. Co-creation means that we are building our gardens hand in hand with Nature as a partner. Mary Reynolds uses the word co-creation when referring to her approach. By listening carefully and allowing the land to become an extension of ourselves, we can interpret its energy and enable it to emerge through a creative collaborative process.

Every piece of land is the same this child. We can, on the other hand, gently discover who the child is, and who they want to be. We can force a child to be someone they don't want to be, but only with the consequences of unhappiness and retreat. Mary Reynolds shows how using an integrated living systems approach removes our incessant war on Nature. We also need to find and correct the underlying causes of physical symptoms, whether conscious or unconscious. We cannot solve a problem by resolving the physical level alone. Healing involves looking at the whole picture. If we allow the light to shine on all the dark places in our lives and have the courage to face ourselves, then recovery and growth will take place. We are mirrors for the land and it is a mirror for us, so healing the the land leads us towards our own restoration, back to our true selves. Mary Reynolds has discovered through her work as garden and landscape designer that gardens can become very special if we invite Nature to express her true self in these spaces, and then work to heal the land and ourselves. Described as both transformative and essential, Sharon Blackie leads the listener on a quest to find their place in the world, drawing inspiration from the wise and powerful females in native mythology, and guidance from contemporary women who have re-rooted themselves in land and community and taken responsibility for shaping the future.īeautifully written, honest, and moving, If Women Rose Rooted is a passionate song to a different kind of femininity, a rallying, feminist cry for the rewilding of womanhood reclaiming our role as guardians of the land.This is a book about designing gardens that are beautiful, radiant with life, bursting with energy, in harmony with the Earth. Like Women who Run with the Wolves, this is powerful rallying cry to women to embrace a different kind of femininity.

I sincerely hope every woman who can read has the time and space to read it.'-Manda Scott, author of Boudica and A Treachery of Spies Sharon Blackie journeys from the wasteland of modern society to a place of nourishment and connection. In this life-changing book that blends myth, memoir, and modern-day mentors, renowned psychologist Dr.

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