26. The Plants Are Helping Us Come Home to Our Light with Rachel Ellis

In this episode we get taken by Rachel into the plant realms, into the earth,into the fairy realms and into light and lumeria.

This is the second conversation in my 6 part Aotearoa tour series.

As soon as I touched down in the south island Te Wai Pounamu after being away for 2 years, my whole body and being relaxed, I breathed a sigh of relief and felt magnetised into the earth like my roots were pulled deeper and I could truly slow down.

This conversation feels like that relaxation and deep connection to nature. Because it’s the essence Rachel brings with her deep love and knowledge of the earth, plant wisdom, Te Rongoa Maori and so much more.

Rachel is a teacher, practitioner of angelic Reiki and Te Rongoa Māori, and she facilitates cacao circles.

I met up with Rachel in Blenheim and we shared cacao from Kakao drinking chocolate together in my motorhome parked up in her driveway.

Rachel shares a beautiful Karakia (prayer) at the beginning and Pania shares a cacao blessing.

We went on to talk about:

Connecting with trees

Cooking and eating cabbage tree

Building a connection of reciprocity with plants

Rachel’s early experiences with spirituality

Plants as an ally for her healing from burnout

Communication with plants

Relationship with the Kawakawa plant

Patupaiarehe the Fairy people of Aotearoa

Meeting Cacao & Rachel’s potent first experience

And all cacao showed her

Plants helping us to remember we are light beings

Why cacao is needed on Earth right now

Interdependence vs Independence

Working with the plant realm

Love for the cacao trees

Grief and Open hearts

Cacao connecting us with threads of light

Closing out with a meditation of connecting the threads of light between us.