Welcome to More Aliveness + Feet on the Earth Spirituality +
Welcome to More Aliveness + Feet on the Earth Spirituality +
Trauma-experienced breathwork, herbal remedies, and embodied practices for navigating grief, stress, transition, and the complicated work of being alive.
Our bodies are primary material.
Our bodies are an archive.
Our bodies are always reaching for homeostasis, remedy, relationship, and a way home.
Sometimes the remedy is a plant.
Sometimes it's reconnecting to your breath.
Sometimes it's writing, ritual, community, or simply having someone hold the heavy with you.
Sometimes it’s as simple and as complex as finding the right dose, the right practitioner, the right place to remember, reconnect, and return to the wisdom of the body.
My work as a practitioner is to help you hold the heavy, to support you moving towards more presence and aliveness even, and most especially when, the world is hard to be in. We are here to be alive, to feel the fullness of aliveness. This is the practice and the remedy.
To hold it all in a single hand.
UPCOMING VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
Join Thursday August 27th || 5-6:30pm MT || $50-20 sliding scale
Join for a 90 minute workshop focused on working with an enlivening breath. Come call on your breath to reconnect to a deeper and sustained sense of aliveness with people all over the world. Come tend to the heartache and woundings that might be flaring. Come breathe into the parts of yourself that still want to feel joy and pleasure. Come discharge some energy. Come remember your own wise inner healer. Come breathe into the mystery. Come bend time. Come lean into the psychedelia of waking life, of the unconscious made conscious.
If you want to practice but can not join live— a recording (of just my face and voice) will be sent to all who register.
Open to experienced folks + brand new alike!
YOU DON'T HAVE TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT ALONE.
My work is about helping you reconnect with the intelligence already living in your body most especially when the world is hard to be in. Whether you're moving through grief, overwhelm, trauma, transition, disconnection, exhaustion, or simply wanting more access to pleasure and aliveness, there are many ways to work together.
Book a Session
Work with breath, body, emotion, sensation, and presence in a trauma-experienced space.Book a private, virtual, 1:1 breathwork session, herbal consultation, or business mentorship session.
Visit the HERB Shop
Plant remedies made with intention, relationship, and a deep respect for the more-than-human world. From tinctures to elixirs to glycerites to teas to skin care to books and recordings— the shop has you covered.
Join A Workshop
I offer one-off workshops and 5 week series. Learn about what’s offered and register to join us to be in practice with the support of community.
For just a short time each summer the unripe seeds of milky oat tops (aka avena sativa) are in their prime especially for us humans who are quite often running on empty or burning the candle from both ends. Known for being deep, moistening, nourishing food for the nervous system, when tinctured at this peak moment, you can count on the gentle but powerful support of the vitamins and minerals of milky oats.
An ally to help stabilize your nervous system in times of over-exertion, depletion, or exhaustion, you might notice better sleep, less anxiety, decrease in tension headaches, an increase in energy, and a reduction in anger and exhaustion.
In short— deep relief from the flutter and burst of constant or ongoing stress. Bringing balance, it’s a balm for when we find ourselves emotionally and physically at extremes. It’s also a powerful ally for restoring the adrenals and nervous system after periods of over-reliance or misuse of substances like alcohol, tobacco, opiates and caffeine or other things used to excess. I can really feel this plants deep care for us humans who still have yet to learn the lessons in finding balance. Lessons plants know intuitively.
Oats are hearty and can survive and even thrive in less desirable temperatures and soil. Energetically, it helps us find our way back to the path we are meant to travel. It’s a really beautiful tincture to take daily as you restore your body from the inside out.
Please choose size and then choose between three preparations:
an alcohol-based tincture
an alcohol-free oxymel (organic apple cider vinegar & local raw honey)
a glycerite (organic plant-based glycerine & filtered water.)
Shake before use.
ORCHARD GROWN NERVOUS SYSTEM CARE
ORCHARD GROWN NERVOUS SYSTEM CARE
An ally to help nourish and stabilize your nervous system in times of over-exertion, depletion, or exhaustion, you might notice better sleep, less anxiety, decrease in tension headaches, an increase in energy, and a reduction in anger and exhaustion.
Jennifer Patterson is a breathworker, community herbalist, writer, and trauma worker whose practice for over a decade brings together embodiment, plants, breath, grief, harm reduction, social justice, and liberation.
Her work is trauma-experienced, queer + trans centered, person-first, non-pathologizing, and grounded in the belief that individual care and community care belong together.
MADE WITH PLANTS. ROOTED IN RELATIONSHIP.
Corpus Ritual Remedies began in 2013 as a durational practice of building relationship with plants, land, body, and community.The remedies are made with intention and ceremony, using herbs grown in the ancient orchard when possible and sourced from small, organic farms and local growers when needed.If you are a store, a healing arts center, a practitioner— write to carry the line of herbal remedies in your space.
keywords: protection in the underworld, trust in liminal times, + faith in the rebirth
color: indigo clouds + yellow beams of crisp, cool light
anthem: “The Mapmaker” Mother Juniper
season: a dark, cold winter’s night
vision: at the edge of a cliff, a portal to the next world
This flower essence formula is for the crossroads of change inspired by the energy of Hecate, guardian of thresholds and liminal spaces, and Hag stones with their protection magic and keyhole view. When the familiar falls away and uncertainty stirs fear and “what ifs,” this essence offers both torchlight and a clarifying lens through the portal— guiding each step with enough light to trust the near future and the assurance that what we need to reach the next world will be provided.
Datura helps us to open to trust as the familiar falls away and makes way for what better serves, the sweet and the bitter of life and loss. Fireweed is the bloom that grows from the ashes, promises of resilience and regeneration. Monkshood reminds us of our intuition and courage as we stabilize after the shock of endings. Periwinkle helps us sort through and integrate any wisdom from the past to come with us into the next world, linking us to memory, lineage, and cycles. Coralroot connects us to the hidden networks of support— ancestral, communal, and ecological— reminding us we are not alone in the dark but a part of an interdependent web. Hawthorn Thorn offers protection, helping us maintain clear and compassionate boundaries while crossing thresholds. Apple Blossom reminds us to trust the timing of our lives, brings reassurance, sweetness, and reciprocity in the rebirth.
Together, these essences invite us to more fully enter and trust the portal: a medicine of protection, clarity, and resilience for those moving between worlds, navigating transitions, or standing at a crossroads in life.
This flower essence formula can be taken under the tongue, in a glass of water, on the skin, or even in a bath. It’s great to work with in conjunction with and ritual or personal practices you already have.
“Between Worlds has been a beautiful supportive friend the last couple of weeks. The first time I took it I had the feeling of a strong hand at my back."-- Kate
This is a 1oz dosage bottle meant for personal use.
Available as alcohol-based or alcohol-free.
BRAND NEW FLOWER ESSENCE FORMULA
BRAND NEW FLOWER ESSENCE FORMULA
For protection in the underworld, trust in liminal times, + faith in the rebirth.This flower essence formula is for the crossroads of change inspired by the energy of Hecate, guardian of thresholds and liminal spaces, and Hag stones with their protection magic and keyhole view. When the familiar falls away and uncertainty stirs fear and “what ifs,” this essence offers both torchlight and a clarifying lens through the portal— guiding each step with enough light to trust the near future and the assurance that what we need to reach the next world will be provided.
A floral blend of calendula, blue cornflower, red clover, tulsi, and linden to support rest and relaxation. Non-drowsy, you can drink this tea any time of day! A party in a mug and great for gentle digestive support too.
Earthy, floral, and sweet flavor profile.
Herbs are grown by me in the ancient orchard as well as sourced from small, organic farms, and local when possible!
2oz. clear compostable bag
BRAND NEW HERBAL TEAS
BRAND NEW HERBAL TEAS
Welcoming 4 brand new herbal teas! Throw those grocery tea bags away! Delicious, nutrient-dense, relaxing to the nervous system, and helpful for digestion all through the magic of plants.
All organic herbs grown here in the ancient orchard and sourced from small, organic farms.
Join ENERGY FIELDS
Join ENERGY FIELDS
Wanna explore flower essences?
Join Energy Fields: a monthly energetic essence club. Think FUN and PLAY and LISTENING DEEPLY TO PLANTS, LAND, and YOUR WISE SELF.
“…The way you curate the essences from month to month feels like a natural crescendo and narrative you’re building with the collective at large. They feel in sync, like the most wonderful balm for challenging times. Thanks for all the care and work you put into this offering, it truly is quite special.”
CARE SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE. Support Pay it Forward
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CARE SHOULD BE ACCESSIBLE. Support Pay it Forward +
Mutual aid and accessible sessions and workshops offered on a sliding scale are the backbone of my work. All 1:1 work and workshops are offered on a sliding scale because I believe healing work should not be reserved for people with the most money.
If you have more financial capacity, you can help make lower-cost and donation-based care possible for someone else through Pay It Forward. Learn more.
Your contribution helps support:
lower-cost 1:1 breathwork sessions
lower-cost herbal consultations
donation-based community care
herbal remedies donated to mutual-aid and social-justice projects
continued training and development
creating more accessible ways to participate in Corpus Ritual
I don't receive outside funding for this work so your support helps make the sliding-scale model and my mutual aid work more sustainable.
Connect with Jennifer
Write me with questions about working together 1:1, collaborations, and more.
There are two kinds of suffering. The kind that you turn and face, and the kind that you run from that follows you everywhere.
Ajahn Chah