After completing a degree in physical geography in 1995, Rachel Corby, spent several years working on a variety of environmental & permaculture projects.  She has trained in Sustainable Land Use (which included a full permaculture design course), Traditional Thai Massage, Natural Facelift Massage, Plant Spirit & Sacred Plant Medicine, herbal remedy preparation, shamanic techniques and ceremony.  Rachel's teachers have included tribal medicine men in both the Ecuadorian Amazon and the highlands of Kenya, Eliot Cowan and most recently Stephen Harrod Buhner with whom she apprenticed in the Gila wilderness, New Mexico throughout 2008.  She has also spent time with metis from both Cherokee and Mohawk decent, learning about sacred ceremony and its place in honouring the Earth and our individual spiritual wellbeing.  Through this wealth of experience and training she has found that what at first seemed to be a set of abstract ideas drawing closer together, each an equally valid part of the matrix, this wonderful web of life.

Rachel has been drumming for plant journey groups and running workshops encouraging people to develop their relationships with plants since 2006.  She has built up her healing practice from simple Thai massage in 2000 to incorporate working with plant spirits and the physical bodies of plants to give powerful treatments for body, emotions and spirit.  Rachel has had two books published.  The first being "The Medicine Garden" in 2009 and more recently "20 Amazing Plants and their Practical Uses".  She has also had her writing published in various magazines including Permaculture Magazine, Home Farmer and Frontier.

"Several years ago I was told by one of my closest and most deeply trusted plant allies that I am a "bringer of ideas".  In essence this site is my response to that.  It is my hope that through the pages of this website I can offer you some of the tools that I've found useful on my own journey back to Eden, my reconnection to the world."  Rachel Corby