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About Dan

Dan De Lion is an earth herbalist, forager, musician, and teacher. He teaches through Return to Nature, providing classes, lectures, and seminars on wild food foraging, mushroom identification, herbal medicine making, as well as primitive and survival skills with a focus on wild foods and forest medicines. He also incorporates the philosophies of yoga, alchemy, meditation, and mysticism into his classes, lectures, and seminars and brings a deep rooted indigenous medicine perspective of practicing intuition with plants, in a systematic and earth-based way – Check out more at www.returntonature.us.

Working Herbally with Lyme @ The Ark

Here is the recording of the “Working Herbally with Lyme” class taught by Dan. In it, he discusses the micro and macrocosm relations to Lyme as a “dis-ease” and what the proliferation of ticks, individually and ecologically expresses within “parasitism” as a healing … Continue reading

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Foraging for Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus species)

Chicken of the woods is an easily identifiable and safe mushroom to start your mushroom seeking adventures.

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Water is Life – Help Standing Rock Reservation

#waterislife #noDAPL  It turns out that water is priority over oil. We can easily replace oil technology as an energy source, but you cannot replace water.  Remember this in the coming years as corporations try to make us dependent on … Continue reading

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This Weekend – Foraging Classes in Princeton, NJ

Hey Foraging Friends! Foraging the East Coast Continues with another weekend of Princeton Classes. This weekends upcoming classes includes Foraging for Wild Plants and Mushrooms – Princeton NJ this Saturday, and The Yoga of Plants: Ayurveda, Alchemy, and Herbalism – Princeton, NJ … Continue reading

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Pokeweed Preparation in 21 Minutes! – New Video

Pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) is a controversial but medicinal and sometimes edible plant, depending on how correctly it is prepared. This plant can be VERY poisonous and shows up often where people don’t want it to grow, BUT, it has every … Continue reading

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“The Yoga of Plants” – Live Class at The Inner Warrior

Here’s a look from the “Yoga of Plants” workshop at The Inner Warrior in Loiusville, KY, where I gave a talk on determining constitutions of wild herbs by taste based on Ayurvedic constitutional principles and webcasted it live on the … Continue reading

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Wisdom of Wineberries – Foraging for Local “Invasives”

Today we went exploring one of my favorite patches of wineberries. Said to be an invasive plant, I encourage everyone to cross compare that with the idea of shipping the equivalent berry from across the US or even worse, foreign … Continue reading

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Foragers Broadcast – Episode 11 – Foraging Agaricus Mushrooms 

Heres a quick video shot during my Foraging Herbalist Mentorship, where I took students on a mushroom forage. https://youtu.be/66Vn8gr3HHo In this video, I share a look at some key identification points in identifying edible vs inedible mushrooms of the agaricus … Continue reading

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Summertime Herbal Goods Package

Summer Blessings, Plants Friends! In celebration of the season, we’re offering a limited edition “Summertime Herbal Goods” package:  Each package will be carefully and lovingly handmade to order with prayer and the healing power of plant magic!    Price: $57.00 … Continue reading

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Fermentation + Kombucha Workshop – Part 13 – Sprouting, Sustainability, and the Language of the Body

Hey all! Heres the 13th video in a series teaching the class entitled “Fermentation and Kombucha: Culture Your Health” at NOFA NJ Winter Gathering in January 2015.  Fermentation + Kombucha Workshop – Part 13 – Sprouting, Sustainability, and the Language … Continue reading

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