Greetings! My name is Kathryn Solie. Many people know me for my work as a "poisonous" plant educator. I feel that at this time my mission is to bring about a greater cultural understanding of certain aspects of plant consciousness, and ultimately help generate a community of unique practitioners in dialogue with one another, learning from and supporting each other, both in commonality and contrast.
I believe that together we can recover the most ancient human lineage - our relationship to the wisdom of the plant kingdom.
I studied painting at Naropa University, a Buddhist-inspired school in Boulder Colorado, did a sacred plant medicine apprenticeship with the Gaia School of Healing in Putney, Vermont, and completed a training in Hakomi, a type of mindfulness based body-centered psychotherapy. Although all of these trainings influence the way I work, they ultimately pale in comparison to what I’ve learned from the plants themselves.
You can learn more through my Poisonous Plant Medicine course, Patreon, and various interviews and writings (listed below)
Podcast Interview with Medicine Stories: Poisonous plants have long been misunderstood and even forbidden, yet they hold a special medicinal power. Let’s do as our ancestors did and carefully, respectfully ally ourselves with this potent family of healing herbs.
Podcast Interview with Holes to Heavens: In this show, Kathryn Solie and I stroll along the Poison Path, taking in the intoxicating perfumes of nightshades while we converse about how the dangerous plants and planets can help us in these times. There is also an accidental tribute to my favorite plant ambassador, Dale Pendell. If you call yourself a witch, you must listen. If you call yourself a wizard, the same applies
Podcast Interview with Earth Speak: Herbalist Kathryn Solie on the Plants of the Underworld and Turning Poison into Medicine
Interview with Love & Light School: Kathryn’s teachings are all about calling on your intuition and listening to your inner guidance, and in this week’s blog post, podcast and video I chat to her about what poisonous plants can teach us about healing… A must-read/see/hear for anyone curious about plant medicine!
Interview with Flora Gnosis: Kathryn Solie on the importance of poisonous plants in healing the collective and healing the individual! My teacher in plant spirit communication and consciousness, two years ago she opened my heart to the depth of experience and healing that these often maligned plants can offer, as a mirror to our own inner wounds, or even shining a light in the darkness of our pains.
Podcast Interview with Plant Love Radio: In this interview with talk about: How plant spirit communications assist in understanding poisonous plants better, three poisonous plants especially useful in today’s culture – their history, energies, and uses, & what poisonous medicine books should be added to your reading list
Podcast Interview with Divine Dingo: On this episode (!!!) Kathryn & I talk about her work with “poisonous” plants & plant consciousness, shadow work, how to be better stewards of the Earth, reincarnation & trusting your inner guidance. If you have been waiting for a sign to *finally* expand your perspective of consciousness through connecting to the natural world, this is it.
Interview with Witch of Wanderlust: Olivia recently had me on her channel to talk about plant spirit medicine, poisonous plants, shadow work + more!
Podcast Interview with Modern Mystic: Plant Spirit Communication is a practice that can be a powerful tool in one’s arsenal of working with unprocessed trauma, challenging times and shadow work.
Podcast Interview with Ecology & Me: Why have some plants evolved to be poisonous? Why do some have both poisonous parts and non-poisonous parts? What does poisonous actually mean, anyway? I sat down with herbalist Kathryn Solie to get some answers.
Podcast Interview with Unbroken Chain: Today Kathryn Solie takes us on journey into the transformative medicine of poison plants. We go deep into the underworld of datura, hellebore, henbane, belladonna, and amanita muscaria, and explore the myths that help unlock their wisdom. She talks about the pagan origins of Christmas traditions, the loss of our European shamanic lineage, wrathful goddesses, and the intersection of buddhism and plant medicine.
Podcast Interview with Flowering She Rose: In this episode, we meet with Kathryn Solie of Persephone’s Path, a plant spirit communication and poisonous plant medicine teacher.
Death, The Great Teacher article published in Ritualcravt Journal
The sooner we begin to contemplate death, the sooner we can contemplate life. For what is it to live without the knowledge that this life will someday end? [Continue Reading]
Seeing Persephone’s Face article published in Ritualcravt Journal
Most of us don’t begin to contemplate death until it’s right in front of us. When death does seep into our minds, it may show up as a distant thought laced with fear, avoidance, and apprehension; mentally relegated to a theoretical possibility requiring minimal to no contemplation. [Continue Reading]
Introduction to Communicating with Plant Consciousness article published in Ritualcravt Journal
Despite what our material reductionist schooling and social conditioning have led us to believe, plants are beings with their own interior experience of reality. [Continue Reading]
Five Poisonous Plant Used Since Ancient Times: The Misunderstood Allies article published by Anima Mundi
Paracelsus, the Swiss physician, astrologer, alchemist, and pioneer of the Medical Renaissance once said “All things are poison, and nothing is without poison, the dosage alone makes it so a thing is not a poison.” This is often shortened to “The dose makes the poison,” or in Latin "sola dosis facit venenum." [Continue Reading]
A short, guided, kriya yoga meditation from February 2018
A 2015 interview with non-dual teacher, Gangaji, from when I was the editor of the online magazine, Conscious Variety.