SOFT DIETAS

A 3-month container to support healing of the body, mind and spirit with tobacco and a teacher tree.

Trees are the most spiritually advanced plants on Earth. ― Mantak Chia

THE BASICS

A 3-month soft dieta thrives in a powerful container during which we have the opportunity to undergo long-form, shamanic medicine with a tree and still keep up with the rigorous necessities of daily life. The dieta container is created through gentle restrictions placed on food consumption, substance habits and sexual relations. The container is strengthened and sustained through supportive spiritual disciplines we work to keep daily.

Each day we drink tea from our teacher tree and sit in meditation with a small amount of pure tobacco paste. The tobacco paste serves to keep the dieta activated within the body and to assist the consciousness in downloading and archiving the information gifted by our teacher tree. There is a 50 minute call with Mockingbird, once per week, to help process the experiences brought on by the medicine. The dieta will be opened with tobacco ceremony and closed with tobacco ceremony, in person with Mockingbird

WHY DO I WANT TO DO A SOFT DIETA?

A 3-month soft dieta is a highly effective approach to shamanic tree medicine. And there are a few reasons why we might call in the medicine spirit of trees. The most primary reason we turn to any form of medicine is to heal. Tree medicine is extraordinarily powerful and offers full-spectrum, restorative potential for many of the illnesses currently gripping the Western World, including chronic & autoimmune syndromes, hormone imbalances, arthritic, bone & connective tissue disorders, nervous system dysfunction and even mental illnesses.

Another important reason we may be called towards tree medicine through a soft dieta container is for learning & spiritual evolution. Trees are in a constant meditation of reaching towards the sunlight, synthesizing solar energy and carbon dioxide into Oxygen. These beings hold immense wisdom and are willing to share it with those who know how to listen. Both the discipline required to keep a soft dieta and the slow cultivation of the personal instruction gifted by our teacher tree make soft dietas a richly rewarding spiritual experience.

Whoever knows how to speak to trees can learn the truth. ― Herman Hesse

POTENTIAL BENEFITS

Physical

Healing Chronic Inflammation
Repairing damaged tissues
Restoring gut lining
Strengthening connective tissue
Tonifying the kidneys
Balancing hormones
Detoxing lymph, blood & liver
Harmonizing immune system
Soothing the nervous system
Supporting strong digestion

Spiritual

Energetic alignment
Clarification of life-purpose
Heightening spiritual mission
Ancestral healing
Refining personal vision
Sharpening spiritual discipline
Opening the dreams
Inviting deeper intuition
Experiencing the sublime
Exuberance, joy & peace!

THE CONTAINER

The dieta container can be thought of like the pot which protects the roots of a small plant just beginning to express its life in the soil. Like a seedling, we need a strong container where we are safe to go deep in exploration, finding new sources of nourishment and integrating them into our being. The dieta container is energetic in nature and can be affected by anything we do or come into contact with. The foundations on which we build the dieta container can help us to visualize and understand the way subtle energies enter our temple and interact with our being. The goal is to create internal cleanliness, while the energetic profile of the teacher tree grows within us.

Trees breathe sounds that can be heard for generations. ― Marijo Moore

Dietary Cleanliness

Dietary Cleanliness is the most fundamental boundary we set when holding a dieta container. The energetics of foods affect everything we feel, experience and live within the body. While we are anchoring the energetic profile of a tree within the temple of our body, it is important for us to remain in a posture of increased sensitivity. To do that, we eat gently, mindfully and simply. The following restrictions are a hard *no* for the 3-months of Soft Dieta: Alcohol, cannabis, hard caffeine processed food, added sugars, dairy, pork or shellfish, spicy foods, iced foods and fermented foods.

Sexual Cleanliness

The sexual center within the body temple is where our tree teachers connect to our energy. What this means is that plant dieting is almost like a form of tantra. This does not mean that our connection to a teacher tree will be or must be erotic in nature. To the contrary, tree dieting can be a way to explore “temple sexuality.” This is a way of approaching our sexual nature as something both ordinary & completely magical, beyond the explicit fantasies of culture. In order to hold this connection, we abstain from sexual relations with others and with ourselves.

Relational Cleanliness

The soft dieta protocol can create a strong process within our bodies and minds. It is important that we keep this process contained so that it does not leak or spill out of us in a way which is not in full integrity. One way we practice this is silence about our dieta process. It is okay to let others know who *need to know* that we are on dieta, like our partner, but it is best to refrain from sharing about our process with others. A weekly, 50 minute call with Mockingbird is available to support the work that is undertaken within the dieta.

MEDICINE, TOBACCO & CEREMONY

The medicine we take in a soft dieta container will come from a single teacher tree and is decided based on our individual needs. Some trees are excellent at healing certain systems in the body and carry particular teaching energies widely recognized by many practitioners of the art. For most trees, the daily protocol remains the same: we prepare and drink 1 cup of our tree remedy once per day.

Tobacco plays an important role in the dieta. Tobacco is traditionally known as a plant which connects an individual to the realm of the subtle, which you might say is the language in which plants communicate: subtle energy. Every evening before bed, we will sit with a small dose of tobacco paste. The tobacco paste helps connect us to the subtle communication of our teacher tree.

The soft dieta container is opened and closed in person with Mockingbird with two ceremonies. These ceremonies help to establish the energetic foundations of the dieta container and then to close and tightly seal the dieta inside the body, when we are finished.