The North Within
Let the plants support you and guide you back to the wild nature inside of you, let them guide you to The North Within . . .
Alida Asher and Wildwood Spirit teamed up to share messages from the wild through cards inspired by the northern landscape we live in and fueled by our passionate belief that every human on this Earth carries within them a seed of wilderness that only waits to be brought into the light of awareness to germinate and unfurl.
The first North Within packages will be mailed out by September 18!
It’s been a roller coaster ride getting all the supplies, but we finally have all the materials ready and can’t wait to mail them out to you!
If you haven’t had a chance to sign up for The North Within yet, not to worry, you can now subscribe at anytime here:
What is The North Within?
The North Within is a monthly invitation to deepen your connection to plants, nature, and the wild within you sent out to you in the form of beautiful collectible cards and guidance leaflets. Through them, you can learn about plants in an easy to digest way, focusing on one plant each month, taking the time to get to know them, learn from and about them, receive their medicine and wisdom, and deepen your connection with them in a meaningful and memorable way.
Each card depicts a plant of the northern wilderness we live in and is accompanied by a guidance leaflet with medicinal properties, plant spirit wisdom, and guidance, as well as associations. The cards can be used as oracle cards, to connect to the Plant Spirits through meditation or simply to learn about these plants and brighten your day with their inspiring beauty.
We are intending to create a monthly message from the wild for a total of four years and hope that you will stay on this magical journey with us!
To stay in the loop, we invite you to follow us on Facebook and Instagram and to sign up for The North Within Newsletter. We like it quiet, so we promise, we’ll only write when it matters 😉
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What The North Within is all about…
The web of life that surrounds us all and of which we humans are an integral part of, is always there to support us, to offer us guidance and wisdom, and to help us heal ourselves. Plants are the wise elders of this web and have much to share with us, through their physical, energetic, and spiritual beings. We are creating these cards to weave herbalism, plant spirit wisdom, and the healing beauty of nature together to help you connect to the wild within you and the loving plant elders of the northern realms.
The wild, whether it is found growing through a crack in the pavement, in a rugged northern landscape or at the core of our being, holds space for us to be who we are. It inspires us, gives us a sense of belonging to something greater, helps us trust in our true nature, and reminds us that we are supported. All we have to do is open our awareness and let our hearts feel it. And this is your monthly invitation to let the wild in.
In this fast-paced and overwhelming world, we are yearning for slowness, for quality time with ourselves and the healing beings of nature to create long-term connections. This mailer is made to help you slow down, spend quality time with your wild self and be part of a community of like minded souls and to bring you joy every month.
How It Works and What You Get
Once you are subscribed to The North Within, you will begin receiving monthly mailers from us for the length of your subscription. Each mailer will contain one Wild Guidance Card, one Wild Guidance Leaflet, and one Wild Herbalism Card. The first package you’ll receive will also contain boxes for the cards and introductory pages and binding for the Wild Guidance Leaflets to give you all you need to start collecting and working with the cards.
We are intending to create a monthly message from the wild for a total of four years, connecting deeply to 48 plant elders and leading to the creation of two 48 card decks on plants of the north. We hope that you will stay on this magical journey with us!
Wild Guidance Cards & Box
The pyrography artwork of these cards is created by the magical and talented Alida Asher. Her drawings are inspired by the plants she lives with, their personality and energy, and by what they chose to channel through. Every card depicts one plant and shows the common name and main meaning associated to the plant.
The cards are full-colour and printed on 350gsm 83mm x 121mm cards with matte soft touch lamination.
The box to collect the Wild Herbalism Cards in will be mailed out with the first month’s card. It is a tuck top box with a full-colour design made with coated 371gsm paperboard with matte soft touch lamination finish. The 89mm x 130mm x 44mm box will arrive flat in the first mailer, ready for you to assemble.
Wild Guidance Leaflets & Booklet
The writings of the guidance leaflets are composed by the wildly enchanted and ethereal Sylvie Gewehr, who merely puts to paper the wisdom shared by the plants through working and meditating with them. These will match the plants of the Wild Guidance Cards received each month. Some introductory pages will be sent out with the first mailer, to introduce the different elements of The North Within and give you some useful information on how to use the cards, meditate with plants, practice ethical wildcrafting, and make and use plant medicines.
The leaflets are double-sided and printed on off-white 120gsm 98mm x 121mm paper with a rough edge and two perforations to allow for binding with the two 9.5mm antique brass Chicago screw posts you will receive in the first mailer.
The front and back cover for the Guidance Booklet are full-colour prints on 284gsm 98mm x 121mm paper with two perforations and scoring so that the booklet opens easily. The introductory pages (12 in total) will also be printed on off-white 120gsm 98mm x 121mm paper with a rough edge and have two perforations.
Wild Herbalism Cards & Box
The front of these cards depicts the plant of the month in their natural habitat and can be used to visualize the plant for meditations without having to search for pictures of them on a screen or simply to be inspired by their beauty at any moment. The back gives you useful and ethical wildcrafting tips specific to this plant, a detailed medicine making recipe, as well as a list of their main medicinal properties and the body systems/organs they have affinities for. The contents of the Wild Herbalism Cards are curated to provide you with information that may not be easily found online.
The cards are full-colour and printed on 350gsm 83mm x 121mm cards with matte soft touch lamination.
The box to collect the Wild Herbalism Cards in will be mailed out with the first month’s card. It is a tuck top box with a full-colour design made with coated 371gsm paperboard with matte soft touch lamination finish. The 89mm x 130mm x 44mm box will arrive flat in the first mailer, ready for you to assemble.
Who are we?
Alida grew up in the Yukon wilderness and has been blessed to spend a big portion of her life working as a remote wilderness guide all over northern Canada in a variety of settings, from extended horse-back trips and wilderness therapy to climbing and geology and forestry surveys. The wilderness is her home, her deepest love and her biggest source of joy and inspiration. She drags everyone she knows out there with her to try to help them touch and access the immense support and lightness she finds out there. This greatly inspires her work as a pyrography artist as she strives to create pieces that enable others bring a little piece of that wild magic and dynamic peace home with them.
Sylvie roamed European country sides in her childhood and there, had her first plant encounters and started down on the herbalism path. Over the years, she gradually wound her way to the Yukon and the Kluane mountain region she now calls home. Plants always remained an integral part of her life and she never stopped learning about, with, and from these beautiful beings. Amongst other things, human schools taught her biology, forest ecology, traditional herbalism, holistic healing, and sacred plant medicine. Most days, you’ll find her roaming the woods with twigs in her hair or meditating with a nice warm cup of herbal tea, when she isn’t trying to find ways to help people connect to the plant world.
