Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living

by Kimberly Gallagher

Overview

From the co-founder of one of the world's most respected herbal education websites: recipes, rituals, practices, and personal stories to help you live a more sexually fulfilled and vital life.

Plants are the great healers of the earth, and their capacity to support healthy sexuality is just as powerful. This beautifully written and illustrated book brings you into a relationship with herbs for sexual fulfillment and empowerment.

Drawing on her own knowledge of herbalism and sacred sensuality, along with intimate stories from students who implemented her teachings, Kimberly Gallagher guides you on a personal journey of growth aided by the aphrodisiac properties and sensual uses of healing herbs and flowers such as damiana, cacao, and rose. Kimberly is an author and co-founder of LearningHerbs, a widely respected herbal education website.

In Aphrodisiac, you'll find thoughtful, soulful rituals and dozens of recipes for putting the herbs to use, such as Autumn Blush Cordial, Rose Massage Oil, and Cardamom Chocolate Mousse Torte. You'll read user-friendly and well-researched monographs that teach you everything you need to know about every featured herb. And you'll find a wide range of practices for inviting erotic energy flow into your life—including creating an inviting environment, nourishing your body, and simply slowing down so there's time to savor pleasure.

When people are sensually alive and sexually fulfilled, they are more confident, creative, and joyful. They are also more likely to share their unique personal gifts with the world.

Aphrodisiac is an essential resource for anyone wishing to live a more vibrant life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401960926
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	04/06/2021
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	518,009
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Kimberly Gallagher is an herbalist who has been working with healing plants for over 20 years. She is co-founder with her husband, John Gallagher, of LearningHerbs, one of the most respected online herbal education websites. She is the creator of the Wildcraft! board game, which has sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide, and author of the Herb Fairies children's books. Kimberly and John have two grown-up children and are into their third decade of marriage. For many years, Kimberly has been actively exploring healthy sexuality, which involves the power of sexuality for healing and erotic energy as source energy for creative, vital living. Kimberly is an ordained minister at her Trail of Beauty ministry, where sacred sensuality is at the heart of her work.

Table of Contents

Introduction II

Chapter 1 Slowing Down to Enjoy the Frolic Energy or Lite 1

Chapter 2 Creating Environments Where Love and Eros Flourish 31

Chapter 3 Falling in Love with Your Body 57

Chapter 4 The loy of Pampering 59

Chapter 5 The Dance or Relationship 125

Chapter 6 Stoking Your Fire for Sexual Fullillment 153

Chapter 7 Channeling Frolic Energy into Vitality and Creativity 179

Chapter 8 Relaxing into Your Body 199

Chapter 9 Deep Nourishment 223

Chapter 10 Navigating Times of Challenge and Stress 249

Chapter 11 Healing 269

Chapter 12 Sharing Delicious Delicacies 287

Chapter 13 Welcome to Vila! Living! 317

Appendix A Aphrodisiac Circle Participant Introductions 338

Appendix B Aphrodisiac Actions 340

Appendix C Safety Considerations for Herbs Not Featured in Monographs 341

Endnotes 342

Recommended Reading 348

Recommended Resources 349

Contributors 350

Conversion Chart 351

Index 352

Acknowledgments 358

About the Author 360

Editorial Reviews

"Kimberly Gallagher's life-changing, life-enhancing, and life-expanding book Aphrodisiac is quite simply delicious. She takes the reader on a spine-tingling, heart-opening, and pulse-quickening awakening of all of our senses, leading each of us to experience the expansive wonder of all the sensual delights that life can offer."
- Regena Thomashauer, New York Times best-selling author of Pussy: A Reclamation and Creatrix of Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts 

"Aphrodisiac is a sensuous delight and a love letter to life itself. It invites and entices us to engage in the everyday aspects of life as sensuous acts of pleasure, and then goes on to explain in lovely detail exactly how to do so. This is Eros as its finest. Kimberly will help you create new levels of rapture and ecstasy as well as deeper heart connections."
- Rosemary Gladstar, herbalist and author 

"Aphrodisiac is the book that I've always wanted! It encompasses a truly holistic understanding of sexuality that includes our relationship with the natural world and its healing, life-enhancing, Eros-encouraging plants. Just reading the recipes alone is a huge turn-on! Let Kimberly be your brilliant, wise, and empowering guide to the luscious world of wondrous plants (along with rituals, meditations, and more) that have the power to enhance our erotic connections with ourselves, with others, and with nature."
- Sheri Winston, wholistic sexuality teacher, author of the award-winning Women's Anatomy of Arousal and Succulent SexCraft, founder of the Intimate Arts Center 

"In an age characterized by stress and uncertainty, Aphrodisiac invites us to remember pleasure and how good life can feel. Imagine all the good things you know you should be doing for yourself and your relationships-connecting with nature, pampering yourself, improving communication, having mind-blowing orgasms . . . the things we aspire to do and rarely find the time for. Aphrodisiac is a guide to discovering self-care, joy, love, and beauty."
- Thomas Easley, author of The Modern Herbal Dispensatory 

"While plants have been used to enliven our sensuality since time immemorial, the idea of 'aphrodisiacs' is too often presented as something spurious, or something coercive. In reality, a person's sexuality is as important to their wellness as their digestion. Kimberly Gallagher offers us a guidebook to the use of herbs known to connect us to the fullness of our lives' and bodies' sensual health."
- jim mcdonald, herbalist

"Within just a few pages of Aphrodisiac, your center of gravity changes in relation to your concepts around sensuality, sexuality, and pleasure. This veritable feast of the senses will rock your world, leading you on a journey of sensory revelry unlike what you have experienced before. Kimberly Gallagher is your artful guide in discovering greater sexual fulfillment and harnessing sexual creativity to fuel all aspects of your life."
- Kami McBride, author of The Herbal Kitchen 

"Kimberly Gallagher elevates the path of herbal aphrodisiacs to a higher plane, so that every reader may find steps to liberating deep desire and expressing joy. Plants on the physical plane provide sweet adventures for each of our paths to erotic bliss. Aphrodisiacshould be given to every person who has loved and wants to love."
- Amanda McQuade Crawford, MA, MFT, MCPP, RH(AHG), Consulting Medical Herbalist

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