For generations, anything that could not be counted, weighed, measured, or captured in a lab was pushed aside and labelled “woo woo.” It became an easy way to dismiss experiences that did not fit into tidy categories. Yet those experiences never disappeared. They continued to be felt in our bodies, sensed in our hearts, and witnessed in nature.
At Nettle Revolution, we see this differently.
“Woo woo” is simply the space where real human experience arrives before scientific tools are ready to measure it.
It is the realm of intuition, subtle energy, ancestral wisdom, ritual, emotion, connection and the quiet intelligence of the natural world. These things matter deeply, even when they do not sit neatly inside charts or test tubes.
History shows that many practices once dismissed later became proven truths.
Meditation reshapes the brain. Breathwork regulates the nervous system. Forest bathing lowers stress hormones. Herbal medicine, like the nettle, supports immunity. Sound vibrations influence our cells. Even the placebo effect shows that belief changes biology.
None of these were taken seriously at first, yet all are now widely accepted.
Nature has always known what science takes longer to understand.
Working with nettles is a perfect example. When you drink a fresh nettle infusion, weave with its fibres or hold a wand made from its stems, there is a physical benefit that research can explain. There is also an energetic lift, a calming of the heart, a sense of grounding and clarity that science has not yet named.
But you feel it. Your body feels it. Your nervous system feels it.
This is the beauty of the natural world. It supports us in ways both measurable and mysterious.
So when someone calls something “woo woo,” perhaps they are really saying:
“This belongs to the part of life our instruments are not yet sensitive enough to understand.”
At Nettle Revolution, we welcome that space. It is where healing, intuition and nature’s quiet wisdom meet.
At Nettle Revolution, we believe this video is a helpful guide to understanding how our body responds to influences we cannot yet measure. It is a YouTube talk from Dr Rangan Chatterjee titled After 25 years as a doctor, I can’t stay silent anymore. He says, “Not everything we measure matters and not everything that matters can be measured.”
Let this be your invitation to step into the space where nature, intuition, and healing meet and to experience for yourself the power that science has not yet learned to measure.