Salve making with desert plants is a ritual in place-based medicine-making. Together, guests will cultivate and tend to their individual relationship with the Mojave desert. We’ll begin with an expansive landscape meditation, followed by an introduction of our plants, studying how to work with them medicinally. Guests will add their intention to our oil by garbling and placing the plants into the oil. Together, we’ll learn to make a salve. To close, guests will be invited to share their reflections or experience.

A workshop centered around how to slow down to nourish the nervous system from a holistic perspective. Together, we’ll explore our nervous system’s interface with the world, how we can lean on herbal medicine for support, four essential plants for stress relief, and additional, accessible lifestyle practices that bolster our sense of groundedness in daily life (even when you’re busy). Guests will have the opportunity to taste and try plants in various herbal preparations (tea-tincture-glycerite-oil) and fully experience the magic and peace of herbal medicine.

Join me at a region of your choice, and I can choose one of the best places to go to for your group to learn about wild plant medicine. (Locations may be based off of where your already occurring gathering, event, or retreat is taking place.) We will spend our time learning about: the ecology of the area, ways to correctly and safely identify medicinal plants, ethnobotany, medicinal use, and how to protect the land we stand on. We will then gather and make an herbal preparation together with these plants. Each participant will go home with their creation. Depending on the gathering, we’ll discuss ethically and respectfully gathering.

Once you receive your herbs, we will have a Check-In Call (15-30 mins) in one week. This is a chance to see how everything is going so far, ask additional questions, and make any necessary adjustments.

Our bodies are mirrors of nature and the landscapes we live on. Together, we’ll explore one of the following Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter through the lens of herbalism. I will guide you through plants and herbal preparations that are aligned with the season, sharing their medicinal properties and traditional/modern use. We will explore our place within Earth’s cycles and make an attuned herbal preparation that will support our body through the season ahead. The workshop itself and medicine made is intended to honor what the season has to offer, therefore it is customized to where we are at in the wheel of the year. Customization for this gathering can be as open-ended or intentional as you'd like. (Examples: Summer + St. John’s Wort Infused Oil, Autumn + Fire Cider)