Workshops

Please inquire further about customized herbal workshops for your event.

Adaptogens & Nervines: Herbs for Anxiety, Stress & Trauma - Passionflower, Ashwagandha, Skullcap, Motherswort, Blue Vervain, Reishi, Valerian
Come and explore various gentle yet effective applications to help support our bodies during times of stress and challenge. We will be focusing on Adaptogens, herbs that promote strength & stamina, and Nervines, herbs that nourish the central nervous system and encourage relaxation. We will discuss the physiology of the human stress response, multiple herbal applications & specific indications for the following herbs: Ashwaghanda, American Ginseng, Reishi, Passionflower, Skullcap & Motherswort. Herbal medicine is a gentle and effective way to support issues in the body and the mind and also incorporates low-cost preventative maintenance into your healthy lifestyle. This workshop is specifically geared to those who are seeking new avenues of healing for self or others in the arenas of anxiety, stress & trauma.

Medicine Making – Cordials & Tinctures
Using scrumptious fruits and medicinal plants it is quite easy to make your own simple yet potent remedies and indulgences. In this workshop we will explore the craft of creating Cordials, infused fruit alcohols, and Tinctures, alcoholic extracts of plants to be taken in low doses. You will get to observe the preparation of both applications and enjoy hearing some of the history and applications behind the medicines. We will discuss how to process different types of plant material (berries, leaves, bark, pulp, roots), ethical wildcrafting and why we use tinctures as often as we do in botanical medicine. Individual herbs to be discussed include Kava Kava, Red Raspberry & Spilanthes.

Apitherapy - Healing Power of Bee Medicine – Honey, Propolis, Royal Jelly, making medicinal honeys
Come and learn how to be your own Queen Bee! We will be discussing the many medicinal products that the bees gift us from their hives: propolis, royal jelly, pollen, bee bread, bee venom, and of course, honey. Learn where each product comes from and how each item addresses different areas of support or challenges in the body. Ethical wildcrafting will be discussed as you observe the process of how to make a herbal-infused honey and which common medicinal herbs can enhance the everyday jar. Finally, enjoy a tasting panel of various honeys made from different flowers.