January 10th    Herbalism for Beginners (Saturday 10:30 am).    $25

​This is a great class to start you on your journey of understanding herbalism at a deeper level- not just a cookie cutter list of herbs to memorize. This is a class about laying the foundation for understanding western herbalism and how to categorize herbs. In this class we will talk about how to choose herbs based on their energetics- cooling, warming, moistening, drying. We'll learn about many of the categories of herbs based on their properties and get a feel for some of the vocabulary you might come across in books. We will meet a few of our best allies and learn the basics of how to use them.

 

January 11th 1:30 pm      Uses and Benefits of Castor Oil with Lauren (Sunday 1:30 pm) $25

Every plant has a story that needs to be told. Castor Oil has a long history and a lot to discover. You may have heard about this oil and all of its marvelous benefits, such as reduced inflammation, detoxification, and menstrual symptom relief, but were a little intimidated and didn't know where to start. In this class we will learn about all of the different ways to apply and use the oil as well as dive into the many benefits. We will also touch on how to combine castor oil with some of your favorite herbs for added benefit. Castor oil may just be the missing link on your journey to better health.

 

January 17th    Experiencing Cacao with Lindsey of ieKawa  (Saturday 10:30 am) $45

Have you heard about cacao in its purest form? For thousands of years, the Mayans and Aztecs honored this sacred plant for its spiritual, medicinal, and heart-opening qualities. Today, we know cacao as one of the world's most nourishing superfoods — rich in magnesium, antioxidants, and feel-good compounds that support energy, clarity, and a deeper sense of connection.

Join us for an immersive cacao experience where we’ll:

Sample cacao sourced directly from a small regenerative family farm in Costa Rica.  Explore how it’s grown and why pure cacao is so different from everyday cocoa or chocolate.  Learn about its healing and health-supportive benefits.   Enjoy a short guided meditation to connect with cacao’s gentle, uplifting energy

Cacao can even be a beautiful coffee alternative — offering sustained energy and bliss without the crash.

Come sip, learn, and reconnect with this ancient plant

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January 18th   Supporting Gut Health & How it Impacts Allergies, Autoimmune and Inflammation (Sunday 1:30 pm) $25

The root of all disease begins in the gut.  We'll talk about why gut health is so important for reducing your hay fever symptoms, you aches and pains, your mental health outlook, as well as the impact on autoimmune conditions.  

We'll focus on the importance of gut integrity, what weakens it, and how to strengthen it.  We'll look at the ways modern life is so disruptive to gut health and talk about strategies for countering this. Gut health goes way beyond just taking probiotics and we'll talk about what else can be done.

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January 24th     Elderberry Syrup Workshop  (Saturday, 10:30 am) $35

Most of us know how amazing elderberry syrup is to combat the first signs of viral infection or exposure.  However, commercially made stuff in the stores is not only expensive, it leaves something to be desired in the taste department (with the exception of our small batch syrup of course!) 

I'll show you how easily elderberry syrup can be made at home and how delicious it can be. We'll make a batch while I'm teaching and bottle it up so everyone can bring one home.

You'll also learn about the mechanisms by which elderberry is thought to work in the body, and learn about some other herbs that are helpful allies to add to your syrup.

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January 25th.    Herbs for Aches & Pains (Sunday 1:30 pm) $25

There are lots of herbal allies that are helpful to know about for different types of pains, and we'll tease those apart to help you come up with the best strategies for different circumstances. 

What herbs are might be helpful for a headache? Which ones for nerve pain?  Which ones for toothaches?  Arthritis? Menstrual cramps? What is the type of pain? We're not talking of course about a silver bullet for intense chronic pain, but some herbs with which it is useful to become familiar.

Willowbark, feverfew, raspberry leaf, cramp bark, wood betony, St Johns Wort,.  You have to know where they are most effectively applied, and that's exactly where we'll go in this class.

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January 31st     Einkorn Sourdough Workshop  (Saturday 10:30 am) $65

Einkorn is an heirloom variety of wheat, and it is very low in gluten, so working with it is quite different than working with other wheat flours you might be used to working with. It doesn't have the same elasticity, which makes it a little trickier to work with, but it makes up for it in gentleness on the gut, higher protein levels and a flavor that makes you think all other wheat flavor is more akin to cardboard.

In this class, you'll make a loaf of einkorn sourdough bread, that you will bring home, let rise, and bake. We will provide you with the ingredients you need, a starter to bring home so you can keep it going, a round banneton basket for rising, a razor for slashing the dough, and a dough scraper.

You do need a couple items of your own however. To class, be sure and bring a medium sized mixing bowl- you will use this to rest the dough between stretch and folds and in which to bring your dough home.  A digital scale and dish towel for drying your hands repeatedly is also helpful .  If you don't have a scale, thats ok- we can share.  You'll also need some sort of cutting board or tray to provide you with a work surface that is not the plastic table we'll be using. At home, you'll need a Dutch oven with a lid that is oven safe up to 500 degrees.

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February 1st   Herbs for Coughs and Colds   (Sunday 1:30 pm).   $25

(Formerly known as Winter Wellness)

This class is one of the basics for knowing how to deal with seasonal illness, and if you ever get sick, or take care of people who get sick, you'll want to take this class.

We'll talk about how to use herbs when you or your family members get sick with acute viruses, as well as how to try to boost the immune system to prevent it to begin with.   What should we take for a dry cough?  What should we do about a wet sounding cough?  How about sniffles, and sneezes and fevers?  What helps a sore throat?  We'll cover how to choose which ones to work best depending on how someone is presenting.

We will discuss herbs, foods, supplements and other tools to do this.  We will also discuss what herbs and foods will help us recover wellness if we do fall ill this winter, including addressing specific symptoms.  

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February 7th   Lymph Flow for Self Care with Angela. (Saturday 10:30 am) $25

An educational workshop on the lymphatic system and how to support its function through self-massage techniques, movement, and botanicals.  Perfect for beginners, self-care enthusiasts, and anyone curious about lymphatic wellness.  (Please wear comfortable, loose-fittimg clothes.)

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February 7th  Cacao Ceremony with Lindsey of ieKawa  (Saturday 4:00 pm) $55

Join us for an extraordinary evening of self-love, rejuvenation, remembering our roots and heartwarming cacao. Take this precious moment to connect with cacao, a pure and ancient gift used by the Mayans and Aztecs for centuries for its healing and medicinal properties.

Cacao, in its truest form, is pure chocolate with divine qualities, known for its heart-opening properties and many health benefits. With loving intentions, it becomes a gentle guide on your journey of healing and self-transformation.

Our sacred cacao is sourced from a special family farm in Upala, Costa Rica, where it's lovingly cultivated, hand-harvested, and sun-dried. Love infuses every step of this process, and we're honored to share this beautiful offering with you.

Together we'll open our hearts and ease our minds through heart-based meditation, breathing, movement, healing sounds, and the bliss of cacao. This event is your opportunity to release what no longer serves you and welcome the creative, loving, and expansive energy available to us all. Also, to enjoy simply being, rejuvenating and taking time for self-love and self-care!

The investment is $55 per person. Doors open at 4:00pm for you to settle in and ceremony will begin at 4:15, we encourage eating a light meal before sitting with Cacao or fasting.

Please bring a yoga mat, pillow, blanket, water and an open heart ❤

We look forward to connecting and sharing heart space with you! 

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February 21st  Herbs for Stress and Anxiety  (Saturday 10:30 am).       $25

You may have heard about herbs like St. Johns wort for depression and Chamomile for soothing stressed nerves, but let me take you a little deeper into the world of herbs we can use to  help balance our energy patterns, that will help alleviate stress, fatigue and other emotional states.  We will look at several different adaptogenic and nervine herbs and discuss the types  of imbalances they best address.

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February 22nd        Herbal Medicine Making  (Sunday 1:30 pm)       $35

This class will be a demonstration of how to make your herbs into medicine, with many opportunities to get up and help with the medicine making if you like to be a little more hands on!. We will learn about how to make infusions, decoctions, tinctures, poultices, steams, salves, syrups and more.  This class tends to run about 2.5 hours- and may run slightly over that.

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February 28th        Herbalism for Beginners  (Saturday  10:30 am) $25

This is a great class to start you on your journey of understanding herbalism at a deeper level- not just cookie cutter list of herbs to memorize. 

This is a class about laying the foundation for understanding western herbalism and how to categorize herbs and how to use them.  In this class we will talk about how to choose herbs based on their energetics- cooling, warming, moistening, drying.  We'll learn about many of the categories of herbs based on their properties and get a feel for some of the vocabulary you might come across in books.  We will meet a few of our best allies and learn the basics of how to use them.

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March 1st.    Introduction to Parasitology (Sunday  1:30)      $25

We will talk about some of the myriad of parasites that can affect people right here in Michigan and more importantly, what to DO about them! We'll go over herbs that are effective, when parasite cleanses should be done, and other strategies.

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March 7th.  B Vitamins, Genetics, MTHFR & Beyond (Saturday  10:30 am)      $25

A lot of the focus in this class will be on the B vitamins - we'll go through them all, what they do, as well genes that impact the ability to use certain forms of the vitamins. 

We'll be doing a deep dive on MTHFR, the gene that impacts the ability to use folic acid. So many of us have some form of the variant, and I want to help flesh out what that means, and also how to show you how to find your own genetic variations if you've ever done ancestry.com or 23andme.  

We'll also look at some of the lesser known genetic variations that can help you know which foods can be helpful to emphasize and also to help pick the best forms of vitamins  for your genotype.

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March 8th   Supporting Gut Health & How it Impacts Allergies, Autoimmune and Inflammation (Sunday 1:30 pm) $25

The root of all disease begins in the gut.  We'll talk about why gut health is so important for reducing your hay fever symptoms, you aches and pains, your mental health outlook, as well as the impact on autoimmune conditions.  

We'll focus on the importance of gut integrity, what weakens it, and how to strengthen it.  We'll look at the ways modern life is so disruptive to gut health and talk about strategies for countering this. Gut health goes way beyond just taking probiotics and we'll talk about what else can be done.

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March 14th  Einkorn Sourdough Workshop  (Saturday 10:30 am).    $65

Einkorn is an heirloom variety of wheat, and it is very low in gluten, so working with it is quite different than working with other wheat flours you might be used to working with. It doesn't have the same elasticity, which makes it a little trickier to work with, but it makes up for it in gentleness on the gut, higher protein levels and a flavor that makes you think all other wheat flavor is more akin to cardboard.

In this class, you'll make a loaf of einkorn sourdough bread, that you will bring home, let rise, and bake. We will provide you with the ingredients you need, a starter to bring home so you can keep it going, a round banneton basket for rising, a razor for slashing the dough, and a dough scraper.

You do need a couple items of your own however. To class, be sure and bring a medium sized mixing bowl- you will use this to rest the dough between stretch and folds and in which to bring your dough home.  A digital scale and dish towel for drying your hands repeatedly is also helpful .  If you don't have a scale, thats ok- we can share.  You'll also need some sort of cutting board or tray to provide you with a work surface that is not the plastic table we'll be using. At home, you'll need a Dutch oven with a lid that is oven safe up to 500 degrees.

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March 15th. Michigan ild Plants and How to Use Them.  (Sunday 1:30 pm).  $25

Michigan, as well as their preferred growing habitats. So many of the things we pull out when we are weeding are actually plants our ancestors were very familiar with and used as food and medicine. You may find yourself looking at your own backyard with new eyes! This class will be an indoor class, since not too much will be coming up yet.  But there will be pictures to feast your eyes on, hungry for a bit of green.  When they start appearing in the coming months, you'll know what to look for!

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March 21st.  Cycle Wisdom:The Practical PCOS Guide  (Saturday 10:30 am)     $25

A gentle, supportive class created for cycling people who want to finally understand their PCOS, not through shame or restriction, but through clarity, compassion, and root-cause education.

We’ll explore the four PCOS patterns, break down what’s actually happening in your body, and give you simple, realistic tools you can use daily to support hormonal balance.

Expect guidance on nutrition, movement, stress resets, supplements, sleep, and cycle awareness. All designed to help you work withyour body, not against it.

If you’ve ever felt confused, dismissed, or overwhelmed by PCOS, this class is your permission to breathe, learn, and heal at your own pace. 

 

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