Upcoming Workshops
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Lead from Within: Reclaiming Your Nervous System
$65.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
Your body is always listening — to your thoughts, your memories, your environment, and the stress you carry. Sometimes it responds before you even know what hit you. The jaw tightens, the heart races, the fingers go stiff. You think you should feel safe and yet every system in your body is saying otherwise.
This workshop is for anyone who has ever reacted in a way they didn't intend, snapped at someone they love, or felt hijacked by a response they couldn't control. It's also for the person who is simply tired of being on edge and wants practical tools that work in real life — not on a meditation cushion, not in a therapist's office, but in traffic, during a difficult conversation, in the moments that don't wait for you to be ready.
We'll start with gentle movement and breath to settle into the room, then move into conversation, tea, and the tools themselves — simple, largely unnoticeable practices that signal safety to your nervous system and bring your mind and body back into alignment.
You are not at the mercy of your nervous system. You are its leader.
Running Hot: Tools for the Chronically Activated
$65.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
Some nervous systems were trained to stay on. Fight or flight isn't a malfunction — it was the right response for the environment you were in. But when that activation becomes the default setting, it costs you: sleep, relationships, decision-making, and the ability to be present in your own life.
This workshop is for people who are tired of running hot and ready to build a different baseline.
We'll look at what's actually happening in the body during chronic activation and why willpower alone doesn't shift it. You'll learn practical somatic and breath-based tools you can use in the moment — not to suppress the response, but to interrupt it long enough to build new neural pathways over time. We'll also cover the plant allies that support that process from underneath: adaptogens like schisandra and holy basil that help the body recalibrate under chronic stress, nervines like mimosa and hawthorn that address the emotional weight of that activation, and the herbs that help the body finally rest — catnip, skullcap, wild lettuce, and passionflower.
You leave with tools you can use today and a framework for why they work.
Herbal refreshments will be served, and you'll leave with a small selection of herbs to try at home.
Real Food as Medicine: Source Well, Spend Smart, Feel the Difference
$65.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
Eat Better. Feel Better. Perform Better.
Most people think they're eating well — buying things that look healthy, avoiding the obvious junk, shopping at health food stores. But conventional foods carry a hidden load — pesticides, herbicides, inflammatory and ultra-processed ingredients grown in depleted soils that have been farmed into nutritional bankruptcy. What ends up on your plate is a shadow of what food could be, and it shows up in your gut, your hormones, your mood, and your recovery.
What we eat carries more than macros. Stress moves up the food chain — just as mercury accumulates through fish, the chronic stress of a factory farmed or crate-raised animal moves into your body and compounds there. The correlation between conventionally raised meat and eggs to anxiety, panic, and mood disorders is not a coincidence. What we source humanely isn't just cleaner nutritionally, it's cleaner in every way that matters.
This workshop is about sourcing, not spending. We'll look at why the origin of your food matters as much as what it is — the difference between conventional and grass fed animal proteins, why a cheaper cut from a local rancher beats an expensive package from a health food chain, and how to build a nutrient-dense plate without a Whole Foods budget. We'll learn to read labels so you know exactly what you're bringing home, cover what to prioritize, what to skip, and what's available locally and seasonally that gives you the most nutritional return.
Whether you're eating AIP, keto, plant-based, or somewhere in between, the sourcing principles are the same.
This isn't about perfection. It's about knowing what you're putting in your body and where to trim the fat.
When Your Gut Talks, Everything Listens: Herbs, Nutrition and the Mood-Digestion Connection
$65.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
The gut and brain are in constant conversation. What you eat shapes how you think, how you feel, and how you respond to the world around you. Mood disorders have historically been treated as a brain problem — but since we now know the gut produces the majority of your serotonin, half your dopamine, and a significant portion of your norepinephrine, then the answers may be closer to your stomach than your mind.
This workshop looks at what's been disrupting that conversation — antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, depleted soils, and conventionally raised food that arrives at your plate already compromised. We'll get honest about sugar, explore the herbs that support gut and brain health, and look at how a balanced diet rebuilds the systems that have quietly been under assault.
You'll leave with a practical understanding of how your gut and brain are talking to each other, what's getting in the way, and what to do about it.
Herbal Allies for an Aging Population
$55.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
For too long we have bought into the aging myth. Doctors say things like ‘it’s age related’ or ‘ that’s inevitable’. Aches and pains become diagnoses and pharmaceuticals become a way of life.
While it’s true that as we age the body asks for a different kind of attention, what isn’t true is that it’s just a downward trajectory. This workshop explores the herbs and plant allies that meet the specific needs of an aging body — gently, effectively, and without the side effects that make so many pharmaceutical options difficult for older adults to tolerate.
We'll cover the systems most affected by aging — joints and connective tissue, digestion, skin, mood, and cognitive health — and explore practical ways to work with plants in daily life, from simple teas and topical preparations to gentle somatic movement that keeps our bodies and nervous systems flexible, helping us seemingly deny the aging myth. We'll also look at neuroprotective herbs and how they can support brain health and mental clarity.
This workshop is for caregivers, family members, and older adults themselves who are looking for accessible, grounded alternatives to support wellbeing as the body changes.
Light herbal refreshments included.
Nature as Medicine: Forest Bathing (Shinrin-yoku)
$25.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
Reconnect. Breathe. Restore.
In our fast-paced, screen-saturated world, we've forgotten the ancient healing power of nature.
Shinrin-yoku — the Japanese art of Forest Bathing — is not a hike. It's the practice of slowing down and immersing yourself fully in the forest, allowing nature to reset your mind, body, and nervous system.
Science shows it lowers cortisol, boosts immunity, reduces anxiety, and improves sleep. And you don't need any experience — just the willingness to slow down.
This is a great activity for all ages - it is a slow, quiet and non-strenuous walk
Your nervous system has been waiting for this.
Nature as Medicine: Pygmy-Forest Bathing (Shirin-Yoku)
$25.00 / SOLD OUT
New Dates Coming Soon!
The tree beside you looks like a sapling, yet it is three hundred years old.
The Mendocino pygmy forest is one of the rarest ecosystems on the planet — only 2,000 acres remain, all of it right here along this coast — shaped over half a million years into something that looks like nature's own bonsai. Ancient beyond reckoning, small beyond expectation.
Join us for a guided forest meditation in one of the most quietly extraordinary places on the California coast. In the tradition of Shinrin-yoku, we slow down, breathe, and let this ancient, impossible place open something in us to the true magic healing of spending time in nature.
Decades of research confirm that mindful time in forests measurably lowers cortisol, adrenaline, and blood pressure. It quiets the fight-or-flight response and reduces anxiety — effects that persist for days after a single visit. Trees release volatile compounds that, when inhaled, directly influence immune and nervous system function. Forest time is also a recalibration of the brain and senses, starved as they are by constant screens, artificial light, and white noise.
This is a great activity for all ages - it is a slow, quiet and non-strenuous walk.
Because of the fragility of this ecosystem, please no touching or veering off path. Those that do will be immediately asked to leave with no refund.