2026 Class Descriptions

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Healing the Mucosal Lining: Plants, Food & Emotional Restoration

 The mucosal lining is one of the body’s sacred protective barriers—covering the digestive tract, respiratory system, urinary tract, and reproductive tissues. When healthy, it acts as a living shield that helps protect the body from irritation, inflammation, toxins, pathogens, and chronic disease. 

Back Country First Aid 

This class includes both educational and hands-on experience with herbs and other plants that are found in backcountry situations that can be used for immediate first aid or to help with sicknesses while out climbing, paddling, hiking or any backcountry adventure.  

 Plants of The Carolina Coast

In this class with April Punsalan, founder of Wild Herb Academy, you will learn why foraging wild herbs is vitally important for optimal health. You will learn what it means to become the ecosystem, steps to become the ecosystem, how to use your intuition to connect with wild herbs, and you will learn some of the most common and important wild herbs along the Carolina Coast. 

Coastal Wild Herbal Oils: Crafting Medicine from the Plants of the Sea

Things are Not OK: Holistic Strategies for Collective Trauma and Resilience

Herbs and more for grief, overwhelm, and supporting the nervous system in trying times

We continue to live in a time and place that tests the bounds of our humanity, and ability to get through the day while external forces deplete our reserves. Chronic stress, grief, and burnout are increasingly becoming normalized, and just a cup of tea ain’t gonna cut it

Teas, Teas, and Teas. - Tea formula from choosing the herbs to blending, preparing, and consuming 

Let the simple practice of formulating, preparing and drinking tea

bring you to good health. In this presentation we will discus how to formulate a tea,

plant sourcing, multiple was to brew tea and the value of intention throughout the

process from sourcing and blending to consuming herbal tea.

The Medicine of Reciprocity - In the Lakota way of life, every organic thing is alive and has a spirit. In this way, how might we honor the Earth through devotion, offering, and partnership? In this class, you are invited to explore developing and deepening your relationship with Grandmother Earth through plant kin teachings and Indigenous wisdom. 

Explore the 5 flavors Thru the Lens of TCM

Explore the world of the 5 Flavors through the lens of Chinese Medicine— sweet, sour, bitter,

pungent, and salty — and how each flavor influences the body, emotions, and overall wellness.

In this class, we’ll dive into the energetic properties/ actions of each of the flavors and learn

how they relate to different organ systems, elements, and tissue states. 

 Kitchen Apothec

Bring something new to your holiday dinner! Herbalist and wellness educator Atiya Bloom invites you to roll up your sleeves and discover fresh, creative ways to cook with herbs.

In this hands-on class, you’ll explore simple techniques for transforming familiar herbs into flavorful ingredients for everyday cooking. You’ll create something tasty of your own while gathering seasonal inspiration for holiday dishes, drinks, treats, and gifts.

Come ready to mix, taste, and experiment.

Angela is a Lumbee herbalist, writer, educator, and founder of Native Yaupon Tea. With nearly two decades of experience in herbalism, her work explores the relationships between plants, people, culture, and place, with particular attention to Indigenous plant knowledge and the ways colonization has shaped whose knowledge is recognized and remembered.  Her current work focuses on yaupon, the only caffeinated plant native to North America, and its long relationship with Indigenous communities.

Daughters of the Nile: Botanical Medicine and Magic of the Ancestral Mothers' 

 As an herbalist and priestess that honors and incorporates my ancient Egyptian/Coptic/Levantine lineage in my spiritual and herbal practice, I invite you to join me in exploration of the botanical medicine and magic of the ancestral mothers of the Nile Delta. 

 Discover the powerful connection between plant energies, aromatherapy, and personal

well-being in this interactive and experiential workshop designed to restore balance to

the body, mind and spirit. In this workshop, participants will explore how plant essential

oils can support spiritual and emotional balance, relaxation, focus, grounding, and

overall wellness through both traditional uses and energetic practices.

 Western and Ayurvedic Herbal Allies for Cold + Flu Season

There is never a good time to catch a cold. Being sick can derail your everyday life. There is wisdom in the saying,”an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”  Learn how to work with herbal allies that can support your immune system and help you recover faster. Discover new ways to use old favorites, and add Ayurvedic remedies to your wellness toolbox. 

Making Flower Essences 

 Flower essences are a unique medicine and herbal practice that allow us to participate in ritualistic, meaningful, and gentle medicine making. In this workshop, we will learn how to make and use essences, primarily flower essences.  We will discuss how and why essences are used, the kind of medicine they offer, and how to incorporate making and taking flower essences in our daily lives. 

 Prime Plants and Practices for Aphrodisiac Formulation Consideration

In this class we will explore the elements that make for a good aphrodisiacal journey. Plants that address the heart specifically as well as heat, digestion, pain, muscle relaxation, inflammation, sleep, the nervous system, stress, immunity, aromatherapy and stimulation are some categories that will be considered. Potential dangers and anaphrodisiacs as well as other factors that may help you get in the mood.

Folk Practices of Mountain Yarb Doctors 

With its gnarly roots in the British Isles, the German Palatinate and in indigenous American tribal practice, Appalachian folkways are characterized by a hands-on and practical approach, as well as its use of available materials. Folk techniques brought by immigrants of the

British Isles melded with native herbal wisdom to create a vibrant healing tradition in the Southern Appalachian mountains. Explore the culture, heritage, remedies, herbs, and the twisty

  Medicine Making: Crafting Herbal Remedies for the Childbearing Year, invites mothers, birth workers, and herbalists alike to reconnect with the healing plants that have supported generations through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Rooted in safety, tradition, and empowerment, her teaching offers practical tools and soulful encouragement for those walking the path of motherhood — whether for the first time or again and again. 

Herbal Skin Care

 Join Bridger for an interactive workshop as she shares her favorite recipes for skin-nourishing serums, creams, and face masks. Discover how to nurture and rejuvenate your skin with the help of plant allies. Bridger leads with stories and firsthand experiences, making lasting impressions that keep you hanging on for more. She is a native North Carolinian who spent more time in the ocean than on land during her childhood. 

Rest Through the Lens of Ayurvedic Herbalism

 Step outside and into a slower rhythm as we explore rest as a vital, restorative practice through the lens of Ayurvedic herbalism. In this one-hour session, you’ll be guided to reconnect with the natural world as a source of grounding, regulation, and renewal.