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Andrea Jimenez is the founder of Herb Club LA. She is a certified Naturalist and Herbalist. Her goal with Herb Club LA is to help bridge the connection between land health, community health and individual health. She focuses on land stewardship with a strong emphasis on community building. Growing up as a first-generation immigrant of Chichimeca descent, she also focuses paying homage and respect to Native American ways of living with the land. Through her own journey, she found deep healing reconnecting to more natural ways of living. She believes that caring for our inner world will be reflected in our outer world and vice-versa. By connecting with our plant kin, learning about nature and from nature, we can in turn learn to take better care...

25 December, 2023

I am first generation Filipino, and third generation Scandinavian. A Mother of four young sons, raised by the Ocean in the Coast Salish Islands. I have been blessed to have been taught drum craft in the traditional ways. My highest creative calling at this moment in my life journey is the traditional tanning of sheepskin pelts and hides, drum making, and lapidary stonework. I have courted these crafts in my own ways and been gifted the transmissions of these crafts through the lineages and to share their wisdom and transformative experiences on this Earth. My matriarchal lineage comes from the healers of the Philippines Islands. I have been bestowed the rights of passage from Mambabatok Apo Whang-Od of the Kalinga tribe, who is now 106...

02 January, 2024

Autumn (she/her) is a licensed veterinary technician specializing in feline health, exotics, and wildlife. She has raised backyard chickens for 10 years. She is passionate about the humane care of all animals, and is excited to share that passion with others. This is her second year as an instructor at SWG.   Autumn will be sharing The Humble Art of Backyard Chickens...

22 December, 2023

Baelyn Elspeth grew up in Los Angeles studying dance from the time she was 4. This affinity with movement provided a doorway into her relationship with spirit, health and the body. She has since journeyed into deeper connections with Self through studying Yoga, Tea and Meditation. She is under the lineage and instruction of the Tea Sage Hut Center in Taiwan and works with Tea as a daily practice to cultivate stillness and presence. Over the years, her path has evolved toward deepening her relationship to Mother Earth and the Sacred Feminine. She holds space as a Priestess, Channel, and Medicine Woman; working intuitively with the elements and nature. Whether serving traditional Tea Ceremonies, or holding ritual space through sound and drum, for her, all these...

09 May, 2024

Beth grew up in the Pacific Northwest exploring and cultivating a deep connection with the land. In her childhood she found so much joy in being barefooted in the garden and exploring nearby forests. She has been fortunate to find many teachers and mentors that helped expand the ways she has been able to spend time in nature and provided her with skills to do so safely. She is passionate about empowering others with the skills that have been imparted to her. Beth has spent time sharing skills as a guide for hiking and backpacking, as well as whitewater and snow travel and camping. She works as a registered nurse in Emergency Medicine as well as previous Outdoor Emergency Care and Wilderness First Aid Certifications. Bath Capra-Smith and Alyssa Oddi...

28 December, 2023

  Carmen Reed is a ceremonialist, a seer, a designer of beautiful objects, and at her very core is a dreamer. Her journey to connect with her deceased mother through the dream space is what originally drew her into the dream practice 15+ years ago, and the subconscious world that was uncovered brought through deep medicine to herself and to also share in community. Through studying under elder dream teachers and assisting in their courses, she has honed in on her skill of dream interpretation with a beautiful focus on nightmares. With learning from working her own trauma and her own nightmares, Carmen can lovingly help guide others through this threshold to find their own medicine in the nightmare. Carmen Reed will be facilitating dream circles in...

31 December, 2023

Choko and her sister Sonoko, founders of Green Life Holistic teaches holistic lifestyle in connection to the Japanese lunar calendar. After translating and publishing “Green for Life” by Victoria Boutenko the book known as the green smoothie bible to Japanese, we are on a mission to spread green smoothies as a healthy eating habit and simple seasonal eating throughout the country and beyond. As authors of 10 recipe, nutrition and lifestyle books, we teach modern style traditional Japanese fermentation such as Miso, Amazake and Shiokoji which has been passed down from our mother and grandmothers. Choko will be sharing The Art of Traditional Japanese Fermentation...

31 December, 2023

Elise Higley is a folk herbalist, wife, mother, grandmother and farmer. With her background in Western Herbalism at California School of Herbal Studies and her husband Jeff’s background in organic farming they blended their dreams and created a full-fledged herb farm in 2013. Together they own and operate Oshala Farm. Oshala Farm in Applegate Valley, Oregon with 80 plus medicinal herbs in cultivation. Her teachers/mentors include many: including Cascade Anderson Geller, Rosemary Gladstar, Karen Aguiar, Teri Jensen, Lily Mazzarella, Autumn Summers, David Hoffman, Shana Lipner-Grover, Jon Carlson and of course the plants themselves! In her downtime, (9pm-5am) she organizes herbal conferences and works on agricultural advocacy with Our Family Farms Elise Higley will be sharing Folk Medicine Making...

06 January, 2024

Blessings, I am Esmeralda Ealy, a faerie and a curandera, born into the enchantment of spring and intricately woven into a spiral of lineages. My roots delve deep into the rich soil of South and Central American traditions, where the ancient wisdom of my forebears continues to guide my journey. For the past decade, I have devoted myself to the profound art of relearning ancestral ways of healing, cultivating a profound connection with our Earth Mother. In the sacred dance of existence, I find harmony and resonance with the spirits of the land and the rhythms of nature. Two years ago, my council of inner guides whispered a profound calling - to share the wisdom that resides deep within my heart. With their council, I embark on...

10 January, 2024

  Gabriela has been intimately involved with fungi for 12 years through cultivation, medicine making, foraging, guiding walks, educating, and as a leader in conservation. Gabriela is the Director for Fungal Diversity Survey (FUNDIS), the only nonprofit focusing on North American fungal biodiversity and conservation. Originally from the Rocky Mountains, she now calls the Catskill Mountains, NY home. She holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a focus in Fungal Ecology and a minor in Philosophy. She created the Northern Utah Funga project, is former vice president for Mushroom Society of Utah, and initiated the campaign to designate Porcini (Boletus edulis) as Utah’s state mushroom. She has been featured in media sources like Yes Magazine, Mushroom People, and The Mushroom Hour Podcast. She has facilitated grief...

31 December, 2023