We welcome you to a sanctuary of herbal self-care, tucked into the forest at Spirit Weavers Gathering! The Wellness Den is a haven for emergency first aid of the body and spirit. We are offering each of us an opportunity to support your immediate ailments and needs with Earth based plant medicine; extracts, syrups, topical salves, flower essences. This includes a fully stocked pantry of western medical supplies. At Spirit Weavers women have the opportunity to reconnect with traditional skills while living and sleeping close to the Earth for five days. For many, this reintegration into nature can bring up everything, from practical discomforts of walking and dancing with bare feet, to digestive disrupt from eating a simple plant based diet, to emotional reintegration of feeling herself as a human-animal and part of the Earth. We are prepared! Our team of Clinical Western herbalists and a registered nurse arrives to be in service to you, with both plant based and westerns options. We are honored to support our community in their healing and personal empowerment to use natural medicine.
~Kelsey from Heavy Nettle
Katherine Novotny is a western clinical herbal educator & practitioner, a folklore enthusiast, and an urban homesteader/beekeeper. As a Professional Member of the American Herbalist Guild, she believes in seasonal health care and empowers her students to pursue healing through backyard gardens, kitchen potions, and deepening their connection to local forests. Novotny facilitates an herbal apprenticeship program called :: PLANT as PORTAL :: and sees clients for in-depth herbal consultations at her brick and mortar – The Indiana Herbal Center (@Indianaherbalcenter). She is well versed as a Clinical Western Herbalist and in Traditional Chinese Medicine Pulse and Tongue diagnosis.
Alexandra Hudson is a strong advocate of self-awareness, nurturing, and love as keystones to personal health. Alexandra has a particular fascination with the processes of the sexual and digestive systems and through her work as an herbalist and pro-dominatrix guides her clients through practices to improve the health of the whole. She is an avid wild-crafter and loves getting sumptuously dirty and delightful cleansed with the elements. Alexandra is a clinical herbalist, trained and practiced at the Ohlone Center.
Timber is a two-spirit (queer) medicine warrior who is trained as a farmer, community herbalist, landscape architect, teacher and woodworker. She is the co-founder of FEED Sonoma (www.feedsonoma.com) Her current passion project is the stewardship of Foxhole Farm, a small scale medicinal herb and vegetable operation as well as a sanctuary queers working in the visual and healing arts.
Kimberly is a clinical herbalist and wellness coach who is local to Cave Junction. She is involved in Rogue Herbalism, a non profit that provides herbal medicine, supplies and food to underserved folks in southern Oregon. She is passionate about harm reduction and holistic approaches to recovery. She is also passionate about nutrition, focusing heavily on food as medicine in her own life as well as with her clients. She also loves playing music, dancing, swimming and spending time in nature with her dogs.
