Presenters & Workshops
Jenn Dazey
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Jenn Dazey is a Herbalist and Naturopath who teaches at Bastyr and has a private practice in Edmonds, WA. She specializes in applying naturopathic philosophy to herbal practice, which means she takes everything into consideration and focuses on restoring health, as opposed to focusing only on the condition. She loves to botanize and build things with her kids, her students, her patients, and her community.
Chiyokten is from the Saanich First Nations, from the southeast corner of Vancouver Island.
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Do you know 1 out 0f 8 adults in the US are currently using GLP-1 agonists? Learn the secrets behind your brilliant physiology and how your body evolved into such a resilient beauty. Reclaim the wisdom our ancestors used to survive and thrive amidst real life stressors - not just the ones we bring onto ourselves.
Chiyokten’s songs were received in dreams with visions of wellness for the Tree People, Animal People and Human People. A prophetic return to holistic indigenous wellness, one human family coming together once again to uphold our sacred relationships to all life around us, to holistically heal ourselves in order to holistically heal this world.
Khulan Enkhataivan
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Khulan Enkhtaivan is a Mongolian herbalist and holistic nutritionist who combines the wisdom of traditional Mongolian medicine with modern nutrition.
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Explore the ancient wisdom of Traditional Mongolian Medicine and discover how seasonal detoxification supports the body's natural balance and renewal. Learn about traditional Mongolian herbs historically used to support the liver, gallbladder, and overall vitality, along with rejuvenation practices that promote long-term wellness and healthy aging.
Michael Pilarski “Skeeter”
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Michael has wildcrafted medicinal plants commercially for 30 years and farms medicinal plants, including some native species. He is familiar with both Maritime and Inland Northwest species.
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We will look at wildcrafting native and non-native medicinal plants across northern Washington in both the Maritime and Interior with a special eye to how to do it sustainably.
Kimberly Gallagher
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Kimberly Gallagher is the co-founder of LearningHerbs.com. She is the author of Aphrodisiac: The Herbal Path to Healthy Sexual Fulfillment and Vital Living. She is also the creator of the Wildcraft! board game and the author of the Herb Fairies children’s book series and online learning system. Kimberly loves to teach through experience and play, and is the proud mother of two grown children.
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In this workshop we will explore ways you can bring herbs into your everyday life to help you create a flow of sensual erotic energy to help fuel your creativity, confidence, and vitality.
EagleSong Gardener
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EagleSong Gardener dances her mischief in the hedge, that luminous place between wild and tended. Yarn spinner, story catcher, herbalist, she has been weaving a life with plants in the Pacific Northwest for over 50 years. EagleSong is for known for her wit and kitchen table wisdom and her incessant need to go outside and play! Today, she enjoys teaching herbs from the ground up wherever she is called.
Chiyokten is from the Saanich First Nations, from the southeast corner of Vancouver Island.
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Hawthorn is an herb for the heart. Join hawthorn whisperer, EagleSong Gardener, for a mythic journey with the world traveler, hawthorn. A tree that strengthens the heart, improves circulation, regulates blood pressure and so much more! It takes courage to be a human being in this ever changing world, find out how hawthorn is a strong ally with gentle ways willing to work with you! You’ll meet hawthorn through your senses. Guaranteed to be simple, messy, and fun!
Chiyokten’s songs were received in dreams with visions of wellness for the Tree People, Animal People and Human People. A prophetic return to holistic indigenous wellness, one human family coming together once again to uphold our sacred relationships to all life around us, to holistically heal ourselves in order to holistically heal this world.
Crystal Hamby
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Crystal Hamby is an herbal consultant and herbal educator. She holds a bachelor's degree from Bastyr University, where is an adjunct faculty member teaching in the botanical medicine department. It is Crystal’s wish to bring the simple art of herbal medicine back into the lives of those in her community so that she may inspire and educate those around her to live a more healthful life. For more information on her counseling practice and classes offered please visit her website at www.green-blessings.com
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As children of Earth, we are affected emotionally, physically, and spiritually by the changing of the seasons. Each season has its blessings and its challenges and when we tap into the information that the season is giving us we can begin to understand what our mind, body, and soul needs during each shift to be happy, healthy and whole. In this class we will explore the unique qualities of each season, and we will discover which herbs we can rely on to support ourselves seasonally.
Denise Joy
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As the soul-surviving carrier of an herbal tradition passed from woman to woman in the oral tradition, Denise Joy celebrates her herbal lineage. Denise carries more than information or knowledge; she carries a way of life connected with place and community. Denise has a large area to garden, allowing her the space to grow many of the herbs she uses for her medicines. She has served the Port Townsend as an herbalist, medicine maker and practitioner for over 41 years.
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I will be talking about what it is to be an herbalist in a world where you're competing with YouTube and AI, we'll talk about the spirituality of herbs, I will include local herbs that we love to harvest in this summer season and talk about their healing properties, a little bit between the difference of a fresh herb and a dry herb.
Logan Keister
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Logan Keister is a herbalist born and raised in the coniferous forests of Oregon. He has worked with many clients with a diverse range of health concerns over the years and helped them address their concerns using the Vitalist approach to herbalism. He currently resides near Eugene, Oregon, where he runs his own small business Noti Botanica, where he sells herbal remedies, offers holistic health consultations, and shares his teachings on herbalism.
Chiyokten is from the Saanich First Nations, from the southeast corner of Vancouver Island.
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In traditional systems of healing, the use of qualities and energetics was used to determine whether a substance would have a warming, cooling, drying, or moistening effect upon an individual. This technique was also used to determine the state of an individual's constitution or the quality of a specific organ, tissue, or illness. Each quality was associated with the elements of earth, water, fire, and air. Not only is this an excellent technique that gives herbalists a holistic view of health, but it also weaves in the mythic elements of traditional healing through the elements.
Chiyokten’s songs were received in dreams with visions of wellness for the Tree People, Animal People and Human People. A prophetic return to holistic indigenous wellness, one human family coming together once again to uphold our sacred relationships to all life around us, to holistically heal ourselves in order to holistically heal this world.
Scott Kloos
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Scott Kloos—ceremonialist, wildcrafter, plant medicine maker and practitioner, animist, singer of plant songs, and aspiring integral ecologist—is author of Pacific Northwest Medicinal Plants and guides Cascadia Folk Medicine and The School of Forest Medicine where we explore various ways of working with plants and their medicine & relationships with our nonhuman kin.
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If we are unable to situate ourselves within ecologically reciprocal relations as we practice wildcrafting, we run the risk of perpetuating extractive ways of being that diminish the vitality of Earth's bio-systems. If, however, we align ourselves within already present regenerative cycles, we relieve notions that we as humans are somehow separate from these life system processes. Join in as we ask ourselves: How can we reclaim our capacity for intimate connection with the land and how can we cultivate conditions for the greater thriving of all life on this planet?
Leslie Lekos
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Leslie is the director of wildroot botanicals, an herbal medicine school and hydrosol distillation business in Bellingham. She has assisted women as a birth doula for over 22 years and contracts as an herbalist for the diabetes prevention and wellness program with tulalip tribes. She is a certified iyengar yoga teacher and author of yoga for pregnancy.
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Plants offer immense support for our mental and emotional states, offering new ways of opening our minds to new neural patterns and pathways. In this class we will experientially interact with several plant allies for mental support through sensory engagement.
Drea Moore
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Drea Moore, also known as the “Sober Herbalist” is a multifaceted wellness practitioner, hybrid teacher and writer with a foundation in Ayurveda, yoga, lymphatic bodywork, mindfulness meditation and cultural studies. She has taught alcohol-free herbalism up and down the west coast at apothecaries, conferences and gatherings for the past decade, and is currently writing a book about alcohol-free botanical alchemy for the publisher, Storey.
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Glycerine is a powerful menstruum that is widely misunderstood and underused in the herb world. Come to this workshop, taste a bunch of delicious glycerites made from fresh and dried plants, and learn all about how to work with this innovative menstruum. Learn how glycerine and water share a special relationship, how to combine glycerine with other powerful menstrua, like raw vinegar, and how to toggle between the folk and ratio methods to make the most interesting medicine you’ve ever experienced.
Chiyokten’s songs were received in dreams with visions of wellness for the Tree People, Animal People and Human People. A prophetic return to holistic indigenous wellness, one human family coming together once again to uphold our sacred relationships to all life around us, to holistically heal ourselves in order to holistically heal this world.
Cassidy Moss
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Cassidy Moss is a clinical herbalist, herb gardener, and educator in the Seattle area with a love for teaching others about medicinal plants, botanical history, and how to grow diverse herbal ecosystems!
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Plague cures to kitchen remedies, this will be an exploration in the stories of plant medicine through time. A look at how plants and people have been intertwined through the ages and the knowledge that the Old Wives held. This will look at cures of the time alongside our modern understanding of herbal actions and help you understand how we came to work with the plants we use today.
Tamara Newmoon
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Tamara has been a practicing intuitive healer and teacher for over two decades. Through study, ceremony, and dedicated practice, she has devoted her life to walking with the living world. She has been strongly influenced by indigenous Amazonian shamanism and her love of plants. Tamara last presented at the NW Herbal Faire in 2003 and is thrilled to be returning.
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There is a deep sentience and brilliance carried in the spirits of plants. When we join with the green world - and step beyond logic and reason - we are brought to a landscape that is teeming with generous medicine and guidance. This workshop will be an immersive experience of opening our hearts, welcoming the power of the invisible, and landing into a fluid exchange with our plant teachers.
Nicole Telkes
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Nicole is an award-winning clinical herbalist, author, and educator with extensive experience in botanical medicine, plant conservation, and community health efforts. With a strong foundation in botanical studies and grassroots activism, she has been instrumental in the creation of direct action and disaster response herbal first-aid clinics and promoting sustainability and plant conservation in practice.
Nicole is the author of Medicinal Plants of Texas and Herbcraft: The Complete Guide to 21st Century Holistic Western Herbalism.
She created and maintains a United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary and Apiary, and currently oversees the gardens at Bastyr University. In addition, she sits on the Board of Directors for the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine.
As the founder and lead instructor of the Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine, established in 2003, Nicole has trained countless students in the art and science of herbalism. She is also widely recognized for her leadership in the Fire Cider movement, known as one of the “Fire Cider 3,” advocating for the protection of traditional herbal formulas.
Chiyokten is from the Saanich First Nations, from the southeast corner of Vancouver Island.
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This class will explore how to choose herbs and build herbal formulas working with what you have in your bioregion or home garden. We will look at actions and energetics and of plants and how to substitute based on plant Family, Genus, and/or shared Constituents.
Chiyokten’s songs were received in dreams with visions of wellness for the Tree People, Animal People and Human People. A prophetic return to holistic indigenous wellness, one human family coming together once again to uphold our sacred relationships to all life around us, to holistically heal ourselves in order to holistically heal this world.
Raskal Turbeville,
Canceled , sorry :(
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Raskal Turbeville is a soil ecologist, Mycology consultant, homesteader, and educator based in Rochester WA who focuses on exhuming the patterning, functionality, and gifts of fungi in agricultural systems and ecological stewardship. Inspired to dedicate himself to the fungal world as a teenager, Raskal has spent the last 14 years cultivating, foraging, and teaching about fungi in an attempt to bring our communities into a deeper and more holistic relationship with these distressingly under appreciated organisms. Raskal runs Soil Ecology Analytics, a soil health and mycology consultation service focused on regenerating soil microbial communities and repairing our relationship with fungi in Washington State and beyond.
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Join expert mycologist Raskal Turbeville for a tantalizing immersion in to the fascinating world of mushrooms and fungi. From food and medicine to ecological regeneration and mycoremediation, the fungal world offers never ending oppurtunities for wonder and amazement. We will explore the roles fungi play in the ecosystem, discuss oddities seen nowhere else in the natural world, and expound upon the ways human and fungal communities can collaborate.
Rosa Vissers
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Rosa Vissers is a clinical herbalist, teacher, dance artist, and mother. Born and raised in the Netherlands, she currently lives in Seattle and is the co-owner of Hildegard Botanicals. With a background as a professional dancer and yoga teacher, Rosa brings a unique lens to her herbal practice: one that is deeply rooted in the body.
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This experiential class weaves together herbal wisdom and embodiment practices*. Come explore a range of approaches for strengthening your connection to self and the plants; using movement, our senses, and intuition.
* All movement practices are optional and offered seated in a chair or standing. No prior movement experience is needed.
Rachael Witt
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Rachael is a community clinical herbalist, gardener, and teacher. She is the founder of Wildness Within; an herbal business that offers plant-focused apprenticeships and classes, herbal consultations and hand-made remedies. Rachael is dedicated to simple, seasonal living with land and teaching people hands-on-earth skills. She lives and stewards the Highlands Homestead in Duvall, WA. Find more at www.WildnessWithinLiving.com
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“Are you sure about that?” Whether it’s your deep inner knowing or your botanical brain, plants can be tricksters! In this workshop we are going to use our senses and learn the facts of how to tell certain plants apart. We will interact with the various plants and practice positive plant identification through a combination of sensory awareness and botanical descriptions. Whether you are a beginner in your plant journey or a confident wildcrafter, this is an opportunity to strengthen your relationship to the physical plant and a reminder to look deeper than the mind’s eye.
Sasha (Alexandra) Zavyalova
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Sasha (Alexandra) Zavyalova is an ancestral medicine practitioner and ritualist mainly focused on the shamanic traditions of Northern Europe. She was born in St Petersburg, Russia, spending her summers at the village, where her grandmother passed on to her traditional folk herbalism. She has studied Clinical Herbalism in the Midwest, as well as years of intimate and personal conversation with plant beings of this continent. Through the greatest thresholds of her journey, the herbs have asked her to trust them with her life. Her background includes bodywork, rituals of threshold, as well as a B.A. in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature. Her work today involves restoring ancient ways of knowing within the human body and the Earth consciousness through ancestral myth, tradition and dream-weaving.
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Penelope Jupiter Zela
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Penelope Jupiter is a practitioner of terrain medicine in her care of women; fertility through menopause. She is a midwife and mentor drawing on ancient wisdom to enrich modern healthy living for the entire family.
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Terrain is not just about land. Its about your body and decoding the keys to your health. In this workshop we will learn about terrain "theory" paradigm and how it leads to greater understanding of how to tend your own self.
Mo Hohmann
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Mo is devoted to willow and the living tradition of basket making. She is a mother, basket maker, teacher, artist, lifelong apprentice of birth, death, burial, and blood mysteries, reverent farmer, and threshold worker providing care for her community in emergent ways through the vessels she weaves. She learned to weave willow baskets in the Coast Range of Oregon and later in Ireland - connecting her craft with the life of plants and ancestors.
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"What does willow have to teach us about grief?
Part plant walk, part grief walk - join us in our neighboring willow garden to be companioned by these elegant plants. We will go into the rhythms of tending willow and explore the ways our grief can be tended by the willow."
Jeannine Brown
Canceled, sorry.
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Jeannine Brown is a starseed mama, healer, Oracle, herbalist, and shamanic practitioner. She has worked in the healing arts for over 25 years.
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This is a workshop centered around Gaia and medicinal herbs that can support babies and children in their natural growth, development and embodiment of vibrant health and wellbeing. We'll be discussing common herbs that parents and caregivers can practically incorporate into daily life to nuture, mend, heal, soothe, and otherwise support children's optimal health and wellbeing. As well, we'll share a conscious group meditation connecting to the crystalline grid of Gaia and invite the plant realm to join us in holding 5D frequency for the children of New Earth. 🌿🙏💖✨