Group Classes
Animistic Healing Arts
Group Classes
There is no better way to revive what it means to come to the hearth than in group classes. In the old wise ways, there was no separation. The harmonious union of our ancestors to one another and to the spirit and natural world was ever present. The health of one individual was the health of the community and the health of the land. It was interwoven. And it still is.
For over 15 years I have been teaching a variety of classes, from plant spirit classes, earth-based nervous system groups, animistic healing practices and more. These classes are inspired by the earth-centered teachings of Ann Drucker, the Maya plant healing traditions of Miss Beatrice Waight, the somatic practices of Zvi Ish-Shalom, the land and plants that I live with, and the wisdom of my earth-and-cosmic-centered ancestors.
You can find descriptions for upcoming and past classes below.
2025 Classes
Plant Temple Fridays
July - October 2025
This class will gather to engage respectful, nourishing, and collaborative relationships with our Plant Elders. We will listen in embodied presence to what the plants would like to show us.
In this class we will:
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Practice developing authentic, reciprocal, and collaborative relationships with the Plants and the Land
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Receive direct messages and insight into your own spiritual, emotional, and physical growth from the Plants
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Engage in healing and divination practices with the Plants and the Land, including herbal baths and plant brushings
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Experience the support, nourishment, and sacred process of being in a community with other humans and our collective wisdom in collaboration with the than human world
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Rest, recharge, and restore with nature and the embodied knowing that we are nature
Day Long Fall Equinox Retreat
September 28th, 2025 10am-5pm
Join us for a day long Fall Equinox Earth-Centered Retreat. Honoring the cycles of the seasons gives us a chance to tune into our own rhythms and align with the magic being offered by the season. In the fall it is time to harvest what has been growing inside of us. It’s often a celebratory time, that is also marked by the preparation for winter and the letting go of that which no longer serves us. We harvest what is ours to harvest and we release all that is no longer ours. When we practice these earth-centered rituals in community, it amplifies our prayers. We often leave these gatherings with a renewed sense of self and interconnectedness to all great things. As always, we will be accompanied by the wise plant elders that volunteer to partner with us. This offering will also take place at an auspicious time in the Jewish calendar. We will gather in between the New Year of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippor.
In this class we will:
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Practice seasonal earth-centered rituals
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Harvest and take in the medicine of the current season of your life
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Release and let go of what no longer serves you
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Partner with the plant kin for healing, blessing, and wisdom
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Celebrate and give gratitude to the loving nature spirits and the earth for all they provide
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Gather in devotion as a community of earth-centered folks and amplify each others prayers
Past Classes Offered
Weaving Round the Wheel: Beltane to Samhain (2024)
Our well and wise earth-centered ancestors followed the earth’s rhythms and seasons. It was in their blood and bones to ride the energy of the seasonal shifts and allow their body, mind, and spirit to be nourished, healed, and transformed by these seasonal markers.
Awaken what is in your blood and bones. Allow yourself to be transformed by the spirit of the changing seasons by engaging in these ancestral folk healing traditions.
Partnering with the Plants (2023 & 2022)
This women's class will gather to engage respectful, nourishing, and collaborative relationships with our Plant Elders. We will listen in embodied presence to what the plants would like to show us. These wise ones have the long view and know deeply about change, and they want to support us as their younger kin. Partnering with the plants in a good relationship helps us navigate the changing times we are living in with more grace, wisdom, perspective, and can bring deep healing.
Community Care Practitioner Circle: Personal and Planetary Healing Group for Healing Arts Practitioners (2024)
This gathering is for practitioners of the healing arts and space holders that have experience in earth-centered plant healing that would like to have a place to be tended and to practice. During our time together we will give and receive healing in community. At the end of our time, we will participate in a healing ceremony for the planet.
Partnering with the Plants (2023 & 2022)
This women's class will gather to engage respectful, nourishing, and collaborative relationships with our Plant Elders. We will listen in embodied presence to what the plants would like to show us. These wise ones have the long view and know deeply about change, and they want to support us as their younger kin. Partnering with the plants in a good relationship helps us navigate the changing times we are living in with more grace, wisdom, perspective, and can bring deep healing.
Partnering with the Plant People: Exploring Relationships with the Plantcestors (2019)
Plants were on earth long before humans and animals. Humans would not be here today if it were not for our plantcestors. Plants and humans have evolved alongside each other in a relationship that was once known by many of our ancestors as a sacred kinship. In this class series, explore practices that support cultivating relationships with the plant kin. Experience the unique and exquisite presence of each plant that goes beyond what has been written. From the foundation of an authentic relationship, we will engage the possibility for healing, transformation and direct revelation.
Deepening Relationships:Animistic Practices for Relating with Spirits of the Land, Ancestors, and Guides (2018)
Animism recognizes that we are part of a community and honors the relationships that connect us all. This community includes nature spirits, animals, humans, ancestors of place and blood, and many other beings.
In this 5-course series, we will explore practices and engage in ceremonies that support cultivating healthy relationships with the land and ancestors of the land. We will also experience practices that tend and deepen our relationships with our ancestors and guides.
Earth Based Nervous System Support Group (2021)
This class will gather to engage in different earth-centered practices to nourish and support the nervous system. Resourcing our nervous systems with earth-centered practices creates more relaxation in the body, balance and clarity in the mind and emotions, and strength and centeredness in our spirit. Nature has the long view and knows deeply about change. Overall, partnering with the earth in good relationship for nourishment allows us to surf the changing times we are living in with more ease and grace.
The Call (2020)
The intention for this gathering is to strengthen our connection to the spiritual world for greater perspective and resource, and also that in these changing times, we need each other to not only survive, but to thrive. These group meetings will have an opening grounding, a teaching, a community or partnered practice, a ritual or dedication of merits to the humans and more-than-human world, and a closing. There will always be a time dedicated to clearing what needs to be cleared and calling our energy back to us so that we can be centered in our true selves.