Teacher: Julie Benefico, Herbalist
$22 (includes materials)

Description: Celebrate the cycles of our outer and inner nature! Winter Solstice is the rebirth of the Sun and each day after, the day lengthens. As the darkest and shortest day of the year, it is a reminder to go slower, look within, and reflect.

In this hands-on class we take a deep dive into the folklore of Winter Solstice traditions, also known as Yule. We will learn about herbs commonly utilized during this time of year, exploring their medicinal AND magical properties. With these plants, we'll make a delicious communal winter potion.

In this spirit of new beginnings we will write out gratitudes and reflections of the past year, and set intentions for the new year to come. This rich material forms the basis for a prosperity spell you can take home, along with your yummy cordial!

Julie is a Certified Clinical Herbalist with an undying passion to help others uncover the mysteries of their soul and heal naturally. She has a handcrafted herbal skincare & aromatherapy line for self-care, intention setting, and nourishment Called Opal Elements Cosmic Apothecary. Julie is a green witch that loves working with the shadow aspects of life in order to reach the light! She studies alchemy, astrology, and herbalism and integrates these magickal practices into her life, consultations, and workshops.

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Teacher: Dr. Bonnie Nedrow
$10

Description: You're invited to join Dr. Bonnie as she shares with you the secrets of Ketogenics – a metabolic recalibration to help train your body to burn fat.

In this class you will learn the premise of becoming the master of your metabolism. Once you train your body to be an efficient fat burner, you can choose what fuel you want to burn at any given time.

After this introductory class you’ll be given the opportunity to join Dr. Bonnie’s 6-week Keto Boot Camp where you and a small group of participants will be guided through the process to train your body to easily and efficiently burn fat. You will also learn how to reset your metabolism and teach your body to access stored body-fat to increase your energy. In addition, you will discover cleansing protocols that will permanently remove toxic chemicals from your body.

Never heard of Ketogenics or have been wanting to know more? Use this time to ask Dr. Bonnie your questions.

Dr. Bonnie is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor with 17 years of experience as a primary-care naturopath in Oregon and California. She supports her patients in overcoming disease, losing weight and achieving lifelong health.

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Join Clinical Herbalist and Millennial Witch, Julie Benefico, for this class to learn about herbs that are protective, stress reducing, and aid in the process of transformation for more easeful and inspiring shadow integration work! You will learn a ritual for cultivating shadow work, herbal medicine tools, and we will make our own personalized protection amulets!

This class will take you on a journey within your soul. The shadow represents the darker aspects within, the parts of us that the conscious mind often chooses to ignore. The shadow within us holds trauma, fear, and self doubt. So why address it? Because when we go into the darkness, feel, process, and move through it we can experience more light than ever imaginable. Samhain, also known as Witches New Year, is on Halloween and ends on Day of the Dead. This cross-quarter holiday celebrates the cycle of death and rebirth. This is the perfect time of year to do Shadow Work which can help bring awareness into who we are, resulting in inspirations, soul purpose, growing edges, and excitement! This work can challenge our limits and having plant allies during this process to self actualization can be incredibly supportive.

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Teacher: Paige Doyle, CNC

Description: Learn how to make the delicious and satisfying Halloween treats you see on Paleo food blogs and Instagram! Almond Joy Bites, Pumpkin Energy Balls, Sour Apple Gummies, and Roobios Masala Chai will all be sampled and devoured in this hands-on cooking class. Paige demonstrates that nutritious and delicious Halloween sweets can be easy to make AND appease even picky Halloween-goers. Leave the class with four Halloween-inspired samples and recipes to try at home. All recipes will be dairy-free, gluten-free, and free of refined sugars.

Paige is a certified nutritionist who can be seen helping customers with nutrition questions on the Farmacopia sales floor and teaching classes through Ceres Community Project. In her spare time, she rock climbs, snuggles with her puppy, nina, and hits the organic chemistry books. She believes that food is here to to nourish your body and your soul. Paige is also a certified 21-Day Sugar Detox coach and facilitates individual and group 21-Day Sugar Detoxes at Farmacopia and online.

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We have all been nourished by a bowl of warm soup. It’s because grandma’s cure-all broth can enhance immunity; improve elimination and detox; accelerate healing from surgery; improve hydration and electrolyte balance; increase energy; decrease hunger and cravings; build stronger nails, hair and bones; hydrate and strengthen the skin; and heal the gastrointestinal tract. Let's exchange recipes and learn about ingredients such as medicinal mushrooms that can enhance its healing power!

Come celebrate community immunity and resilience with us as we mark the 1-year anniversary of the Santa Rosa fires. Enjoy free plant medicines, flower essences and herbal treats. Learn to make an herbal syrup!

At noon, join staff herbalist Jocelyn Boreta in making some nourishing lung syrup with Yerba Santa, a sticky-leafed shrub which grows in abundance in central and southern California grasslands, especially in areas touched by wildfire (its seeds germinate with fire). Yerba Santa supports lung health by toning respiratory tissue and is traditionally used as a sacred herb to free the breath and release deep sadness.

At 1 PM Lily will be making Fire Cider. If you've never tasted fire cider before, you're in for a treat! This zesty, delicious vinegar preparation straddles the line between food and medicine, and has been used for centuries by grandmothers and traditional herbalists alike to ward off contagion, break up congestion, open the airways, thin secretions, enhance circulation, and stimulate digestion. And making it is FUN—it feels like a good dose of kitchen magic. Fire cider is the antidote to all things cold, damp, and stagnant. Space for hands-on Yerba Santa Syrup and Fire Cider is limited.

Please note: Our Fall Immunity sale is extended through this event, and the first 25 attendees get a special gift! Also... our Fall Immunity sale will increase from 10% to 20% during the event - in store only!

As we approach the 1-year anniversary of the North Bay fires, under skies of this year’s devastating fires, lets come together and nourish our lungs. Did you know that according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) the lungs are the center for grief, loss and in-turn regeneration? The lungs are responsible for taking clean, oxygen rich air into the body, and breathing out air full of harmful carbon dioxide. They are responsible for taking in the new and letting go of the old, the constant cycle of life. Exposure to toxic smoke compromises lung health and can lead to imbalance. According to TCM, the best time to tonify the lung is in the autumn. Come make some nourishing lung syrup with Yerba Santa, a sticky-leafed shrub which grows in abundance in central and southern California grasslands, especially in areas touched by wildfire (its seeds germinate with fire). Yerba Santa supports lung health by toning respiratory tissue and is traditionally used as a sacred herb to free the breath and release deep sadness.

Teacher: Dr. Bonnie Nedrow
$10

Description: You're invited to join Dr. Bonnie as she shares with you the secrets of Ketogenics – a metabolic recalibration to help train your body to burn fat.

In this class you will learn the premise of becoming the master of your metabolism. Once you train your body to be an efficient fat burner, you can choose what fuel you want to burn at any given time.

After this introductory class you’ll be given the opportunity to join Dr. Bonnie’s 6-week Keto Boot Camp where you and a small group of participants will be guided through the process to train your body to easily and efficiently burn fat. You will also learn how to reset your metabolism and teach your body to access stored body-fat to increase your energy. In addition, you will discover cleansing protocols that will permanently remove toxic chemicals from your body.

Never heard of Ketogenics or have been wanting to know more? Use this time to ask Dr. Bonnie your questions.

Dr. Bonnie is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor with 17 years of experience as a primary-care naturopath in Oregon and California. She supports her patients in overcoming disease, losing weight and achieving lifelong health.

seating is limited to the first 20 registrants

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Boost your immune system, mood, and sleep with this supportive 21 day course that will allow you to kick the sugar addiction for good. We will give you the necessary tools to get rid of the sugar cravings naturally along with helpful recipes and alternatives for long lasting success. This program is developed by our team's nutritional experts with years of experience helping clients eliminate toxic sugar from their diets.

This 3-week detox is for you if:

• The holidays have you left you feeling depleted, or in a sugar coma
• You struggle with refined food cravings
• You’ve tried weight-loss diets and are not getting the results you’d like
• You’re curious to try a cleanse that’s affordable, supportive, and nurturing

Teacher: Paige Doyle

Do the Sugar Detox from anywhere! These weekly live and interactive online conference videos will run from Thursday February 21, 28 & Thursday March 7 from 6pm-7:30pm.

Includes:

• Professional nutrition support
• Recommendations for meal planning and shopping
• Customizable recipes
• Optional supplement/herb recommendations
• Participants will also receive a special 20% discount on related items from Farmacopia
• Access to the private 21DSD Facebook group
• Pre-detox support
• Weekly email check-ins & opportunities to ask questions 1-on-1

3 week series cost: $80
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Paige is a certified Nutrition Consultant through Bauman College and 21-Day Sugar Detox Health Coach.

Celebrate the equinox and facilitate Springtime movement in your body by learning to make tasty, medicinal vinegars with Lily Mazzarella, clinical herbalist and owner of Farmacopia.

Learn why and when to use raw apple cider vinegar to extract and preserve your favorite plants, roots and fruits. We’ll make a mineral-rich vinegar to take home that enhances vibrancy during the springtime transition. Includes tastings and recipes for drinking vinegars (aka shrubs) to make divine herbal mocktails that restore the system and aid digestion.

$35 includes all materials

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Lily Mazzarella, MS, CNS Clinical Herbalist Nutrition Counselor

Spring is coming and we're so excited to top off our winter Kon-Mari-ing with a good old fashion house cleaning. Did you know you can easily make most (or all!) of your home cleaning and body care products with just a handful of bulk and low-packaging ingredients? This approach dramatically reduces packaging waste in an arena that brings plastic into our lives.

In this class taught by zero waste enthusiast and herbalist Amy Charnay, learn how to make low waste and DIY cleaners and simple body care that substitute for your current store-bought ones. Leave with a refreshed sense of excitement about your Spring cleaning and commitment to the environment.

"We don't need a handful of people doing zero waste perfectly. We need millions of people doing it imperfectly."

-Anne Marie Bonneau, The Zero Waste Chef

$35

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Teacher: Claire Wirick, Herbalist

As busy as our world is today, it can be hard to find the time and energy for self-care. When we take small amounts of time to explore our bodies in depth, and show ourselves some love, magic happens! In this class we will:

Explore the diverse and effective ways Ayurveda can help you learn, heal, and grow

Learn the basics of the Doshas of Ayurved: Vata, Pitta, Kapha

Learn which Dosha you lean towards

Learn 5 minute routines that you can incorporate daily

We will also touch base with our own inner knowing and intuition about what feels supportive and aligned with our own innate flow. There is so much medicine and magic that can be found in changing, and embracing new self-care habits. With a little information and inspiration, you will be excited to take the steps to love yourself up.

Throughout the class, Claire will demonstrate various tools and techniques including dry brushing, gua sha, salt scrubs, herbal steams, neti-pots, and more!

Each person will go home with your own salt scrub creation to enjoy at home!

$35

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Teacher: Amy Charnay, MS, CNS

Join herbalist and gardener extraordinaire, Amy Charnay, on Friday, September 20 from 6:30 - 8 pm for our Botanical Smoke Bundle Workshop!

In this class, Amy will guide you while you create your own beautiful smoke bundles made with local and sustainably harvested herbs and flowers. You will learn about the properties of many aromatic herbs, sustainable cultivation & foraging, appropriate cultural practices, and the history of burning aromatic herbs for cleansing.

Some of the plants we will be using include: White Sage, California Bay Laurel, Incense Cedar, Lavender, Eucalyptus, Rosemary and more!

Each person will go home with their own Botanical Smoke Bundle!

Herbal mocktails included!

Class price: $35 includes materials

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Teacher: Claire Wirick, Clinical Herbalist

We will get hands-on exploring different techniques while simultaneously learning about the many body systems that are enhanced by this simple, yet powerful tool.

The gua sha helps us liberate ourselves by getting in touch with what our bodies feel like! Most of us feel charged about the way we look and feel. This is understandable considering the culture we live in here. It is a revolutionary act of self-love to spend time getting to know the curves, angles, and contours of our bodies. It is also incredibly important for our health and well-being!

Gua sha is an explorative tool and a disruptor. It disrupts body stagnation ~ this promotes internal flow which initiates health benefits beyond what you might imagine possible.

This magic little tool invigorates circulation, releases tight and restricted muscles and fascia, and improves the integrity of the skin by tightening and toning the tissues.

By removing blockages it also helps open congested areas of the body that might be causing symptoms like a blocked sinus, headache and acne.

Our tissues and energetic bodies are changeable!


Class price: $20

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Teacher: Amy Hudgens, Founder of The Nourished Girls Project

Join us for a nourishing and creative event to connect, celebrate, empower, and support girls!! Get inspired and empowered as you hear our powerful story told from Nylah (age 10) about how The Nourished Girls Project, and our card deck, was created. Get a sneak peek at our empowerment card deck created for girls, by girls.

Class includes:

• Art experiences
• Nourish Me Girl deck readings
• Herbal experience led by Clinical Herbalist Claire Leanne Wirick
• Little nibbles, treats & tea - including Radical Immune Balls for the radical girl!
• A raffle! (Make sure to enter the raffle! There will be some really special prizes including the Nourish Me Girl deck.)

Amy Hudgens, the founder of Busy Bee Nutrition, is a Certified Nutrition Consultant, creator of the “Rainbow Greens Nutrition Program for Kids,” author, wife, and busy mom. Over the past 8 years, Amy has shown over a hundred women how to make nourishment simple for their families (and themselves).

A true visionary, Amy is pioneering The Nourished Girls Project with a vision to inspire and empower pre-adolescent girls to be kindness activists: changing the world by learning how to be kind to themselves and others. A portion of annual sale profits from our card decks will be donated to the non-profit organization: Girl Up Initiative Uganda. Specifically, to support their Adolescent Girls Program. We believe in giving back and supporting girls worldwide. Amy’s main muse and inspiration is her 9-year old daughter, Nylah.

Nylah is also her co-creator of the TNGP. In her infinite wisdom, Nylah believes that it only takes one person to change the world for the better. She is passionate about doing what she can to inspire other girls, like her to live their joy!

Class price: $10.00 (includes materials and a $10.00 off voucher if you purchase a card deck at the event)

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Teacher: Katrina Hanson MSOM DiplOM LAc

Familiarize yourself with the vocabulary, pronouns, and respectful language you need to communicate respectfully with LGBTQ+ patients, colleagues, and community members. Plus, the basics of creating a trans-inclusive clinic and conducting effective and respectful intake conversations around sensitive topics.

This workshop is intended for naturopaths, herbalists, nutritionists, acupuncturists, bodyworkers, and all other health care workers, as well as students in these fields. All are welcome.

Katrina Hanson is an acupuncturist and owner of Prism Integrative Acupuncture in Oakland, CA, which specializes in Holistic LGBT Wellness and Transgender Medicine. In addition to maintaining a private practice, she teaches classes on Gender & Pronouns, Western and Eastern Transgender Medicine, and approaches for creating an LGBTQI+ inclusive practice at alternative medicine schools and community clinics throughout the greater Bay Area, and through her local and nationwide CEU courses. Her article, 'First Steps Towards Making Your Clinic Trans-Inclusive', was published in the Journal of Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine (Fall ‘15).

Class price: $45

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Teacher: Julie Benefico, Herbalist
$35 (includes materials)

Description:  Burning Incense is an ancient practice used to cleanse and purify a space, connect to spirit, and become more grounded. As we enter into Winter we are slowing down, turning inward, reflecting, and giving gratitude for all we have received. Herbal incense can be a supportive tool as the wheel of the year turns. Join Herbalist and Modern Witch Jules Benefico for an evening to welcome Winter in ritually by connecting with herbs, resins, and roots to celebrate the season of wisdom, transformation, and rebirth.

The Winter Solstice also called Yule in European pagan traditions is the rebirth of the Sun and each day after it begins to get a little lighter again. It is the darkest and shortest day of the year and a reminder to go slower, look within, and reflect. In this class, we will write gratitudes and reflections for the past year and set intentions for the new year to come. We will delve into the medicinal & magickal properties of Winter Solstice plants, and make incense cones to take home!  

Julie is a Certified Clinical Herbalist with an undying passion to help others uncover the mysteries of their soul and heal naturally. She has a handcrafted herbal skincare & aromatherapy line for self-care, intention setting, and nourishment Called Opal Elements Cosmic Apothecary. Julie is a green witch that loves working with the shadow aspects of life in order to reach the light! She studies alchemy, astrology, and herbalism and integrates these magickal practices into her life, consultations, and workshops.

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Teacher: Dr. Bonnie Nedrow
$10

Description:  Dr. Bonnie Nedrow has written a book, “Metabolic Flexibility, How to Heal Your Metabolism With a Ketogenic Diet”, based on her 6 years of safely guiding patients through Keto. Come learn about her holistic approach to achieving metabolic flexibility through a ketogenic diet at one of these two intro classes. Following the intro classes, there will be a 6 week Keto Boot Camp series in January 2020.

Dr. Bonnie is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor with 17 years of experience as a primary-care naturopath in Oregon and California. She supports her patients in overcoming disease, losing weight and achieving lifelong health.

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Mobilia Sections Theme settings Events CONTENT Event Title Intro To Keto Event Image Date 11/12/2019 Enter in dd/mm/yyyy format Time 6:15 pm - 7:45 pm Cost 10 Location 95 Montgomery Drive, Suite #90 Santa Rosa, California 95404 Content Teacher: Dr. Bonnie Nedrow
$10

Description:  Dr. Bonnie Nedrow has written a book, “Metabolic Flexibility, How to Heal Your Metabolism With a Ketogenic Diet”, based on her 6 years of safely guiding patients through Keto. Come learn about her holistic approach to achieving metabolic flexibility through a ketogenic diet at one of these two intro classes. Following the intro classes, there will be a 6 week Keto Boot Camp series in January 2020.

Dr. Bonnie is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor with 17 years of experience as a primary-care naturopath in Oregon and California. She supports her patients in overcoming disease, losing weight and achieving lifelong health.

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Teacher: Dr. Bonnie Nedrow, Naturopathic Doctor
$597

Description: Welcome to the Keto-Cleanse Boot Camp! This is a 6-week program where you will be personally guided through a metabolic transformation led by Dr. Bonnie Nedrow. She will teach you to become the master of your metabolism through Keto-adaptation.

WHAT'S KETO-ADAPTATION?

Keto-adaptation is a metabolic process where you train your body to easily burn fat. Most people in our culture are not fat-adapted and are instead carbohydrate dependent. That means they need carbs for energy because their body does not easily burn fat. Through a low-carb, ketogenic diet you will train your body to be more flexible in the way it burns calories. Rather than waiting for carbohydrates to come in, we can teach our bodies to burn its other fuel source: fat.

Once you teach your body to do this, you can choose what fuel you want to burn at any given time.

Learn how to partake in an abundance of delicious and nutrient-rich foods, without getting stuck in carbohydrate dependency. This is a departure from most low-carb programs that dictate long-term avoidance of major food groups. Once metabolically flexible, you will be able to enjoy a wide variety of fruits, veggies, grains and legumes.

In this course, you will:

• Gain the ability to regulate your metabolism through nutrition, exercise and stress reduction.
• Become skilled at choosing when you want to use healthy foods for fuel and when you want to burn stored fat.
• Facebook group for participants.

Who is a great candidate for a Keto-Cleanse?

• Those interested in weightloss.
• People seeking a smooth transition into menopause, or an easier menstrual cycle.
• Those who have tried Keto in the past but needed more guidance & encouragement (not sure you were doing it "right").
• People setting the stage for healthy conception & pregnancy.
• Those managing inflammatory & autoimmune conditions.
• Those seeking blood sugar stability and freedom from sugar cravings.
• Those interested in greater mental clarity and performance.

Here's an article that will help you understand if Keto is right for you.

Boot Camp includes ( $597):

• (6) 1.5 - 2 hour guided sessions with Dr. Bonnie
• Weekly Q&A email group
• Boot Camp will meet every Wednesday 6:15-7:45 pm at Farmacopia beginning January 15, 2020. Dates: January 15, 22, 29, February 5, 19, & March 4, 2020
• Additional supplies & supplements are approximately $265

Dr. Bonnie is a board-certified Naturopathic Doctor with 17 years of experience as a primary-care naturopath in Oregon and California. She supports her patients in overcoming disease, losing weight and achieving lifelong health.

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✨ 4 DAY RETREAT! ✨ ​We are beyond excited to announce the Feminist Entrepreneurship Retreat! Join Farmacopia's own Lily Mazzarella, Laura Ash (owner of The Scarlet Sage), and Casey Zabala (creator of Wanderer's Tarot), for a 4-day retreat in the Santa Cruz Mountains, June 15-18, into the world of creating a successful feminist business. We want to support your small business to thrive in the current market, sustainably grow, and shine with your unique gifts and spiritual ethos: the world needs more successful healers.

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Teacher: Isabella Ayala De Credico, Herbalist
COST: $45

Description: Skin Care is self-care. Taking care of your skin is about so much more than beauty... it's an offering to your body, to your well-being, and to yourself.

In this class, you will be learning the following basics:

• How your skin works
• Lifestyle factors that affect your skin
• How to feed your skin, just as we do our bodies
• Herbs to incorporate into your skin care routine
• How to make your very own skin serum, tailored to you!

You will make an herbal infused oil serum in this class. Infused oils are incredibly versatile and the base for many products such as skin serums, salves, and creams. Ahead of class, you can look forward to a sweet little package of ingredients for this tutorial, along with an illustrated booklet herbal skin care facts from the class and the recipe/instructions for the infused oil. You can refer to this information as you continue your skin-care/self-care journey!

This virtual class will help you better understand and care for your skin. As a group, we will experience the joy of herbal oil infusion and creating a skin care ritual that will open your eyes to the amazing herbal allies all around us. Ethically harvesting flowers and herbs to make your own skin care will be a practice you will build on throughout your life.

Isabella is the Medicine Maker for the California School of Herbal Studies, a Community Herbalist at Farmacopia, and the Co-Creator of North Bay Solidaritea. She also is in the process of starting her own business, Dusk to Dawn Botanicals, a small-batch, seasonal product line of energetic and botanical remedies. Her inspiration comes from observing and communing with nature. She is passionate about creating accessibility within herbal medicine. And she is a forever student of both the magical and scientific world of herbs.

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Teacher: Jules Benefico, Herbalist
$50 (includes materials)

Description: Burning Incense is an ancient practice used to cleanse and purify a space, connect to spirit, and become more grounded. As we enter into Winter we are slowing down, turning inward, reflecting, and giving gratitude for all we have received. Herbal incense can be a supportive tool as the wheel of the year turns.

In this class we will:

• Write gratitudes and reflections for the past year
• Set intentions for the new year to come
• Delve into the medicinal & magical properties of Winter Solstice plants
• Make incense cones!

Ahead of class, our virtual students can look forward to a sweet little package of ingredients for this tutorial, along with an illustrated booklet that describes incense ingredients, explores variations for future incense making on your own, and the recipe/instructions for the incense you will make in class. You can refer to this information as you continue your self-care ritual journey!

Jules is a Certified Clinical Herbalist with an undying passion to help others uncover the mysteries of their soul and heal naturally. She has a handcrafted herbal skincare & aromatherapy line for self-care, intention setting, and nourishment Called Opal Elements Cosmic Apothecary. She is also the founder of Boss Witch Botanicals, which offers business coaching for healers, herbalists, & wellness practitioners utilizing herbal medicine, alchemy, & astrology for personal and professional transformation.

Jules is a green witch that loves working with the shadow aspects of life in order to reach the light! She studies alchemy, astrology, and herbalism and integrates these magickal practices into her life, consultations, and workshops.

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Teacher: Jules Benefico
$50 (includes materials)

Description: Spring, with its budding life-force, offers an opportunity for us to move stagnant and stuck energy.

The Spring Equinox, also called Ostara is a time of bringing equilibrium to the mind, body, and spirit. After the cold, stagnation of winter the Spring brings movement, blooming flowers, and abundance. Oftentimes our lymph lies dormant during the winter months, not getting enough movement which can lead to allergies, colds, fatigue, and build-up of toxins in the body. In this class, you will learn holistic approaches to bringing harmony to the body for optimal vitality utilizing herbs, nutrition, and daily ritual.

Join this hands-on class to learn how to cleanse and support your lymphatic system, enter into the season of spring ritually, and make an herbal lymph moving salt scrub. We will explore the natural rhythms of nature as well as our bodies and you will make your own herbal infused salt scrub for soft skin and lymph rejuvenation. Plus you will learn the medicinal and magical benefits of a handful of herbs to support you this spring.

In this virtual class you will learn the following basics:

• The energetics of the Spring Equinox
• How Lymph toxins build up in the body
• Lifestyle support to cleanse your body
• Daily rituals to detox your skin Herbs to support your lymphatic system
• How to make a salt scrub for glowing skin and lymphatic drainage

Prior to the class, you will receive a kit of items to make your own Salt Scrub including a booklet of information on herbs, daily lymph supporting practices, and a spring equinox ritual. This box of goodies is the perfect way to refresh your wellness routine and start out the Spring with intention and purification.

Jules Benefico is a Western Clinical Herbalist with a passion to help others uncover the mysteries of their soul and heal naturally. By integrating nutrition, medical herbalism, alchemy, and self care tools she has a practice working with clients to help facilitate healing from the core. Jules focuses on allyship, forgiveness, gratitude, shadow work, pleasure, and solidarity as tools to aid her herbal work. She believes that herbal medicine is an accessible earth-based healthcare system that digs deep to get to the root of ailments, not cover up symptoms. Jules also has a handcrafted herbal skincare & aromatherapy line for self-love, intention setting, and nourishment Called Opal Elements Cosmic Apothecary and a new project called Boss Witch Botanicals where she supports herbalists and healers blossom their businesses.

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Come visit us at the Head West Market in Sebastopol at The Barlow! We are so excited to (safely) get back to events.

We are going to be in the Huichica Marketplace on Saturday, October 16. Check out the line up, get your tickets, and come see us!

We are going to be in the Huichica Marketplace on Saturday, June 11. Check out the line up, get your tickets, and come see us!

In this virtual, on-demand class, you will explore the herbal wisdom and practices of the community herbalist.
You will get a chance to talk about 5 key herbs to support building immunity through cold and flu season, and discuss which health needs are most important to the community as we shift seasons.
The class will include an extensive herbal monograph on garlic's mystical, medicinal, and ancestral uses.
Additional herbs discussed will be shiitake mushroom, elderberry, and rosehips.
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A Community Herbalist is someone who takes care of their community, family, neighbors, and themselves.
We love teaching herbalists how to marry traditional healing practices with modern research.
In this virtual, on-demand class with Verse Founder Laura Ash, you'll learn about 5 herbs to support building immunity and discuss what is most important to the community as the seasons shift.
You will get recipes for this upcoming cold/flu season, our favorite Elderberry syrup recipe.
This class is an introduction to what the 9-month Verse Community Herbalist Certification will dive deep into.

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Verse's 2023 Community Herbalist Year is a part-time, 9-month course for the beginning herbalist.
All classes are held online. Classes meet one weekend per month, February through November 2023.

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Verse's Apprentice Herbalist Year provides the core foundation to becoming a modern herbal practitioner.
This year journey is one of academic study and self discovery through the lens of herbal medicine.
This Certification is only available for US residents.
All classes are held live online from February to October (with a break in July).

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In Verse's Clinical Herbalist Fire Year you will build your therapeutic skills to step into clinical practice.
This Certification is only available for US residents.
All classes are held live online from February to November (with a break in July)..

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Verse's Certification is only available for US residents.
All classes are held live online from February to November (with a break in July)..

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