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Herbal vinegars, oxymels & alchemical foraging (free workshop)

  • 7719 Chicago Avenue Silver Spring, MD, 20910 United States (map)

Join us for a free herbalism workshop with clinical herbalist and Hellenistic astrologer, Crystal Woodling. Learn how to alchemically forage for healing herbs and craft them into herbal vinegars and oxymels (vinegar and honey) that hold the energy of love and respect between plant and human. Everyone will leave with their own alchemically-crafted vinegar and/or oxymel!

Crystal is a lineage Appalachian witch, clinical herbalist, Hellenistic astrologer, yogini, and poet was has 20+ years of somatic and yogic studies, 17+ years of herbal medicine study, and 11+ years of committed ceremonial study with indigenous and folk medicine carriers from around the world.

More info about the workshop:

Did you know our common spring "weeds" and many of our pesky invasions can be our most powerful medicines for healing, nourishment, grounding, and developing a sense of belonging in our bodies and our ecosystems?

Come learn why getting nourishment from and communing with the common springtime and summer plants in our own backyards is the most powerful healing tool we have in our arsenal...

...for ourselves as well as our planet!

As the earth wakes us and begins to grace us with her bounty, we have an opportunity to co-create with Gaia/Mother Earth and craft beautiful nourishing medicines that help to revive, strengthen, energize, and bring balance to our systems all year long!

The herbs are waiting to hear your call for help! They love to help us craft beautiful medicines and even produce more of the constituents you need when you tell them you are coming!

Plants don't have legs, but you do! You can help them help us make a more beautiful world!

About the instructor:

Crystal is a lineage Appalachian witch, clinical herbalist, Hellenistic astrologer, yogini, and poet who has guided hundreds of students and clients to heal themselves from chronic illness, become more fully embodied, and begin living in the enchanted realms that are our birthright.

She has 20+ years of somatic and yogic studies, 17+ years of herbal medicine study, and 11+ years of committed ceremonial study with indigenous and folk medicine carriers from around the world.

She has been teaching her craft full-time for over sixteen years from international universities, to yoga studios, to her own wellness center and ceremonial center, and finally to the world-wide web, where she co-directs The School of Heaven and Earth with her husband Matthew Merlin.

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