Boreal Medicines
Discovering the healing power of plants
The two sessions I will be leading as part of W I L D C R A F T will guide you into your own confidence of connecting to, and working with, medicinal plants of the boreal forest. You will learn safety & identification, respectful harvesting practices, and how to turn your harvest into valuable, readily usable medicines for yourself & to share with your kin. We will cover the basics of medicine making - learning the cornerstone methods of effective teas, tinctures, & topicals, so you know how & when to use which remedy. And you will get to practice right way!
As part of the workshop, you will get to make your own custom tincture & herbal salve to take home. You will also receive my harvest reference book for Saskatchewan - The Herbalist In Each Of Us, which will help you as you continue to develop the lifelong skill of wildcrafting.
The two sessions I will be leading as part of W I L D C R A F T will guide you into your own confidence of connecting to, and working with, medicinal plants of the boreal forest. You will learn safety & identification, respectful harvesting practices, and how to turn your harvest into valuable, readily usable medicines for yourself & to share with your kin. We will cover the basics of medicine making - learning the cornerstone methods of effective teas, tinctures, & topicals, so you know how & when to use which remedy. And you will get to practice right way!
As part of the workshop, you will get to make your own custom tincture & herbal salve to take home. You will also receive my harvest reference book for Saskatchewan - The Herbalist In Each Of Us, which will help you as you continue to develop the lifelong skill of wildcrafting.
Your Instructor:
Kjelti Anderson |
I move with a profound sense of belonging to this world & offer my voice to the living litany ringing through the forest as an ode to the unfolding of all creation within & around us. In knowing my intrinsic self as a wild being, I am most at ease, most sensually refined, most attuned to my own sacredness, when I am amongst the elements.
I am a passionate and curious folk herbalist - I’ve been learning from the medicinal plants of the prairies & boreal for over ten years. My confidence as a herbalist comes from my connection to the plants because really, I am only a conduit for their medicine + their teachings of how to be embodied on Earth; resonant, vibrant, resilient, connected, & at ease. I have also studied with Sajah Popham, Beverley Gray, Samantha Ortlieb, Daphie Pooyak, Jim McDonald, & Seán Donahue. My work includes wildcrafting & carefully preparing a line of herbal remedies for women, offering one-on-one herbal consultations. And my biggest passion is in teaching and helping others develop their own connection to local, medicinal plants. I look forward to guiding you at W I L D C R A F T. |