UPCOMING EVENTS
Authentici-Tea Conscious Conversation Circle
Every Thursday @ 7pm
Grounded Sound Journeys
with Terrie Weaver & Silvy Franco
1st & 3rd Fridays; occasional Saturdays
May 1st, 9th, & 15th
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Conscious Kids Story & Tea Time
with Lakeja Baylor
Medicine-Making Circles
May 23 ~ 1-3:30
Herbal Oxymels & Infusions
Let’s get to know Nettle and Milky Oats with all the creative and nourishing possibilities these plants offer. We will meet them and then incorporate them into teas and vinegars, exploring creative ways to receive mineral rich and tasty herbal infusions. You’ll take a nourishing herbal oxymel home with you.
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Mother’s Day Cacao Ceremony
May 10th, Mother’s Day
9:30-10:30am
w/ Silvy Franco
Come and begin your Mother’s Day with a guided heart-opening experience. We’ll learn about cacao, where this beautiful sacred plant comes from, how she is prepared for ceremony, and enjoy a cup while being guided back to your heart by the sound of the drum and guided meditation. You will leave feeling uplifted, reconnected to your emotional heart (seat of the soul) and to others.
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Rooted & Restored: Body, Breath, and Botanicals
with Elizabeth Greer, MA, PMH-C, Ms. Black WV 2026
Saturday May 9, 2026
11am – 2:00pm
Join us for a 3-hour workshop that is, at its heart, a love letter to women. We will spend the first part of our time together learning the science of feminine and reproductive/perinatal wellness, the evidence base for somatic bodywork and breathwork, and the brilliant convergence of healing traditions that have supported birthing women since before anyone was writing things down. We will talk about why this knowledge was suppressed, who kept it alive anyway, and why reclaiming it is not nostalgia — it is medicine.
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3-Day Immersion: Reading the Body Immersion
with Margi Flint
October 23rd-25th : 10am-4pm
Blue Vervain
/in Herb of the Month /by Ashley Davis(Verbena hastata)
Blue Vervain is a wonderfully relaxing plant with many uses. Native to the United States, Vervain is a beautiful perennial herb, growing 3-8′ tall. It prefers full sun and medium-wet soils. Often found in wet meadows and river bottoms in the Great Lakes region, Blue Vervain attracts butterflies and other pollinators and makes a great addition to your medicinal herb garden.
Family: Verbenaceae
Parts Used: aerial (above ground)
Energetics: bitter, acrid, cold, drying
Actions: bitter tonic, relaxing nervine, febrifuge, hypotensive, diaphoretic, emetic in large doses
Uses: a strongly relaxing nervine, vervain calms states of anxiety as well as hysteria and seizure. It is useful for occasions (or periods of time) when the sympathetic nervous system is stuck in overdrive, such as acute and chronic stress, or when body is shivering due to a fever. In fevers, the diaphoretic action of vervain opens the peripheral blood vessels to bring on a sweat and break a fever. It can also be useful following a debilitating illness to restore digestion and tone. As a bitter tonic, small doses of vervain are stimulating to digestive secretions, and decongestant to the liver and gallbladder. Vervain also has a reputation for helping to relieve hot flashes and night sweats.
Indications: hot flashes, night sweats, fevers, and any time the pores are tightly closed and the body needs to vent. Constitutionally speaking, vervain is suited to people who are intensely driven with perfectionist tendencies. These people often have very high and unreasonable expectations of themselves as well as others. Their strong mental and emotional focus draws energy away from the digestive and reproductive centers. And without that grounding lower body strength, they often overexert their upper bodies, resulting in tension in the upper shoulders and neck. Matthew Wood writes that vervain is for people with “strong above, weak below.” He also recommends it for women who have intense food cravings during menses (Earthwise Herbal: A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants p.351).
Dosage: As a tincture, use 2-4 ml per day according to the British Pharmacopeia. Matthew Wood recommends 1-3 drops 1-3 times a day.
Contraindications: not recommended during pregnancy. It is not a nourishing or tonic herb so prolonged use and/or high doses are not recommended.
**This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease**