Spiritual Herbalism Yoga Retreat

In this 5-Day Spiritual Herbalism Yoga Retreat come learn the art of wild-crafting herbs and flowers, re-wild yourself into your spiritual essence and be with like-minded flower and plant folk who love to learn from nature.

Retreat Cost: $500
Plus booking accommodations.

Plants are living beings, with thousands of years experience in helping humans to heal. At this retreat you will learn the craft of herbalism from a spiritual perspective. Along with daily yoga classes, you’ll also create a variety of salves, tinctures and infusions that nourish your body, mind, and spirit. Each day is a practice of yoga, meditation and plant listening, followed by making herb and flower formulas.

RETREAT HIGHLIGHTS:
• Daily morning nature meditations• Morning Hatha yoga practices
• Healthy retreat breakfast
• Lunch and Dinner vegan/vegetarian meals
• Afternoon kayak and/or hikes
• Daily evening Kundalini and Svaroopa yoga
• Plant walks and local plant identification
• Tincture alchemy, infusions and plant essences

During the week we’ll work with a variety of herbs to make rubs and tinctures. Making local infusions will help you to learn the tincturing process using your own locally foraged herbs and/or wildflowers.

Thursday, Day I Arrival and Grounding at Sewall House
Arrive by 1pm
Vegetarian Lunch at 2pm
Afternoon personal time
Evening Yoga for Transformation
Vegetarian Dinner

Friday, Day 2: Herbalism Lore
Morning Practice & Breakfast
Picnic Lunch
Lecture: Making herbal medicine the Wise Woman way
Evening Yoga & Nature Meditation
Vegetarian Dinner

Saturday Day 3: All Day Herbalism Intensive-Plant Walk
Morning yoga practice & breakfast

Plant Walk and Native species identification: Hands-On
• Walk with the weeds: a journey through plant usage and simples
• Accessing plants around you and finding your plant allies
• Infusing and ingesting local plant essences
• Saps, resins and roots: making medicine with fire, alcohol and water

Healthy Lunch and Nature timeEvening Restorative Yoga
Vegetarian Dinner

Sunday Day 4  All Day Herbalism Intensive-Wild Heart
Morning meditation
Yoga nidra practice
Sunday breakfast

Rewilding and Alchemy – Nature practices for Revitalization
• Earthing with Trees, forest and flowers
• Re-wilding with simple plant infusions
• Sacred ingestion of rose essences
• Creating earth mandalas for transformation

Picnic Lunch and Free Time

Evening Svaroopa yoga or Private Sessions**
• Deep Tissue Massage with Elijah
• Dynamic Integrative Healing with Ajeet

Vegetarian Dinner

Monday Day 5 Sacred Integration- A Day in the Forest
Nature meditation and yoga practice
Healthy yogi breakfast and snack lunches

A free day to explore, integrate and imbibe everything you’ve gathered in the weekend
Journey into the woods or swim out into lake for deep nourishment and spirit-centering

Private Healing Sessions with Elijah and Ajeet**
• Deep Tissue Massage with Elijah
• Dynamic Integrative Healing with Ajeet

Evening Kundalini Yoga & Meditation

Tuesday : Departure with herbal infusions for the road!

MEET YOUR TEACHERS:

Ajeet Khalsa is a registered yoga teacher trainer and specializes in women’s health and spirituality. She studied with Corrinna Wood of Red Moon Herbs at the Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference for five years. She has led blissful yoga retreats for over 10 years and is especially interested in sharing her wisdom of yoga and plant spirits from her own personal journey. She learned how to tincture and scrub medicinal roots for deeper medicine from Kate Woverman of Wild Mountain Farm, a wise woman herbalist and plant medicine healer.

Elijah Weikel is a licensed massage therapist, registered yoga teacher, and practicing clinical herbalist. With over a decade of experience working within the realm of “alternative” and complementary medicine, Elijah offers themself as a resource to their community both near and far.

** Private sessions are booked at arrival with an extra cost
Ajeet and Elijah practice a beloved technique of herbal medicine and yogic healing based on the principles of natural alchemy. They offer private sessions during the retreat to deepen your experience and release you from inner dissonance/pain/trauma.

Reserve your room today.