Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it.

Yoga for Gardeners & Herbalists is a gentle, functional movement class designed to support the body demands of working with plants, soil, and repetitive outdoor tasks. This class focuses on protecting the spine, hips, knees, shoulders, and hands while improving mobility, balance, and circulation for people who garden, harvest, and prepare herbs regularly. Participants learn simple postures, breathwork, and restorative techniques that reduce strain, prevent injury, and ease chronic tension caused by bending, lifting, kneeling, and long hours of manual work. Emphasis is placed on listening to the body, moving with awareness, and integrating short, sustainable practices that enhance endurance and recovery, allowing participants to work the land with greater comfort, longevity, and respect for their physical limits.

Growing Food in Unstable Times is a practical, grounding class designed to help individuals and families reclaim a sense of stability, self-trust, and resilience through growing their own food. In a world marked by economic uncertainty, environmental disruption, and fragile supply chains, this class teaches why home food production is no longer a hobby but a vital life skill. Participants learn how to grow nutrient-dense food in small or large spaces, select resilient crops, build healthy soil, and adapt to unpredictable weather and changing conditions. Beyond techniques, the class explores the psychological and nervous-system benefits of food sovereignty—how tending living plants restores agency, reduces anxiety, and reconnects us to natural cycles that foster calm, clarity, and confidence. Growing food becomes both a practical safeguard and a powerful act of grounding in uncertain times.

From Garden to Apothecary is a hands-on, practical class that guides participants through the full journey of transforming homegrown plants into safe, effective herbal medicines. This class demystifies the process of harvesting, drying, and storing herbs, then moves into preparing foundational remedies such as teas, glycerites, tinctures, infused oils, and salves. Emphasis is placed on quality control, proper timing, clean methods, shelf life, and ethical sourcing, so students understand not just how to make medicine, but why each step matters. Participants gain the confidence to build a small, reliable home apothecary rooted in seasonal awareness, sustainability, and respect for the plants, turning everyday garden harvests into practical tools for wellness and self-reliance.

Herbal Medicine for the Nervous System is a grounded, science-informed class that explores how specific plants support emotional regulation, stress resilience, sleep, pain perception, and overall nervous-system balance. Designed for those navigating anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, burnout, or nervous-system dysregulation, this class explains how herbs interact with neurotransmitters, inflammation pathways, and the body’s stress response in clear, accessible language. Participants learn how to choose the right herbs for different nervous-system states, prepare them safely as teas, glycerites, and tinctures, and understand contraindications and individual sensitivity. Emphasis is placed on discernment—when herbal support is appropriate, when it is not, and how to use plants as steady allies rather than quick fixes. The goal is practical confidence, deeper self-awareness, and a respectful, effective relationship with herbal medicine for long-term nervous-system health.

Herbs for Pain, Inflammation & Chronic Conditions is a grounded, evidence-informed class focused on using herbal medicine as supportive care for real bodies living with ongoing discomfort, injury, or systemic imbalance. This class explores how inflammation, nervous-system sensitization, and stress physiology contribute to chronic pain, and how specific plants can help modulate these pathways safely over time. Participants learn which herbs are appropriate for different types of pain, how to prepare them in forms that are effective and gentle, and how to assess tolerance, interactions, and long-term use. Emphasis is placed on realistic expectations, consistency, and listening to the body, positioning herbal medicine as a stabilizing ally that supports resilience, comfort, and quality of life without exaggerated claims or false promises.

Building a Living Seed Bank is a practical, future-focused class that teaches participants how to preserve plant genetics, biodiversity, and local resilience through intentional seed saving and stewardship. This class covers seed selection, isolation, harvesting, cleaning, labeling, storage, and viability testing, with an emphasis on maintaining healthy, adaptable seed lines over time. Participants learn why seed diversity matters for food security, pollinator health, and ecological stability, especially in the face of environmental and economic uncertainty. Beyond technique, the class explores seed saving as an act of responsibility and continuity—protecting living knowledge, honoring past generations, and ensuring that future ones inherit seeds capable of thriving in a changing world.

Building a Small-Scale Herbal Business is a practical, reality-based class for those who want to share herbal products responsibly without burning out or overextending themselves. This class covers the essentials of operating a small herbal venture, including ethical sourcing, cost analysis, pricing, basic record-keeping, labeling considerations, scope and compliance awareness, and sustainable production methods. Participants learn how to align their offerings with their capacity, values, and lifestyle, avoiding the common traps of overproduction and underpricing. Emphasis is placed on integrity, transparency, and long-term viability—helping students build a modest, grounded herbal business that supports both personal well-being and ecological responsibility rather than exploiting either.