On The
Wooded Path
On the Wooded Path is an intentional, supportive and connected space for us to gather so that you can rediscover your innate wisdom within, through your connection to the Earth. Building profound relationships with all of creation forms the container through which transformation and healing occur. Through utilizing practical, ancestral, Earth-based skills that invoke a deep heart connection, we engage in programs, one-on-one mentorship, & individualized healing work to feed your yearning to belong.
Humility, reverence, community, passion, and awe, fuel my work and are the pillars to help each of us return home to ourselves. The framework is to not only to see nature through the resources it provides, and rather to see ourselves as a part of an interconnected ecosystem, with use of resources as a doorway into awe.
Do you feel the call from within to rekindle your severed connection with the Earth? To slow down enough to feel the tree buds emerging in spring, or watch a woodpecker in search of food, or sink in rhythm to your own heartbeat, the Earth's heartbeat. Skills?
If so, then welcome you have landed in the right place.
About Me
I am a plant-loving enthusiast, ancestral earth living skills mentor, herbalist, fiber artist, and earth-centered somatic healing practitioner. These days I spend much of my time mentoring youth, creating with animal and plant fibers, studying and practicing herbal medicine, wild foraging, gardening, and living with the land. I am at home in the wild places with my greatest teachers being more than human kin and life itself, as I fully embrace my humanness,.
From a young age, I felt the pull back to revitalizing ancient land stewardship skills in the modern day. For more than a decade, I have devoted myself to earth-centered living, being a part of the earth's seasonal rhythms, and healing through regenerative living and cyclical harvests. I have learned with and from many different herbalists, earth living skills mentors, naturalists, bodyworkers and healers through in depth studies in anthropology, wild basketry, hide tanning, permaculture, animal and plant fiber arts, botany, shamanic healing, western herbalism, full spectrum doula support, birth work, folk traditional medicine, plant spirit medicine, body literacy, and accumulating thousands of hours of ‘dirt-time’.
I guide people through practicing tangible earth skills, while providing a safe container to heal and remember their innate connection with the beings - plants, animals, fungi - of the land, and their own inner wisdom. My embodied connection with the land comes through facilitating workshops and working with people one-on-one. My work in the world is woven together with an additional layer of song, ritual, ceremony, and a deep reverence for the natural world.
Practiced Earth Skills
Starting and tending fire in varying weather conditions, friction fire - crafting friction kits off the landscape, cooking on the fire through modern and olde earthen cooking techniques
Wild foraging; plant, tree, and fungi identification for food and medicine
Landscape & wildlife tracking, reading the land through a historical lens and spending many hours studying wildlife track & sign
Birding; avid learner of birds language and behavior through many hours of observation
Natural fibers artist - ; sewing (hand & machine); spinning; wool working; natural dying, weaving, plant fibers for rope and textiles
Hide tanning the slow and olde way - rooted in reverence for life; skinning & processing animals, smoke & brain (or other fat emulsifier tanning), bark tanning
Wild Basketry with foraged and cultivated plant fibers. Using inner and outer bark, black & white ash wood splints, grasses, pine needles, vines, willow, and roots.
Songs and simple ritual tie all these practices together. I'm rooted as a song catcher and preserve songs orally through dedicated practice and acknowledgement of the musicians.
