On The Wooded Path
About Me
I am a plant-loving enthusiast, ancestral earth living skills mentor, bio-regionally focused 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, hide tanning, studying and practicing herbal medicine, wild foraging, gardening, and living with the land. I am at home in the wild places. My greatest teachers being more than human kin and life itself, helping me to fully embrace my humanness.
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​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. My focus of learning including the studies of anthropology, fire making, naturalist skills, 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.
Accumulating thousands of hours of ‘dirt-time’, wherever my passions & curiosities take me.
I guide people through practical, tangible earth skills, while providing a space to heal and remember their innate connection with all beings - plants, animals, fungi - of the land. Our bodies remember these innate connections and tactile ways of connecting with the land. These skills and the Earth provide the reminders to connect back to our own innate 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.
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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
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Birding; avid learner of birds language and behavior through many hours of observation
Natural fiber artist; sewing (hand & machine); spinning; wool work; 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, mineral 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.
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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.
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