Workshops
Learn how to create and make medicine with the healing plants that surround you…
If you would like to book a workshop for your group or organization, please contact me. Workshops can be tailor made to your needs and interests and are also available in French and German.
Fall and Winter Workshop Schedule 2024-2025
We have several fun, cozy, and deeply nourishing medicine making workshops coming up this fall and winter season!
These workshops give us all the opportunity to learn about plants and their medicinal properties, to connect with the plants and discover them with our body and senses, and to make medicine together in a safe and relaxing space.
Discover plants as wise and healing elders. Learn how to make and use herbal medicines, so you can apply that knowledge at home, and take your own preparations back home with you or gift them to someone you love 🙂 Share stories and experiences with a circle of like-minded human beings…
All workshops will take place at the Wildwood Medicinal Herb Farm in Haines Junction on Saturday afternoons from 2-5pm.
The cost per workshop is $85 (GST incl.) and includes all supplies and organic/homegrown/wildcrafted ingredients for the medicine making, as well as herbal refreshments and a bonus recipe card. Sign up for all 4 workshops for $320 ($80 per workshop).
To sign up or for more information, send me an email at sylvie@wildwoodspirit.ca or use the contact form.
Fire Cider Making – Saturday, October 19 2024 from 2-5pm
Join me for a cozy fall time workshop and learn how to make this tasty folk medicine. Fire cider is an age-old winter time tonic used to support the immune system and help ward off colds and flus.
You will learn about the health benefits of each ingredient used, how to make and use fire cider, and you will get to concoct your own in a 500ml jar to take home with you. This will be a cozy workshop to unwind at the end of a busy week and learn in a relaxed atmosphere.
Herbal Tea Blend Making – Saturday, November 9 2024 from 2-5pm
Let’s prepare some delicious tea blends together to gift to loved ones or ourselves for Solstice Season! Possibilities are truly endless when it comes to blending herbs and something can be created for everyone’s tastes and needs.
We will explore and experience multiple herbs with our senses and by taking the time to listen to our bodies. Then we’ll the properties of the herbs and go over some general tea blending guidelines before creating our very own blends. You will get to make two blends for you take home in loose leaf tea bags (approx. one and half cup of herbs per bag). As usual, this will be an easy going workshop, to help us unwind from the week and find some calm before the Holiday Season.
Heart Healing Glycerite Making – Saturday, February 8 2025 from 2-5pm
Join me for a cozy wintertime workshop and learn how to make herbal glycerites for the Heart (physical, emotional, and energetic). Glycerites are a fun, delicious and comforting way to receive the medicine of plants that is particularly suited for the Heart.
You will get to try five different glycerites and in doing so, learn directly from the plants and your body. We will discuss the medicinal properties of the five herbs and considerations for the well being of the physical, emotional, and energetic Heart. Then, we’ll go over preparing herbal glycerites with dried and fresh plant material. And finally, you will concoct your own two herbal glycerites based on what you learned and feel inspired to create.
You will learn about the health benefits of each ingredient used, how to make and use glycerites, and you will get to concoct two of your own in 250ml jars to take home with you. This will be a slow workshop to unwind at the end of a busy week and learn in a relaxed atmosphere.
Note for those who attended the glycerite making workshop in 2024: we will be using different herbs this time around!
Tincture Making for the Nervous System – Saturday, March 22 2025 from 2-5pm
Come on out for this last workshop of the fall-winter season to learn how to make herbal tinctures to support the nervous system. Whether you are needing a herb that stimulates, increases focus, eases stress, or helps with sleep, the plant world has so much to offer us!
We will take the time to feel into how herbs can affect our nervous systems and support us in our daily lives. We’ll also discuss the medicinal properties of the herbs used for the workshop and some general considerations and practices for nervous system health. And finally, we’ll create herbal tinctures together, go over how to use them, and you will get to take two 250ml jars with your own tinctures home with you.
Past Workshops
Glycerite Making Workshop 2024
Join me for a cozy wintertime workshop and learn how to make herbal glycerites for the Heart (physical, emotional, and energetic). Glycerites are a fun, delicious and comforting way to receive the medicine of plants that is particularly suited for the Heart.
You will get to try five different glycerites and in doing so, learn directly from the plants and your body. We will discuss the medicinal properties of the five herbs and considerations for the well being of the physical, emotional, and energetic Heart. Then, we’ll go over preparing herbal glycerites with dried and fresh plant material. And finally, you will concoct your own two herbal glycerites based on what you learned and feel inspired to create.
Saturday February 17th, 2024 from 2pm to 5pm at the Wildwood Medicinal Herb Farm in Haines Junction.
You will learn about the health benefits of each ingredient used, how to make and use glycerites, and you will get to concoct two of your own to take home with you. This will be a slow workshop to unwind at the end of a busy week and learn in a relaxed atmosphere.
Fire Cider Making Workshop 2023
Join me for a cozy fall time workshop and learn how to make this tasty folk medicine. Fire cider is an age-old winter time tonic used to support the immune system and help ward off colds and flus.
You will learn about the health benefits of each ingredient used, how to make and use fire cider, and you will get to concoct your own to take home with you. This will be a cozy workshop to unwind at the end of a busy week and learn in a relaxed atmosphere.
Saturday November 4th, 2023 from 2pm to 5pm at the Wildwood Medicinal Herb Farm in Haines Junction.
Paint and Plant Party 2023
Come on out to the Wildwood Medicinal Herb Farm for this next workshop that combines art and medicinal plants.
Artist Maya Rosenberg will lead a watercolor painting workshop plein air with the inspiring backdrop of the Kluane Mountains and Sylvie will be taking you on a plant walk and garden tour to learn about wild and garden medicinals. There will also be some tasty treats and refreshments made with ingredients grown on the farm.
Saturday August 5th, 2023 from 1pm to 5pm at the Wildwood Medicinal Herb Farm in Haines Junction.
