Welcoming the parts of ourselves we've learned to hide.

What if our shadows hold gifts as well as wounds? Through guided exploration, playful inquiry, and compassionate witnessing, we'll meet the disowned, rejected, and unseen aspects of ourselves—not to fix them, but to reclaim more of our wholeness, vitality, and freedom.

A dive into the nervous system, how it works, herbs to use for support during stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression; preparations and application.  I hope participants will know which herbs are best to use for support to bring balance, calm, and nourishment to the nervous system and a good idea how it works and affects the human body

This workshop / class is designed to explore the body as a whole as well as its edges in expression, play and builds vitality that fuels our ability to express their voices, play and needs. We will use Hatha, Kundalini, Vocal Activating Techniques, Chi Building and experience as a life-long dancer

Learn to connect with wild herbs by using your intuition through your senses on a wild herbal forage with botanist and herbalist April Punsalan. On this guided plant walk, you will be guided to connect with the mosses to the towering trees in the Southern Appalachian region. As a former botanist for Nantahala National Forest and herbalist of the Asheville area, April will invite you to connect with the ancient plant allies of the Southern Appalachian region, in hopes that you can befriend them for many moons to come. Rather than memorizing a bunch of plant names, we will open the container in sacred reciprocity to receive from the plants their medicine and teachings. You will connect with mosses, ferns, smell, listen, feel, and sense which ally is calling you home to yourself. 

How the body holds our stories (and our ancestors’ stories), how our nervous system manages our fascia’s aliveness, and what we can do to claim our embodied sovereignty.

I combine Akashic records and osteopathic manual therapy in my practice every day. I hope that participants will receive the experience a new paradigm: how to bring their body to a receptive empowered place, physically and psychically, with clear techniques, rituals, stretches, and massages, to hold the truest story of their existence.

In this class, we will be looking at what herbs go great in vinegar, different ways to preserve herbs in vinegar and how to incorporate them into your everyday cooking and rituals. Fire ciders, shrubs, oxymels, switchels and so much more will be featured. We will also discuss making your own vinegar at home. Handouts and class gifts will be shared as well as Sister of Mother Earth's FREE EBOOK, The Magick of Preserving and Using Vinegar Through the Growing Season, which is full of recipes, tips and real life information on preserving and using more vinegar in your life!

As an elder at 75, I would love to share a little with the women about my archetypal initiatory journey through sexuality, kundalini rising, multidimensional relationships with the goddess realm, how we are in partnership with various goddesses, and our self-similar wisdom with Mother Earth. Hopefully supporting the women to see their own version of the journey of the divine feminine, from someone who came before them and helped pave the way for them to take the journey to the next level of evolution.

"What types of plants or beings can you grow under the canopy when you don't want to clear trees to grow something?

What types of support systems are available to people who would like to do Forest farming projects? I hope to expand people's horizons on what is feasible and accessible when they want to steward land that is not a wide open field, to work with nature and include species that they would like to see growing with what is already there. 

I will teach participants about the ancestral healing traditions of Gullah Geechee women, including the use of herbs, prayer, storytelling, intuition, community care, and cultural practices passed down through generations. Participants will learn how Gullah women served as healers, midwives, herbalists, and keepers of wisdom, and how these traditions continue to influence wellness and self-care today.

This workshop explores the radical potential of living in alignment with your menstrual cycle and embracing a deep connection to our womb as an inner compass. Oppression operates by separating us from the wisdom of our bodies — and reclaiming that connection is an act of true sovereignty that ripples into the collective changing of the tides. Through the lens of inner seasons, herbalism & fertility awareness, we'll map the four phases of the cycle, learning to recognize the distinct physical, emotional, and creative energies each one carries. Participants will receive practical tools for cycle tracking & supporting troublesome menstrual symptoms, an innerstanding how our shifting seasons shape our inner landscape, and a framework for using the menstrual cycle as a compass for decision-making, creativity, and self-trust. This workshop is an invitation to come home to yourself. This offering is both about herbalism and women's empowerment.

In this workshop, we will provide an overview of the power of flowers as subtle, potent allies that can heal, bring insight, and transform the stories we carry. One of these stories is that we cannot remember what we need to remember. This is often due to the colonization, white supremacy and patriarchal suppression that have cut us off from our cultural/indigenous identity. In this workshop, we will explore key Flower Essences and how, through their lens, they can aid us in remembering our ancestral blessings and burdens, our connection to the land, our voice and our power. 

A summary of my book Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy and Our Matriarchal Origins. The story of how the matriarchal people lived before patriarchy, how patriarchy arose during the late Neolithic, how it spread, and how it was deepened by lawmakers, through the present day.

Movement and Dance for Awakening Our Connection to Mother Earth