Lighting the candle.
Healer HiveLighting the candle.
In person, Workshop
$40
Starting at
Workshop
Format
Big Sur
Where
Woven Herbs foraging hikes are much more than foraging. They are also about practicing attention. When we slow down and really notice the plants — their textures, smells, the insects around them — our relationship with the land deepens. As we walk, I’ll point out a few plants that are edible, medicinal, or ecologically important. If we harvest anything, we’ll do it gently and respectfully (we will also learn about sustainable and legal foraging guidelines). A simple guideline is to only harvest from abundant patches and take a small amount, leaving plenty for wildlife, the plant itself, and the next people who come through. Partway through the walk we’ll pause for a quiet plant sit, where everyone will spend a little time observing a plant closely and journaling. So this isn’t a fast hike — it’s more of a wandering and noticing. We are here to learn to recognize our native wild medicines, so that way we can feel connected to and safe in the land that we live amongst.
I am Katie Rose. I learned early that the land speaks in stones, feathers, leaves, and soil—if you take the time to listen. Childhood curiosity became devotion, and devotion became study: UC Berkeley, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, GUMP Research Station in French Polynesia, Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galápagos, the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research in Germany. Across continents, I witnessed the subtle conversations between humans and the earth—the pulse of life beneath our feet, the wisdom that flows through water, wind, roots, and wings. I returned home to Big Sur, to the place that first shaped me, to weave science, ancestral knowing, and lived experience into Woven Herbs, an education tea business that weaves our wild native medicines into healing teas, helping my community learn to recognize that medicine grows abundantly and wildly, and is here for us, always. Here at Woven, healing is a remembering. Remembering the rhythms of our bodies, the medicine of plants, bees, and minerals, the quiet intelligence that whispers beneath habit, depletion, and forgetting. With Woven Herbs, I work with plants—herbalism, foraging, tea ceremonies, herbal astrology readings, forest bathing, wilderness therapy, guided foraging hikes—learning their language, their medicine, their ethics of reciprocity. Independently, I work with bees—apitherapy, hive stewardship, bee medicine, dreaming with the bees—receiving their teaching of harmony, vigilance, devotion, and reciprocity. I work with cycles—new moon and full moon ceremonies, women’s circles, menstrual cycle coaching, womb wisdom tea blends, seasonal rituals to honor equinoxes and solstices—inviting the body to remember its innate rhythm and connection to the unseen forces. I work with reflection and guidance—dream therapy, life and health coaching, nature therapy—holding space for insight, integration, and gentle transformation. I witness the softening of chronic stress, the restoration of sleep and digestion, the release of dependence, the return of energy and clarity. Healing emerges as relationship: to self, to land, to breath, to the threads that connect us all. It is an honor to hold ceremonial space within Healer Hive, to walk alongside those who seek to root back into vitality, rhythm, and belonging, and to remember, together, that medicine is all around us, alive, and generous.
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