With nearly 20 years in the field of holistic wellness, we specialize in creating transformative wellness experiences for private and corporate clients that are deeply rooted in nature and ancient healing traditions. Our retreats and experiences integrate herbal medicine, mindfulness practices, sound healing, and ceremonial rituals inspired by indigenous traditions.
We offer single experiences as well as a monthly wellness + mindfulness series that promote well-being and deepen relationships.
WELLNESS EXPERIENCES
NATURE IMMERSION
Guided Plant Walks & Plant ID
This a well loved offering in a retreat setting where we ID medicinal plants, flower and trees, and wild harvest some of the botanicals to make an herbal remedy of choice.
Spring/Summer Pesto Crafting
Wild harvest medicinal botanicals like ramps, dandelion, chickweed, watercress, wild mustard, cleavers, or use garden plants to craft a delicious, spicy and highly medicinal pesto made of fresh herbs bursting with color and flavor and packed with precious minerals and nutrients. You will leave our session with a jar of fresh pesto that you can use to dress any of your dishes or enjoy on a toast.
HANDS-ON HERBAL REMEDY CRAFTING WORKSHOPS
Herbal Tea Making + Mindfulness
(1-1.5 hours)
This highly experiential, interactive and collaborative workshop will provide your group with an opportunity to:
- center and tune into their senses and their energetic needs,
- develop and craft a balanced (energizing/calming) herbal tea blend,
- make the actual infusion and enjoy a cup of this special herbal medicine while noting how it resonates inside,
- enjoy a guided tea meditation / short mindfulness practice to center and realign the energy,
- learn about healing properties of each plant and its everyday uses to foster health and well-being.
This shared experience with nature and senses will allow for a special and meaningful connection between your group members. They will leave the workshop feeling centered, recharged and inspired, and will take home a bag of tea they crafted during the session.
Crafting Delicious and Healthful Mocktails
(1 hr)
Learn to make relaxing, state changing, delicious herbal mocktails full of colors, flavors and health benefits! They are fun to make and easy to enjoy without compromising your energy levels. Learn about healing benefits of the plants used to craft the mocktails.
Crafting Your Signature Botanical Perfume
(1-1.5 hours)
This workshop offers a unique sensory experience of testing some of the finest, therapeutic grade essential oils that will delight your senses, bring calm and restore your energy. You will learn about the oils’ healing energetics and uses.
You will also create and name your own signature essential oils roll-on with the essential oils of your choice - a true custom made and personalized scent that will bring you back into a space of wellness, sharing and connection, every time you use it!
We will close the workshop with a short grounding meditation using the signature essential oils blends developed by the participants. This tool can be used on a daily basis for centering and restoring the energy.
WELLNESS EDUCATION
Building Immunity
(1-1.5 hours)
We will focus on building long-term immunity naturally, learning how to build it up with foods, spices, teas, herbal formulas, essential oils, and key supplements.
We will also make fresh ginger shots to enjoy during the workshop, and craft an immune tonic herbal tea to taste in class and to take home.
Other remedies we could make in subsequent sessions include: essential oil roll-ons for immune protection, fire cider, elderberry syrup, infused honeys, cough syrup.
Managing Stress & Restoring Energy
(1-1.5 hours)
In this session you will learn how to manage stress and restore energy naturally. We will focus on important classes of herbs like adaptogens for supporting and nourishing the adrenals, and nervines for modulating and restoring the nervous system.
We will also cover the essential oils and key supplements that promote healthy response to stress.
During this workshop we will experience a nourishing, calming tincture, a restorative herbal tea, and a centering blend of essential oils. Each participant will go home with an herbal remedy of their choice.
We will also share a short practice that help manage stress in a positive way. We will conclude our workshop with a centering and grounding meditation, while using a blend of essential oils.
Digestive Health
(1-1.5 hours)
Learn how to improve various aspects of digestive health with herbal remedies.
Experience the healing energetics of digestive bitters, learn about the plants in this most important digestive formula, and understand how they help with liver and gall bladder health, as well as relieve gas, bloating, inflammation and GERD.
Create a fragrant, pungent and delicious carminative digestive tea and take a bag of this healing tea home with you!
Seasonal Health
(1-1.5 hours)
Learn about the basics of living in harmony with the seasons and using herbs and diet to promote health and wellness in synch with nature cycles.
We will cover energetics of every season and the most important foods and herbal remedies to use during each season to nurture your health and vitality.
CEREMONIAL PRACTICES
inspired by the indigenous traditions of the Peruvian Andes and the Amazon:
"Despacho" Gratitude & Manifestation Ceremony
"Despacho" means "offering" in Quechua, an indigenous language of the Andes. It is a sacred ritual of gratitude, healing and manifestation inspired by the ancient wisdom of the Q'eros, the indigenous people of high Andes.
Together, we’ll journey to align with our spiritual essence and embody the vibration of gratitude - one of the most powerful forces of transformation on Earth. From this space of harmony and presence we will flow into creating a Despacho, colorful mandala made of flowers, herbs, shells, grains and other nature elements where each element is placed intentionally as an act of gratitude, prayer and manifestation.
In the words of the Q’ero Elder Don Manuel Q’espi, “We seek, through the Despacho ceremony, to bridge the ordinary and non-ordinary realms; to establish new patterns of relationship and possibility.”
Andean Fire Ceremony
is a ritual of letting go and releasing of what no longer serves us into the sacred flame, in order to transmute our blocks and limitations into strength, wisdom and healing.
Flower & Sound "Limpia" Ritual
(Cleansing of the Aura)
"Limpia" in Spanish means cleansing. This practice comes from the plant medicine healing traditions of the Amazonian rainforest, and focuses on purifying the body, the mind and the spirit of negativity, anxiety, past trauma, emotional grudges and stuck energies, and strengthening the auric field. We will use guided meditation, purifying herbs, flowers and flower essences, as well as sacred sound for this calming and fragrant reset of your vital energy.
IN HOUSE HEALTH & WELLNESS CONSULTS
1:1 herbal consults are available by zoom or in person for more personalized wellness support. More about Katya's private sessions HERE.
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For a discovery or a planning session please contact Katya at: katya@warmicitaherbals.com