With nearly 20 years in the field of holistic wellness, Katya specializes in creating transformative wellness experiences for private and corporate clients that are deeply rooted in nature and ancient healing traditions. Her workshops and retreats integrate nature, herbal medicine, mindfulness and ceremonial practices inspired by indigenous traditions.
Katya offers single experiences as well as a monthly wellness + mindfulness series.
WELLNESS EXPERIENCES
NATURE IMMERSION
Guided Plant Walks & Plant ID
This a well loved offering in a nature 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 take home 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 you with an opportunity to:
- center and tune into your 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 with your body,
- enjoy a guided tea meditation / short mindfulness practice to center and realign your energy,
- learn about healing properties of each plant and its everyday uses to promote health and well-being.
This shared experience with nature and the senses will also foster a special and meaningful connection within the group. You will leave the workshop feeling centered, recharged and inspired, and will take home a bag of tea crafted during the session.
Crafting Delicious Herbal Mocktails
(1 - 1.5 hours)
Learn to make relaxing & delicious herbal mocktails full of colors, flavors and health benefits! They are fun to prepare and easy to enjoy without compromising your energy levels. Explore healing properties of the plants included in these magical blends.
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 each oil's 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 practice can be used on a daily basis for centering and restoring your energy.
WELLNESS EDUCATION
Building Immunity
(1 - 1.5 hours)
We will focus on how to build long-term immunity naturally: 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 immune remedies that can me made 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 share 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 conclude our workshop with a a short centering and grounding practice that will help us manage stress in a positive way.
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 spirit essence and call on 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 by participants 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 suffering into strength, wisdom and healing.
Flower & Sound "Limpia" Ritual
(Cleansing of the Aura)
"Limpia" in Spanish means cleansing. This practice comes from the 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.
HOLISTIC HERBAL WELLNESS CONSULTS
1:1 holistic herbal wellness consultations 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 call or a planning session please contact Katya at: katya@warmicitaherbals.com