Rooted Intuition: a herbalism and vegan cooking journey

Whether you’re seeking to connect with the spirit of plants, deepen your knowledge of herbal medicine, elevate your plant-based cooking or reclaim skills for food resilience and sovereignty – this retreat is like no other and offers empowerment by learning skills that allow people to take health, wellbeing and food back in your own hands. It is designed to help you ground more deeply into your own intuitive knowing and wisdom.

Wild plants are hardy, resilient, strong. No matter how weather conditions change, their presence can be counted upon as they do not depend on particular weather in order to thrive. This is the meaning of being Wild, not depending on anything to thrive. What amazing guides! We all have hardiness, strength and resilience within us and weeds are great teachers when we have forgotten and need some support to dust off old patterns that keep us stuck.

Medicinal weeds are loaded with vitamins and minerals that our bodies need. They stimulate or restore organs or pathways when there is a disfunction, but they never do the work for the body which would lead to atrophy. So they empower the body to get itself back into balance. They also have a lot to teach us about how to live our lives which is why they feature heavily in myth and folkore.

Is This Retreat for You?

This journey is for you if you have felt a yearning to connect with plants growing around you, get to know them on a personal level, to get to know yourself on a deeper level, learn ancient and modern medicine-making practices and learn vegan cooking techniques through hands-on practice.

It is also for you if you’re interested in eating the healthiest food possible, as weeds give us this gift.

It is especially suited for those who:

Feel called to reconnect with wild plants and ancestral wisdom

Wish to deepen their understanding of food as medicine

Want to cook with more confidence, guided by intuition

Are seeking new ways to express their authentic creativity

Wish to learn how to forage, harvest, and prepare locally growing weeds in order to regain soveregnity

No prior experience is needed, only curiosity and an open heart.

This Is Not For You If:

If you’re not interested in expressing your unique creativity

If you’re not interested in getting to know yourself deeper

If you’re not into vegan food

If you’re not interested in connecting with weeds

If you’re not into food sovereignity and self sufficiency

What Makes This Journey Unique?

This offering weaves together medical herbalism, plant spirit wisdom, and plant-based culinary arts.

Guided by a clinical herbalist and vegan chef this journey bridges:

Ancient herbal knowledge and folk wisdom

Learn sustainable, responsible foraging that gives back to the earth

Vegan cooking classes that cover everything from staples, comfort food, fasting and detox food, fermenting, raw vegan, gluten-free bread and sourdough

Practices to express one’s creativity and soul in food

The mythic and energetic language of plants

Practices to enhance intuition and get messages directly from weeds

Reclaim skills for food resilience and sovereignty

Here, plants are not seen as “remedies” that fix us, but as allies—tuning forks that help the body remember its own intelligence and return to balance.