Here is a list of my upcoming classes and events ☼
Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center ☼ Wild Spruce Medicine Making
Join Herbalist and Wellness Educator Frances O’Halloran for an afternoon of Sitka spruce exploration at Yakona Nature Preserve. In this journey, expect to be immersed in the beauty of ancient evergreen trees, specifically the Picea sitchensis/Sitka spruce. Spruce is one of the predominant evergreens on the coast and offers heart-expanding beauty and deep medicine. Our exploration begins with a short spruce meditation, followed by sampling a “bouquet” of spruce remedies, ethically harvesting the spruce boughs, and crafting a fresh spruce remedy of your choice. Recipes and suggestions will be shared. As a bonus, Rena Olson, Yakona’s Art & Engagement Manager, will lead a captivating discovery walk, offering insights into the area’s dominant coniferous trees and the rich history of Yakona.
WED., OCT. 9 | 1-4PM | FREE
YAKONA NATURE PRESERVE, SOUTH BEACH
REGISTER AT YAKONAOREGON.ORG/EVENTS
Food as Medicine
Join Herbalist + Wellness Educator Frances O’Halloran in this class that not only offers the joy of communally crafting herbal remedies, yet also delves into understanding how food and herbs influence our bodily systems. Discover the profound connection between plants we consider food and the world of folk herbalism. In this hands-on experience we will craft traditional folk remedies that can nourish and support us through the winter season. Each participant will go home with Herbal Remedies that we co-create. Recipes + Samples included.
TUES., OCT 29 ~ Oregon Coast Community College
5:30-7:30PM | $30 ~
$25 MATERIALS FEE
NEWPORT
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Crafting Topical Herbal Holiday Gifts
Come join Herbalist and Botanical Artisan Frances O’Halloran in this class that will help you make super lovely holiday gifts. Topical botanical preparations provide profound healing properties and are delightful for soothing skin irritations, wounds, dry skin and a myriad of other skin challenges. In this hands-on class we will learn how to create herbal infused body and massage oils, herbal balms, and a luscious face and hand cream. How to choose which healing herbs to utilize will be discussed, as well as how to package and label your potent creations for visual appeal. Each participant will go home with their own herbal-infused oil, and a tin of our co-created cream. Recipes and samples included.
TUES., DEC. 3 ~
Oregon Coast Community College
2-4PM | $30
$25 MATERIALS FEE
NEWPORT
Register Here
while creating a deep sense of relaxation and rejuvenation in the body. Asanas are practiced in a completely receptive way. Props such as bolsters and blankets are used to support you in order to bring the nervous system to rest and into it’s natural state of healing. Herbal teas, tinctures, and oils are utilized within the practice to support and nourish you. My goal is to help open your heart to the transformational capacity of plants, and to nourish you in a complete heart centered and healing manner. Nothing scheduled at this time~
If we are anything, we are spirit. So much of what we do, and how we cycle our energy, dulls our spirit, steals from our spirit, confuses it, contaminates it. But within love, our spirit shines. It is what saves us, takes care of us. No matter how shattered, confused or cloaked in fear, whatever was, is, or will be of value, will attach to our spirit~ will live through it. A mind can unravel, intellectually die. A heart can be broken, harden and withdraw. A body can deteriorate, leaving ashes and bone. Yet as the spirit is strong, all that can be hurt can recover, and all that we know as worthy lives on.