Classes Session 3: September 4-7, 2026
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After getting out of your vehicles, come and enjoy the beautiful welcome from the amazing green beings who open their home to us. Learn a bit of their magical attributes which they so sweetly offer us. Ground yourself in the peace and beauty of Black Oak Ranch.
Come visit our plant elders and experience their habitat and companion choices. We will discuss their preferences and needs. We'll also discuss their many gifts, and how sometimes their habitat makes them not appropriate for medicine making.
Join Copperwoman in singing songs that nourish feelings of closeness and unity, and assist in raising vibration, creating a fertile ground for prayer and healing. Bask in the Divine Silence that fills the space between songs.
Copperwoman "catches" songs that emerge out of the energy and common experiences of our growing beings. They inspire us with wisdom and insights and rise from a place of core connection. The songs are easy to learn and nurture our feelings of being earth family. “Open your heart, let your voice come through, just the way you do it, nothing to compare to.” Music IS the Medicine! A safe place to sing for anyone!
We will sing Sunday morning in the kitchen/coffee cart area. Let's fill the food with love and good vibrations and support the kitchen volunteers who just might join in.
Cronies
Do you have an advanced care directive that will guide loved ones and medical staff in knowing your desires should you not be able to speak for yourself? If not, this class will give you important information needed to make informed decisions about how you want to be treated at the end of life. We will show you tools that are available to make your wishes clear as well as giving thought to what you want to have happen after you die. We Crones will be there to offer support to enable you to create documents that reflect your desires, values and wishes. We will share with you the California Advanced Health Care directive and the Five Wishes forms as a template to create your personal document.
The traditional Death Café’s are held all over the world. They give participants an opportunity to come together in a safe circle of sisters to openly talk about death. This format increases awareness about death in order to help folks make the most of the life they have left.
The Symposium Death Café is not a class per-se, it is a conversation. We can ask questions, find answers, share stories, explore fears and celebrate knowledge with love!
An introduction to hands-on healing through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). We will share the basics of TCM and practical techniques such as qigong-based energy work, acupressure, and gua sha.
We will learn how touch and intention can support regulation of the nervous system, relieve tension, and restore balance in the body. The class includes guided partner practice and live demonstrations, with Erin offering treatments for up to six participants to illustrate techniques in real time.
This workshop is ideal for anyone curious about embodied healing practices, whether for personal wellness, community care, or as a complement to an existing healing practice.
This interactive class reviews the many forms of plant extracts and scent building techniques. Participants would explore the plant kingdom through scent, including an overview of aromatherapy, cultural, and spiritual traditions. This would be tempered with an understanding of the different types of plant extracts, as well as hazardous plants and how to research materials for safety. Nature is beautiful, but it can hurt you if not approached with respect--even in perfumery.
This is a communal ritual rooted in sacred song, supported by meditation and simple ceremony. Together, we sing with the Earth—offering our voices as vibration, prayer, and connection. Everything in the natural world communicates through vibration. The Earth speaks through wind, water, stone, and rhythm. In this circle, we remember the human voice as a living instrument—one of the oldest ways we have related to the land. When we sing with intention, our voices carry into the soil, into our bodies, and into the wider web of life. Our bodies and the Earth share the same elements. What we carry has long been held by the Earth, and we are invited into a reciprocal relationship of care. This is a space of listening and sounding, where voices rise in communion with the living Earth.
Inspired by Lectio Divina, this experiential circle invites participants into a living dialogue with plants and trees. Through a simple rhythm of listening, sharing, and listening again, we explore the wisdom of the plant world alongside our own inner knowing. We begin with grounding and gentle guidance, then move into direct relationship with a plant or tree. Participants are invited to notice what is felt, sensed, or received—without expectation or interpretation. In Earth Divina, we practice: listen… notice… share… listen again… This unfolding rhythm deepens awareness through both personal experience and collective reflection. Plants are not only resources, but living teachers and companions. This practice supports a deeper sense of connection, presence, and belonging within the more-than-human world.
If you are a lover of plants, and feel a deep connection with nature, you have no doubt stumbled upon a plant that gave you a sense of remembrance. Or maybe you felt the plant speak to you. In this class, we’ll gain insight on ways to connect with plants through an intuitive and natural way - the way of knowing. In this class, we will explore the ways in which plants can, and do, communicate, and how to deepen that intuitive connection.
The heart is one of the most, if not the most, vital organ in our bodies. In this class we will gain knowledge on herbal plant allies that will help in opening and strengthening the heart. Metaphorically and physically. Join us as we are also guided in internal open heart exercises.
The diet of dogs, cats and livestock is crucial to their health. Learn how the glyphosate in commercial kibble, grains and legumes affects your furry companions. Homemade balanced meals and an organic diet keep dogs and cats healthy, promotes gut flora and protects soil organisms. Keep your garden, compost and soil healthy by feeding organically grown feed. Learn how to create an affordable organic pet food. Prevent disease and increase longevity with a foundation of superior nutrition for your pets.
Botanical Medicine along with a natural and organic diet can address many health challenges of our four legged companions. Fresh herbs, salves, tinctures and poultices can aid healing and prevent more serious diseases. Parasite prevention, skin and hair problems, and digestive issues will be discussed.
Learn how to make Nourishing Herbal Infusions. This simple herbal method is the best way to receive vitamins and minerals from our plant allies. Learn how to make them and why drinking them daily has such a profound effect on our health long-term. We will sample infusions from several tonifying herbs and learn how to prepare the infusions.
From menarche to menopause women traverse many changes unique to our physiology. With our monthly blood, to pregnancy & postpartum, through our Queen years & beyond to Crone we encounter changes in our brain, nervous system & hormonal equilibriums. Understanding the shifts in dominant elements from the ayurvedic perspective can help us navigate these changes.
This is a fun class to learn and explore all the how’s and why’s of V-Steaming, bring all your questions and curiosities! We’ll cover the history of this lovely self-care practice that can be found all over the world. We will move through the Five Blood Mysteries of Woman and the herbs to support each phase with vaginal steaming.
This two part immersive class introduces the traditional healing arts of cupping and moxibustion. We will learn the foundational principles behind these therapies, including their roots in East Asian medicine, and how they support circulation, reduce pain, and restore balance in the body.
Through hands-on practice, we’ll gain confidence in various cupping techniques (stationary, moving, and fire cupping) as well as the safe and effective use of moxa. Emphasis will be placed on proper application, contraindications, and intuitive touch. This class is ideal for practitioners and beginners alike who wish to deepen their healing skills and connect with time-honored methods of care.
Reconnect with the natural world through the creative practice of soap making. In this hands-on class, we'll learn how to transform a soap base into beautiful, nourishing bars using botanicals, clays, natural colorants, dried flowers, and essential oils. As we create together, we'll honor the gifts of earth and water—the elements that sustain life and inspire this timeless craft.
Designed for beginners and experienced makers alike, this class encourages creativity, intention, and appreciation for the materials we use. We'll explore simple techniques for blending scents, incorporating herbs, and designing soaps that are as meaningful as they are practical. Whether we're making gifts, starting a new hobby, or simply seeking a creative pause in our day, we'll leave with handcrafted soaps, foundational skills, and a deeper connection to the art of mindful, nature-inspired soap-making.
Learn traditional drumming and dances from Ghana, West Africa.
The Apiaceae plant family is steeped in human history for its nutritious food, powerful medicines, and numerous toxic members. We have been watching the deadly Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum spread as an invasive plant across the West Coast. A plant commonly confused with Queen Anne’s Lace or Carrot greens when it's young. This class will deepen your relationship with the Carrot Parsley family, and your sense of awareness.
In the field, we use botany to feel confident about our identification, but the Apiaceae requires more than flowers to identify. Mature seeds are often needed to see stylopodium’s, oil glands, and other fine details needing magnification to fully appreciate. We will use our hand lens to look at specifics and turn our botanical eyes onto the Apiaceae and discuss identification, uses, and folklore.
Come join us for an evening under the late spring constellations. Guided by a green laser wand, you’ll learn to find your way around the night sky and the names of the stars and constellations, while hearing folklore from different times and cultures. We’ll meet the bright shining stars of the Twins, the Lion, Virgo, the Scorpion, and more… You will also be dosed with Essence Elixirs!
Have you ever wondered why Tulsi is referred to as "Holy Basil?" In many Hindu traditions, Tulsi is revered for much more than her medicinal qualities. This class will introduce us to the spiritual practices of Tulsi through ancient folklore. We will hear the story of the powerful goddess who became a plant, learn practices of Tulsi worship, discuss the different varieties of Tulsi and which of these are used for worship and medicine. If you are one of the many herbalists who have fallen in love with Tulsi, this class is for you! Please attend class with curiosity and respect of spiritual traditions.
Crones
Crones, come share lunch with other Wise Crones. We will discuss loving life after menopause, finding joy, appreciation, and health in our Crone years. We will also discuss our part in the Maiden’s Rites of Passage Ceremony and our own Crone’s Honoring Ritual.
This is time to reflect and share our experiences of Cronehood and our love for our Wise Crone ways and bodies. Past menopause and into memorypause, we will tell our stories. A time to make a ritual Crone Broom will follow.
Join us for a quiet honoring of the loss of an unborn child through miscarriage or abortion.
Young Women ages 12-21
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Welcome maidens, to the Circle of Women! Join us in celebrating the beauty and strength of this phase of your life, the time of your bloods. We will explore ideas and feelings, hear stories, make things to care for ourselves and prepare for the Maiden’s Rites of Passage Ceremony to be held Sunday evening at 6:30 p.m. Any young woman who would like to go through the Maiden Ceremony must attend this class.
Mid Kids ages 7-11
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Early Morning Classes
Join Angie for morning yoga aimed towards connecting us to our breath, our core, our limbs, and our spirit. Emphasis will be placed on the breath’s ability to change our shape from within, creating a gradual invitation for the subtle body to speak. Come as you are. Bring a yoga mat or blanket.
Wear loose clothes and bring a yoga mat if you have one.
The ancient practice of Vipassana, or Insight, meditation is one of observing—and coming into balance with—life as it is. This technique results in a foundational restructuring of the mind, by learning to perceive subtle and profound expressions of natural law (universal truth) through one’s own direct experience.
Long-term practitioners report:
Relief from destructive mental habit patterns
A general sense of happiness and well-being.
Release from addiction.
Greater confidence
Higher productive capacity
A greater understanding of one’s own path and purpose
Developing mental concentration through observation of breath related sensation
Expanding practice by observing sensation throughout the body
loving compassion meditation
We will do movements for deep medical healing- using sounds, images, emotions and movements to get to know the personality of each organ system for deep healing.
Intensives
1. Lymphatic Breast Health ~ DeAnna Batdorff
2. Open Hand Healing ~ Touch & Energy Work in Chinese Medicine ~ Erin Masako Wilkins
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