enrolling through October 30th
A self paced course exploring plant allies for grief and nervous system support, herbal rituals + practices of care.
**This is the self paced, pre-recorded version of this course. Click here if you’re looking for the live cohort.
course Topics
Herbalist Approaches to Supporting Grief
Herbal Teas/Infusions, Tinctures, & Flower Essences
Intro to Herbal Energetics + energetics of grief
Making Kin and Making Trouble: Situating Community Herbalism in Troubled Times
Supporting Nervous Systems with Adaptogens, Nervines, + Beauty Medicine
Remedies for supporting sleep & protecting dream space
Herbal Baths, Adornment Magic, and Plants in grief ritual
Grief, ancestral herbalism, + re-enchanting ancestral practices
Supporting the Digestive System in times of emotional distress
Supporting the Hearts and Lungs in times of grief
Herbs in Community Care & Mutual Aid: Dreams and Practices
Grief Formula Design
Creating your Grief Support Apothecary
This self paced study is for you if…
You are a brand new herbalism student, or an herbalist looking to deepen your understanding of how grief impacts the body, herbalist strategies and plant allies for grief and nervous system support
You want to grow your toolkit for supporting community members in times of personal + collective grief
You are looking for a grief welcoming approach to healing, rather than one that problematizes or pathologizes grief
You are looking for tangible ways and practices to slow down, ground, and nourish your nervous system
You are grieving and looking for plant allies and supportive practices
You are looking to hunker down with resources, rituals, and your herbal practice on your own, rather than participate in the live cohort aspects of the course
You are feeling lower energy for being with other humans right now but still want to build relationship with the plants and your herbal practice!
You want to move through materials at your own pace, and revel in taking your time 🐌
You're wanting to make a smaller financial investment than the live cohort
What’s included
Recordings of all lectures and workshops with guest instructors (over 15 workshops and lessons, clearly organized into 4 thematic modules)
Printable PDF of our course handbook (over 80+ pages of handouts, exercises, herbal monographs to accompany on your journey!)
Activity prompts and journal reflection questions for each module 📝
Links to additional resources, monographs, and articles for each unit for those wanting to dive deeper
Lifetime access to course materials
Access to our student discord for other self paced study participants
Instructor support via discord and email for any questions or curiosities that come up throughout your studies!
What’s not included
Live or recorded access to cohort discussions and medicine making days on zoom (to learn more about the cohort, click here)
Cost
$350
course Modules + Lessons
Click the headings below to see the list of topics for each unit.
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Recorded Lectures:
Overview of Herbalist Approaches to Supporting Grief
Herbal Teas, Tisanes, & Water Infusions
Intro to Herbal Energetics
Building Relationships with Plants, Choosing a Grief Ally
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Recorded Lectures & Workshops:
Supporting Nervous Systems with Adaptogens, Nervines, + Beauty Medicine
Remedies for supporting sleep & protecting dream space
Nervous systems orientation with Lee Datura
Herbal Baths, Adornment Magic, and Plants in Grief Ritual
Plant Magic, Making Kin, & Enchanting Ancestral Practices with Dori Midnight
Decolonizing Flower Essences with Damiana Calvario
Somatics, Titrating Grief, Everyday Grief Ritual, Mundane Magic with Camille Barton
Grief + Ancestral Herbalism with Rebecca Beyer
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Recorded Lectures:
Supporting the Digestive System
Supporting the Hearts and Lungs
Tinctures
Blue Vervain, Pulsatilla, Lobelia (and intro to Low Dose Botanicals)
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Recorded lectures:
Pressing Tinctures
Grief Formula Design
Creating your Grief Support Apothecary
*All guest workshops will be uploaded as they are released, and will be accessible by the end of the live course (January 2026). See list of instructors below!
Course Instructors
Founder, primary instructor, + Facilitator
Mara June (they/them) is an educator, facilitator, community weaver, writer, caregiver, death doula, and community herbalist, and the founder of Motherwort and Rose. They’re excited about plant magic, story-telling, art + ritual making, shapeshifting, and dreaming together.
Mara’s death care and grief support work is community oriented, taking place in longer term, group settings to feed the collective work of growing more deeply attuned and resourced communities who love, care, dream, and create courageously in times of loss, change, and grief.
To learn more about Mara’s trainings, approaches, and background, click here.
mara june
tender of mundane magic, program + teaching assistant
zulaikha is a dreamer, a futurist, a spiritual abolitionist, and a storyteller. they are committed to a free, liberated world for all, and deeply believe in the power of remembrance. their musings are meant to inspire, for all to reclaim their creative self and to radically imagine anew. as a facilitator they create spaces where all remember their true liberated nature, rooted in the earth and the play of interdependence with all beings.
zulaikha cara
Dori midnight
Guest Instructor
Dori Midnight is a community care worker, ritual artist, theologian, writer, and deep listener oriented towards collective healing and liberation. For over two decades, Dori has woven rituals and practiced intuitive, community based healing in one-on-one sessions and in radical movement spaces, in collaboration with the seen and unseen, plants, stones, songs, and more. Dori offers workshops on rituals and remedies for unraveling times, re-enchanting Jewish ancestral wisdoms as a liberatory practice, and queer magic and healing. Supported and inspired by a wide web of dreamers, witches, artists, and web workers, Dori’s work is also rooted in feminist, decolonial and abolitionist scholarship, queer liberation, and disability and healing justice work. Dori has been in deep cahoots with movement work for Palestinian liberation, prison abolition, and queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice. Dori lives on the occupied lands of the Pocumtuc and Nipmuc, by the Quinnehtukqut River, also known as Northampton, Massachusetts.
Rebecca beyer
guest instructor
Rebecca Beyer is the woman behind the Blood and Spicebush School of Old Craft. She lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina where she teaches people how to integrate the Old Ways back into a cyclical life and works as a tattooer. Rebecca practices, researches and writes about Appalachian Folk Magic, Traditional Witchcraft, Primitive Skills, Homesteading, Foraging, Appalachian Ethnobotany and European and Appalachian Folk Ways.
Follow Rebecca on instagram @bloodandspicebush
Rebecca’s website
Rebecca's books (they are incredible):
Camille Sapara Barton
Guest instructor
Camille Sapara Barton is a writer, embodiment facilitator and movement artist that supports organisations to flow through transitions. Their work creates relational wellbeing by increasing connection to the body, care practices, grief and imagination. Camille supports people to reduce stress and increase resilience, while navigating change. They also offer trauma informed facilitation and consultancy to support cultural workers, funders and those working with socially engaged topics.
Camille’s movement practice explores the interplay between bodies, words and vibration by weaving dance, clowning, somatics and sonics. Their work aims to deepen ancestral communication technologies and grow imagination gardens.
Camille is the author of Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community (2024). Based in Amsterdam, they designed and directed MA Ecologies of Transformation (2021 - 2023) which explored how embodiment and socially engaged art making can create change through the body, into the wider world.
Lee Datura, OIC, RCST
guest instructor
Lee (she/they) is a somatic practitioner and biodynamic craniosacral therapist. Her work centers supporting folks healing from burnout, emotional and physical trauma and creating a deeply compassionate container for learning tools to support the nervous system. She offers 1:1 somatic coaching in person or online as well as group nervous system workshops and courses. She believes healing means coming home to our very nature, that we are fractals of the inconceivable magic of the ecosystem, planet and galaxy around us & that healing happens in relationship.
Damiana Calvario
guest instructor
Damiana Calvario is a Mixed woman of color, daughter, sister, caregiver, community member, survivor, and first generation immigrant. Her practice, rooted in care work and mutual aid, blends together her Mexican roots, mixed upbringing, food as medicine, Curanderismo studies, Traditional Mexican Medicine and western herbalism training.
Adele mee
Guest instructor
Adele Mee is a garden-tender, forest walker, herbalist, and Grandmother.
Ever entranced by Nature, her work has been an integration of science, beauty, healing, connection, and the creation of sacred space in gardens, labyrinths, and through ritual.
She believes in the transformational powers of intentional engagement with the inherent beauty of the world, heart-centered perception, and Contemplative Labyrinth Activism.
Adele currently lives and breaths whole-heartedly on the Oregon coast.
faq
Click the questions below to see the answers.
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You will receive downloadable course materials as they are released throughout the season. I will post them on our course page as well as email you to let you know when new materials have been uploaded.
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You will have lifetime access to the course materials.
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If we are still enrolling, yes. But if the class is full, no. Enrollment for the cohort ends September 25th. Please read over each option and chose the format that works best for you!
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Please double check your spam folder. Emails from me should come from the address info@motherwortandrose.com. If you still haven’t found anything, please email me to let me know!
