Healers Garden 2026 Medicinal Herb Workshop Series

Learn how to grow, harvest, prepare, and use herbs for everyday health and wellbeing. Herbal tea crafting, herbal body care, flower essences, stress-relief herbs, and more! This is a 12-class series of events. There is the option to register for single classes or get a 3-class series pass!

Part 1:

Tuesday, Mar 24 - The Healing Art of Herbal Tea

Saturday, Apr 11 - Building Relationships with our Herbal Allies

Tuesday, Apr 28 - Herbal Vinegars & Spring Tonics

Part 2:

Saturday, May 9 - Nature's Healers: Flower Essence Therapy for Emotional Wellbeing

Tuesday, May 26 - Herbal Alchemy in the Kitchen

Tuesday, June 23 - Understanding Plants & Flowers for Limpias

Part 3:

Saturday, July 11 - Herbal Tincture Making

Tuesday, July 28 - Southwest Herbs: Support for Intergenerational Indigenous Wellness and Childbirth

Tuesday, August 25 - Herbal Body Care

Part 4:

Tuesday, September 22 - Herbal Medicine in Curanderismo

Saturday, September 26 - Herbal Support for Cold & Flu Season

Tuesday, October 27 - Spiritual & Magical Uses of Plants

REGISTER TODAY !

About your Instructor:

Atava Garcia Swiecicki is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker, dreamworker, teacher and author. She received her undergraduate degree at Stanford and her master’s degree from Naropa University Oakland. Atava has been studying herbal medicine, curanderismo and holistic healing for over thirty-five years. She loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers. Atava is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School in Oakland, California and is the author of The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Herbal Medicine and Rituals for Healing. She moved to New Mexico from the Bay Area in 2020 and feels blessed to have made Los Ranchos her home for the past five years. Atava’s website is: www.ancestralapothecary.com and can be found on IG as @curanderxtoolkit.