CLASSES
herbal medicine workshops - retreats - herb walks
Fall 2026: Allies For The Dark of the Year
These classes are done in confidential cohorts (ie: not recorded, interactive), themed around seasonal plant allies and their corresponding emotional resonances. Each week we journey deep into the heart of a single herb as a class, starting our journey with a blind tasting where you meet the plant on your own terms, and then learn the practical ways to engage safely with it's medicinal properties. These classes are designed to deepen your relationship to your own body, build community, and to celebrate the way we have always connected over plants.
September 2026: From managing cold, flu, and fever, to facing the shadow, this series brings in plant allies who support our becoming in the colder months.
Online: September 4, 11, 18, 25 from 5pm-6:30pm PT
$120CAD
Online students: please register by August 21, 2026 so the care packages containing the herbs reach you in time for the first session.
Online cohort is full
On site: September 6, 13, 20, 27 from 9:30am-11am PT
$150CAD full course
$45CAD single class
Lobelia's Lair #8-321 Wesley st. Nanaimo, BC
Ongoing Classes
Herb Walks
Herb walks will return in the spring of 2027!
Plants come in and out of season over the space of weeks! We visited the same land this season, but were met with completely different plant friends each time. Here are just a few of the plants we met this season:
Oregon grape, Cleavers, Stinging nettle, Chickweed, Miners lettuce, Dandelion, Wild fennel, Cedar, Maple, Douglas fir, Vetch, Sweet pea, Foxglove, Skunk cabbage, Horsetail, Salal, Calypso orchid, Plantain, Salmonberry, Thimbleberry, Blackberry, Rose, Lily of the valley, Arbutus, Gingko, St. Johns Wort, Coastal hedge nettle, White and Red clovers, Pineapple weed, Yarrow, Self-heal, Burdock, Chicory, Lady's mantle, Stinking Robert, Fumitory, Canada mint, Sorrel, Hawthorn, Sweet woodruff, Fireweed, and countless others.
Herbal Medicine 101: Foundations
October 14: Herbs for sexuality and libido **18+
The next class in this series centers pleasure, sexuality, libido, and the delights of having a body.
6-8pm at Lobelia's Lair
$45/ class
Previous classes in this series:
Herbs for digestive health
Caring for the menstrual cycle
Anxiety and insomnia: herbs for the nervous system
Summer first aid
Herbal Pharmacy: Medicine making