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Welcome to
Sophia's Wisdom School
of Healing Arts

Upcoming Classes:

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Womb Alchemy:

A Training For Radical Wombs 

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~ 30 hour course ~

About the Class:

Womb bearers have been in tune with their fertility cycles since time immemorial and have passed down the wisdom of how to wield that powerful gift over generations.  Making fertility choices is innate to animal nature and is our birthright to intimately know.  This ancestral wisdom has been severed in many places to keep us detached from knowing our bodies, being empowered, and honoring the deep portals of life and death that we are.  

 

In this comprehensive and radical training, we will come together to learn the basics of fertility awareness method, and learn how to recognize when we are in our fertile window versus when we are not.  For this practice, we will be using the three biomarkers of basal body temperature, cervical fluid changes, and cervix position/sensation.  

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This knowledge can be used to achieve our fertility goals of conceiving or not conceiving.  Beyond this, it allows us to understand our overall state of health, as these fertility markers are considered the 5th vital sign and can clue us into various hormonal and reproductive imbalances that otherwise may be confusing or go unnoticed.  To top it off, this practice is a way to honor and cultivate intimate relationship with our cyclical bodies, the moon, and all of the natural world.

 

Fertility Awareness will lay our foundation as we explore the world of plants in our toolkit to help us create a well rounded natural path to avoiding pregnancy.

 

  We will be focusing on pregnancy prevention through working with plants that interrupt implantation and bring on menstruation.  

 

We will place this practice on an unbroken continuum with abortion, pregnancy loss, and full term delivery as they are all different parts of the same sacred womb tree - from seed to sprout to root to flower to fruit and seed again...

We will learn that the same plants can support us through all of these womb rites of passage.  They are not separate experiences but instead are so interconnected and the plants remind us of that.

 

We will learn about all the various ways to access abortion and pregnancy loss support today and how to integrate plant medicine, bodywork, energy work, acupressure, art, ritual, and more to support a truly holistic, reverent, and beautifully transformative experience that may be cherished and remembered forever with love.

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When:

10-5pm

Saturday & Sunday: July 27 + 28

Saturday: August 24

Saturday: September 21

Saturday: October 19

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*meeting over a series of weeks allows each participant to put fertility awareness method into practice and receive support along the way!

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Where:

Berkeley, CA  

Location Given Upon Enrollment

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Cost:

3 Tier Sliding Scale: 

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Tier 1 - Growing Sprouts: $450

Tier 2 - Nourished Fruits: $600

Tier 3 - Abundant Seeds: $750

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Payment Plans Also Available in 3 Installments:

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Tier 1:  3 Payments of $150

Tier 2:  3 Payments of $200

Tier 3:  3 Payments of $250

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1st payment due to secure your spot in the class. 2nd payment due August 15th

3rd payment due September 15th

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* I use a sliding scale with a payment plan option to make this offering accessible to as many people as I possibly can.  Please pay what you can truly afford.  Those who pay the highest tier make it possible for the lowest tier to exist.  Let's foster a community of taking care of each other and valuing equal access to education.

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Would you like to sponsor another student?

Please reach out!

Are you ready to become a Womb Alchemist?

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Womb Wisdom:

An Essential Knowledge Share For All Wombs

​~ 36 hour course ~

About the Class:

This class gathers some of the most important wisdom and knowledge to carry as a womb bearer that this society does not nurture.  

We will begin our class by learning the anatomy and physiology of our reproductive organs and learn how to practice fertility awareness method to achieve our desired fertility goals, have a greater understanding of our overall health, and live in tune with our cyclical bodies.

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Throughout this class we will be focusing on herbal medicine, nutrition, life style practices, and rituals to sustain womb wellness and reharmonize our bodies, minds, and spirits when things go awry.

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Topics We Will Cover:

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- Fertility Awareness Method to achieve our fertility goals

(to conceive or not to conceive

that is the question...)

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- Fertility markers as a 5th vital sign and window into our overall state of health

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- Living in tune with our body's cyclical nature

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- Womb wellness

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- So called "PMS"

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- Amenorrhea, Dysmenorrhea, & Menorrhagia

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- PCOS, Endometriosis, Fibroids, and other common imbalances

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- Healing from sexual trauma 

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& Reclaiming Your POWER!

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When:

Saturday & Sunday: August 3 + 4

Saturday & Sunday: September 7 + 8

Saturday & Sunday: October 5 + 6

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*meeting over a series of weeks allows each participant to put fertility awareness method into practice and receive support along the way!

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Where:

Berkeley, CA  Location Given Upon Enrollment​

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Cost:

3 Tier Sliding Scale: 

Tier 1 - Growing Sprouts: $540

Tier 2 - Nourished Fruits: $720

Tier 3 - Abundant Seeds: $900

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Payment Plans Also Available in 3 Installments:

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Tier 1:  3 Payments of $180

Tier 2:  3 Payments of $240

Tier 3:  3 Payments of $300

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1st payment due to secure your spot in the class. 2nd payment due September 1st.

3rd payment due October 1st.

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* I use a sliding scale with a payment plan option to make this offering accessible to as many people as I possibly can.  Please pay what you can truly afford.  Those who pay the highest tier make it possible for the lowest tier to exist.  Let's foster a community of taking care of each other and valuing equal access to education.

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Would you like to sponsor another student?

Please reach out!

Are you ready to become a

Womb Wisdom Keeper?

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Medicine of Place:

A 10 Week Intro to Herbalism Course

Rooted in the Bay Area

~ 60 hour course ~

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About the Class:

This class welcomes the beginner herbalist and those who have been self teaching, taking classes here and there, or tinkering away with herbs in their kitchen and are now ready to take a deeper dive.  This is an all in person class taking a hands-on and bioregional herbalism approach.  Let's listen to the plants themselves and learn the medicine of place.  

 

To begin our journey together, we will make an offering to the land and give acknowledgement to the First Nations people, the Lisjan Ohlone, who still live here and actively tend these lands and the many medicinal plants that grow.  We will be discussing what it means to live on unceded indigenous land and how we can honor, protect, and love it well as community herbalists rooted to place.

 

Throughout the course, we will learn what grows around the Bay Area in abundance.  We will ask, what grows in our own backyards, local community gardens, urban farms, neighborhood parks, and green spaces?  And how can we develop deep relationships with these plants and become the people who tend to them and make medicines with them to share with our communities?  As herbalism gains popularity, and the industry imports so many plants from far away lands, many of which can and do grow locally, how can we return to a place based, deeply rooted, and more sustainable approach.  Wildcrafting and foraging have also become big trends, but are these practices sustainable in a highly impacted urban area?  Part of lovingly walking on this land is protecting wild spaces for future generations, so we will focus on how we can grow our own medicines and tend them in community.  We will develop relationships with growers of plant medicine locally and learn to become those growers ourselves, translating the slow food approach to slow medicine.

 

To illuminate this, our classroom will be a variety of community gardens, urban farms, backyards, parks, and botanical gardens which will provide a taster of the many greenspaces we can get involved in.  And of course, this will allow the plants and ecosystems to speak for themselves and be our greatest teachers.

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We will also learn about each body system and the plants with affinities to each.  Within that, we will discover practical ways of using plants to support common health imbalances addressing body, mind, and spirit.  We will also learn a variety of medicine making preparations including: tinctures, teas, infused oils, salves, liniments, glycerites, vinegar extracts, syrups and more.  By the end you will have a foundation to start growing your own home apothecary with confidence and begin the process of becoming a community herbalist and plant whisper rooted to place. 

 

Let the forest and garden be our classroom and the plants our wisest teachers!

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When:

Mondays 10-5pm

August 19 - October 28, 2024

*No class September 2nd

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Where:

Moving throughout various East Bay parks, community gardens, urban farms, botanical gardens and other green spaces 

in Berkeley and Oakland, CA

Huchiun, unceded Lisjan Ohlone territory

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Cost:

3 Tier Sliding Scale:

Tier 1: $900

Tier 2: $1200

Tier 3: $1500

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Payment Plans Also Available in 3 Installments:

Tier 1:  3 Payments of $300

Tier 2:  3 Payments of $400

Tier 3: 3 Payments of $500

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1st payment due to secure your spot in the class.

2nd payment due September 15th

3rd payment due October 15th

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* I use a sliding scale with a payment plant option to make this offering accessible to as many people as I possibly can.  Please pay what you can truly afford.  Those who pay the highest tier make it possible for the lowest tier to exist.  Let's foster a community of taking care of each other and valuing equal access to education.

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Would you like to sponsor another student?  

Do you have any questions?

Please reach out!

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alchemiaswell@gmail.com

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To learn more about local Indigenous women-led rematriation efforts on Lisjan Ohlone land visit

https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/

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Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
 

And join me in paying Shuumi tax here!

https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/pay-shuumi/

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Weekly Herbal Learning Circles

~ at UC Gill Tract Community Farm ~

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When:

Every Sunday, 2-4pm

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Where:

UC Gill Tract Community Farm

1050 San Pablo Ave.

Albany, CA 94706

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Who:

Open to all ages

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Cost: 

Suggested Donation $15-60 

*No one turned away for lack of funds 

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About: 

Come learn about herbal medicine in a hands-on and communal way at the farm from a collective of community herbalists of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.  Topics vary each week and with the seasons.  We may be doing a seasonal plant walk, making an infused oil or salve, processing herbs growing at the farm, talking about how to use herbs to support common health imbalances, ancestral herbalism, or something else!  If you are interested in participating and would like to stay in the loop about classes reach out to me at 

alchemiaswell@gmail.com

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and join my mailing list!

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Some Past Classes...
With Sophia and hosted guest teachers 

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