Touching Essence: Green Witchcrafting for Women’s Wellness
Teachers: Ellen Watson & Micha Merrick
Dates & Location: 22-27 March 2021 - Mimpi Resort, Menjangan, Bali
Dates & Location: 22-27 March 2021 - Mimpi Resort, Menjangan, Bali
Elemental Herbalism for a Healthy, Beautiful, Connected Life
Celebrate your essential nature through the use of herbs, flowers, essences and oils. Enjoy a week of body-centered herbalism experienced through ceremony, song, herbal massage rituals and an introduction to eastern and western healing plants. Discover new ways to harmonize your life with the cycles of nature, finding joy and connection in the green growing world around you. Sit before a beautiful altar of dry medicinal plants and fresh local herbs from Bali, with a circle of new friends. See, touch, smell and taste aromatic healing plants lovingly harvested from Micha’s Big Sur garden and her family farm in New England. Become intimately acquainted with these new plant friends, learning basic medicinal and energetic properties, engaging myths and stories and useful scientific information for each plant offering. |
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In this six day retreat training we invite you to experience:
~Lecture classes illuminating the basics of eatern and western elemental theory in herbalism and bodywork. Develop a basic awareness of the elements (earth, air, fire, water, ether) and an intuitive framework for applying this knowledge to massage and use of healing plants.
~Engage in ritual together in the beauty way, honoring feminine nature with use of flowers, herbs, oils and stones, sound, story and song, setting a sacred safe space for intimacy, sharing and healing. Discuss various herbal applications including herbal infusions, steam sauna, tea bath, infused oil and herbal smudge bundles. ~Craft a unique herbal compress bundle for massage. Pounding roots with a mortar and pestle, breaking herbs by hand and selecting herbs using intuition and elemental theory. Learn a time honored technique to fold and tie herbal compress bundles, a craft that blends art, magic and sensory enjoyment with traditional healing. ~Experience the beauty of sharing herbal compress massage, giving and receiving. Discover the many uses of this plant-based practice for health and wellbeing for women in all phases of life. ~Cultivate deeper awareness of the cycles of green growth, fruition, rest and regeneration observed in the plant kingdom, explore this within yourself through yoga, dance, movement and meditation. Recognise the beauty and power of these natural seasons reflected in your own life. |
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Places are limited so we advise registering interest at your earliest convenience.
Places are limited so we advise registering interest at your earliest convenience.
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Ellen Watson
Ellen Watson is a long standing member of faculty at the Esalen Institute, Big Sur, California. During her time at Esalen in combination with time spent teaching and learning around the world, Ellen has intensively studied and developed a broad range of wellness practicies and modalities.
Ellen is a teacher of Esalen® Massage & Bodywork, Gabrielle Roth's 5Rhythms®, Holotropic Breathwork, Vibrance, Touching Essence and Wake Up & Roar.
At 71 years old and continuously travelling the world to teach, Ellen's lifestyle and state of being is a true advocation of the wellness practices she shares.
Micha Merrick
Micha Merrick is using techniques from yoga and ancestral herbal compress massage to help women deliver babies naturally. Time and again she's seen the wild strength and fluid grace of feminine nature first hand creating circles of support for women through song, dance, herbs and massage.
Over a period of six years she lived and studied with traditional women's healers, folk herbalists and shamanic midwives in Bali,Thailand and Northern Hilltribes. With her teacher's blessing, she adapts these traditional practices to include the healing plants of her celtic roots and the indiginous healing herbs that grow abundantly in your own community.
Micha is a faculty member at the Esalen Institute. She offers yoga, doula and herbal compress rituals in Big Sur California and teaches retreat-trainings worldwide. Micha lives in a magical yurt in the redwoods and enjoys tending her mountain side garden.Accommodation
For this program, accommodation is available at Mimpi Menjangan, Bali. Contact Us for information on private accommodation upgrades or any further information about Mimpi Menjangan, BaliLocation: Mimpi Menjangan, Bali
On the North-West coast of Bali in the village of Banyuwedang, Mimpi looks out towards the Menjangan Island. The area is notorious as a hot-spot for diving and snorkelling and just a little further down the coast a regular dolphin hangout.
