The Rooted Wisdom · Workshop Series

Beauty and
the Skin

The Medicinal and Spiritual Properties of Herbs

Dara Pressley · Julie Moody-Freeman · Ericka Mabrie

Saturday, April 19, 2026
12pm PT
Virtual

Beauty as a practice, not a performance. Skin as a living record.

Julie and Ericka bring their own depth to this dialogue, and together we'll explore what it means to tend to ourselves from the inside out. This is a workshop in the medicinal and spiritual properties of herbs as they relate to the skin — how we heal it, how we heal through it, and how we use it to tend the spirit.

You don't need any prior herbal knowledge. You need only to be someone who lives in a body and wants to understand it better.

I

Healing Skin Conditions

The skin speaks. Breakouts, dryness, sensitivity, inflammation — these are not flaws to correct but communications to understand. We'll work with herbs that have long been used to support the skin in its own language, drawing from ancestral traditions and plant relationships that predate the modern beauty industry.

Vulnerary herbs Inflammation Skin reading Topical preparations
II

Healing Through the Skin

The skin is also a doorway in. Topical herbs don't stay on the surface — they move. We'll explore how plants applied externally can address muscle aches and cramps, support circulation and the lymph, and work with conditions that begin beneath the surface. What we put on the body matters in ways that go deeper than most of us were taught.

Muscle aches Cramps Transdermal herbs Salves & liniments
III

Healing the Spirit Through the Skin

Touch is one of the oldest medicines. Across traditions — ritual bathing, anointing, the practice of tending a body with care and intention — caring for the body has always been understood as spiritual care. We'll look at what those practices hold, where they come from, and how to bring them into a life that is genuinely yours.

Ritual bathing Anointing oils Nervine herbs Spiritual practice

"This is not a workshop about looking better. It is a workshop about knowing yourself well enough to tend what is actually there."

Dara Pressley · The Rooted Wisdom
Dara Pressley

Founder, The Rooted Wisdom

Dara Pressley

Herbalist, educator, and the founder of The Rooted Wisdom — a living herbal school rooted in spirit, ancestors, and earth.

Julie Moody-Freeman

Spiritual Herbalist & Galactic Astrologer

Julie Moody-Freeman

Julie uses Spiritual Herbalism and Galactic Astrology to teach people how to journey with plants and astrological stars as allies.

Ericka Mabrie

Healer & Baker

Ericka Mabrie

Earth tender, spiritual herbalist, baker and carrier of faery medicine. Her practice is rooted in animism, ancestral wisdom and the belief that whimsy is power.