The Rooted Wisdom · Workshop Series

Matters of
the Heart

Herbs for the heart — muscle, vessel, and knower

Dara Pressley · Julie Moody-Freeman · Ericka Mabrie

Sunday, September 27, 2026
10am PT
Virtual

About This Workshop

The heart carries more than blood. It is muscle, vessel, and knower.

The heart keeps time for the whole body, and it is the place where we hold what we have not yet been able to set down. This workshop tends it on every level. We'll work with the herbs that have long been trusted with circulatory tone — the ones that strengthen, steady, and soften the physical heart. And we'll sit with the plants that meet the other heart: the grief held in the chest, the guardedness that gathers after loss, and the slow, unhurried work of opening again.

Julie and Ericka bring their own depth to this dialogue, and together we'll move between the body and the spirit of this medicine — the way the heart itself does. Come as you are. There is room here for whatever you're carrying.

Three Conversations

I

The Physical Heart

Muscle and vessel. The herbs that have long been trusted with circulatory tone — the ones that strengthen, steady, and soften the heart that keeps time for the whole body.

Circulatory tone Strengthen Steady Soften
II

The Grief in the Chest

The heart is also the knower — the place where we hold what we have not yet been able to set down. The plants that meet this other heart, and what it means to let them.

Grief What we carry The knower
III

Opening Again

The guardedness that gathers after loss, and the slow, unhurried work of opening. Moving between the body and the spirit of this medicine, at the pace the heart can bear.

Guardedness After loss Body & spirit

"Come as you are. There is room here for whatever you're carrying."

Dara Pressley · The Rooted Wisdom

Your Guides

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.