About Snakeroot
snakeroot apothecary, was started as a herb+art project in 2014 as “snake oil magic potions.” in 2016 I began working with clients and I switched over to “snakeroot,” inspired by an east coast plant friend & with my clinical work in mind. snake medicine, as I was taught by Karyn Sanders of the Blue Otter School, works on seeing & changing our patterns. The work of Snakeroot Apothecary is about getting to the root of our imbalances & changing the patterns of what is no longer working for us.
my first big moment to learn from the plants was in big sur, california. i moved from philadelphia, pennsylvania from quite an unhappy state and somehow ended up on a goat farm in the mountains. suddenly i was 18 years old and living on an isolated mountain above the fog line. i began to listen. i connected deeply with manzanita and madrone. suddenly i was relearning and remembering how to communicate with and learn from animals, plants, rocks and other elements of the earth. in the stillness the more-than-humans spoke clearly & i was lucky to have these years of presence which gave me the ability to hear
today i am walking my path and purpose as a clinical herbalist. my work is rooted in social justice, harm reduction, anti oppression with the belief that healing work is not only for the individual but an act of healing for the world (including animals, plants, stones, etc..). we work to heal ourselves for everybody.
i work clinically to provide preventative health care and education using plant, animal & earth & elemental medicines in a holistic way. this encompasses but not limited to focusing on the patterns that emerge in order to survive various traumas, ancestral patterning for both chronic and acute, emotional, physical or spiritual imbalance.
i am currently offering in depth herbal consultations which focus on patterns we create in life due to emotional/spiritual/physical imbalance and helping to restructure & bring the body&spirit back into a more easeful, comfortable state.
i am currently living on the western edge of the sangre de cristo mountains outside of santa fe, new mexico. on tewa lands.
some schooling / apprenticeship background:
internship with jenny q of jenny q's herbals / grateful desert from 2015-2016.
completed blue otter school of herbal medicine in 2016.
completed blue otter school of herbal medicine advanced program “light falling from the stars”: 2017 - 2018
completed Wild Current Clinical Mentorship and Advanced Clinical Skills Programs: 2020-2021