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Our 4 month program includes 1 field trip to various locations of New Mexico. If you sign up for the online program you may join 1 the field trip as an add-on option.
Our herbal camping trips are at established campgrounds that offer running water and bathrooms. They are wheelchair accessible. Students of any physical condition are welcome to join us.
Topics will include medicinal plant walks, medicine making and wild harvesting plants that are in abundance, how to process and store plants and how to do regenerative and sustainable harvesting. Time is alot ted for plant meditations and hot spring visits. Locations are likely to include:
5 days camp site fee not included*
Experiences with Brophey + Morgaine include:
1. hands on healing & corn ironing the body
2. water ceremony
3. wild and native food preparations with Georgia
4. 2-3 Medicinal Plant Walks
5. Medicine Making of Flower Essences, Tinctures and Oil infusions
6. Plant Meditations and Plant Ancestor Journeys
7. Visit to San Antonio Hotsprings and River
8. Star gazing and story telling with Brophey weather dependent
9. Native Foods Meal Plan optional add on
10 . Energetic cleansing with plants and energetic boundaries
11. Connecting to the plant ancestors to heal intergenerational traumas of your ancestors
Our school features medicine workers and elders working across a spectrum of the healing arts. Students have an opportunity to study medicine in the context it is relevant to and classes are often taught in a nonacademic way. Several of the teachers have written books, and may have a masters or PhD but this is not our focus. We value the grandma healers, and the ones who carry the knowledge of many generations of their elders doing the same thing, the people who are actively working with their community and being in touch with their roots.
Online & In Person Classes program
Dr. Pepper Hernandez ND, PhD, BCHP
NHP, NHC, CNHP, CTC
Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner BCHP
Traditionally and Classically trained Naturopath ND
Certified Natural Health Professsional CNHP
Transpersonal Psychology PhD
Live Food Nutritionist NHC
Reiki Master, Kundalini Practitioner
Founder of Non-Profit Humboldt Holistic Foundation to help expand and create resources for the stability of Holistic Projects for Humboldt County and beyond.
Pepper is a researcher focusing on Neuroscience,
Hebbs Law and bridging the gap between science and spirituality. She is fascinated by Entheogenics, Neuroplasticity and Quantum Physics. As her values and purpose evolve, she chooses to work on a deeper level with clients as a spiritual educator. She calls this type of work Quantum Alignment Therapy® which includes working with the balance of nutrition through food and supplementation, energy alignment and chakra balancing. mental, physical and spiritual homeostasis.
Like a woven scarf, Dr. Hernadnez’s threads are made up of Apache, Navaho, Indigenous Mexican on her father’s side. Cherokee, Arapaho, Cheyenne from her mothers’ side. Her great, great, great grandfather walked the trail of tears to make it to Oklahoma as their home. The place where her mother would receive her in spirit to birth. She has been a spiritual teacher for over two decades, adding to her tool bag along her journey. Mainly focused on the mental, physical and spiritual bodies, she bridges the naturopathic medicine with the more spiritual ethereal worlds. With the intention that all humans spirits are energy manifested physically.
In Person Class Director, Facilitator & Teacher
Jennifer is a board-certified coach, strategic organizational change advisor, and yoga and meditation guide. Jennifer coaches executives and teams to lead from their strengths with presence, purpose, and authenticity. She supports them to develop executive presence; scale their leadership; cultivate and influence stakeholder relationships; onboard/change roles; and accelerate their effectiveness and impact. Her coaching approach is whole-human, experiential, co-created, and embodied.
As a multi-identity woman of color, Jennifer has been a lifelong curious observer of human behavior and organizational systems. Drawing upon multi-disciplinary teachings and practices, ancient and modern, she brings her full background and experience to each individual and team coaching experience. Her clients appreciate her warmth, candor, expansiveness, and unwavering belief in their innate ability to fulfill their highest aspirations.
Jennifer has coached, advised, and led strategic change alongside c-level and senior executives of Fortune 500s, US government agencies, and nonprofits for over 25 years. Whether it’s a new strategy, culture, operating model, or technology, Jennifer has delivered a broad range of services in assessment, change management, talent strategy, leadership development, and DEI. She graduated from NYU’s Stern School of Business and has a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia SIPA with a concentration in international security policy.
She was born in Colombia, grew up in New York, and now lives on the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary lands of the Taos Pueblo, Ute, Lipan Apache, and Tiwa people in Taos, NM.
Highlights:
Board Certified Coach (BCC)
Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC)
Gestalt Professional Certified Coach (GPCC)
Organization and Relationship Systems Coach (ORSC)
Certified Yoga Teacher by Jivamukti (300 hr) and Ahana (200 hr) Yoga
Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher by Dharma Moon + Tibet House
Certified Pranayama teacher by Yoga Education Collective
Malia Roe is a practicing indigenous (Miami Indiana Tribe) and Celtic pagan who walks the crooked path. As a practitioner, she draws deeply from her lifelong relationship with the invisible world (spirits, ancestors, energy) that began in her childhood. That relationship has grown and been nurtured by the teachings she’s been gifted from seers, mediums, wise women, cunning folk, witches, curanderas, herbalists, and medicine people from a wide range of cultural and ancestral traditions. She has been called to share those teachings and experiences with others in ways that support their own journeys of self-awareness and empowerment. Malia’s circles of practice embrace both her indigenous and celtic ancestors. She is a member of the Seven Arches Longhouse, the Black Rose, Black Tree, and Reclaiming magical traditions, the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD), the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and the Sisterhood of Avalon. She is a reiki master (Usui tradition), a certified Life & Mindfulness Coach, a certified herbalist but the centre of Excellence, an OBOD-trained Celebrant and a legal ceremonial officiant. She is also involved with the Healing & Reconciliation Institute, and is a trained HRI facilitator.
Malia most often offers teachings on:
· Wildcrafting a responsible, respectful medicine path
· Working from/with the land where you live / land-based spirituality
· Cultural appropriation, accountability, ethics & elders
· Communicating with the ancestors
· Beginning & advance energetic healing (combining ancestral & reiki approaches)
· Celtic spiritualities (druidry & witchcraft, neopaganism & historical practices)
· Living the wheel of the year
· Divination methodology & practice
· Herbal medicine & folk workings
· Guided meditation, journeying, hedge-riding
This class focuses on spiritual and sustainable living practices, taught through the pagan calendar – the eight-fold Wheel of the year – which derives from ancestral Celtic/European harvesting and spiritual living practices. We’ll focus on understanding how our ancestors engaged with these holidays, the distinction between specific Celtic (Welsh, Irish, Scottish) practices, and how different pagan spiritualities (druids, Wiccans, witches, Avalonians, etc.) engage with the Wheel. We’ll look at practical ways to include Wheel observations into your life as well as explore crystals and herbs to enhance those practices.
This course focuses on how to use tools and methods from different cultural traditions in order to connect with our ancestors as a path to self-awareness and wisdom. The course includes basic instruction on grounding and energetic protection as well as spirit journeying to create relationships with ancestors. We’ll explore a variety of tools – scrying, tarot, runes, ogham, etc. – that serve as a conduit for ancestral communication.
In Person 3 month Only
Beata Tsosie-Peña is from Santa Clara Pueblo and El Rito, NM. She is a mother, poet, seed keeper, and is certified in Infant Massage, as a Developmental Specialist, an Educator, a Full-Spectrum Doula, and in Indigenous Sustainable Design (permaculture) . She is a Green For All Fellow and has served on several local community boards over the years. She is currently on the steering committee for the Traditional Native American Farmers Association and Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute’s Board of Directors.
“As a Tewa mother, I am committed to resisting systemic issues of inequality, racism, poverty, militarism, pollution, and violence, in order to promote a culture of peace. My daily intentions are for healing, wellness, and liberation for all families in order to have a strong foundation of love, care, and respect, to birth and raise their children in a world that loves them back. My children deserve a life and culture of peace, sovereignty, and self-determination. They deserve a healthy, clean, safe environment. They deserve economic opportunities and an economy not dependent on warfare, that do not conflict with their values around protecting their birthright of water, air, food, medicine, land and future generations. Land that Creator intended for us to live on in perpetuity and reciprocal care since time immemorial.”
As part of her work with TWU (Tewa Women United) , she is currently managing the creation of the Española Healing Foods Oasis demonstration garden project and Española Healing Foods Seed Library.
In-Person and Online Classes
Morgaine is a lover of medicinal plants and nature. She is a medicine maker, a farmer, a wild crafter, and founder of Native Roots. Morgaine has a private practice doing bodywork, sound healing, and physical and emotional trauma release. She has taught and led herb walks for University of New Mexico, American Herbalist Guild, NM Osteopathic Association, NM Native Plant Society, Flower Hill Institute, Tewa Women United, Taos Municipla School District Wellness Programs, and more. She lived in Belize and had the opportunity to apprentice tropical medicine with one of the most revered medicine men in the country the late Don Heriberto Cocom for 1.5 months. She also studied at the Northwest School for Botanical Studies, The Dandelion Center, California School for Herbal Studies, The Dhyanna Center, Blue Otter School, Acutonics Institute for Integrative Medicine, Ethnic Studies and Anthropology at the University of Colorado and continued her studies of mayan medicine in Guatemala with the late Don Reginaldo Chayeux. She collaborated for 10 years with his Nonprofit Association to support the protection of the fully Mayan run rainforest Reserve Bio Itza and brought groups of students to study with him. Morgaine has recognized the importance of honoring healing modalities of all cultures and especially the ones of our own tradition even if they have been forgotten by a few generations. She grew up immersed in an immigrant community and found herself honoring the elders that still remembered their own language, their own healing modalities and traditions from that community. It was a journey of many years before she started to look deeper into reclaiming the healing practices of the ancestral traditions that she came from and hopes to share with all people of European decent to remember to honor their own ancestors, to connect to the land and the people that are currently practicing and keeping the context of European tribal healing traditions alive today. She hopes to create a safe space to bridge the gap generational knowledge and cultural similarities and healing tools to encourage self healing and community healing.
Morgaine worked for Teambuilders counseling Services in 2008 in Taos New Mexico as a Comprehensive Community Support Specialist teaching “life skills” including communication, stress and anger management, and parenting skills and offering social work opportunities for children and their parents. Later she worked at nonprofit Rocky Mountain Youth Corps with “at risk youth” doing hands on experiential learning in nature focusing on useful life skills and training once a week for teens. Afterwards she ventured to Guatemala to volunteer at an orphanage and was responsible for 30 girls ages 10-17 as their live in caretaker and teacher for 5 months. in 2011 Morgaine found herself homebound and endured hurricane Sandys destruction leaving 13 million people on the East coast without electricity. She coordinated one thousand volunteers a day in Staten Island, New York and spent months doing grass roots disaster recovery with Feeding Family including immediate needs donations and distribution of water, food, respiratory masks, clothing, tho food, medications and animal rehoming, demolition, and later therapeutic urban gardening in elevated community garden beds, fundraising, and more demolition, raw sewage clean up and mold control.
My family ancestry is from Honduras, Central America. I was born and raised in New York City, there I received my Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the City University of New York. As long as I can remember I have had the gift of healing through my hands and an acute sense of intuition. However, as a child and young these gifts were not spoken of or used. In 1984, I received a spiritual calling through a sweat lodge ceremony facilitated by Uncle Charlie Thom of the Karuk tribe in Mt. Shasta. From there my life as I knew it changed. My first visit to New Mexico was in 1987 to participate in ceremony for the Harmonic Convergence. Then in 1989 I visited Taos, New Mexico for the San Geronimo Feast day. On this day God called me to move to Taos. My new life began on August 31, 1991 when I moved to Taos. Here I raised my two younger children. When they went off to college in 2005, I too decided enter the Master’s degree program in Educational Leadership at the University of New Mexico. At that time my mentor asked me to teach the Sacred Ceremony class at UNM-Taos. My Master’s thesis evolved from this class and from my own spiritual developmental path. When I completed the Master’s degree there was an urgency to continue my education which led me to enter the doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. I opted to receive a second Master’s degree in Transformative Studies due to lack of money to complete the doctoral dissertation. Over the last three decades my spiritual path has led me to become a ceremonialist in facilitating sweat lodges, vision quests, water blessings and healing ceremonies. Through my own spiritual development I have a great interest in how other’s spiritual development leads them to their self- authorship and authenticity through ritual and ceremony. This is my passion.
My commitment to be of service to others by the will of God is how I live my life.
Ceremonies
Brophey has served the Pueblo of Jemez in various capacities for over 4 decades. Brophey is cofounder of Flower Hill Institute and Cultural Advisor. He has worked with numerous indigenous youth groups, is an adjunct instructor for IAIA, is a creative consultant for Robert Mirabal Productions, has served on the Native American Global Sports Committee, and has been instrumental in various international indigenous projects such as Pueblo Pathways Project and he has traveled to Mexico, Canada and Africa as a First Nations representative for Earth healing and environmental conferences and efforts. Many people come to visit him for medicine and healing.
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346 hours of educational time
4 hours of personal 1-on-1 coaching/healing sessions
12 hours of Volunteering in a Traditional Medicine Circle or Ceremony Space
July 1st – October 31st 2024
Monday – Thursday 10am – 3:30pm
By donation to tribally affiliated members of New Mexico
New Mexican Heritage Discount 10% and possible scholarships available for NM heritage people only
Payment Plans Available Must be Completed 1 week before class starts