Your Wild Roots Ecotherapy & Herbalism

⚡ New Project Announcement⚡
I am working on an incredible initiative with a small team of amazing humans!
Becoming the Medicine is a non-profit online summit, airing Nov 7-10, featuring leaders from around the world whose work is a direct response to the stories and challenges they've encountered in life. They've literally become the medicine they most needed to see in the world.
Even More Amazingly is that this is a fundraiser to help children & families in dire need of support in Gaz🍉.
We're partnering with the organization, Healpalestine, who helps rebuild schools, hospitals and, neighborhoods that have been destroyed in the war.
I'll be sharing much more ~ who the speakers are, the themes of each day of the summit, who is on this amazing team bringing this initiative to life, and more!!
I'm feeling very grateful for the opportunity to bring this work alive in the face of so much darkness. To bring alive the spark of change and reclamation.

Dehydrating these mini apples has me feeling all fall-like 🍂🍁

⚡ New Project Announcement⚡
I am working on an incredible initiative with a small team of amazing humans!
Becoming the Medicine is a non-profit online summit, airing Nov 7-10, featuring leaders from around the world whose work is a direct response to the stories and challenges they've encountered in life. They've literally become the medicine they most needed to see in the world.
Even More amazingly is that this is a fundraiser to help those families in dire need of support in Palestine🍉.
We're partnering with the organization, healpalestine, who helps rebuild schools, hospitals and, neighborhoods that have been destroyed in the genocide.
I'll be sharing much more, like who the speakers are, the themes of each day of the summit, who is on this amazing team bringing this initiative to life, and more!!
I'm feeling very grateful for the opportunity to bring this work alive in the face of so much darkness. To bring alive the spark of change and reclamation.

Protect Indigenous Medicine Growing Lands!!
For those here who are advocates of Psychedelic Use & Research, I bring this conversation forward:
The Huichol (Wixarika) people are facing unprecedented pressure on their traditional pe**te grounds
In response to this, a special panel on 'Decolonizing Psychedelics' will be presented this week at the International Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) in Haarlem, bringing a Huichol elder and a young Mexican interpreter and fire-keeper to speak about traditional use, the importance of ritual, and the difference between synthetic versus organic Pe**te.
Please consider donating towards the journey of these medicine people to come to present their wisdom to those in the heart of the business and society conversations around the psychedelic renaissance
All donors will receive a recording of the panel presentation.
GoFundMe link is in the link in my BIO 🌵
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The Psychedelic Renaissance:
I proudly introduce a foundational part of my life that I don't often speak publicly about. But times are a'changing and speaking up about the preservation of indigenous cultures is greatly important.
For those who are advocates of Psychedelic Research and Use:
Protecting Indigenous Medicine-Growing Lands should be a priority for all Psychedelic users.
The Huichol (Wixarika) people are facing unprecedented pressure on their traditional pe**te grounds
from the Mexican Mafia
from silver mining companies
from housing developers
it takes 5-10 years (minimum) for a pe**te button to grow and develop.
In response to this, my husband has created a panel at the International Conference on Psychedelic Research (ICPR) in Haarlem (Nethrlands), bringing a Huichol elder and a young Mexican interpreter and fire-keeper to speak about traditional use, the importance of ritual, and the difference between synthetic versus organic Pe**te.
Please consider donating towards the journey of these medicine people to come to present their wisdom to those in the heart of the business and society conversations around the psychedelic renaissance.
🍀⚡⚡GoFundMe link in comments ⚡⚡🍀

Until that waking realization ⚡

Raise your hand if you like flowers 🌼 🙌🙌 🌼
It was a delight to teach children how to infuse water with Ylang Ylang flowers in
Amidst the chaos of life, sitting with beautiful children in nature pretending we are plants was a balm to my heart. 💚

As the curtain is being pulled back before our very eyes, realizing the destruction of my/our whyte colonial 'supremacy' and learning how to decolonize now can be disorienting. I have been trying to figure it out since I was a young girl.
My heart aches and breaks for the people, families, elders, children, men and women of Palestine suffering from nearly 4 months of lack of medical supplies, water, starvation....
May the transition from war and the war industrial complex come soon. Every action we take (or don't take) now determines our future and the future of our heating planet.





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Wildharvested Tincture Sale!!

In 3 weeks I am leaving for California and will be gone for the winter.

I have medicines to offer before I go!

Single bottles, €13

2 bottles of your choice, €21

3 bottles of your choice, €30

All tinctures are made with local biological wildcrafted herbs preserved in alcohol.

*Hawthorne (Meidoorn) - The Heart Enricher

Used to regulate blood pressure, provide cardiovascular support, and soothe an aching heart.

Use 1 dropperful as needed.
(preserved in brandy)

*Cleavers (Kleefkruid) - For Lymphatic Drainage

Used to flush the lymphatic system of built up and stagnant pathogens.

Use 1 dropperful daily.
(preserved in vodka)

*Dandelion Bitters - For Digestive Stimulation

Bitters help stimulate digestive secretions so you can better digest your meals.

Use 1 dropperful before eating.
(preserved in vodka)

*Spring Detox - Dandelion, Cleavers & Wild Violet

Used to detoxify the body with the gentle energies of early spring plants.

Use 1-2 droppersful in tandem with your cleansing routine.
(preserved in vodka)

DM or whatsapp me if you like to purchase bottles of medicine!

On the royal f*ckedupness happening right now...
The last 3 months I’ve been cocooning and processing a lot grief surrounding the state of the world, climate change, and humanity’s place within these breakdowns.
I am deeply saddened by the devastation of nature, species extinction, human against human, the war on Women, the war in Ukraine, and the recent attacks in Israel.
For me as a sensitive person it feels like too much, that the world is getting more chaotic by the day. Sometimes I feel I'm going to shut down, and that there is no end to the madness, mine and the worlds.
I’ve been doing what I can to cope at home: surrounding myself with loved ones, spending more time outside, taking medicines as needed - herbal and psychedelic, and giving myself more permission to rest.
As I slowly slowly come to the other side of this deep grieving and existential crisis, I realise that in the hardest of times, we need to see each other grieving and lifting each other up! Collective grieving is crucial to the health of a globalised society.
It’s been challenging to get on social media and post about 'my events' when there are people suffering, dying and our planet burning… it's felt pointless and petty to keep driving the capitalist regime.
And then
After I pass through the darkest part of my cycle, I come to understand that I do need to continue sharing my wisdom and truth. We need to continue sharing our truth and our gifts to heal each other and this world.
Hatred can be dearmored with compassion. Compassion can be found through understanding. And understanding can happen when we create a common space for people to grieve together. At least, this is my hope.
I will likely start online grieving circles this winter for people who feel they need a space to talk about all the hard sh*t happening in the world and how it's affecting us. I will keep you updated.
May all beings be free from hatred,
May all beings have a place to safely rest,
May all beings become aware of the structured violence that binds us,
May all beings make conscious choices that support a healthy planet,
May all beings return to love and compassion

This Friday in Utrecht join us for a Yoni Steam and Breast Massage Workshop.
Why?
Our womb and breast/heart are power centers on a woman’s body. These centers act as wisdom keepers to guide us in the direction we need to go.
But they can get ‘cluttered’ with stagnant energy and trauma. Incorporating cleansing rituals to your seasonal self-care routines will revitalise these centers and bring suppleness to your muscle tissue.
Spaces still available.
Register via the Hipsy link in my BIO 🍁

Breast Massage 🌸🌸
Autumn is a perfect time of the year to honor all that was accomplished throughout the summer before turning to the quiet, stillness of winter.
We can do this by creating self-care rituals for ourselves. Incorporating breast massage and yoni steams into your seasonal woman’s care will empower and enrich your energy for the dark half of the year.
Learning to heal our breasts and cleanse our womb are incredible, effective, and gentle tools to know as a modern woman. Any actions we take to be more intimate with ourselves creates a rippling effect.
Feel welcome ❤ registration link in BIO

Fire Cider Making was delightful. 💛
I always enjoy gathering in groups to make medicines. When we work together, laughing and sharing stories of Herbalism, our medicines are infused with these energies.
Each woman who joined the workshop .love now has an herbal vinegar mixture that she can sip and share with her community!
And don't be surprised if you can now order a shot of fire cider at the Mahara bar in Zutphen.

Last call to join us for Japanese Cooking Classes in Zutphen this week!
Learn to make high quality traditional Japanese food alongside Master Chef, Yuka Sagai, in these hands-on classes. Join for one or both.
2 spaces remain for the Macrobiotic workshop. And 5 spaces for the Miso Making workshop.
First come, first serve! Link for registration and details in comments.

Miso Fermentation! Why it's important to make your own.

We've all had that super tasty miso soup at a sushi restaurant. But we don't have to wait for that special date night to enjoy miso. Miso is a staple in Japanese culture and cooking. It's unique umami flavor lights up any dish. But there is more to miso than soup.. the entire process of miso is an art. And if you have a slight bit of patience for the fermentation process, your body will thank you!

By learning how to make miso at home, you impregnate the miso with your own hand bacteria. This means you are informing your miso of your body's microbiome (the community of organisms living in/on your body).

The interaction of your bacteria informs the koji (the active fermenting agent) what your particularly body needs as it ferments. Working with the bacteria like this, you can literally make your own medicine! It's like a natural antibiotic you could say.

Curious to make your own miso?

Luckily we have Yuka Sagai, an acclaimed chef, coming to Het Middenhuis in Zutphen to teach a Miso Making Workshop!

Yuka will teach you how to make a 3-month miso – right in time for winter warmth – while also learning more about the process of making 6 and 9 month misos, where to get ingredients, how to make it on your own, and proper storage procedures.

And for the record, I have not yet tasted a better miso than what Yuka makes.

We have 6 spaces left for this workshop. First come first serve!

REGISTRATION and link with more details in my bio.

*The first picture is 3 different kinds of miso. Did you know you can make miso from beans other than soy beans? This is very helpful for people who have a soy intolerance, like me.

The second picture is of the koji, the active fermenting agent that turns the beans into miso. It looks like rice but it fully breaks down in the fermentation process.

When Great Spirit brings together 2 women, beautiful things happen 💕

Today at my local bio market I 'randomly' ran into a woman and friend I had been thinking about. We enjoyed a brief but deep conversation and said our goodbyes. A short while later she came to me and presented these beautyfull flowers 💐
My heart swelled to receive this late summer bouquet. Thank you for lighting up my day! And they are my power color 💗💪😘

Hawthorn (Meidoorn) is one of my favorite late summer berries to harvest.

Hawthorne medicine is 💕Heart Enriching 💕 for both cardiovascular support and heartache, grief, and loss.

It is gentle and effective. And when it's added to brandy, it takes very nice!

In 1 month I'll have it available for purchase through linktree in my bio.

Want to learn more about herbs with me, including Meidoorn. I have a self-paced series, 10 Herbs to Supercharge Your Life, available through the link in my bio!

My friend Yuka, a master Chef is coming to east Holland (Zutphen) to teach 2 workshops!!

🍓 I waited 8 years for this 🍓
Ever since I learned Lymphatic Breast Massage, I've been dreaming of offering this as a class to a large group of women in the forest.
And it happened!
At the recent Wild Roots Herbal Gathering I offered the 'Happy Healthy Breasts & Lymphatic Massage' class. To my delight, half the festival joined my hands-on class.
In a circle of 30 women we sat with our bare breasts in the sunshine. It was so beautiful and natural.
My intention was to demonstrate how to drain the breasts of excess liquids and trapped energies and to hold space for women to explore this sacred area of their body that doesn't receive enough proper attention.
I thought beforehand, should I make this class more of a quiet ceremony... but my intuition said no. This class was not about needing to show up in any certain way or look a certain part.
This class was about normalising intimacy with our breasts. It was about feeling safe and comfortable touching our breasts, getting to know their textures and suppleness.
It was deeply about getting to know the places where we feel pain or uncomfortable lumps or soreness and spending more time massaging those spots.
We slowly took time to feel the various landscapes of our breasts and all that they have been through as a woman.
We took time to feel the stories that hyper sexualise this part of our body. We are told that our breasts are meant for pleasuring others or feeding the needs of others.
We shared stories, asked questions, let the tears fall and laughed all while we freed the guardians of our heart.
By doing this we were able to begin releasing tension, anxiety, worries, doubts, and fears we have been holding in this area for who knows how long.
That is one thing I LOVE about breast massage, it is not only making my breasts look/feel healthy, but it is an emotional and psychological release as well.
story continued in comments!
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time again! 🏕️ I'll be teaching 2 workshops at the upcoming festival
a Grief Ritual & Conversing with the Trees.
By acknowledging and processing our grief, we create more space for aliveness.
And by connecting with the more-than-human-world, we build webs of mutual interdependency for all life to thrive in harmony.
'the sorrow, grief and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal' ~ Joanna Macy

This picture captures the essence of the experiences shared by many of the women at the Wild Roots Herbal Gathering this past weekend.
It was powerful, deeply nourishing, and interwoven with support in every way!
It touched me to see so many women receiving the exact medicine they needed - the medicine they came for but didn't know how it would look, feel, or taste. The Medicine of reconnecting with nature. The Medicine of mutual interdependence. The ecodelic medicine.
Tears of joy and gratitude were shared. Tears of grief and healing. Songs of remembrance were sung.
And the elemental ancestors gifted us the most amazing festival weather at we could ask for!
The strength and softness of what we co~created is still percolating in my heart...
So I share this for now and in the coming days will share more!!
Picture by my incredible photographer, Goddess Photography

Bottling up my for the THIS weekend!!
One of my favorite moments of the gatherings are our market where any woman who joins is welcome to sell her handmade homemade goods!!
I always appreciate seeing what women are doing, making and creating at home!
Join us and add your goods to the market 🙌
Tickets available thru link in bio

🔥We are the descendants of the wild woman you forgot.
🔥We are the stories you thought would never be taught.
🔥They should have checked the ashes…of the woman burned alive.
🔥Because it takes a single ember to bring a whole wildlife to life.(Nikitaquill)
On Saturday 3 June (yesterday) the national witch monument organized an action day laying white flowers in various places in the Netherlands where 'witches' lives had been taken.
“For centuries, tens of thousands of people, mostly women, have been convicted, tortured and executed as a result of the witch hunts. They also took place in the Netherlands. This has left its mark on women today: how they are seen and how they see themselves.
The witch hunts are the only large-scale historical murder that we still joke about. With that we miss an opportunity: a historical drama can only heal if you look it straight in the eye. That is why we advocate a National Witch Monument. “
Check out the website:
https://www.nationaalheksenmonument.nl
(Courtesy of Monica Prizzi)
This *IS* the work that we do at the . To remember, empower, HEAL, and bring the Witch alive again in her capacities to be a healer, midwife, doula, mother, sister, and guide.
At the WRHG , we spend intimate time in nature reconnecting with our senses, learning about medicinal plants, heal the collective traumas against woman, and u learn to live harmoniously with/as nature.
We gather in 6 days!! Join us
via link in BIO
Photo by our beloved photographer witch

🌺 A tribe of women are gathering to…
massage their breasts outdoors in the sunshine while they learn how to have lifelong better breast health,
make their own hand-blended sacred sprays from hyper-local plant ingredients and travel home with new medicines in their bag,
detach from their to-do list and be cared for, fed amazing food, swim in a lake, and dance under the stars,
sell their own handmade items at an artisan marketplace filled with a new audience of women,
learn to identify local herbs they can find in their own backyard to heal their loved ones, children, friends and family,
learn to support menstruation with herbs so they have easier cycles,
and experience a safe space container to process their grief, pray for their lives, and give it all back to the earth.
I am so looking forward to all of this!!!
~ It is going to be powerful ~
We gather in 1 week. There are still tickets available.
Register and join us for this nourishing and fun weekend.
Tickets available through link in the Bio!!

One thing I know for sure is that our food for this upcoming will be scrumptious and nourishing (off the hook)!!
After a day of learning, sitting down for a plate of Kennia's colorful food is sooo comforting.
I remember last year hearing all the mmmm's and ouuuh's at mealtime.
It's a mouthgasm 🌈
And I'm looking forward to it again!!
Check her out

https://www.kennia.nl/
And join us for the final installment of the WRHG!!
3 days and 2 nights of sisterhood, classes on Herbalism, Roots (ecstatic) dance, Earth-based ceremonies, and of course lekker food 🙏
More details and Tickets available through link in the bio 🌿

Because of this woman, I have a treasure trove of photos from the previous years of
As I look back on them, it is hard to choose the 'best' because she captures so many great moments ~ intimate, candid, creative, hands on, and ritualistic. ⚡
And she does it all respectfully, like a nimble fairy carefully watching from behind the toadstools. This is how she captures the magic of .
She started as my photographer and quickly we became friends. She is an incredible woman, mother, activist and artist. Thank you Anouk for your masterful work and support at the WRHG!!
💥 📸 ❤️
Join us and create your own magical memories steeped in nature medicine and connection with remarkable women.
Ticket via link in the Bio

Enjoying my backyard office!!
So grateful for this warmer (wetter) weather keeping my vibes high 🌈 Drinking a mate, planning the upcoming

Presents a Teacher
~ Sophie van der Eijk ~

HER OFFERING
A Filipino Indigenous Ginger Ritual
This Indigenous Filipino ritual works with the spirit of the Ginger plant. This cleansing ritual is effectively used to cut unpleasant energetic cords, banish curses and assist in letting go of behaviour and thought patterns that have served their purpose. The integration of this ritual takes 3 days and the ginger will be buried one day after the ceremony. Let’s gather in circle with the ginger spirit and make room for a fresh, lighter and more loving life!

ABOUT HER
Sophie van der Eijk is founder of The Messy Garden Club. She brings awareness and self healing techniques in the city through shadow work, ceremonies, circles and herbal workshops. Her practice is rooted in the traditional indigenous Filipino healing art and Western Herbalism.

❤
YaAAYY!! We LOVE Sophie and are so excited to have her on board again to teach at the at Landgoed Ottermeer, June 9-11, 2023.

Learn more about Sophie's work:
The Messy Garden Club on Instagram, Facebook and website.

REGISTRATION link in bio!!