La Artemisia Herbal Medicine

Hello everyone,

My upcoming event Joy & Pleasure: A Collective Healing Circle is coming up this Sunday, March 8th (Woman's Day!). We have 6 spots left! You are invited join us! This will be an intimate evening with a small group. It will be held at Love and Peace Studio in Kits.

My friend and co-host Kathleen Mary will be sharing sound medicine and card readings. And I will be introducing a few plants through an embodied herbalism practice that connect us to joy & pleasure in our bodies.

We look forward to connecting!

You can register here:

Joy & Pleasure : A Collective Healing Circle Sound Bath, Plant Teachings & Card Readings

Join Celine Cuevas, Medical Herbalist, for a workshop where we will explore different herbs and their ability to connect us to our senses and open us to feeling more joy and pleasure in our lives.

This will be an experiential workshop and discussion. Some things we will explore:

🌹Animistic perspectives of pleasure and sensuality
🌱 Herbs that calm the nervous system, enhance joy, and sensuality, and bring pleasure into our lives
💫 Directly experience some of the plants we are talking about through herb tastings and meditations
🍵 Ways to incorporate these plants into your life

Participants will receive a take-home PDF file + 10% off at Gaia on the day of the workshop.

March 8th 2-4pm
Location: Gaia Garden Herbals
2672 W Broadway Vancouver


INVESTEMENT: 35$
Contact me via email [email protected] or 778.998.5871 to reserve your spot

Really looking forward to gathering with like minded folks and talking about plants

Join Celine Cuevas, Medical Herbalist, for a workshop where we will explore different herbs and their ability to connect us to our senses and open us to feeling more joy and pleasure in our lives.

This will be an experiential workshop and discussion. Some things we will explore:

🌹Animistic perspectives of pleasure and sensuality
🌱 Herbs that calm the nervous system, enhance joy, and sensuality, and bring pleasure into our lives
💫 Directly experience some of the plants we are talking about through herb tastings and meditations
🍵 Ways to incorporate these plants into your life

Participants will receive a take-home PDF file + 10% off at Gaia on the day of the workshop.

FEB 15 3-5PM
Location: Gaia Garden Herbals
2672 W Broadway Vancouver


INVESTEMENT: 35$
Contact me via email [email protected] or 778.998.5871 to reserve your spot

Really looking forward to gathering with like minded folks and talking about plants

These days I’ve been trying to focus a bit more on prioritizing my self and finding again the things that bring me joy.

The transition into motherhood has felt depleting and isolating and it’s been a journey of trying to put myself back together. It can be so easy to loose myself in the day to day of caring for a family. And as much as I am grateful everyday for this opportunity and the beautiful being in my life, I have had to face some very hard realities within myself. So it’s become apparent that caring for myself is crucial in feeling truly fulfilled.

And so I’ve been implementing ways to stay grounded and contemplating on what brings me pleasure in the day to day. And I’ve been using Sanctuary Tea blend to get me inspired. So I’m cooking up something fun to share with folks in Vancouver *hint* we’ll be talking about pleasure baby 😉

While I get organized to share more about this upcoming event, grab yourself a cup of Sanctuary Tea and here are some things that bring joy and pleasure into my life. A reminder to myself that pleasure and joy isn’t a luxury but a crucial part of living as a human being.

1: La Artemisia Sanctuary Tea
2: The Birth of Venus by Adolph’s Bouguereau 1879
3: roses in the summertime seabirds singing in the background
4: roses and furs
5: smelling sweet roses
6: frolicking in nature with my baby boy
7: hot baths filled with herbs
8: rose buds in the dead of winter

::Capturing the sweetness of summer’s harvests::

I’ll be vending this weekend . I’ll have my handcrafted herbal teas, tinctures and body care products. Grateful for all the people respectfully working with the land to tend quality medicines and to all the plants and places that have welcomed my hands in harvesting their medicines. Because of them I have the opportunity to put together this small collection of teas and remedies and I look forward to sharing them with you all.

I want to offer a little thank you discount code for anyone who sees this post. Just mention the code FAMJAM10 at the market and receive 10% off your purchase.

Nov 9 & 10
11-5pm
79 W. 3rd Ave, Vancouver

See you there, stay safe out there, and keep your loved ones close. 💗

Stove top brews of roots and barks and seeds and berries is for me, a cherished ritual for the turning of the seasons and a source of nourishment throughout the winter months. This really feels like kitchen witchin at its finest. So if you want to connect with your inner witch, get a pot out put some herbs and water in it and await the delightful aromas that will fill your home.

In the practice of herbal medicine we call this preparation a ‘decoction’.

✨What is a decoction?
This is a herbal preparation using water to extract the medicinal components of the plants. And we typically use a decoction to prepare a tea using roots, barks, seeds, and berries. Since these parts of the plants are tougher than flowers or leaves they require a bit more time in the water and heat to extract their medicine

✨How to make a decoction?
1. Add all the herbs to your pot. Typically we use 1tbsp of herb per cup. But I’m a dash of this, a pinch of that, and a handful of this kind of woman! Experiment and have fun.
2. Add cold water to pot and bring to a boil.
3. Turn the heat down and simmer, covered, for about 20 minutes minimum. But I like to brew my herbs for longer.
4. Strain and enjoy. You can refrigerate your decoction and enjoy it for up to 3 days. Some folks love to re-brew the herbs, but I say go for it!!

✨My favourite decoction right now is an Immune Chaga Chai:
Chaga
Astragalus
Fresh ginger
Cinnamon bark
Cardamom pods
Fennel seeds
Star Anise
Cloves
Black pepper corns
Variations: I’ve been adding D**g Quai in my luteal phase for blood building and recently ran out of Astragalus so just put in some Dandelion root because I had some.

Get creative and enjoy some plant magic 🪄 🍂🍁. Let me know in the comments on you try this brew or let me know what’s brewing in your cauldron this season.

{{ The rose }}

:: These hands have touched the thorns of unwelcoming brambled cages.
These ears have heard the cries of a lost child in the night.
These eyes have seen blood spilt and soaked up by red earth.
This tongue has tasted the bitterness of contempt in the heart.
And yet it was promised that one day, on the winds of change, I should smell the sweet scent of roses once again ::
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For at least 8 years now I have been in deep relationship with the beauty of rose. I have picked her petals with reverence. I have carefully navigated her thorns. I have soaked her in brandy and drank her medicine. I have dropped golden honey over her petals to preserve her sweetness for months to come. I have anointed my body with her oil. I have been submerged in many baths filled with her beauty. I have added rose petals to every tea blend you can image. We have danced together for all this time. And every cycle of the sun, every cycle of my life she teaches me again and again and more deeply.

I have always known rose to be a heart opening medicine, elevating our vibration, dispelling anger and soothing the deep wells of grief. And yes she has done this for me in various ways and in subtle ways. However, as this cycle of my life has been unfolding she has shown me how powerful her softness can truly be.

As I have navigated some of the most difficult terrain of my life (apparently Pluto has been transiting my moon) being thrown to the deepest grief and sadness I have ever known. I have been asked to transform, to shed old patterns and to recalibrate the way I relate to love, to myself, to my dear ones. It has been extremely tough and I have felt so much anger and have felt so hardened by it all. It has been hard at times to see the beauty in myself and in others. And so I turned to rose. I began taking her medicine (the Rose Elixir that I make), daily in my water bottle. I carried her everywhere. And she has taught me so much about releasing about shifting perspectives and about feeling open to love again. She is sooo healing to the nervous system and cools the heat in the heart and in the liver. Continued in comments👇🏼