Winter Medicine
Come explore the vast medicine available to us in the winter season.
In this full day workshop, we will venture out into the beautiful wilderness just outside of Estes Park, Colorado to enter into the medicine of the winter season, including a medicinal plant walk, some animal tracking, nature-connection and spacious time to reflect and connect, allowing winter to restore us in the way she does.
Workshop Description:
This workshop is a full day excursion, designed to allow us to wander at the pace of winter, slow and steady, listening to the land and gathering the medicine that only winter can offer us, filling up our cups (figuratively and literally) and restoring our soul.
Workshop Includes:
Medicinal and edible plant walk, learning plants to harvest in winter (rose hips, spruce tips, wild cherry bark, juniper berries, various seeds, etc.)
Animal tracking and bird songs
Nature-connection time with sit spot
Time to connect with yourself, each other and the land
Wildcrafted tea from the land
Workshop Details:
$65-$80 sliding scale
5-hour excursion in wilderness area near Estes Park, Colorado
Moderate hiking/wandering in the wilderness, up to 3 mi round trip hike (depending on the desires of the group)
Please plan to be prepared with water, lunch/snacks, and appropriate clothing/footwear for light hiking off trail in whatever winter weather we might encounter
Wildcrafted tea from the land will be provided
Please bring a journal and an insulated layer to sit on (pad or blanket)
Your Guide:
Mandy Bishop is a nature-based guide, mentor, and founder of Old Ways Wisdom—a place where ritual art, ancestral skills, and Sacred Storywork weave together to bring us back into relationship with ourselves, the land, and the wisdom of our ancestors. Mandy has a deep relationship with and life-long apprenticeship to the plants and the wisdom of the land.
For over 20 years, Mandy has been intimately involved with the green ones in many forms, including foraging wild foods and wildcrafting medicines in the front range of Colorado. She’s a native plant master, an organic farmer and a folk herbalist having learned most of what she knows from elders, wisdom keepers and her own ancestors. She’s been guiding folks into the wilderness out of doors and into their soul’s for the past 6 years.
Mandy’s work centers around coming back to Soul, remembering who it is we are, and who we came here to be. In all of her musings she is following a golden thread of relationship to self, land and spirit— apprenticing to the mystery and the old ways. She’s in service to the remembrance of our wild selves; to a partnership between nature, creativity and soul; and to the wisdom carried in our bones waking us up to what is most important in our lives.