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Deep Healing
A Women’s Retreat
July 12-14, 2024
August 16-18, 2024
296 Bobbin Shop Rd. Chelsea VT 05038
With Susan Hoffman and Heide Scheurer
Join us for three days of peace, tranquility, and profound healing and transformation using plants, stones and crystals, sound healing, and powerful intention. Connect deeply with Mother Earth, your own Higher Self and inner guidance, and each other. We will camp, share healthy organic vegetarian and wild foods, do daily yoga, Breathwork and meditation, hold ceremonies, create sacred space and rejuvenate body, mind and soul.
The retreat will be held at Susan’s beautiful home, gardens and woods in Chelsea, Vermont.
Opening circle is Friday at 10:00, closing circle Sunday at 4:30.
The cost includes camping, meals, healing sessions and materials. Please bring your own tent and sleeping gear. Camping set-ups are available for a fee if needed. Local B&Bs are available for those who do not wish to camp.
For more information and to register, please email susanhoffmanherbalist@gmail.com.
Susan Hoffman is a community herbalist, Daoist Stone medicine practitioner, Healing Touch and Reiki practitioner, Medical intuitive, and certified Aromatherapist. She also has training in Aurveda, Traditional Chinese medicine, and shamanic practices. She is the founder/owner of Wild Hill Soap and Herbals, serving Vermont since 1994. She lives and practices in Chelsea, VT.
Heide Scheurer offers sound and energy healing, Daoist Stone Medicine, Biofield Tuning, as well as massage at her wellness center Sound Haven Vermont in Chelsea. She is also trained in various types of yoga and meditation. See: soundhavenvermont.com.
Reflections from past participants:
"I have never had the pleasure and honor of participating in such an incredible gathering. Thank you and Susan so profoundly for providing the opportunity, space and guidance for us to go so deep. Our collective time together offered experience new to me in its power; I'm pretty sure I vibrated to new frequencies at moments, and clearly walked between the worlds more than once."
"The weekend spent with all the lovely ladies was superb. I felt very comfortable and totally rejuvenated..Had so much energy when I reached home.
"I can honestly say that I feel that I have soul-movingly changed"
"Susan's flower garden has so much love and work put into it, who could not feel the power flowers have on a person?!.
FOOD: excellent wish someone would cook for me like that all the time.."
"I feel lighter happier, more at peace. its hard to put into words just how moved I am, I feel like I put on some glasses and i am seeing the world in a whole new light"
"It was amazing to say the least, connections were made and deep healing happened."
"We are certainly in an era where so many of us are reaching out and trying to find our community. Gatherings like these are so incredibly special. On a side note, all that I had hoped for and set intentions for following that weekend came to fruition. I truly believe that the final ceremony where we empowered each other with love and strength allowed me to leave that weekend and accomplish something I had not been able to do on my own for almost four years. I left the toxic relationship I shared details about and have not turned back since. I don't know if I could have done it without finally feeling a sense of worthiness and deserving of love. This group gave me that. From the bottom of my heart, thank you."
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HERBAL CLASSES
Herbs for Family Health Series
September 2024
This series of 2 classes will cover the basics of caring for ourselves and our families through the winter months. It will cover care, treatment and medicine making for the common ailments of cold and flu season.
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FULL CIRCLE HERBAL APPRENTICESHIP
Using Herbs as Healers and Teachers Throughout the Year
Spring - Fall 2024 (check back for dates)
This is our flagship course that covers the basics of herbal knowledge and wisdom for caring for oneself, family, animals, and community. It follows the season from spring planting thru fall harvest.
It will cover:
Plant identification, growing, harvesting and preservation.
Using wild herbs for food and nutrition.
Herbal medicine making and preparations for the family and home.
Instruction on treating common family ailments, and first aid using plants.
Winter health strategies to boost the immune system.
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SPRING HERB WALKS
Explore the abundance of plant medicines in the forest, meadows, and gardens of rural Vermont.
Classes to be announced, please check back.
CUSTOM HERBAL CLASSES
Have something in particular you would like to learn? Gather 6 or more folks and let's talk!
Email susanhoffmanherbalist@gmail.com for more details.
Please inquire for all updated class offerings.
Gardens
Annual Herb and Perennial Sale
May to mid-June
Open Garden and Fall Sale
September
Click HERE for a list of available plants for sale.
Contact us for open garden dates & to schedule a visit.
Please inquire for garden and sacred space design offerings.
Enjoy some photos of our summer gardens!
Wild Hill Soap & Herbals
100% Pure & Natural Hand-Crafted Skin and Body Care Products, Soaps,
Buckwheat Hull Pillows & Aromatherapy ProductsPlant Medicines
Herbal Medicines, Tinctures, Teas, Flower Essences, Stone Elixers
Flower and Plant Essences
Subtle Energetic Emotional Support
Flower and plant essences are a beautiful and gentle medicine appropriate as a stand alone therapy and as a subtle but powerful addition to any healing protocol. They lovingly assist with all types of healing modalities offering insight, illumination and emotional support. They can help one see what emotional issues and traumas underlie their health condition and gently assist in moving through it. Especially helpful for coping with grief and loss.
Price: $18.00 for 2oz blue dropper bottle
Stone and Gem Elixirs
Energetic Medicine to Heal the Soul and Spirit
Deep and powerful like the great mother earth herself, these stone medicines are capable of profoundly shifting ones consciousness, Karma, and can even work at the level of the DNA. If you are ready for deep and profound change, this is your medicine!
Price: $18.00 for 2oz blue dropper bottle
Custom Herbal Tincture Formulas
Do you have a single herb or formula you would like replicated or customized just for your needs? I can make it for you!
Price: 1oz for $12.00
2oz for $20.00
4oz for $38.00
8oz for $74.00
Note: Some herbs that are more precious or hard to come by and thus will be priced accordingly.
Herbal Teas
All teas are freshly blended made from herbs grown in our own gardens.
Healing Flowers Tea
High Mineral Tea
Sleep Aide Tea
Stress Relief Tea
Tulsi Rose Tea
Chamomile
All teas are available in 1 oz and 3oz bags.
Price: 1oz for $12.00
3oz for $30.00
About Susan Hoffman
As a herbalist, who is deeply connected to the earth, the elements and the natural world, I realize that in order to heal, we must remember that we as humans are an intricate part of the web of life and not separate from it. The earth is truly our home and our primary source of deep nourishment and connection to the divine. It is through this connection that we find healing, meaning and direction on our life path. I understand that we cannot be healthy if our environment is not, as we are in our essence, one and the same. I am truly honored and blessed to have the opportunity to assist and guide my clients on this journey of healing and reconnecting.
MY JOURNEY
I began my deep immersive study of healing over 40 years ago when I was in my mid-20s, driven by my own confusing, difficult and persistent health challenges. Like so many who end up in the alternative healing fields, I could not find answers in the Western medical model so I began what was to become a life long and circuitous journey through the seemingly endless maze of alternative healing methods and modalities. While this provided me with the great gift of a very broad and inclusive education in nutrition and the field of alternative medicine, it did not give me the answers I sought or relief from my own suffering.
Ultimately in 1994, I discovered my deep love of herbs and plant medicine through apprenticing with my first and most beloved herbal teacher, Rosemary Gladstar. Along with the magic and medicine of the plant world, I was also introduced to the concept that the emotional and spiritual state of a person can profoundly affect their mental health and physical body. For me, this was the missing piece and it opened up and expanded healing into the world of the soul and spirit, metaphysics, the quantum field and beyond. This cultivated deep within me an even more profound passion for understanding and embracing all aspects of the healing process.
I am a mom of two wonderful spirited humans and a grandma of a most delightful and soulful little one. I live in central Vermont on a small herb farm with my partner in life where we grow and lovingly tend the plants and aminals we share space with here. We make all the medicines and herbal products right here on the farm with love, intention and deep reverence and gratitude. I feel honored and blessed to be walking this earth life at this time of great change and possibility.
CREDENTIALS
HERBAL & AROMATHERAPY
Susan has been a practicing community herbalist and teacher for 30 years. She apprenticed with Rosemary Gladstar in 1994 and completed her advanced herbal training in 2005. She has continued her studies ever since with many of the leading herbal experts and teachers of our time, including: David Winston, Tieraona Low Dog, Stephen Buhner, David Hoffmann, Christopher Hobbs, Deb Soule, Mindy Green, Kathi Keville, and many others. She is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Integration Program from the Ayurvedic Center of Vermont, and has informal training in Traditional Chinese Medicine and Homeopathy. Susan is a certified Aromatherapist through the school of Herbs and Aromatics.
STONE MEDICINE
Susan is a certified Daoist stone medicine practitioner. She continues her study of stone medicine with Sarah Thomas and the Upper Clarity School of Stone Medicine.
SHAMANISM & EARTH BASED PRACTICES
Susan has studied and mentored for 20+years with Dr Rocío Alarcón, an ethno-botanist with ancestral roots in the lineages of the curanderas of the Ecuadorian Andes. She studied ancestral healing with Dr Alberto Villoldo, Christina Pratt and Linda Fitch. She was initiated into the Rites of the Munay Ki in 2020 with Dr Alberto Villoldo and Marcella Lobos.
MEDICAL INTUITION & HANDS-ON HEALING
Susan is a certified Medical Intuitive through Dr. Mona Lisa Schultz. She holds certifications in several hands-on healing modalities including Reiki, Healing and Therapuetic Touch, and has studied several others.
TRAUMA WORK
Since 2015, Susan has worked at SafeArt, a non-profit organization for traumatized adults and children. She facilitates the Healing Arts for adults groups. This approach utilizes creative modalities such as: art, movement, meditation, mindfulness, breathing and vagus nerve exercises to teach tools and coping strategies for dealing with and healing trauma and the stress of daily life.
BUSINESS OWNER
Susan is the founder/owner and formulator of Wild Hill Soap and Herbals of Vermont, a small herbal product business serving vermont and beyond since 1995.
