
Classes & Retreats
Stay tuned for upcoming announcements for 2025 offerings.
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."
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.
FULL CIRCLE HERBAL APPRENTICESHIP
Using Herbs as Healers and Teachers Throughout the Year
Spring - Fall 2024
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.
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.
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