Introduction to Herbalism

The plants we see everyday hold remarkable medicinal properties. Come learn about how to harness nature’s power and gain health from the land. Participants will garner new knowledge and leave feeling inspired by nature’s medicinal properties.  Ages 18+

This class will be taught by herbalist, Jay Schwartz. 

Jay is a community herbalist, forager, menstrual cycle educator, and doula working at the intersection of plant medicine, women's wellness, and ancestral healing. Jay's path into herbal medicine began in 2018, rooted in a desire to explore body sovereignty, cyclical living, and healing outside conventional systems. Shaped by her Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and the Rocky Mountains she calls home, Jay brings a deeply bioregional approach to her practice. This was crystallized through a pivotal 2020 apprenticeship with Israeli botanist Elaine Soloway, whose work traces the wild plants of the Israeli desert ecosystem back to ancient and biblical medicine. Since then, working intimately with the plants of the land has been the beating heart of everything she does.

Over the years, Jay learned from the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and leading voices in women's herbalism including Aviva Romm, Rosemary Gladstar, and Rosalee de la Foret. In 2024, she completed Authentic Relating training. Additionally, she had the deep honor of a year-long mentorship with Qiddist Ashe, a traditional midwife, clinical herbalist, and radical birth keeper. Qiddist Ashe's teachings profoundly shaped Jay's understanding of embodied care, herbal medicine, and tending to the womb through all stages of life.

Through Plant Healing Woman, Jay makes 30+ handcrafted herbal medicines, and offers herbal consultations, medicine-making workshops, and menstrual cycle education for women seeking to reclaim their relationship with their bodies, the plants, and the earth.