Description
Date: October 4, 2025
Time: 9 am – 4 pm
Skill Level: All levels
Class Registration Fee: by September 15, 2025: $90.00
After September 15, 2025: $100.00
Are you craving the coziness of healing arts, handcrafted herbs, and wisdom of the Northern cultures? Gigi will share Nordic herbalism and wellness traditions including the medicines and mythology of evergreens, birch, and other traditional northern herbs. In the spirit of Eir, the traditional Norse goddess of healing, participants will create a mugwort medicine bundle, evergreen tea or sauna blend, Berkana (birch) infused oil, and Eir medicine stone. Participants are invited to bring an example of a family or ancestral tradition—a family recipe, special story or memory. Ancestral wisdom sharing is encouraged.
Gigi will also be teaching a class entitled “Koselig, Hygge…Creating a Sense of Sacred Space” the following day, October 5.
Materials fee: (To be collected directly from students by instructor in class): $20.00
Students should bring: Notebook or sketch book, and tote bag
Gigi Stafne, MH, ND, MI, has been a practitioner of natural and botanical medicine for 37 years with substantial clinical, health, environmental, social justice, and entrepreneurial experience. Her education includes CAM degrees at the School of Natural Medicine (SNM), Boulder Colorado which incorporated the following degrees: Master of Herbalism, Master of Iridology, Naturopathy, and Natural Physician. Her continuing education and teaching is extensive – in women’s health, environmental health, cross cultural medicine, ethnobotany, and beyond.
Gigi pioneered and created the first natural medicine clinic in West Central Wisconsin near Minneapolis, the Center for Healing Arts, bringing on a team of 12 skilled practitioners. She then founded an affiliated botanical medicine school which to date is one of the few in the Upper Midwest and Lake Superior regions of North America that offers a professional Master of Herbalism Program.
She continues to teach students at all levels of knowledge. From beginners to professionals seeking to expand their knowledge base, she offers each a variety of courses ranging from intensive courses, nature immersion exploration, and major conference keynote addresses to the lighter ‘make and take’ workshops.
