1-5 pm

3798 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA

Come out to support your local grass-roots herbalists, healers and business women as you enjoy an afternoon of free herbal and healing classes.

Stock up on your supply of herbs for winter and find unique holiday herbal gifts.

Taste, sample and enjoy the herbal products from Ancestral Apothecary and Community Herbalist.

Our offerings include:

Tarot readings & dreamwork

Free mini herbal wellness classes

Free Jin Shin Jyutsu Self-Help class

Flower Essence and Cordial Bar

Meet your local herbalists and healers!
Taste and enjoy herbal goodies and elixirs!
Receive free Jin Shin Jyutsu and Sound Healing Sessions!
Support Oakland Grown & grass-roots health care!

We’re opening the office for your chance to shop at Ancestral Apothecary and stock up on herbal teas, cordials, yummy herbal edibles and special hand-crafted herbal gifts.

During this event, many of the wonderful practitioners from my office will be present giving free demonstrations of bodywork, sound healing and more!

Schedule of Events:

2:00-5:00 pm Ancestral Apothecary store and tasting station open
2:20-2:40 pm Free Lecture: Herbal essentials for boosting immunity
3:00-3:40 pm Free mini Jin Shin Jyutsu® & acupressure sessions
3:40-4:00 pm Jin Shin Jyutsu® self-help class
4:20-4:40 pm Sound Healing demonstration

Raffle! Each $20 purchase from Ancestral Apothecary entitles you to one raffle ticket. Top prize is a Wellness Consultation with Atava. $150 value!

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I hope that you all enjoyed the Winter Solstice and the darkest time of the year here in the northern hemisphere. During the beginning of December, I enjoyed my first Herbal House Party of the season. All who attended had a great time sampling herbal goodies and potions. The menu included medicinal chai, purple kale stir fried with maitake, shiitake and oyster mushrooms; spicy Elderberry Cordial, Damiana Delight Cordial (an aphrodisiac), and much more. Upcoming Herbal House Parties include an Herbal Valentine’s Party (love potions galore!) and a Magical Fairy Mixer Elixir. Stay tuned!

Getting ready in the kitchen.

The lovely host and the herbalist.

Checking out the product.

Fairy endorsement for Ancestral Apothecary products.

(Most consultations with Atava are available by phone, email or Skype, so you don’t have to live in the Bay Area to benefit from her healing expertise.)

Services Include:

Herbal Consultations: Wish to fine tune your health for the New Year? Looking for someone to help support and guide your path back to good health? In these individual appointments, we will discuss in detail your health history and concerns. You will receive a unique herbal formula made just for you by Atava to address your particular needs and constitution. Follow-up visits continue until your health issues have resolved. Occasional herbal consultations are a great idea for health maintenance as well.

Flower Essence Consultations: Stuck in an emotional rut? Wish you had a magic wand to conjure up some special energy for yourself? Flower essences are like this kind of magic in a bottle. They work particularly on the emotional, spiritual and mental realms to help us come back into balance and harmony.

Acupressure and Jin Shin Jyutsu®: Stressed? In pain? Feeling run down or in poor health? A quick way to help tune up your body is to receive a hands-on healing session from Atava. After sessions, clients report feeling immediately much better, including having more energy, more mental clarity and focus, and a greater sense of peace and well being.

Limpias: The limpia is a traditional Mexican ceremony that helps cleanse the body and spirit of unwanted energies. Limpias are a great way to work with shock, trauma, loss, and grief and they are also good if you just want help letting go of something.

Deep Genealogy Coaching: For people of all backgrounds who wish to connect more deeply with the indigenous spiritual traditions of their ancestors. In theses sessions, you will work one-on-one with Atava to navigate your personal ancestral remembrance process.

For more information including rates, click here to go to my website.

Call 510-541-2715 or email atava@ancestralapothecary.com, or click here to go to services page.

Good towards Herbal & Flower Essence Consultations, Acupressure and Jin Shin Jyutsu Sessions, Limpias, or Deep Genealogy Coaching. Purchase package of any three services and receive one free of equal or lesser value. Sliding scale rates do not apply.
Offer Expires 12/31/09

Siete Flores is inspired by the traditional Mexican remedio Siete Azares, which is a tea made of seven flower blossoms and traditionally used for relaxation. I created Siete Flores also from seven flowers: four herbal flower blossoms and three flower essences. The herbal ingredients include passionflower, chamomile, scullcap and magnolia blossoms. These four herbs are called herbal nervines which are herbs that nourish and calm the nervous system. They are helpful with stress, tension, anxiety, insomnia, PMS, and many other nervous system disorders.

The other ingredients in Siete Flores include the flower essence of California Wild Rose, which helps to open our hearts and to feel love and joy. The flower essence Angelica connects us to our spirit guides and guardian angels, thus helping us to feel more protected, guided and comforted. The flower essence of California Wild Valerian is deeply calming and relaxing. This is a very special plant that grows wild in the Sierras but rarely blooms. We came across this plant a few years ago on an herb trip and had a lovely afternoon making this special flower essence.

Siete Flores is a remedy to calm your nerves, nourish your spirit, and to uplift your heart. It is a perfect remedy for the emotional challenges of this wintertime season. It can be useful for seasonal depression, stress, and the feeling of grief and loss that often comes up for people around this time of year. To order on-line, click here.