Good day! My name is Melody, and I am honored that you are here!
My plant medicine mandalas were born by marrying 3 of my most pleasurable passions: Herbalism, Astrology, and drawing mandalas. With my mandalas, I hope to inspire more people to embrace plant medicine for health and healing. Creating medicine from herbs you have grown or sustainably wildcrafted is a deeply connecting, joyful experience. Doing so, in my humble opinion, is nothing short of revolutionary. Medicine for the people, by the people!
My dream is to create abundance for myself, my family, and community by sharing my art and passions. My intention is to bring more love, joy, healing, and empowerment to the world by embodying those qualities within. The work of a lifetime and more, I am sure!
A little more about me.....
I was raised in a very rural area of Northern California, and for this I am incredibly grateful and feel blessed beyond belief (thanks Mom and Dad!) I remember spending most of my time outside of school climbing trees, riding my pony, swimming in creeks, and just generally having a magical time, connected with the natural world.
My formal education is diverse. Despite wanting to become a veterinarian through most of my childhood and teenage years, I studied Architecture for 3 years straight out of high school. During what I call my 'college life crisis' I decided I wanted to travel and so headed to Australia for a year abroad studying Environmental Science and Naturopathy. During that year I travelled alone throughout Australia, Papua New Guniea, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji. This time was an empowering, educational, and transformational experience to say the least. When I returned home to Northern California I attended Chico State for a few more years and finished college with a B.S. in Geography and Planning and a minor in the Geosciences. This is where I met John, my beloved hubby. We have two children together and reside in a rural Northern California town, not too far from where I grew up.
I currently work as a natural hoof care practitioner, certified and trained through the Progressive Hoof Care Practitioners, and have been a passionate horse lover/equestrian from a very young age.
I have also worked as a Massage Therapist and Yoga Teacher.
Currently I am a student of Alchemical Herbalism through the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
I LOVE to dance, gallop through the woods on Brynja, spend quality time with my family, hike in the forest, tend to our garden, practice yoga, make medicine, make cool crafty beautiful things, create a beautiful home, write poems, bask in the sun, swim in the creeks and lakes around here, and read and listen to talks on all things astrology, herbalism, law of attraction, spirituality, dressage and positive reinforcement training for horses. Probably more, too. So much to learn!
Wishing you Wellness,
My plant medicine mandalas were born by marrying 3 of my most pleasurable passions: Herbalism, Astrology, and drawing mandalas. With my mandalas, I hope to inspire more people to embrace plant medicine for health and healing. Creating medicine from herbs you have grown or sustainably wildcrafted is a deeply connecting, joyful experience. Doing so, in my humble opinion, is nothing short of revolutionary. Medicine for the people, by the people!
My dream is to create abundance for myself, my family, and community by sharing my art and passions. My intention is to bring more love, joy, healing, and empowerment to the world by embodying those qualities within. The work of a lifetime and more, I am sure!
A little more about me.....
I was raised in a very rural area of Northern California, and for this I am incredibly grateful and feel blessed beyond belief (thanks Mom and Dad!) I remember spending most of my time outside of school climbing trees, riding my pony, swimming in creeks, and just generally having a magical time, connected with the natural world.
My formal education is diverse. Despite wanting to become a veterinarian through most of my childhood and teenage years, I studied Architecture for 3 years straight out of high school. During what I call my 'college life crisis' I decided I wanted to travel and so headed to Australia for a year abroad studying Environmental Science and Naturopathy. During that year I travelled alone throughout Australia, Papua New Guniea, Tasmania, New Zealand, and Fiji. This time was an empowering, educational, and transformational experience to say the least. When I returned home to Northern California I attended Chico State for a few more years and finished college with a B.S. in Geography and Planning and a minor in the Geosciences. This is where I met John, my beloved hubby. We have two children together and reside in a rural Northern California town, not too far from where I grew up.
I currently work as a natural hoof care practitioner, certified and trained through the Progressive Hoof Care Practitioners, and have been a passionate horse lover/equestrian from a very young age.
I have also worked as a Massage Therapist and Yoga Teacher.
Currently I am a student of Alchemical Herbalism through the School of Evolutionary Herbalism.
I LOVE to dance, gallop through the woods on Brynja, spend quality time with my family, hike in the forest, tend to our garden, practice yoga, make medicine, make cool crafty beautiful things, create a beautiful home, write poems, bask in the sun, swim in the creeks and lakes around here, and read and listen to talks on all things astrology, herbalism, law of attraction, spirituality, dressage and positive reinforcement training for horses. Probably more, too. So much to learn!
Wishing you Wellness,
