Herbal & Earth-Centered
Healing Gatherings
Herbal Gatherings
Celebrations of the Plants in Season
Herbal Gatherings are a celebration of the plants in season. Meet with people who love the earth as much as you do, to make herbal medicines, learn about healing, and celebrate the cycles of the earth. Experience yourself in harmony with nature and spirit.
The Herbal Gatherings are hands-on, earth-centered classes. We meet in my garden in Boulder, Colorado as well as directly on the land where the plants live. All classes include delicious snacks and teas made from local wild plants.
How to Join
While space is limited and pre-registration is required, you are cordially invited to come join our party with the plants! Please note that some classes require an application. Please contact me to sign up or join the waiting list by calling (303) 449-4061 or sending an email. We celebrate and welcome LGBTQI+ & BIPOC community!
“Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense, my friend, don't plant anything but LOVE..”
—Rumi
2027 Osha Grove Study Group
FRIDAYS 10-3 | $525 | POTLUCK
June 11, 2027
July 9, 2027
August 13, 2027
September 10, 2027
October 8, 2027
Osha is at risk from over-harvesting. Our Osha Grove Study Group (OGSG) is for those who are deeply devoted to Osha, who want to learn how to tend Osha groves, and who want to serve as protectors and spokespeople for them. Space is limited.
Each day in the Osha Grove is a ceremony from beginning to end, so please anticipate 3 days of preparations on your own before each gathering and arrive 15-20 minutes early to settle in. Ceremonies begin on time.
The Jenny Polston Osha Grove Study Group Scholarship
Jenny was a true caretaker and voice for Osha Groves. She loved all the members of the grove from the aspen, yarrow, wood betony, wild parsley, wild rose, arnica, and spruce trees, to the rabbits, ravens, bears, moose, chipmunks, and hummingbirds.
She was a brilliant herbalist who created dozens of Osha Grove analog teas and tinctures in order to protect the groves. Jenny educated her students and clients to find alternatives to using osha root so that the groves in Colorado remain healthy and vibrant.
This scholarship honors and celebrates Jenny's work in our herbal community. She was a true leader in earth-centered herbalism.
Please contact Ann to apply, donate, or learn more about the Jenny Polston Osha Grove Study Group scholarship and Jenny's passionate stewardship of the Earth.
2027 Teacher Training: Learn to Teach Earth-Centered Herbalism
WEDNESDAYS 3-6pm | $375 | POTLUCK
Spring Gathering: May 12, 2027
Summer Gathering: July 21, 2027
Fall Gathering: September 22, 2027
Strengthen your earth-centered teaching skills. Join our supportive community and learn to teach the magic of the plants in season.
Learn new ways to deepen with our local healing plants. Make herbal medicines & nourish yourself with wild foods. Hone your experiential teaching tools, and inspire others to love and care for the earth as much as you do.
$375 includes all gatherings, plant immersions led by participants, an individual coaching session each time you choose to lead, and mentorship for classes you offer in our community.
Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to settle in. All gatherings start on time.
Teacher Training Assisted by Alyssa Clemenzi
Alyssa is an Earth-centered shamanistic practitioner, ceremonialist, and folk herbalist. She offers healing sessions and Yucatec Maya Closing of the Bones ceremonies, teaches classes and, is an herbal and wild foods medicine-maker. She bows deeply to her many teachers and wisdom-keepers, including Ann Drucker, Rachel Weitz, Sandra Ingerman, Chandra Sun Eagle, the precious plant & animal kingdom, Mama Earth, and her own benevolent helping spirits. You may contact Alyssa by phone (508-932-0373) or send her an email.
2027 Earth Centered Practitioners Case Study Review Group
WEDNESDAYS 3.30-6p | $90 for 3 Months, Jan-Mar, Coordinated by Johanna Granger.
January 27, 2027
February 24, 2027
March 31, 2027
AND - WEDNESDAYS 3.30-6p | $150 for 3 Months, Oct-Dec, with Ann Drucker.
October 6, 2027
November 10, 2027
December 8, 2027
These groups are for active practitioners of earth-centered healing traditions who want mentorship and the support of our practitioners’ community—including all of our compassionate helping spirits—to support your work with clients.
Application required.
Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to settle in. All gatherings start on time.
Beltane Weekend with Betsy Bergstrom in Boulder, CO
Saturday & Sunday, May 1 & 2 | 10am - 5:30pm-ish | $450
Special Guest Betsy Bergstrom will join us Beltane Weekend. Beltane marks the transition of the Goddesses, The Cailleach and Bride.
Together we’ll explore the magic and mystery of this time and how it relates to our contemporary lives. Experience the replenishment & renewal from the Winter Goddess Cailleach, to the full splendor of the Summer Goddess Bride.
Gatherings in the Earth-Centered
Yucatec Maya Healing Tradition
of Miss Beatrice Waight
2027 Yucatec Maya Healing Hut ~ Foundations of Traditional Healing with Joy Kemna & Laura Clemmons
June 25-27 | Friday 5–8pm Primicia Ceremony | Saturday & Sunday 10am-5pm | Lyons, CO | POTLUCK Lunches & Feast Foods | $385 - $550 Sliding Scale*
We gather in community to practice Maya healing in the lineage of Miss Beatrice Waight of Santa Familia, Belize. Come nourish yourself and one another with herbal teachings, plant brushings, spiritual baths, prayer, ceremony and timeless earth-centered traditions.
No experience necessary. Contact joylynnkemna@gmail.com for more information.
*Jenny Polston Scholarship available.
About Joy Kemna & Laura Clemmons
Joy Kemna is a dynamic and engaging educator, community herbalist, gardener, medicine maker and mother to three incredible humans. Her lifelong relationship with plants, rooted in hands-on experience, deep study and a reverence for traditional healing practices continues to shape both her herbal practice and her teaching. Joy first traveled to Belize in 2007 to study with Ms. Beatrice Waight as a student of Ann Drucker. The union of herbal medicine, spiritual healing and deep connections with a living lineage continues to inspire Joy’s work.
Laura Clemmons is a clinical medical herbalist, functional medicine educator, and shamanic practitioner with over 24 years of experience. Rooted in her Strega lineage, an Italian tradition of healing and magic, she weaves evidence-based medicine, traditional herbal wisdom and earth-centered shamanic practices into a unique approach to healing. Her work attends to the physical, emotional, and spiritual, recognizing these systems as inseparable. Laura began her study of Yucatec Maya healing in 2001 with Miss Beatrice Waight. Laura is the founder of Tendril Herbal Apothecary & Healing Center in Sandpoint, ID, where she sees clients, trains herbalists, and leads workshops on clinical herbalism, Maya abdominal massage and shamanic practices.
Foundational Yucatec Maya Healing Hut Assisted by Mariamor Pazos.
Mariamor is a postpartum doula, folk herbalist, and student of the plants. She has studied deeply in the Yucatec Maya lineage to learn how to partner in right-relationship with the plants. She teaches herbal classes, offers "Closing of the Bones" ceremonies and traditional Yucatec Maya sessions inspired by the teachings of Miss Beatrice Waight. Mariamor is devoted to helping others connect with their true authentic nature, the spirit of the plants, and the healing medicines of Mother Earth. You can learn more about Mariamor on her website.
Noodle (the Dumeril boa) has been with Ann for fifteen years and is a core member of the Healing Hut.
2027 Yucatec Maya Healing Hut | Community for Women | Advanced Practice Group with Ann Drucker
SATURDAYS 10–4:30 | $800 | POTLUCK
June 19, 2027
July 17, 2027
August 21, 2027
September 18, 2027
This year we gather in community* to dive deeply into our Yucatec Maya advanced healing practices in the lineage of Miss Beatrice Waight of Santa Familia, Belize. Come nourish yourself and one another with herbal teachings, plant brushings, spiritual baths, Yucatec Maya massage, limpias, prayer, ceremonies, and timeless earth-centered traditions. We celebrate and welcome LGBTQI+ & BIPOC community!
*Each woman in our healing hut community volunteers two (or more) times to help set up &/or clean up.
Please arrive 15-20 minutes early to settle in. All gatherings start on time.
Prerequisites & application required.
Yucatec Maya Healing Hut Advanced Practice Group Assisted by Jamie Mantey & Doris Vargas.
Jamie Mantey is a women's somatic counselor and relationship coach with more than twenty years of experience in herbalism, embodied spirituality and the healing arts. She began studying with Ann Drucker in 2004 and has continued to deepen her study of Yucatec Maya Healing traditions ever since.
Doris Vargas is a shamanistic practitioner and psychotherapist who has been practicing for over twenty years. She helps clients find relief from life events, release stored energy and trauma, and provides safe, guided journeys through shamanic bodywork and plant medicine ceremonies. She also teaches at Naropa University and MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies). You can learn more about Doris and her offerings on her website.
Donations to Miss Beatrice’s Family
Donations to Miss Beatrice’s family can be made via Zelle to drucker.ann@gmail.com or given directly to Ann, who travels regularly to Belize to hold Yucatec Maya Healing Huts in Miss B’s village.
Your generosity helps to fulfill her dream that we as a healing community stay connected to her family and help keep their Yucatec Maya healing traditions alive! Thank you!
