Dandelion Botanical Company Class Information

Dandelion Botanical Company Class Schedule

Dandelion Botanical Company Storefront and classroom is now located in Sequim, Washington

Classes at Dandelion Botanical Co. Sequim Winter/Spring 2024

Class #	796
Class Title	Mindfulness Meditation
Instructor	Angelika Nugent
Details	Mindfulness mediation is a form of mind training, a technique used in some religions but It is not a religious activity. It's a technique that can be learned. It's used to reduce stress understand ours and others emotions better cope better with difficult thoughts Increase patience boost attention and concentration improve relationship with self and other Improve mental flexibility and strength Increase intuitive awareness Working with the mind is like cultivating a garden. A garden flourishes when certain conditions are present. Mindfulness practice consists of 2 parts: 1. Formal practice 2. Your daily life, off the cushion Like a garden, we need to spent time weeding, watering and nourishing on a regular basis. My name is Angelika Nugent. I have been a practitioner of meditation for 30 + years. While meditation is not a spiritual practice, it has been used in mind training in the Tibetan Tradition, which I have been formally taught and have practiced for the past 25 years. Being a midwife by profession, I have taught mindfulness as a technique to be used for birth and parenting with great success. As a response to the increasingly stressful times we live in, I would like to offer my time and experience to my community. Kachi, being a bridge builder at Dandelion has suggested it many times and would very much like to invite you all to come learn what I can confidently share with you about mindfulness meditation and mind training. Let's support one another in the striving for a healthier, happier future by reducing suffering And meeting our potential for happiness and health. This group is open to beginners and comfortable practitioners.
Dates	Friday mornings beginning in March
Times	9-11 AM
Fee	Suggested donation $5.00-10.00
notes	This group is open to beginners and comfortable practitioners. Please note: Come with beginners mind, Which is a mind with many possibilities. Versus masters mind, which only has a few. Come in comfortable clothing: not to warm, to cold or to tight. If you have a yoga mat, bring it. If you have a shawl or blanket bring it. Ask Kachi, if you have questions or write me an e mail.
To Enroll	Just show up!

Class #	720
Class Title	Map Book Making
Instructor	Lisa Gilbert
Details	This two-part class consists of first making paper using common household items and then making a book with maps as inside pages and stitching the sections together using a long stitch over tapes. During the first class, we’ll make paper pulp and “pull” sheets of paper that will look like the photo above when dried, ironed, and folded. Also, we will prepare the inside map pages by learning to tear paper and prepare it for stitching. This will include a discussion about paper grain, folding, punching and pressing. During the second class, we’ll discuss types of thread, needles and tapes, then we’ll make colorful tapes, and assemble and complete the Map Book. All tools (to borrow) and materials (to keep) are included in the materials fee, however, if you have favorite maps you’d like to include in your creation, feel free to bring them! Classes can be taken individually, however, if you want to make the book shown above, both classes are necessary. Skills obtained can be translated into an unlimited number of artistic and marketable creations Artist Statement: At a very young age, I was making books - writing and illustrating stories - and even teaching neighborhood friends how to create art pieces. After graduating from the Colorado Institute of Art, my first career was illustrating for various retail establishments and agencies in Denver, teaching at a community college, and working at the Rocky Mountain News as an editorial illustrator. Around 2008, well into my second career, I took a five-day book arts class in Asheville, NC, and I was hooked. Since then, I’ve taken dozens of book arts classes around the world (including print making, paper making and other related courses), taught many classes, and sold my work in galleries and shows in multiple states. My work is eclectic and explores many themes including nature, color, words, ideas and functionality. My book art pieces (and 3-D structures) might consist of items collected from around the world such as paper, newspaper, sheets of music, maps, recycled papers, book board, book cloth, fabric, ceramics, glass, wood, buttons, beads, rocks or collections of items like canvases or prints. Creating book art pieces is magical in that each person interprets a project in a new and unique way. I find great joy in teaching others what I’ve learned so anyone can explore the unlimited possibilities of book arts.
Dates	Saturday, April 19 and April 26, 2025
Times	1pm-4pm
Fee	$30 plus $10 for materials
notes
To Enroll	Map Book 1: Input number of students:
To Enroll	Map Book 2: Input number of students:

Instructors:

Drew Ryan is an avid forager, mushroom cultivator, educator, an ethically informed applied mycologist and small business owner. Harmonic Hyphae is an up and coming small business that is dedicated to bridging the gap between human and fungal realms; all while listening to the power of nature. He is ultimately a lifelong student of nature, an artist, musician, and all around creative who is inspired by the natural world around us.

Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski has worked with hundreds of medicinal plants on spiritual and physical levels. He has farmed organically since 1972 and been a professional wildcrafter of medicinal plants since 1997. He has been working with fairies since 1977 and is the founder of the Fairy & Human Relations Congress. Gaiancongress.org and Friendsofthetreesbotanicals.com

Lauren Morgan lives, loves and dreams on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington, where the wild and her plants inform and shape her life and being. Lauren has a degree in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University, though the true depth of her knowledge comes from a decade plus of serving folks,and working with and learning from the plants directly. She is passionate about sharing the blessings of herbal medicine knowledge with others

Vickie Dodd has been a practitioner and pioneer of Sound as a Bodywork for over five decades. She started using voice with massage clients in the 1970’s and observed that Sound changed the tissue, rearranged the posture and released held emotional undigested material. She has taught and practiced Sound as a Bodywork globally since the early days of her career.

Nancy Welliver has been studying and using natural healing methods since the 1970’s and has been a practicing naturopathic physician and teacher since 1992. In her practice she focuses on the use of herbs, homeopathy, hydrotherapy, and heart. She loves making things more accessible and practical and less complicated and esoteric.

Nandi Duszynski strives for zero waste in her designs for home and body using fabric diverted from landfills & certified organic fabrics. Nandi teaches sewing workshops that help you make your clothing last longer with visible mending. You can find Nandi’s work and shop her designs at www.blissjoybull.com

Drea Moore is a Clinical Herbalist,lives in downtown Port Angeles and teaches herbalism online and in-person on the West coast. She is an alumna of the California School of Herbal Studies, core faculty of the Land of Verse online healing arts and school of herbalism and original founder of the Bay Herbalism Free Community Mobile Herb Clinic. She is certified in Ayurveda, yoga and massage and is currently rebuilding a full clinical herbalism practice here on the peninsula. She grows herbs, makes herbal medicine, conducts educational plant walks and supports the community using holistic healing arts practices and DIY ethics. She also specializes in non-alcohol herbal medicine making methodology and can be reached through soberherbalist.com and @soberherbalist on Instagram.

Diane Fabian has studied and practiced mindfulness since 1999. She has a gift for empowering others to find ease, peace, and honor the self. She is an acupuncturist in Sequim, WA. Hobbies include meditation, rocks & minerals, and singing.
phone: 360-339-4050 email: info at sequimacupuncture dot com

Sabrina Peraza Sabrina is an accomplished herbalist, medicine maker, grower and forager specializing in bio-regional herbal medicine of the Pacific Northwest. She is the owner and operator of Flora Farm, providing unique curations of seasonal herbal medicine, medicinal plant starts and experiential education opportunities in Port Angeles, WA. Sabrina integrates traditional western and folk herbal medicine ideologies with plant spirit and somatic practices for a comprehensive approach to learning and utilizing the medicine of our unique region on the Olympic Peninsula.

Dove Shepard Dove is a wildcrafter, herb gardener, and wellness advocate sowing seeds of connection through community-building projects in the Pacific Northwest. Her love for plants and plant medicine grew out of a desire to connect deeper with the traditional practices of her ancestry, a journey that deepened at the start of the 2020 pandemic. While the pandemic brought hardship and unspeakable grief to many and painful truths to the fore across the globe during the Black Lives Matter protests, it also gave Dove numerous opportunities to dive into her passion by making herbal classes more accessible through online remote learning and scholarship reparations. Since then she has found her “true love gifts” in sharing plant knowledge with the wider community. Plant Journeys is an offering of gratitude to the Ancestors and an imperative to aid humanity in healing its relationship with Nature and our home, Planet Earth. You can learn more about Dove’s journey and her community offerings at www.arasaherbals.com and on Instagram at @doveshepard.

Kristy Bredin Kristy Bredin began her journey as an herbalist in 2009, when she began a two-year apprenticeship with herbalist Robin Rose Bennett in New York. Over the years she has studied clinical herbalism with Chanchal Cabrera, Paul Bergner, Matthew Wood, and Margi Flint. For the last decade she has worked with Ryan Drum, wildcrafting medicinal herbs and cultivating an in-depth knowledge of traditional Western herbalism and local plants and seaweeds. Since 2013 she has been sharing plant remedies of the Pacific Northwest through Mermaid Botanicals. Mermaid Botanicals now encompasses Ryan Drum’s Island Herbs since he retired from wildcrafting in 2019.
Kristy is passionate about exploring the natural world and working with wild plants in ancient and creative ways. She supports folks in re-engaging and integrating with their natural environment through wild plant medicine work. To this end, Kristy offers a variety of classes in the field and online. In 2017 she founded an Herbal Medicine Apprenticeship Program: an immersive exploration of wild foods, seaweeds, and plant medicines of the San Juan Islands. She currently offers classes locally and internationally on seaweeds, wild plants, and healing with herbs.

Marion Dumont was born in Verdun, in the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, and holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Religion with a specialty in Women’s Spirituality from the California Institute of Integral Studies. As a registered nurse, mother, and grandmother, the focus of her work over the years has been women’s health and well-being. Today, this focus has shifted from the physical care of others toward the spiritual, with an emphasis on women’s mysteries, sacred arts and healing.

M. Kachi Cassinelli is an herbalist, botanist and the founder/owner of Dandelion Botanical Co. Dandelion is a natural apothecary that has been hosting classes and educating about herbs for the last 25 years. The name Dandelion was chosen all those years ago because I find so much joy in knowing how to work with and play with the plants. I’ve studied at the California School of Herbal Studies, Earthwalk Northwest and many courses in between with a BS in botany from the University of Washington. The Pacific Northwest hosts many plants that are super useful and significant to the health of the ecosystem and its inhabitants. When I first moved to this region over 30 years ago, I felt confused by the density of plants and found it essential to learn about our iconic Northwest species to be able to access the beauty of the region. Now this region is my heart’s home.

Disclaimer: We are not doctors the subjects we present here and in class are for information only and not a substitute for care from a qualified practitioner.

Class Location: Dandelion Botanical Company Classroom at 4681 Sequim Dungeness Way Sequim WA 98382.
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Please note: Class dates and times are subject to change due to classroom/instructor availability, natural disasters, my confusion and other such things beyond our control.

For information on offering classes, seminars, workshops etc. in this space please contact us (see link above). Our general guidelines are that the class fit in with with our health-oriented views, that you can demonstrate knowledge in the subject, and the usual caveats about legality and ethics :)

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