April 25th & 26th, 2026
For healers who feel the pull to go deeper.
There comes a moment in every practitioner’s path when intuition is no longer enough. You can feel. You can hold space. You can move energy. But something inside you knows your work is evolving.
Something deeper.
The Sacred Alchemist Workshop: The Alchemy of Herbs is a two-day, hands-on immersion for healers who are ready to integrate their intuition with structure, materials, and embodied process. Instead of simply adding more modalities, you are about understanding how healing becomes craft.
When Healing Becomes Herbal Alchemy
Healers restore. They bring relief through touch, warmth, prayer, breath, and presence. Alchemy does not replace healing — it refines it. Where healing often focuses on restoring balance in the moment, herbal alchemy asks a different question:
How is transformation prepared? How are plants chosen? How are oils infused? How does intention move from idea into matter? How does the nervous system stabilize change over time?
Herbal alchemy works with nourishment and release. With regulation and integration. With shadow and light; without bypassing either. It honors that real change happens slowly. Through preparation. Through ethics. Through relationship with the body. This is the shift from healing as a role…
to alchemy as a way of practice.
Alchemy shows up in the how. In the way materials are selected and prepared. In the way herbs are applied...physically, emotionally, spiritually. In how the body is supported before, during, and after transformation. This goes beyond surface alignment or “love and light.”
Sacred Alchemists understand that integration is as important as activation. That the body must participate. That medicine is crafted...not rushed. In this workshop, herbs become the medium for that understanding. Through guided formulation, ritual preparation, embodied practice, and ethical discernment, you will begin to experience what it means to work with plant allies in a structured, grounded way.
Meet Your Host - Laura C. Genao
Laura is a licensed massage therapist, herbalist, and holistic practitioner who has supported hundreds of clients through somatic bodywork, herbal integration, and structured healing experiences. Her work is grounded in direct practice; shaped by years of working with fascia, the nervous system, and the long-term process of recovery beyond quick fixes or spiritual bypassing.
Laura’s approach blends intuition with protocol. She teaches practitioners how to responsibly select, prepare, and apply herbs within client work; honoring energetic sensitivity while grounding it in preparation logic, scope awareness, and nervous system stabilization. Through the Sacred Alchemist Academy, she bridges embodied healing with practical frameworks, helping practitioners refine their craft with clarity, structure, and integrity.
Early Bird
$357
Payment Plans Available
The Sacred Alchemist Toolkit
Rather than memorizing herbs or copying formulas, we use the Vortex Somatic Compass™ framework to understand how and when to apply plant support within client work.
The five directions offer a practical structure for assessing what the body actually needs in the moment. Each direction helps you determine whether to stimulate or stabilize, when to support elimination versus restoration, how to pace activation safely, and how to integrate change without overwhelming the nervous system.
Through guided preparation and applied practice, you will learn how to select and prepare herbs with clear reasoning; supporting regulation, rhythm, and sustainable outcomes without forcing or bypassing the body’s process.
You’ll engage in:
➳ Crafting herbal oils and traditional plant-based waters
➳ Learning foundational preparation methods using essential tools
➳ Participating in guided, body-based ritual practice
➳ Understanding ethical space-holding and professional boundaries
➳ Applying the Vortex Somatic Compass™ as a decision-making framework
➳ Building the foundations of structured, intentional ritual design
Within this workshop, you’ll work with:
🜄 Nourish (Water): Herbs and oils that support restoration, hydration, and emotional regulation. You’ll learn how nourishment creates the physiological and nervous system conditions necessary for clarity, resilience, and recovery.
🜃 Release (Earth): Lymphatic and pain-support herbs that encourage circulation and elimination. This direction emphasizes pacing, safety, and understanding when the body needs movement versus stabilization.
🜂 Shine (Fire): Herbs that support vitality and activation. You’ll learn how to work with stimulating plants responsibly, applying them with intention to avoid overstimulation or burnout.
🜁 Connect (Air): Aromatic and spiritually significant herbs used in preparation and ritual. This direction focuses on grounding spiritual practice in the body and material reality rather than bypassing process.
✧ Expand (Ether): Integration practices using the Vortex Compass™ to assess readiness, maintain balance, and carry herbal work forward responsibly within client sessions.
Working with herbs through the Vortex Compass™
Curated Guest Activations
This Sacred Alchemist Workshop includes intentionally curated guest activations designed to deepen embodiment and support integration across the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of healing. Each facilitator has been selected for their lived experience, professional grounding, and alignment with ethical herbal practice.
Nakita Charles
Nakita is an integrative holistic psychotherapist and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, as well as the founder of C’est Clair Holistic Therapy. With roots connected to Haiti, Cameroon, and Guinea-Bissau, her work bridges cultural wisdom with modern therapeutic practice.
Since 2012, Nakita has supported individuals through complex life experiences using modalities such as EMDR, hypnotherapy, Reiki, sound therapy, and herbal education. Her approach honors the connection between mind, body, and soul; emphasizing integration, trauma awareness, and nervous system safety.
In this workshop, Nakita will offer a grounded psychological lens to support embodiment, emotional processing, and responsible integration of the alchemical work.
Janet Heredia
Janet is a Master Herbalist, herbal formulator, and Holistic Esthetician who has been making medicine with plant allies for years, helping clients find relief from a variety of health challenges, including within the spinal cord injury community through targeted herbal formulas.
She has now bridged her herbalism into skincare, creating a full circle practice that supports the body, mind, and spirit. Her work is rooted in the understanding that herbs meet us on multiple levels physically through the skin, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually offering care that goes far beyond surface-level treatments.
As a practitioner and guide, Janet combines traditional herbalism with intuitive skin care practices, exploring how the body is often drawn to the plants it needs most. In this workshop, she will share the synergistic relationship between herbs and human healing, and participants will create a botanical product designed to support the skin, harness herbal wisdom, and uplift mood through aromatherapy and ritual.
Josie Castañeda
Josie is a Miami-based Mexican-Cuban herbalist, yoga therapist, and Curandera rooted in Latin American folk healing traditions. As the founder of Curandera Remedies and author of Latine Herbalism: A Beginner’s Guide to Modern Curanderismo, her work bridges ancestral plant wisdom with modern holistic practice.
As a yerbera, Josie works in relationship with plant allies through ritual, preparation, and embodied awareness. Her approach honors lineage, nervous system regulation, and sacred reciprocity with the natural world.
In this workshop, Josie will offer an ancestral perspective on herbal alchemy; guiding participants into a deeper relationship with plants as living medicine within an ethically held container.
Do I need prior experience or herbal knowledge?
No prior herbal training is required. This workshop is designed for healers and practitioners at different stages who want to deepen their relationship with herbs, ritual, and embodied practice.
Do I need to be licensed or certified in anything to attend?
No. You do not need to be a licensed practitioner to participate. However, this workshop emphasizes ethical boundaries, scope awareness, and responsibility. Any professional application of this work must align with your local laws, training, and licensure.
What will I leave with?
You will leave with both practical tools and a clear framework for integrating herbal alchemy into your personal practice and client work.
Specifically, you will leave with:
- Hands-on experience crafting herbal oils and spiritual waters
- A foundational understanding of how to work with herbs through the Vortex Somatic Compass™
- Clear principles for using herbs to support nourishment, release, regulation, rhythm, and integration
- A grounded approach to ritual and sacred medicine that can be adapted thoughtfully into your offerings
- Stronger discernment around pacing, ethics, and nervous system support
Is this only for people with a healing business?
No. You do not need to have an established business to attend. Some participants will be actively seeing clients, while others may be deepening personal practice or preparing for future work. The material supports both paths.
Is this workshop hands-on?
Yes. This is an in-person, experiential workshop. You will actively work with herbs, tools, preparation methods, and embodied practices — not just observe or listen.
What comes next after the workshop?
For those who feel aligned, this workshop opens the door to advanced trainings, mentorship, and deeper study in herbalism, ritual practice, and embodied alchemy. There is no pressure to continue. Integration and discernment are central to this work.