OFFERING: Join local health counselor and herbalist Cristina Gutierrez of Ayurvedic Elements for a Make Your Own Medicine workshop where you can make and take your own herbal wellness formulas using a wide range of bulk herbs. Cristina will guide folks in the formulation of a unique, user-friendly all ages herbal formulas for anything from digestion to immune support, calm grounding to energized focus, skin food formulas and more. Each formula that we will carefully craft together can ultimately be: steeped and sipped decocted infused into an oil crafted into an electuary steeped in a spiritual bath made into a tincture offered to an altar No previous herbal experience is required! Everyone will design formulas according to their respective wants, needs and intuitive inspiration. Make your own medicine and become your best healer. 

DATE & TIME: Every last Wednesday of the month from 11-2pm

BIO: Cristina Gutierrez, is a mother of 2, a Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, herbalist, and educator born and raised on the south and northwest sides of Chicago. She is the founder of Ayurvedic Elements Apothecary (est. 2014), a Latinx womxn owned and operated holistic wellness brand rooted in sustainability, accessibility, and collective care. She makes small batch, user friendly, organic herbal formulas centering sustainably and locally sourced 🌱🌻🌸🍯🌹🏵🌺 herbal allies for people of all ages, and at all stages of centering and remembering. Cristina specializes in helping folks ”Learn the Language of the Body” in consultations and courses both in person and online by connecting them with the food, herbs, and rituals that have special medicine for their individual needs. Her wish as a practitioner of holistic medicine and a person who has deep respect and love for the earth and its people, is to provide tools and empowerment for the collective to unravel the roots of imbalance and bring all of us closer to our passions, pleasures, and purpose for our collective liberation. Cristina has an arsenal of tools to facilitate deep transformation through commitment to radical acts of self care and self love.