A virtual monthly women's circle
Wild Women
Wise Plants
A monthly circle for women who are ready to go deeper with the plants.
The plants have been waiting for you.
Imagine a gate at the edge of a garden you have almost forgotten.
It has always been there. Ivy-threaded, a little weathered, left slightly open as if someone knew you would come. You push through, and something in you exhales. The air is different here. There is the scent of earth and green and something older, something you cannot quite name but that your body recognizes immediately.
You are not late. You have not missed anything. You are exactly on time.
This is what it feels like to step into Wild Women & Wise Plants.
This is not one more thing to do. This is the place where you get to put everything else down and be present.
Why this circle exists
A note from Michelle
I was a feral child. Barefoot most days, making mudpies, talking to frogs, whispering to trees like they were old friends. Nature wasn't somewhere I visited. It was where I lived.
Life got loud, as it does. A business, a family, a few moves. My body eventually insisted on being heard. Slowly, I found my way back to the plants — first through books and kitchen experiments, then through formal study in 2021. What had been lifelong instinct became a practice, then a calling.
I'm a clinical herbalist and holistic coach. After fifteen years of sitting with women, what I know is this: the most powerful thing I can offer is not information. It is space. Permission to be curious again. To remember that something in you already knows.
Wild Women & Wise Plants exists because I wanted a place like this for myself. And I suspect you might, too.
What you’ll experience in this community
Once a month, you set the world aside and show up — just as you are. For ninety minutes, a small group of women gathers around one plant. Not a lecture. A conversation, a ritual, something ancient and alive. By the time you close the window, something in you will have shifted — awake in a way you'd almost forgotten.
Between circles, the plant stays with you. It arrives in your mailbox, or you source it locally, or grow it on your sill. Your Plant Companion guide gives you something to return to all month. Weekly reflection prompts and a private community keep the thread alive.
Over months, a new rhythm forms. You start to know plants not as names in a book but as living presences. And you start to know yourself a little differently, too.
You will leave each gathering feeling nourished, supported, and quietly more yourself and with new knowledge of the plant world.
What we explore together
One plant. Ninety minutes. Infinite depth.
Each month is centered on one featured plant. We follow a rhythm, season by season, plant by plant, as if walking slowly through that garden with no rush to reach the end.
Plants we explore together include mugwort, lemon balm, nettle, rose, tulsi, calendula, chamomile, hawthorn, linden, and more. Each one is approached through its full dimensions:
Energetics and how it has been used across traditions
Folklore, mythology, and their place in women's wisdom through the ages
Astrological associations and the rhythms it resonates with
Traditional uses and how herbalists have worked with it historically
Folk and magical associations, offered with curiosity and deep respect
This is not a certification program. There are no tests, no homework, no pressure to retain everything. It is educational, intuitive, and relational. You do not need any prior knowledge of herbs or plants. Curiosity is the only requirement.
A journal makes a wonderful companion for this circle. No particular one, just choose one you love.
Between gatherings
The circle doesn't end when the screen closes
Your connection to the plants and to this community continues all month long. Every month, members receive:
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Plant Companion Guide
A monthly guide to deepen your relationship with the featured plant. Save these as you build your personal plant library over time..
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Weekly Reflection Prompts
Gentle prompts to keep the thread alive between circles and help you go deeper with each plant.
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Private Community
A safe space to ask questions, share what you are noticing, and connect with women on the same journey.
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Herb of the Month
Each month, the featured herb can arrive at your door as a companion for your own exploration. Details and ordering are shared inside the member community. US only.
Want to go deeper?
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Private Coaching Session
A limited number of discounted private coaching spots with Michelle are available to members each month. Details are shared inside the community.
Everything here follows one simple principle:
Take what you need, leave what you do not.
Ready to walk
through the gate?
Join Wild Women & Wise Plants
You believe in an accessible community and want to help tend the circle for others. Your generosity at this tier helps keep the Wanderer rate available to those who need it. Full access to everything, with the community's deepest gratitude.
Membership options
Choose your place in the circle
All tiers include the full circle experience. Same gatherings. Same community. Same plants
The standard rate that keeps the circle sustainable. You are ready to slow down, learn, and be in relationship with the plants. This is the most popular level.
For those for whom accessibility matters right now. This tier simply makes it easier to say yes. Same full experience as every other tier. You belong here completely.
This circle runs on a community care sliding scale.
Choose the tier that reflects what feels right and sustainable for you right now.
All members receive the same full experience. No explanation is needed, and no questions will be asked.
This circle is for you if...
✦ You are craving a deeper, more intentional relationship with the plant world
✦ You want to learn slowly, gently, and in the company of other women
✦ You are longing for a rhythm that nourishes rather than depletes
✦ You value ritual, reflection, and soul-stirring wisdom over pretentiousness or dogma
✦ You want a monthly gathering that is supportive and nourishing
✦ You do not need one more certification. You need a circle.
✦ You have always known the natural world holds something for you
✦ You are genuinely curious about herbal folklore, plant energetics, plant astrology, and traditional uses of herbs
Your guide
Michelle Spalding
Clinical Herbalist · Holistic Coach · Apothecary Steward
Michelle has been a coach for more than fifteen years, a practicing herbalist since 2022, and a lover of the plant world for as long as she can remember. She was the kind of child who talked to trees and even wrote a book about them.
Her path to herbalism was not a straight line. It was built from decades of work alongside women, like herself, had poured everything into their families and careers and found their bodies quietly protesting. Through that work, she arrived at a truth she has not been able to let go of: Healing isn't something you do. It's something you come back to.
Michelle studied formally at the Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine in Austin, Texas, and later completed a nine-month clinical program at the Acorn School of Herbal Medicine, drawing on the teachings of Paul Bergner and the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism.
Wild Women & Wise Plants is the circle Michelle felt inspired to create one day while working in the garden. It is built on the conviction that being present in community and in relationship with the living world is, in itself, a form of medicine.
Step through. We've been expecting you.
The Gate is Open
Not sure if this circle is right for you?
No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation to see if this is a good fit for where you are right now.