my name is sami
i’m a gardening, earth-loving, beer-drinking heathen.

i love to dance, drum, sing, read tarot, and build altars everywhere. i co-own a garden care business in SF, i spent many years touring in a rock band, and i have this wee obsession with ritual.

over the years, as i’ve spent my days tending gardens and watching the seasons come and go – while witnessing the growth, flowering, and fecund sex, death and decay of it all – i’ve come to know plants as sentient, sensual beings. who have so much wisdom to share!

i whole-heartedly embrace the label animist. my practice isn’t perfect, nor is it immune to the western cultural baggage i was born into…. but it’s how i consciously choose to view the world. this view shapes and informs
all of my relations.

a big part of this journey has been to heal the stuff of my religious roots & upbringing, and examine the ancestral stories & patterns that were shaping me, without my even knowing it. (and then start creating new ones that actually support my deepest, juiciest flourishing!)

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over the years i’ve studied herbalism from a variety of teachers with varying perspectives, but what i really appreciate and respect are the indigenous ways, which include my own folk medicine roots from the British Isles, and Scotland in particular.

the Andean/Amazonian world view has had a big impact on my life as well. for the past several years i’ve been learning these shamanic practices from my mentor, and dieting plants in the “vegetalismo” way. i’ve become enamored with the process of being in deep ceremony with plants, and learning directly from their wisdom.

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i began this journey many years ago, as a turmoiled, disembodied person who was lost and full of angst.
i’ve come out the other side a woman who knows herself, who trusts her body, and knows what her medicine is. my path was long, difficult and full of mistakes... but i learned so much along the way.
now it's time for me to facilitate the journey for others.

this is why i hold space for those who are feeling soul-hungry, disconnected, and in search of a better way forward. my desire is to help you come into a deeper relationship with nature and yourself:
rooted, embodied, vivified.

may we re-member the old wisdoms, and cultivate relations of love, gratitude, respect, reciprocity, and joy.