This three-class series covers menstrual health, fertility awareness and herbs for conception and contraception, and herbal support through pregnancy loss. All classes in this series are taught from a trauma-informed, gender-inclusive perspective that welcomes all bodies. Designed for practicing herbalists and other clinicians, these classes are appropriate for anyone with an intermediate level of herbal experience.
Classes cover the following topics; please see individual class pages for more details!
- Menstrual cycle physiology, indicators, and common energetic patterns
- Influence of sleep, stress, diet, trauma and more on the menstrual cycle
- Herbal therapeutics for menstrual imbalances, using traditional assessment and patterns
- Herbal support for fertility and conception
- Using herbs as an adjunct to fertility awareness as a method of contraception
- Physiology and hormonal changes in early pregnancy
- Causes and symptoms of miscarriage
- Options for clinical abortion
- Herbs and formulas to support the body before, during, and after the ending of a pregnancy
Tessa Micaela Landreau-Grasmuck (they/them) is a community and clinical herbalist, Certified Professional Midwife and a poet. Tessa graduated from VCIH in 2019 and from Birthwise Midwifery School in 2021, and has been working in generative care and full spectrum reproductive health for over a decade. Tessa currently sees clients, catches babies, teaches classes, and walks with their dog on unceded Abenaki land (central VT/northern NH). They spend lots of time with hands in the dirt, in somatic inquiry and working to build sustainable, liberatory models for collective healing, and organizes with the The Rose Core Collective. More about Tessa’s work can be found at threshold community midwives andthreshold apothecary.
