BALM MAKING
​WORKSHOPS

 upcoming workshops


Please enquire for upcoming workshops
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Discover & Learn the Power of Native Healing Herbal Balms.

 An interactive workshop from identification through to preparation and use.
Participants are taken into the bush to identify and pick their own plants. We talk about how to pick, when to pick according to moon cycles, advice and guidance on picking, blessings, integrity and honouring papatuanuku, our mother earth. 

This is a hands on practical workshop, exploring the senses - you see the healing balms made, make your own healing balm and lip balm - and of course you get to take them home! We make our products without using chemical or nasty ingredients, its all natural.
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Scroll over the green image board
​to reveal the senses explored

The aim of the course is to self empower,
through the process of making your own balms from raw, natural ingredients right through to the finished product.
Participants express a profound sense of achievement in the knowledge that they can create something that  can then be used on themselves and their family to heal naturally and rapidly - ​Secure in the knowledge that they are using only natural and health promoting ingredients

Explore the Senses & Discover the hidden Power of Healing Herbals
Scroll over or click the images below and the senses explored will be revealed

FEEL - Softly touching everything, feeling the different sensations of the forest

CONNECTION - grounding yourself into earth (papatuanuku) & uplifting to the sky (ranginui) connecting us with our intuition and inner knowing

INHALE - the unique scent of kawakawa is one of its defining aspects. participants learn all the ways to identify this powerfully healing plant

LOOK what is above us what is around us the colours, textures, layers.

BONDING - ​participants leave with new skills and new friendships

CREATING - bring together raw ingredients to create a powerful healing balm. A holistic & empowering process

​TASTE - these lipbalms are devine, participants make their own and chose their own colour and flavour

HEAR - Listening not only to the knowledge we all hold & share but also listening to the special sounds present within the forest walls, & listening to our inner voice

Healing Balm Workshop - Your Day

Introductions  - background story around the journey that led to Native Healing Herbals.

Demonstration on moon cycles and how they affect our planet, plants, bodies and all of nature - visit to the bush.
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• Grounding, connection to earth (papatuanuku) forest (ngahere) and connection with our inner selves.
• Opening up to all senses, sight, smell, touch, taste, hearing, and intuition, walk and talk though a beautiful peice of native forest
• Medicinal properties of some native plants and trees
• Identification of kawakawa plant
• Picking kawakawa, learn about when, where and how to pick
• Return to premises
• lunch break
• Demonstration of how to make kawakawa balm
• Participants make their own kawakawa balm
• Demonstration of how to make lip balm
• Participants make their own lip balms
• Learn how to make tinctures and infusions

WORKSHOP PRICING

Full Day Workshop - 10am till 3pm
$150 per person 
$25 deposit to secure your place, 
Pricing includes all materials and handouts

HOW TO BOOK 
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Spaces are limited so bookings are essential
or Contact Tia to find out course dates and to secure your place

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I will travel to you if there are enough participants at an extra cost per head (location dependent) - These are adult courses, if you have a child group please contact me or look at kids programs page

book a space - non refundable deposit

NZ$25.00

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Your Experiences & Testimonials 

Coordinator kelly Scott-Ritchie, Community House, Kaitaia
......Tia Jellick (healey) is our facilitator for the healing balm workshops.. the content of these courses are of an excellent standard,  we anticipate ongoing workshops....

ruth davison, RGON RM BHS (midwifery) east coast midwives
Tia has presented several workshops on the making of natural balms for my antenatal classes held at our east coast clinic.  both the women and myself got a lot out of these classes, tia is very skilled at what she does.....

debbie stone, HIPPY programme coordinator, ngati kahu social and health services, northland
.....Tia Jellick (Healey) delivered 2 workshops to groups of parents enrolled on the HIPPY (home interaction program  for parents and preschool youngsters) program with ngati kahu social services.....her workshops were enjoyed by all who attended, including staff at ngati kahu social services, and i have continued to hear good feedback about her teaching style and knowledge.  she is very inclusive in her workshop manner.

Tamariki ora manager, kohanga maternity centre, te hauora o te hiku o te ika, northland
tia has assisted in our childbirth education sessions by teaching and sharing her knowledge which encompasses a holistic approach to healing and well-being......her methods of teaching have enabled people in our community to prepare their own natural healing balms that are safe and effective and proven to be an essential part of well-being for many....

​class acknowledgment, northtec students
we (the students) of the horticulture course tutored by tia jellick (healey) wish to commend her to you as an outstanding tutor.  she is very well organised, honest, reliable, decisive, knowledgeable in her field and will go to the trouble of finding answers to questions.  she achieves a good balance between directing activities and allowing students freedom of choice.  she is a caring thoughtful person, and we have found it a pleasure to be in her class.

Please Contact Tia for course dates & to secure your place 
If you have a group of 10 people I will run a workshop at your request
I also run these workshops for "team building" and "professional development" 
please enquire if your company would like to know more