Gaia Course Locations

Vermont
Sage Maurer ~ Director

In 2001, Sage founded The Gaia School of Healing in Vermont and has trained thousands of apprentices over the past 23 years. In Westminster, Vermont students gather on ten acres of land covered in abundant healing plants. We harvest cultivated and wild plants, making medicines directly from the gardens that students can take home.

Class meets outdoors and in our 30 ft. class yurt, as well as the house on site. Students can camp on the land or stay locally in the Brattleboro, Putney, Westminster, or Keene areas to commute 10-30 minutes to classes. Many students drive from long distances coming from all over the Northeast.

To follow course offerings check out the current Gaia online courses, retreats, and the in person apprenticeships taught in Vermont. Or follow via instagram @thegaiaschoolofhealing

Toronto, Canada
Alessandra De Oliveira

Alessandra will be teaching our Year One Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeships in Toronto, Canada starting in 2024.

To follow Alessandra’s offerings stay posted here or visit her on instagram - @layaspayoga

Colombia
Constanza Leal-Woods

Constanza is the founder of Jardín Secreto, a magical place hidden somewhere in Santa Elena, nestled in the Andean mountains of Antioquia.  In this place Constanza consciously grows and wild-crafts medicinal plants, offers workshops, gatherings and medicines that are born through ancestral ways of medicine making.

Since 2016 Constanza has been tending the land where she lives with her husband and baby daughter, growing food as medicine, wildcrafting, teaching herbalism and making small batches of medicine for her community in the mountains of Antioquia, Colombia. The region where her educational space is located is in lush green mountains of the Andes in Colombia, almost 9,000 feet above sea level, in a rural area that's about 40 minutes from the magical city of eternal spring, Medellin. These sacred lands she calls home were tended to for thousands of years by the Tahamis and Aburrae tribes. The climate in this mountain allows Constanza to grow and forage food and medicine almost all year long, making possible for her to offer plant walks and forest hikes to her students during the apprenticeships.

Constanza teaches herbalism workshops in South America and New England, as well as our Year One Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeships in Medellin, Colombia. To follow Constanza’s offerings visit her class listings here. Join Constanza and the plants on instagram! @somosjardinsecreto