Sonya Byron Plant Medicine

10/11/2023

Hi everyone! It's that time again! After a few months' break from teaching workshops due to clinic work and other commitments, I'm so excited to be sharing my upcoming workshop at Lyttleton Stores co-operative!

💚 Preserving the Harvest:
Natural Pickling and Fermenting 💚
Sunday 26th November, 10am-3pm
cooperative in Lawson

Come join me for the day and your will learn:

🥬 a variety of techniques to preserve your produce, enhancing its flavour and nutritional content
🥬 the many health benefits of fermented foods and lots of different ways to include these in your diet
🥬 herb and spice flavour profiles and how to pair these with different types of produce to create your own unique preserves
🥬 includes quick pickles, vinegar pickles, salt brines, sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables, and more!
🥬 you will take home a jar from each batch we make throughout the day - yum! - as well as notes, recipes, and trouble shooting tips so you can continue to practice your new skills at home.

Ticket link in the comments - come play in the pickles for a day! I'm so looking forward to seeing you all there! 💚

09/07/2023

It's that time again! Still a few tickets remaining for my upcoming workshop co-operative in Lawson - be quick!

💚 Preserving the Harvest:
Natural Pickling and Fermenting 💚
Sunday 16th July, 10am-3pm
cooperative in Lawson

Come join me for the day and your will learn:

🥬 a variety of techniques to preserve your produce, enhancing its flavour and nutritional content
🥬 the many health benefits of fermented foods and lots of different ways to include these in your diet
🥬 herb and spice flavour profiles and how to pair these with different types of produce to create your own unique preserves
🥬 includes quick pickles, vinegar pickles, salt brines, sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables, and more!
🥬 you will take home a jar from each batch we make throughout the day - yum! - as well as notes, recipes, and trouble shooting tips so you can continue to practice your new skills at home.

Ticket link in the comments - come play in the pickles for a day! I'm so looking forward to seeing you there! 💚

📷 Nadine Primeau

07/06/2023

Only a few places remaining in my upcoming workshop cooperative in Lawson - be quick as this workshop sells out! 💜

💚 Herbal Home Remedies: Preparing your Winter medicine chest 💚
Sunday 18th June, 10am - 1.30pm

Herbal Home Remedies are based on herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, flowers and other natural ingredients commonly found in home kitchens and gardens 🌻

💜 Come join me for this interactive and fun workshop! Learn how to support your health and the health of your loved ones this Winter, using safe, effective, inexpensive and environmentally conscious natural remedies and strategies that you can easily make and use at home:

🌱 meet powerful healing plants and learn how to easily identify them in the wild or to grow them yourself in your home garden;

🌱 learn about the medicinal properties of these plants and how, when and where to apply them;

🌱 learn how to make your own natural home medicine chest! I will share my favourite natural supports for common seasonal health complaints, including allergies, congestion, cold and flu symptoms, coughs, sore throats, ear aches, musculoskeletal aches and pain, dry skin, headaches, fatigue, stress and low mood, and much more!;

🌱 learn important hygiene and safety considerations, including which remedies are appropriate for children and the elderly, and when to call a doctor.

Ticket price includes a copy of my 40 page printed and bound herbal recipe book to take home with you. Link in the comments - I hope to see you there! 💜

10/04/2023

It's that time again! Only a few tickets remaining for my upcoming workshop co-operative in Lawson - be quick!

💚 Preserving the Harvest:
Natural Pickling and Fermenting 💚
Sunday 16th April, 10am-3pm
cooperative in Lawson

Come join me for the day and your will learn:

🥬 a variety of techniques to preserve your produce, enhancing its flavour and nutritional content
🥬 the many health benefits of fermented foods and lots of different ways to include these in your diet
🥬 herb and spice flavour profiles and how to pair these with different types of produce to create your own unique preserves
🥬 includes quick pickles, vinegar pickles, salt brines, sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables, and more!
🥬 you will take home a jar from each batch we make throughout the day - yum! - as well as notes, recipes, and trouble shooting tips so you can continue to practice your new skills at home.

Ticket link in the comments - come play in the pickles for a day! I'm so looking forward to seeing you there! 💚

📷 Brooke Lark

26/02/2023

Tickets on sale for my upcoming workshop cooperative in Lawson - be quick as this workshop sells out! 💜

💚 Herbal Home Remedies: Preparing your Autumn medicine chest 💚
Sunday 19th March, 10am - 1.30pm

Herbal Home Remedies are based on herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables, flowers and other natural ingredients commonly found in home kitchens and gardens 🌻

💜 Come join me for this interactive and fun workshop! Learn how to support your health and the health of your loved ones this Autumn, using safe, effective, inexpensive and environmentally conscious natural remedies and strategies that you can easily make and use at home:

🌱 meet powerful healing plants and learn how to easily identify them in the wild or to grow them yourself in your home garden;

🌱 learn about the medicinal properties of these plants and how, when and where to apply them;

🌱 learn how to make your own natural home medicine chest! I will share my favourite natural supports for common seasonal health complaints, including allergies, congestion, cold and flu symptoms, coughs, sore throats, ear aches, musculoskeletal aches and pain, dry skin, headaches, fatigue, stress and low mood, and much more!;

🌱 learn important hygiene and safety considerations, including which remedies are appropriate for children and the elderly, and when to call a doctor.

Ticket price includes a copy of my 40 page printed and bound herbal recipe book to take home with you. Link in the comments - I hope to see you there! 💜

03/02/2023

Only a few tickets remaining for my upcoming workshop co-operative in Lawson - be quick!

💚 Preserving the Harvest:
Natural Pickling and Fermenting 💚
Sunday 12th February, 10am-3pm
cooperative in Lawson

Come join me for the day and your will learn:

🥬 a variety of techniques to preserve your produce, enhancing its flavour and nutritional content
🥬 the many health benefits of fermented foods and lots of different ways to include these in your diet
🥬 herb and spice flavour profiles and how to pair these with different types of produce to create your own unique preserves
🥬 includes quick pickles, vinegar pickles, salt brines, sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables, and more!
🥬 you will take home a jar from each batch we make throughout the day - yum! - as well as notes, recipes, and trouble shooting tips so you can continue to practice your new skills at home.

Ticket link in the comments below - I'm so looking forward to seeing you there! 💚

26/01/2023

🖤💛❤️ I live and learn and offer my work within the sacred country of the Darug and Gundungurra peoples. I acknowledge their continuous and deep connection to the physical, cultural and spiritual landscape surrounding me, and that sovereignty was never ceded. I commit to actively working alongside them for truth, reconciliation, justice and healing. I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart and I encourage you to do so too. I pay my respects to the ancestors and to Elders past, present and emerging 🖤💛❤️

“Today we stand in footsteps millennia old.
May we acknowledge the traditional owners
whose cultures and customs have nurtured,
and continue to nurture, this land,
since men and women
awoke from the great dream.
We honour the presence of these ancestors
who reside in the imagination of this land
and whose irrepressible spirituality
flows through all creation.”

'Acknowledgement of Country’, NSW poet Jonathan Hill.

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15/01/2023

Happy (belated) new year, dear clients and friends! 🎉 I hope you all had a relaxing end to the year and that your new year 2023 is off to a happy and healthy start 🌿 After taking a little retreat from the world (literally, in a Yoga retreat centre with limited internet!), I’m refreshed and really happy to back in the clinic and working with you all again 💚

For those of you who haven’t met me yet (a few new followers since my last post - welcome!), I’m Sonya, a naturopath and Yoga teacher based in wildly beautiful Darug and Gundungurra country - Blue Mountains, NSW. And I absolutely ❤ my work with a passion - supporting people like you to achieve your health and wellbeing goals using the power of plant medicine 🌱 - giving you the energy and vitality to pursue your dreams in life!

I offer consultations from , a gorgeous healing space located in Blaxland, lower Blue Mountains (I’m also online). This year, I’ll be available Wednesdays and Fridays (including evenings), and some Saturdays too. So if you’d like some guidance on your health journey, please book in to see me (link in comments). Whether you’re experiencing major health challenges, feeling pretty good already and wanting to optimise your health, or you’re somewhere in between, I (and the plants!) would love to support you! 💚🌿

P.S. I’ve been busy with clinic work and so a bit quiet on social media recently, but I’m looking forward to sharing more helpful information about herbs, health and healing with you all this year 🌻 You can also find me , as I’m lucky enough to be their local herbalist for Australian/NZ (be sure to try Pukka’s new Breathe In tea if you haven’t already - so delicious!) ❤

20/07/2022

I'm honoured to have been invited to present at this weekend's Community Resilience Festival. Organised by and funded by , the festival aims to aid social and environmental recovery in the wake of recent events and to support our community to build disaster resilience.

I'll be speaking on Sunday, 24th July at 12pm, on the topic of Community Recovery and Resilience through Local Plant Medicine, discussing:

🌿 the importance of local herbal supply chains - just as local farming and food production enhances our resilience, so too does locally produced herbal medicine;

🌿 a healing recipe or two to support recovery and resilience, using herbs easily grown or wild foraged in our local area;

🌿 why the Blue Mountains needs a community herbalism hub, working to connect our vulnerable community members with local herbal knowledge and remedies.

The healing power of plant medicine extends far beyond the personal. In the wake of a natural disaster like the bushfires or the recent floods, supporting our community with local herbal knowledge and remedies can vastly improve people's capacity to care for themselves, each other, and all of creation as they begin the long process of recovery.

Ticket link in comments - I hope to see you there! 💚🌏

13/06/2022

Only a few tickets remaining for my upcoming workshop at Lyttleton Stores co-operative in Lawson! 🎉

💚 Preserving the Harvest:
Natural Pickling and Fermenting 💚
Sunday 19th June, 10am-3pm
co-operative in Lawson

Come join me for the day and your will learn:

🥬 a variety of techniques to preserve your produce, enhancing its flavour and nutritional content
🥬 the many health benefits of fermented foods and lots of ways to include these in your diet
🥬 herb and spice flavour profiles and how to pair these with different types of produce to create your own unique preserves
🥬 includes quick pickles, vinegar pickles, salt brines, sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables, and more!
🥬 you will take home a jar from each batch we make throughout the day - yum! - as well as notes, recipes, and trouble shooting tips so you can continue to practice your new skills at home.

Ticket link in the comments - I'm so looking forward to seeing you there! 💚

22/05/2022

I've been so busy in clinic 💛 recently, I forgot to share my with my latest seasonal newsletter with you all, in celebration of Autumn! 🍁

In this newsletter (link in comments), learn all about:

🍁 Supporting your immune health through the coming cold and flu season with good old-fashioned herbal oxymels! Easy and inexpensive to make, deliciously sweet and sour, and very versatile (step-by-step instructions inside).
🍁 Upcoming workshops: join me co-operative in Lawson on Sunday, 19th June to learn natural pickling and fermenting skills!
🍁 My super easy and really delicious mixed vegetable kraut recipe - you'll never pay $15 for kraut again!
🍁 My new expanded clinic days and hours, offering you more variety and availability of appointments - book in to see me today!
🍁 Plus you can grab your copy of my Back to Basics health and wellbeing guide (free download!)

I hope this newsletter is useful to you, please subscribe if so and you'll hear from me each season. Enjoy! 💛 🍁 💛

03/05/2022

So looking forward to the return of Wellbeing Wednesday at the Blue Mountains Food Co-op tomorrow! See you there!

Drop into the Co-op tomorrow Wednesday 4th May for a chat with Sonya Byron Plant Medicine about all things herbs and health.