Ally Sanchez - Herbalist and Nutritionist

Ally Sanchez - Herbalist and Nutritionist Providing the Lower Blue Mountains and Greater West with Plant Medicine and Nutrition advice since 2004 Healthy Families, Healthy You

28/08/2025

🌱 Clivers shows us: cling, clear, and renew. Spring cleansing made simple

🌿 A cooling, moving herb that clears toxins and supports the lymph.

🌸 a perfect herb for the upcoming spring cleansing




I am loving Student Clinic Week In just a few days, we bond over herbs, healing, and holding space — for our clients and...
16/08/2025

I am loving Student Clinic Week
In just a few days, we bond over herbs, healing, and holding space — for our clients and for each other. Grateful for another beautiful student clinic experience 💚🌿

🌿 We’re proud to offer $20 consultations to support our local community — feel free to spread the word!
Next student clinic is in September

August Student clinic up and running 🫶🏼💚Our herbs are in good hands. 🌱💫
12/08/2025

August Student clinic up and running 🫶🏼💚
Our herbs are in good hands. 🌱💫

🌿 Home Healing Garden Begins This is the very first step in building my 🏡 Home Healing Garden I have been laying the gro...
07/08/2025

🌿 Home Healing Garden Begins

This is the very first step in building my
🏡 Home Healing Garden
I have been laying the groundwork (literally).

Layering cardboard over the grass, then covering it with this free mulch (thank you Francis the tree surgeon) 🙏🏽
to suppress weeds, nourish the soil, and create the perfect base for future garden beds.

🌞 Im starting with the sunny side of my house, a great patch for veggie growing, herb medicine-making, nourishment for my battle weary soul, and a future place for others to learn and connect to mother earth. 💫🙌🏽💚



This is the beginning. I’ll be sharing each step of the process with you as it unfolds.
All gardening tips welcome, let’s grow together 💚

04/08/2025

✨ Is menopause a disease that needs to be treated?OR a transformation that needs to be supported. In sundays Home Healer class, we’re diving deep into this question. We’ll explore our physiology shifts, and how herbs, food, and ritual can become powerful allies during this time.💫Menopause is not the end. It’s the beginning of a new kind of strength — one rooted in wisdom, clarity, and creative sovereignty.🌿 This isn’t about “managing symptoms” — it’s about meeting the shift with grace, vitality, and meaning.

✨ What an honour to be part of a panel discussing the art of *low dose herbal prescribing* — a conversation close to my ...
27/07/2025

✨ What an honour to be part of a panel discussing the art of *low dose herbal prescribing* — a conversation close to my heart.

Deepest thanks to Rixt for facilitating the discussion and for her beautiful book “Low Dose Methodology in Herbal Medicine: History, Philosophy and Application.” 💚💚💚
📖 It’s a must-read must OWN for anyone passionate about the nuanced power of our plants.

Also a big shout-out to my colleagues who shared the panel — what a rich and inspiring exchange of ideas and practice.

📚 Calling all final-year herbal medicine and naturopathy students — if you’re ready to take your clinical hours to the next level, I invite you to join me in the Blue Mountains for a one-week immersive clinic (50 hours).
I’ll provide the clients and walk beside you every step of the way. 👯‍♀️

You’ll gain real-world experience using:
🌿 Drop doses
🌿 Iridology
🌿 Intuitive prescribing
🌿 Face reading
🌿 Time-honoured approaches grounded in vitalism and tradition

DM me to apply or learn more. Spaces are limited.

Great to see your faces again xx and some new faces too 💫

🌿 Embracing your unique gifts isn't just a personal journey - it's a gift to the world🙏🏼YOU are a unique gift to the wor...
19/07/2025

🌿 Embracing your unique gifts isn't just a personal journey - it's a gift to the world

🙏🏼YOU are a unique gift to the world.

✨ No matter how small you may think you are, you make the world a better place - perhaps a nuturing mum, a protective dad, the under 12 soccer coach for the 6th year in a row, the playgroup co-ordinator, seniors choir leader, an entrepreneur, a movie maker or music player; life is richer and more meaningful when embracing your gifts. 🌱

You are precious and the world needs you 💚

🌿 Raising children with the wisdom of herbal medicine has been a fundamental part of our family’s wellness journey. From...
19/07/2025

🌿 Raising children with the wisdom of herbal medicine has been a fundamental part of our family’s wellness journey.
From a young age, my boys have seen first-hand how nature’s medicine supports and heals us all.

🏡This is one of the reasons I created the *Home Healer* program
—to share the gift of herbal knowledge and empower others to nurture their families with the wisdom of our foremothers and fathers.
🌱 It’s not just about the herbs; it’s about fostering connection, health, and the confidence of self-sufficiency in the home.

💚Whether you’re a parent, a healer, or simply someone who wants to learn more about plant medicine, *Home Healer* is here to guide you every step of the way.

📱DM to join the waiting list for 2026, and I'll share some home healing favourites with you along the way.

05/07/2025

Dragging my sorry arse back into CrossFit.
I don’t want to talk about it 🥴
But was wonderful reconnecting with the gang 🫶🏼

01/07/2025

💚 Im Back Plant People 💚
After a challenging year, I took June to reflect, reset, and heal. The past months have been life-changing, maybe not in a very fun way but I am so grateful to be back and moving forward.
Here’s to new beginnings, growth, and healing. 💚🌿

🌼🙌Thank you for all the love and patience over the past year, and apologies for random trauma dumping at unprofessional times. I give you permission to remind me I have a counsellor, a very good one mind you. 🥹😅💚

Onward and Upwards 🥰.
LOVE AND KISSES ALLY 💋💋💋

Taking a Step Back to Move Forward 🌿 For the month of June, I’ll be stepping away from social media and pausing in-perso...
01/06/2025

Taking a Step Back to Move Forward 🌿 For the month of June, I’ll be stepping away from social media and pausing in-person consultations.

This space is a gift to myself.

Time to rest, recalibrate, and quietly lay the groundwork for the next chapter of my work and life.

What continues during June:
✨ Home Healer classes as scheduled
✨ Herbal remedy orders will be filled as usual
✨ Emails will still be answered
✨ Bookings for July are now open

This decision comes after a big year of personal transition and change. I’m leaning into the quiet... to listen, to re-centre, and to plan for the future with more clarity and intention.

I’m so grateful for the continued support of my community, and most of all, for the three young men I’ve had the privilege of raising. They are my greatest teachers.

Thank you for your understanding and encouragement. I’ll see you again in July, ready to share more of what I’ve been dreaming up.

Warmly,
Ally 💚

20/05/2025

🎥 Thank you to the Natural Health Society for having me!
It was a pleasure to present on the powerful role of nutrigenomics — how food can literally speak to our genes, turning on healing and repair pathways within our body. 🧬🥦

I’m looking forward to sharing more about this fascinating area of nutrition over the coming weeks and months — especially how everyday whole foods can support detoxification, hormone balance, inflammation, and longevity. 🌿✨

Stay tuned for practical tips, recipes, and plant-powered science to help you use food as true medicine. 💚

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Shop 8 'BROOKLANDS VILLAGE' 15a Great Western Highway
Blaxland, NSW
2774

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 12pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 3pm
5pm - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9:30am - 11:30pm

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+61417234882

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My Story

Oh to begin this story with my birth in a field of wild lavender, followed with a childhood bathed nightly in chamomile flowers. Raised on nothing but fresh air, tree climbing and wholefoods. Tending to our biodynamic/permaculture backyard, bottling produce and making home remedies under the guidance of my loving, radiantly healthy parents, singing lullabies in foreign languages while playing the ukulele into the night …

But no. I grew up in the blue collar western suburbs of Sydney with dreams of being a nurse. I loved the hands on work and genuine caring of nurses and while still in preschool I recall declaring in a loud voice, “I’m going to be a nurse!” As a pr***en I would get lost in a series of novels about nurses working with the sick in the community, no doctor in sight. My story continues in a way which may relate to more of you than the opening paragraph. Let’s just say my youth was a tad wild ok? My poor parents and my poor body. At 23 I instinctively knew I couldn’t continue polluting my body and became a vegan.

I devoured any vegetarian literature I could get hold of, reading amazing stories of recovery from life-threatening and chronic illnesses through nutrition, herbal remedies, and other natural healing therapies. I fell in love with the amazing, complex, unique, delightful, frustrating, intelligent piece of machinery our body is. At the age of 30, I reignited my passion for health and healing embarking on a full-time study at a major naturopathic school in Sydney. After 3 years of study, I signed up for Dorothy Hall’s Herbal Medicine College. She was 74 years old and I was pregnant with my first child and her ways really resonated with me, acknowledging not only physical manifestations of health or ill health but the impact emotions and circumstance play in sickness. I have been using this holistic, style since then.