Upcoming Events

DESCRIPTION: Join us at The Lamb Shoppe & Wellness Center for a guided walk through our vibrant medicinal gardens and wild spaces. Explore a rich variety of cultivated herbs, native plants, wild edibles, and healing flowers growing right on the farm. We’ll talk plants, share stories, and connect with the land—one leaf at a time. Whether you’re a plant lover, a curious beginner, or a seasoned herbalist, you’ll come away inspired by nature’s abundance and wisdom. Herbal teas will be provided!
SPEAKER BIO:Connie Karstens is a clinical herbalist and holistic health educator with a strong foundation in both science and traditional healing. With over 20 years of focused herbal medicine training and clinical experience, Connie combines deep knowledge of plant medicine with a practical, client-centered approach to wellness. Her extensive herbal education includes advanced clinical training, apprenticeships, specialized coursework in diagnostic skills, flower essence therapy, wild edibles, and therapeutic nutrition—drawing on both modern and time-honored practices. Since 2005, Connie has maintained a thriving clinical practice where she works with clients of all ages to create personalized wellness plans rooted in herbal medicine, whole foods, and sustainable lifestyle choices. She prepares many of her own remedies using locally gathered plants, crafting tinctures and herbal blends from the fields and forests of the 180-acre regenerative farm with her husband. As co-owner of The Lamb Shoppe & Wellness Center, Connie has helped build a unique integrative wellness space that includes a health food store, herbal apothecary, and collaborative team of holistic practitioners. She offers one-on-one consultations, teaches hands-on workshops, and leads educational classes on topics such as herbal medicine, nutrition, flower essences, and natural health. Grounded in nature, backed by science, and shaped by decades of experience, Connie is committed to helping others restore balance, build resilience, and reconnect with the healing power of plants.
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DESCRIPTION: Buried emotional and physiological responses can get in the way of many treatments for many conditions. So it becomes important to understand how a psyche can structure itself around survival strategies that protect us from unbearable feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and powerlessness, because they also prevent us and our clients from accessing our full vitality and personal treasure chest. In this class we will map out structures in the psyche defined in IOPT (Identity-oriented psychotrauma therapy) and how we might use that map to approach custom, trauma-informed, flower essence blending to support deeper, fuller healing processes.
SPEAKER BIO: Loey has been professionally accredited through SEDIBAC (Catalonia Society for the Study and Diffusion of Dr. Bach’s Therapy), and is the English translator of Pablo Noriega’s book, Bach Flower Essences and Chinese Medicine (Inner Traditions, 2016). Loey is a NCCAOM PDA provider #172473, course contributor at A New Possibility, and lectured at the IV and VI SEDIBAC/SEFLOR conferences in Barcelona, Spain, at metro-area universities, a national flower essence conference and podcast, and for professional and community groups in the Twin Cities (including twice or thrice NCHG) since 2011. Loey provided professional training in clinical flower essence therapy to other integrative providers (acupuncturists, social workers and psychologists, herbalists, nurse practitioners, birth and death doulas, body workers…) in her annual 9-month flower essence foundations training course (2017-2022). Loey studied Clinical Integrative Flower Essence Therapy and related coursework at various institutes in Barcelona (ISMET, SEDIBAC, Aula Bach, and Institut Anthemon), in the U.S., and internationally, since 2009. She trained in IOPT (Identity-oriented Psychotrauma Therapy), based in Family Constellations, with Jamie Kirdain, student of Bert Hellinger and Franz Ruppert. Loey has studied Western herbal medicine in San Francisco CA with Adam Seller, student of Michael Moore, and earned her Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and fine art from the University of Wisconsin in 1996. She works with clients in private practice.
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ZOOM for VIRTUAL ATTENDANCE:
Monthly lectures are from 7:00 to 8:30PM. There is a suggested donation of $5, but the lecture is free for members. You can join or donate HERE.