Workshops
Wild Willow Alchemy offers experiential workshops and gatherings rooted in herbalism, energy work, and embodied learning, designed to nurture mind, body, and spirit.
Energy Work Classes: offer accessible, heart-centered instruction for those seeking to deepen their own healing practice or support others with confidence and integrity. Learn more about mentorship here
Plant and Spirit Medicine Classes: blend traditional plant knowledge with intuitive and energetic practices, inviting participants to listen, build relationship, and work collaboratively with the unseen.
For those drawn to nourishment through food, cooking and food-based workshops focus on holistic, heart-led meals that honor seasonality, memory, and care.
Through on-site retreat chef and nourishment support, thoughtfully prepared, intentional meals become part of the ceremony. Inviting participants to slow down, soften, and nourish the body while supporting reflection, ritual, and restoration within a supportive, nature-centered container.
Each offering invites you to learn, create, and reconnect with the wisdom of plants, food, and spirit in a grounded, approachable way.
Private workshops are available upon request.
Botanical Alchemy: Mugwort
Sundays | 10-11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Sunday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
October 11th - Mugwort
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
Autumn Equinox Day Retreat: A Gathering for Ritual, Herbalism & Seasonal Preparation
As the wheel of the year turns and we arrive at the Autumn Equinox, we find ourselves standing at a threshold.
A moment of balance.
During the Autumn Equinox, day and night are nearly equal. It is a moment of equilibrium between light and dark before we begin our gradual movement toward the darker half of the year.
Join me for an intimate, full-day retreat rooted in ritual, herbalism, nourishment, and connection with the plants.
Together, we'll spend the day intentionally marking the turning of the season. Through ritual, conversation, hands-on herbalism, and shared nourishment, we'll explore what it means to move into autumn with greater awareness and preparation.
With a small group, we'll create space to gather with the herbs, make medicine, share a nourishing meal, and deepen our energetic relationship with the plants.
Throughout the day, we'll explore the energetics of autumn and work with both fresh and dried plants. We'll spend time getting to know the plants not only through what they do, but through the relationships and invitations they offer us.
This day retreat is also an introduction to building your own Autumn Medicine Cabinet, exploring ways to begin stocking your home with simple, seasonal herbal preparations to carry you through the months ahead.
Together, we'll work with a variety of herbal preparations, including:
Herbal honeys
Syrups and oxymels
Herbal-infused oils
Tea blending
Salves and lip balms
This will be a hands-on, immersive day of working with the plants. We'll smell, taste, touch, blend, infuse, harvest, and create while learning about the different ways plants can be prepared and incorporated into our lives, our homes and hold us through the seasonal rhythms.
Rather than rushing through a list of recipes, we'll take our time.
Creating space for questions, conversation, ritual, learning, and connection.
Begin Building Your Autumn Medicine Cabinet
Each participant will create and take home four seasonal herbal preparations to begin building their own Autumn Medicine Cabinet. Along the way, you'll gain a foundational understanding of different herbal preparation methods and how you might begin choosing and creating medicines that support you and your household throughout the changing seasons.
All herbs, supplies, materials and packaging are included.
A Shared Seasonal Lunch
We'll gather around the table to share a nourishing, herbalism-focused lunch featuring local and nutrient-dense ingredients inspired by the abundance of the season.
Food, plants and medicine have always been deeply intertwined.
Our shared meal will be another opportunity to experience the ways nourishment and herbalism can live alongside one another in our everyday lives.
As we move toward the darker half of the year, this day retreat is an invitation to pause and ask:
What are we gathering?
What are we preserving?
What are we carrying forward?
What are we preparing for?
Come spend the Autumn Equinox with your hands in the herbs, gathered around the table and in community with others who feel called to deepen their relationship with the plants and the changing seasons.
Saturday, September 19th | 10am–4pm
Lakewood, Colorado
$188 | Payment Plans Available (reach out through email: isabel@wildwillowalchemy.com or schedule a free consult to dicuss options)
Limited to 7 participants to keep the experience intimate.
Lunch, all herbs, supplies, materials, and four take-home herbal preparations are included, along with a handout featuring additional recipes and inspiration to help you continue deepening your herbal practice at home.
Botanical Alchemy: Lavender
Sundays | 10-11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Sunday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
September 13th - Lavender
October 11th - Mugwort
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
Botanical Alchemy: Chamomile
Sundays | 10-11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Sunday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
August 16th - Chamomile
September 13th - Lavender
October 11th - Mugwort
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
Botanical Alchemy: Basil
Sundays | 10-11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Sunday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
July 19th - Basil
August 16th - Chamomile
September 13th - Lavender
October 11th - Mugwort
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
Botanical Alchemy: Mint
Sundays | 10-11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Sunday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
• June 28th — Mint
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
Grief at the Rainbow Bridge
Hosted by the Denver Deathcare Collective. Where grief is tended and death is sacred.
These monthly grief circles at Sakala Community are a compassionate space to hold your sorrow in the embrace of community.
This month, Isabel will lead our circle in a gentle space to honor and remember the beloved animal companions in our lives. Whether you are moving through the grief of pet loss or carrying anticipatory grief around a beloved pet nearing transition, you are welcome here. Together, we will gather in community to share stories, witness one another’s grief, and honor the deep love we carry for our animal companions. Learn More Here and Sign Up
Botanical Alchemy: Motherwort
Sundays| 10-11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Sunday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
• May 24th — Motherwort
• June 28th — Mint
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
New Moon Community Circle
New Moon Community Circle
Creating & Planting Intentions in Community
Gather under the New Moon for a heart-centered community circle devoted to intention setting, reflection, and collective creation. These monthly circles are a space to slow down, connect, and plant seeds that are nourished and witnessed by community.
✨ Grounding & guided intention setting
✨ Community sharing & collective visioning
✨ Gentle ritual and a take home ritual kit to keep tending your intentions
Energy Exchange: $21
Sliding scale available if needed — all are welcome.
Come as you are. Leave feeling connected, supported, and aligned.
New Moon Community Circle
New Moon Community Circle
Creating & Planting Intentions in Community
Gather under the New Moon for a heart-centered community circle devoted to intention setting, reflection, and collective creation. These monthly circles are a space to slow down, connect, and plant seeds that are nourished and witnessed by community.
✨ Grounding & guided intention setting
✨ Community sharing & collective visioning
✨ Lunar wisdom & gentle ritual
Energy Exchange: $21
Sliding scale available if needed — all are welcome.
Come as you are. Leave feeling connected, supported, and aligned.
Botanical Alchemy: Nettle
Sundays | 10am to 11:30am | $45 per class
This series of monthly Saturday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
• April 12th — Nettle
• May 24th — Motherwort
• June 28th — Mint
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
New Moon Community Circle
New Moon Community Circle
Creating & Planting Intentions in Community
Gather under the New Moon for a heart-centered community circle devoted to intention setting, reflection, and collective creation. These monthly circles are a space to slow down, connect, and plant seeds that are nourished and witnessed by community.
✨ Grounding & guided intention setting
✨ Community sharing & collective visioning
✨ Lunar wisdom & gentle ritual
Energy Exchange: $21
Sliding scale available if needed — all are welcome.
Come as you are. Leave feeling connected, supported, and aligned.
Botanical Alchemy: Lemon Balm
Saturdays | 10am to 12pm | $45 per class
This series of monthly Saturday morning classes invites you into the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of one plant each month. Through an intentional deep dive into a single herb, you’ll build a meaningful relationship with each plant ally. Learning not just how to work it, but how to listen and connect.
Each class explores the plant’s unique qualities while guiding you in crafting 2–3 herbal creations, from nourishing teas to simple culinary and home remedies. These hands-on sessions are designed to help you slow down, tune in, and deepen your connection, so you can continue building a relationship with each plant long after class ends.
Dates (released quarterly):
•March 15th — Lemon Balm
• April 12th — Nettle
• May 24th — Motherwort
• June 28th — Mint
You’ll leave each class with handcrafted remedies, embodied knowledge, and a deeper relationship with the plants that support your well-being.
Reiki Level Two - Okuden
Reiki Level 2 (Okuden) is an invitation to deepen your Reiki practice and expand your relationship with energy work. This level focuses on strengthening intuition, working more intentionally with energy, and learning how to offer Reiki beyond the physical space. Okuden supports you in moving from self-practice into confidently sharing Reiki with others.
In this training, you’ll learn to work with the three Reiki symbols and their mantras, explore hand positions, and discover how to send distance Reiki across time and space. You’ll also learn how to give a full Reiki session, building confidence and flow in your practice.
Each participant receives a personalized plant ally to support your 21-day integration, offering grounding, guidance, and energetic support as your practice deepens.
What’s Included
🌱 Reiki Level 2 Attunement
🌱 Instruction on the three Reiki symbols & mantras
🌱 Personalized Plant Ally
🌱 45-minute mentorship session to be used within one calendar year of your attunement, offering continued support as questions arise
🌱 Level 2 Usui Reiki Certificate upon completion
✨ $333 | Payment plans available
Prerequisite: Completion of Reiki Level 1 (Shoden)
📅 Saturday, March 14th | 10am–3pm
📍 Wild Willow Alchemy
Book through the Offerings page or schedule a free consultation if you’d like to learn more before registering. I also offer one on one reiki training if this date does not work.
Wild Willow Alchemy is ADA accessible.
The Life I Didn’t Choose..Mourning Loss of Self: Grief Circle
Hosted by the Denver Deathcare Collective. Where grief is tended and death is sacred.
These monthly grief circles at Sakala Community are a compassionate space to hold your sorrow in the embrace of community.
In this month’s circle, Isabel Ranney of Wild Willow Alchemy is partnering with Gillian Grant of Soul Healing with Gillian to offer a transformation of grief through journaling and movement. Together, we’ll honor the grief that comes from living a life of what we are told rather than what is aligned in our hearts; the grief we carry around identity. We will invite release of this grief through story telling and support integration through movement and journaling.
Our time together will include:
Grounding to arrive fully in the body
Story telling of living a life we’re told rather than need
Shaking/Dancing/Movement to release grief
Shifting the narrative of our identities through reflection and community sharing
Who it’s for:
This circle is for anyone moving through grief of lives or identities lost, time lost living a life for someone else rather than for ourselves. All are welcome here.
What to bring:
Water
A journal and pen
Anything special you need to get grounded and feel supported in the space
Yoga mats, blankets, and bolsters are provided for sitting
A Note on Accessibility
If this price isn’t accessible for you, please reach out to us directly at denverdeathcarecollective@gmail.com so we can accommodate. We don’t want cost to be a barrier to being supported through your grief.
Sakala is ADA accessible.
New Moon Community Circle
New Moon Community Circle
Creating & Planting Intentions in Community
Gather under the New Moon for a heart-centered community circle devoted to intention setting, reflection, and collective creation. These monthly circles are a space to slow down, connect, and plant goals that are nourished and witnessed by community.
✨ Grounding & guided intention setting
✨ Community sharing & collective visioning
✨ Lunar wisdom & gentle ritual
Energy Exchange: $21
Sliding scale available if needed — all are welcome.
🌿 Come as you are. Leave feeling connected, supported, and aligned.
Facilitated by Isabel
Reiki Level One
Reiki Level 1 (Shoden) is a foundational introduction to Reiki energy healing, centered on self-healing, personal empowerment, and deepening your intuition and inner wisdom. You’ll learn hands-on Reiki practices, the foundations of the Usui Shiki Ryoho system, and ways to integrate Reiki into your daily life and care rituals, including thoughtful approaches to decolonizing your Reiki practice.
21-Day Energetic Adjustment
After your attunement, your energy begins to shift. During this integration period, you may experience:
💫 Tingling or warmth in the palms
💫 Improved mental clarity
💫 Deeper, more restful sleep
💫 Physical healing and emotional release
Certification & What’s Included
🌱 Reiki Level 1 Manual
🌱 Reiki Attunement
🌱 Personalized Plant Ally & Herbal Product
🌱 Level 1 Usui Reiki Certificate upon completion
Ready to Begin?
Step into your self-healing journey with Reiki Level One.
✨ $222 | Payment plans available
📅 Sunday, February 8th, 2026 | 12:30pm–5pm
📍 Wild Willow Alchemy
7400 W. Jefferson Ave, Lakewood, CO 80235
Book through the Offerings page or schedule a free consultation if you’d like to learn more before registering. I also offer one on one reiki training if this date does not work.
Wild Willow Alchemy is ADA accessible.
Botanical Alchemy: Mugwort
This year-long series of monthly Sunday morning classes, held from 10am to 12pm, will guide you through the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of some of nature’s most accessible plants. Whether you’re experienced with plants or just beginning your journey, these hands-on sessions will help you deepen your connection to nature and its healing potential.
Each class will feature a different plant, exploring its unique qualities and crafting 2-3 herbal products, from teas to culinary delights. All material costs are covered in the class fee, allowing you to dive in without worrying about supplies.
October 12th: Mugwort
Botanical Alchemy: Chamomile
This year-long series of monthly Sunday morning classes, held from 10am to 12pm, will guide you through the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of some of nature’s most accessible plants. Whether you’re experienced with plants or just beginning your journey, these hands-on sessions will help you deepen your connection to nature and its healing potential.
Each class will feature a different plant, exploring its unique qualities and crafting 2-3 herbal products, from teas to culinary delights. All material costs are covered in the class fee, allowing you to dive in without worrying about supplies.
September 14th: Chamomile
October 12th: Mugwort
Botanical Alchemy: Lemon Balm
This year-long series of monthly Sunday morning classes, held from 10am to 12pm, will guide you through the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of some of nature’s most accessible plants. Whether you’re experienced with plants or just beginning your journey, these hands-on sessions will help you deepen your connection to nature and its healing potential.
Each class will feature a different plant, exploring its unique qualities and crafting 2-3 herbal products, from teas to culinary delights. All material costs are covered in the class fee, allowing you to dive in without worrying about supplies.
Aug 10th: Lemon Balm
September 14th: Chamomile
October 12th: Mugwort
Reiki Level One with Plant Ally
Reiki Level 1, also known as Shoden, is the first step into the world of reiki energy healing. This level focuses on self-healing and personal empowerment—helping you cultivate balance, clarity, and well-being.
Open to anyone—no prior experience needed!
Certification & What’s Included:
🌱 Reiki Level 1 Manual
🌱 Attunement
🌱 Personalized Plant Ally & Herbal Product
🌱 Level 1 Usui Reiki Certificate upon completion
Step into your self-healing journey with Reiki Level One
$222 ~ Payment plans available
📍 Wild Willow Alchemy - 7400 W. Jefferson Ave
Sign Up Here or email: isabel@wildwillowalchemy.com for payment plan options
Botanical Alchemy: Mint
This year-long series of monthly Sunday morning classes, held from 10am to 12pm, at Apothecary Tinctura, will guide you through the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of some of nature’s most accessible plants.
Whether you’re experienced with plants or just beginning your journey, these hands-on sessions will help you deepen your connection to nature and its healing potential.
Each class will feature a different plant, exploring its unique qualities and crafting 2-3 herbal products, from teas to culinary delights. All material costs are covered in the class fee, allowing you to dive in without worrying about supplies.
Dates: (released quarterly)
April 13th: Nettle
May 18th: Motherwort
June 8th: Lavender
July 20th: Mint
August 10th: Lemon Balm
September 14th: Chamomile
October 12th: Mugwort
Whether you attend a single class or the full series, each session offers a hands-on, interactive approach to folk herbalism. Connect with the plants, craft your own remedies, and leave with tangible products to enhance your well-being and deepen your herbal knowledge.
This series is designed to help you slow down, tune in, and create — one plant at a time.
🌿 Reserve your spot today and begin your journey into the world of Botanical Alchemy! 🌿
Community Care Day
Join us for a donation-based day of care and connection —a heart-centered offering open to anyone in need of nurturing energy and a sense of community. Whether you're seeking support, rest, or connection, you are welcome here.
What to Expect:
– Reiki chair treatments provided by student Reiki practitioners (suggested donation $20-$25)
– Light snacks catered by Intuitive Cuisine
– A free herbal seasonal gift for continued support
– A welcoming, heart-centered healing space
All donations go directly to support the student practitioners and their continued training. Last sessions begin at 3:30 PM. No one will be turned
away for lack of funds
*This will be a reoccurring offering on the last Saturday of every month
Botanical Alchemy: Lavender
This year-long series of monthly Sunday morning classes, held from 10am to 12pm, at Apothecary Tinctura, will guide you through the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of some of nature’s most accessible plants.
Whether you’re experienced with plants or just beginning your journey, these hands-on sessions will help you deepen your connection to nature and its healing potential.
Each class will feature a different plant, exploring its unique qualities and crafting 2-3 herbal products, from teas to culinary delights. All material costs are covered in the class fee, allowing you to dive in without worrying about supplies.
Dates: (released quarterly)
April 13th: Nettle
May 18th: Motherwort
June 8th: Lavender
July 20th: Mint
August 10th: Lemon Balm
September 14th: Chamomile
October 12th: Mugwort
Whether you attend a single class or the full series, each session offers a hands-on, interactive approach to folk herbalism. Connect with the plants, craft your own remedies, and leave with tangible products to enhance your well-being and deepen your herbal knowledge.
This series is designed to help you slow down, tune in, and create — one plant at a time.
🌿 Reserve your spot today and begin your journey into the world of Botanical Alchemy! 🌿
Botanical Alchemy: Motherwort
This year-long series of monthly Sunday morning classes, held from 10am to 12pm, at Apothecary Tinctura, will guide you through the medicinal, culinary, and spiritual wisdom of some of nature’s most accessible plants.
Whether you’re experienced with plants or just beginning your journey, these hands-on sessions will help you deepen your connection to nature and its healing potential.
Each class will feature a different plant, exploring its unique qualities and crafting 2-3 herbal products, from teas to culinary delights. All material costs are covered in the class fee, allowing you to dive in without worrying about supplies.
Dates: (released quarterly)
April 13th: Nettle
May 18th: Motherwort
June 8th: Lavender
July 20th: Mint
Whether you attend a single class or the full series, each session offers a hands-on, interactive approach to folk herbalism. Connect with the plants, craft your own remedies, and leave with tangible products to enhance your well-being and deepen your herbal knowledge.
This series is designed to help you slow down, tune in, and create — one plant at a time.
🌿 Reserve your spot today and begin your journey into the world of Botanical Alchemy! 🌿