Lindsay Kolasa

Welcome to Lindsay Kolasa’s site ~
Herbalist, Soul-worker, RYT

Due to a health crisis that began in 2001, my path has been a long and winding one…of healing, breakthroughs, and insights regarding trauma & recovery, the microbiome, trans-generational trauma, biodiversity, and tending the fractures in various forms of modern relationships. This journey has taken me to places such as the mountains of Western North Carolina, to the Pontic Steppe of Ukraine, to the coast-lands of California, and to the red clay hills of Eastern Mississippi.

With 10 years of social service work and another 10+ years of working with clients through my herbalism practice, I have assisted a number of people in revealing deep and lasting shifts in their lives. My work is trauma-informed and soul-based, utilizing tools such as narrative medicine and compassionate inquiry. Whether an individual consult or a group experience, I create a container of presence, curiosity, and insight.

When I’m not immersed in plants, herbalism, and motherhood, two hobbies consume my time.   Fiber arts became a love of mine when I was pregnant with my daughter ~ namely weaving, cordage making, embroidery, functional hand sewing, and plant dyeing.  As well, DNA-based genealogy research has naturally taken off in my life due to my interest in ancestry and lineage healing.

Feel free to explore the tabs to see upcoming workshops & retreats, to learn about my consultations, and to read blog posts on herbalism, whole foods recipes, fiber arts, genealogy, and other gems.

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Here are links to some of my most viewed blog posts:

A Survivor’s Guide to the Essential Oil Craze

Long-lost, Long-leaf: The Return of a Forgotten Forest?

To Do List (poem)

Change (poem)

I Was Born to Do This (an exploration of psychosis)

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And, here are links to plant monographs that I wrote for Catfish Alley Magazine when I lived in Mississippi and ran Sweet Gum Springs Apothecary (2012-2017):

Dandelion:  the Teeth of the Lion

Poke:  a Deep South Herb for Deep Work

Mimosa:  If Happiness Was a Tree

Rose Medicine:  Cooling & Comforting

Sumac for the Kitchen & the Medicine Cabinet

Goldenrod:   A Plant That Makes Us Whole

Three Medicinal Mushrooms

“To be healthy is to be whole and to be holy.
It is to acknowledge the great goodness that our bodies are linked to the bodies of other people, to the bodies of plants and animals, indeed to the earth, the sun and moon, and the other heavenly bodies. It is to receive the awareness, at once humbling and exhilarating, that we are a part of Creation, one with all that we live from and all that, in turn, lives from us.”

~ Wendell Berry