Casa Curativa’s Birthday Bundle
The Living Alchemy Bundle
In honor of Julia’s birthday, we're opening the doors to the Casa Curativa classroom and sharing three of our favorite teachings with you, completely free. From the mysteries of plant alchemy and the art of making medicine to the relationship between herbalism, vitality, and the body's natural processes, these classes offer a glimpse into the many dimensions of our work with the plants.
Step into the classroom with Julia & Casa Curativa
Three free classes exploring the art of plant transformation, the intelligence of the body, and the many dimensions of herbal medicine. In honor of Julia’s birthday, we're opening the doors to our classroom and sharing teachings from the Casa Curativa library. Come explore the traditions, practices, and perspectives that make herbalism such a rich and endlessly fascinating way of life and field of study.
Inside your birthday bundle:
Alchemy & Spagyrics: The Living Art of Plant Transformation
Step into the Casa Curativa apothecary with founder Julia Bentley to explore her passion and favorite herbal topics: western alchemy, essential oil distillation, and the magic of spagyric herbal preparations.Sacred Arousal: Herbal Allies for Sensuality & Connection
Join Casa Curativa’s Director of Education Ashley McDonell, explore herbal approaches to nervous system regulation, nutrition, constitution, and how this form of care can add to a deeply sensual and erotic existence.Liver Love: Support Your Body’s Primary Detox Organ
Learn with Casa Curativa’s Marketing Director, Allison Graham and discover how herbal medicine, nutrition, movement, and lifestyle practices can support healthy liver function and the body's natural detox processes for a vital life.
Plus, more to explore....
If these classes spark something in you, we'd love to welcome you deeper into our world.
Discover our herbal medicine immersions at Lake Atitlán, explore our Friday classes, or continue learning through our growing library of recorded teachings.
These classes are for you if…
You're curious about the deeper traditions of herbalism, from Western alchemy to contemporary herbal practice.
You want to understand how plants become medicine, from extraction and distillation to formulation.
You're interested in the relationship between herbal medicine, physiology, vitality, and the body's interconnected systems.
You want to develop a more informed relationship with your body and the plants that support it.
You love learning from different herbalists, traditions, and perspectives.
You're ready to expand your understanding of how herbalism can be integrated into everyday life.
A Note from Julia…
After many years of teaching herbalism, one of the things I feel most strongly is that learning plants is really about learning how to see.
When we first begin, it is natural to want a list. Which herb is for digestion? What should I take for sleep? What helps with inflammation?
But the deeper you go, the more interesting the questions become.
What is happening in the body? What are the qualities of this person? What is the plant showing us through its taste, its actions, its effects? What patterns are moving underneath what we can see on the surface?
These are the questions that shape every offering at Casa Curativa.
Inside of our classroom you will discover the practical skills of making medicine, learning plant energetics, understanding physiology, and working safely with herbs, we want you to develop your own capacity to observe.
Because there is a point where herbalism stops being something you are simply studying and starts becoming something you can feel, recognize, and work with in your everyday life.
That is what I hope you find here.
A deeper understanding of plants. A stronger relationship with your own body. And a foundation you can keep building on for years to come.
With love,
Julia
Join Us at Casa Curativa in 2027
After a year of profound change, both across the world and within ourselves, we look towards 2027 with a sense of possibility, anticipation, and fertile ground. We want you to be apart of the incoming year of learning, growing, and cultivating relationships that sustain us.
We believe it is time for everyone to become an herbalist. To build relationships with the plants growing around them, to develop a deeper literacy of the body, and to reclaim the knowledge and confidence to work with herbal medicine in everyday life.
Whether you're taking your very first steps or deepening an existing practice, there's a place for you here.
Come learn with us in 2027. Join us at Lake Atitlán for learning alongside the plants.
