A Woman's Guide to Her Inner Seasons

The Wise Womb Wheel:
Woman’s Health & Changing Seasons

The Wise Womb Wheel offers a glimpse into the way we explore women's health at Casa Curativa: through cycles, plant allies, and the changing seasons of a woman's life. Across these pages, you'll meet eight archetypes that map the many phases of womanhood, discover the herbs and organ systems associated with each, and begin to see how the rhythms of the body, the natural world, and a lifetime of change weave together.

    Reclaim your relationship with your body

    We know it deserves our attention.

    The Wise Womb Wheel is a free guide to exploring women’s health through the changing seasons of life, herbal allies, and the wisdom of the body.

    Discover eight archetypes, the herbs and organ systems associated with them, and a way of looking at womanhood that makes room for change, complexity, and lived experience.

    Women have always developed ways of understanding their bodies through observation, experience, and relationships with the plants around them. Much of this knowledge has been dismissed, fragmented, or pushed to the margins.

    • You want to deepen your understanding of women’s health through herbalism and body literacy.

    • You’re curious about the relationship between the menstrual cycle, the seasons of life, and the natural world.

    • You want to explore herbs as allies in supporting women’s health.

    • You’re interested in the different phases of womanhood and the archetypes that help us understand them.

    • You’re looking for a more connected, holistic way to learn about the female body.

    • You’re ready to build a more informed relationship with your body, your cycles, and the plants that grow alongside us..

    This resource is for you if…

      Group of women sitting on the floor around a small table, participating in a gathering outdoors in a lush, green garden with hammocks hanging from wooden posts.

      Join Us for Wise Womb Way

      February 27 – March 3, 2027
      Casa Curativa, Tzununá
      Lake Atitlàn, Guatemala

      Inside Wise Womb Way, we take these explorations much further, spending time learning about women’s health through herbal medicine, body literacy, and the changing seasons of womanhood.

      Deepen your understanding of the menstrual cycle and reproductive health, study herbal allies and their applications, explore the Women’s Wheel of Life, and develop practical skills for working with plants to support women through different phases and transitions of life.

      Reclaiming knowledge of our bodies is an act of remembering, resistance, and self-determination. A way of restoring what was taken from us and carrying that wisdom forward for the generations to come.

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      Meet Ashley, Casa Curativa’s Director of Education…

      Dear sister,

      Somewhere along the way, we were taught to distrust our bodies.

      To see our cycles as inconvenient. To treat the changes that come with age as problems. To hand over our authority to systems that have spent centuries separating women from their own knowing.

      And yet, our bodies are constantly communicating with us. The plants have so much to teach us about listening.

      I’ve spent years working with women through the many thresholds of life: menstruation, conception, birth, postpartum, and the transitions that reshape us along the way. Again and again, I’ve witnessed what becomes possible when a woman has the knowledge, language, and support to understand what’s happening in her own body.

      This is part of why we created the Wise Womb Wheel.

      It offers a way to explore the different seasons of womanhood through eight archetypes, herbal allies, and the organ systems that shape our experience. It invites us to look at women’s health in context: our physiology, our relationships, our environments, and the larger cycles of the living world.

      For me, this work is deeply personal, but it is also political. Who gets to hold knowledge about our bodies? Whose wisdom has been dismissed? What might change when we learn from one another, reclaim our curiosity, and take our experiences seriously?

      I believe we need spaces where women can ask questions, share what they know, learn from the plants, and develop a relationship with their bodies that belongs to them.

      That is the spirit behind the Wise Womb Wheel, and it’s the spirit we bring to our teaching at Casa Curativa.

      I hope this guide sparks something in you. A question you’ve never thought to ask. A plant you feel curious about. A new understanding of the season you’re moving through.

      Let it be a beginning.

      With love,
      Ashley McDonnel‍ ‍
      Director of Education, Casa Curativa