Crafting the Medicine Stick:
A walking stick that is more than a tool, a sacred extension of your journey, spirit, and strength. In this workshop, you’ll create your own personal totem stick using natural wood, symbols, carvings, and adornments that reflect your path, guides, and intentions. Each stick becomes a companion for walks, rituals, or ceremony, a grounded reminder of who you are and what walks with you.
*All materials provided
*No experience needed
*Leave with a sacred tool made by your own hands
*Class will be held in The Stable Spa
$35 material fee
Your Guides:
Melisa Austin
With over 30 years of experience, Melisa brings a deeply intuitive, heart-centered approach to healing. Her journey as a Massage Therapist and Natural Therapeutic Specialist has taken her from AIDS alternative healthcare clinics and midwifery collectives to chronic pain centers and spa sanctuaries, always in service of genuine connection and holistic well-being.
Melisa’s work is rooted in a profound respect for the body’s wisdom and the unseen energies that shape our lives. Her extensive skills include Quantum CranialSacral Therapy, Reflexology, Cupping, Herbology, Energetic Anatomy, Vibrational Remedies, Essential Oil Therapy, Dowsing, Diagnostic Pulse Reading, Ancient Astrology, and the Wise Woman Traditions.
She considers her practice a healing ministry, a sacred way of holding space for others to remember themselves. Whether working with autoimmune challenges, deep emotional layers, or the stress of modern life, Melisa offers a grounded, nurturing presence.
Nicole Massengale
Nicole has spent her life in deep relationship with this raw, human experience. Her path has woven through many roles; Mother, Licensed Massage Therapist, Integrative Nutritional Coach, Yoga Instructor, Business Owner, Master Reiki Practitioner, and Human Design Guide. Yet her true work is guiding others back to their own knowing.
Through her work with Shaman and Medicine Woman Kathryn Sharp, and as part of reclaiming her Cuban and South American heritage, she deepened her practice in earth-based ceremony, ancestral communication, land dowsing, and intuitive energy work..
Though her arrival at The Horse Shoe Farm was serendipitous, her bond with the land is intentional. She listens to its stories, honors its ancestral memory, and recognizes the ancient intelligence moving beneath every step.
Through touch, energy, and ceremony, Nicole offers a grounded, intuitive presence; inviting others to return to themselves and to the wisdom that has always been within.
*Nicole descends from a diverse and culturally vibrant ancestry including Cuban, North African, Indigenous North and South American, and European lineages. Her work is informed by the traditions and ancestral teachings rooted in her heritage