ABOUT LAUREN MORGAN
Hi! I’m Lauren…
I’m a community herbalist, dreamer, Earth-based ceremonialist, shamanic and folk herbal healer, author, mother and teacher… and most recently, the creatrix and host of the Herbs and Dreams Podcast.
As a child Mother Earth was my first teacher, though no one around me used those words to describe Her. It happened on the inner – awakening and calling me to turn within, look down and to travel on inner threads.
My first herbal medicine apprenticeship at the age of 20 finally watered the seeds of soul and destiny rattling rather impatiently in my heart. That first apprenticeship is in large part why I continue to teach my introductory programs, now called Dreamweaving & Herbalism Immersion, because of how utterly and completely it changed the trajectory of my inner and outer worlds. And I've seen it do the same for the now many hundreds of students I have taught since I began in 2014. I’ve been fully immersed – within and without – on the healing journey since those first steps almost 20 years ago. I hold a degree in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University and am now an adjunct faculty.
I often speak in dreams as I find them the best language to speak from soul, and is why I have dedicated so much of my life to growing dreaming in myself, individuals, community and collective while tending to and protecting the soul of the Earth.
See this blog post for my first dream in this life that featured Willy Wonka, 3 gorillas and my childhood home.
Listen here to an episode from the Herbs and Dreams Podcast that touches on some of my destiny threads.
A three year initiation period in which a dream informed me, “This is not Hell – This is Persephone….” marked the true entrance onto my healing path. I emerged with:
a commitment to live a deep and authentic life,
an awareness of the absolute preciousness of the chance to be here breathing so waste no time and get on with it,
how absolutely interconnected we are and that all we do must align with a prayer to serve All Life,
how completely real the Otherworld is,
and how given the proper conditions, the incredible resilience of human beings to heal.
Though my professional training is vast, those three years plus what I've learned from the thousands of people I've been blessed to teach and serve, are the deepest sources of my medicine. I have also been mentored by wisdom keepers such as Tierney Salter, Jeremy Taylor and Dr. Deborah Frances.
Whether it’s a healing session, consultation, class or ceremony - all I do, really, is facilitate the re-introduction between you and all that is already around, beneath and within you. My classes feel like equal-parts herbal hedge school, mystery school, red tent and dreaming hut.
The plants were always my first love. My path of herbalism and Earth-based healing/ceremony have always gone hand in hand, they are inseparable within my being. My unique flavor of herbalism is deeply relational, decidely spiritual (in an Earthy sense), intricately interwoven with the web of life, and intrinsically interlinked with land and place.
Dreams have been THE compass with which I have navigated, created from, and made decisions in my life and I've come to understand firsthand just how right on Carl Jung was when he said that, "God speaks chiefly through our dreams" and that, "Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed. “
I've come to call this path of creating your life from the wisdom of your dreams Dreamweaving. Dreamweaving is my unique synthesis of dreamwork, herbalism (allying with the plants in your dreamweaving) and Earth reconnection on behalf of All Life. I know of no better route to the wisdom of soul, deep and lasting purposefulness, and everyday enchantment.
I live on wild forested land, dreaming land, (that my dreams guided me to) with my husband and two children, who are the greatest treasures in my life. I have a large medicinal herb garden, an apothecary stocked with medicines grown and made by my hands, a lovely practice as herbalist and dreamweaver, and a teaching/ceremony space The Dream Barn where I host my in-person work and classes.
It's my great treasure to explore how to weave our lives with the wisdom of dreams, in alliance with the healing plants of Mother Earth, on behalf of All Life - together, alongside you.
We are all related.
We got this!
May beauty surround your every step. Lauren
Oh, And! I’m an Author. My first book Seasonal Herbalism was released in 2024. My second book on Dreamweaving is underway. I wrote Seasonal Herbalism because my dreams told me to… And I did it when I had two children under the age of 4. That’s the magic of dreamweaving! Here’s some quotes from the book…
“There is always a deep sense of rightness, homecoming and reclaiming that enters the soulsphere when one embarks on the path of herbalism. It's a homecoming of no less than pieces of the ancestral soul, indigenous to all of us.”
”I've seen it happen hundreds of times in my classes, I've experienced it in my own bones - herbalism heals the people, it reminds us of who we are and what it means to be here.”
"Seasonal herbalism restores a memory of our place in the web of life and reignites apart of our humanity worth passing along to future generations. "
Some Miscellany…
Taurus sun, Gemini moon, Capricorn rising.
Favorite Authors, Thinkers & Inspirations - Mātā Amritānandamayī (known as Amma), Paramahansa Yogananda, Mahavatar Babaji, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Martin Prechtel, Sobonfu Some, Carl Jung, Robert Moss, Toko-pa Turner, Rosemary Gladstar, Rosita Arvigo, The International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers
Favorite Podcast - The Emerald with Josh Schrei
Insatiable learner (Gemini moon). It's really an abhorrence for boredom that drove me to gain so much experience in the healing field so early on, and that keeps me ever-expanding. My Gemini moon also keeps me lighthearted while traveling the inner depths. I’ve been described by many as silly and spiritual.
Serial amateur crafter… especially with natural materials. I dabble in beadwork, leather craft and basketry.
Major sucker for pregnant women… like I can't not gush when I see them. For years I thought I would become a midwife…. though I finally came to understand, and accept, that my best work occurs on inner layers, deeper than the physical, to support women undergoing and integrating their initiations.
Folk at heart… I've held certifications as a massage therapist, hypnotherapist and birth doula - but after going completely rogue/folk, I haven't looked back.
Education & Professional Trainings
Dream Teacher Training Level 1, Robert Moss, 2024
Dream Drops, Toko-pa Turner, 2023
Birth Story Medicine Parts 1, 2 and 3, 2021/2022
Plants & Ceremony, Dr. Deborah Frances Dancing Crow, 2015 – 2021
Birth Doula Training, Angelika Nugent, 2021
Work That Reconnects Facilitator Training, Work That Reconnects, 2019
Before We Were White, White Awake, 2018
Advanced Transformative Ritual Design, Rite of Passage Journeys/Randy Morris, 2018
Psychosynthesis 12-week Training, Psychosynthesis Center, 2018
Projective Dreamwork Certification, Jeremy Taylor/Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork, 2016
Dreaming with Jung, Robert Moss, 2017
Seidr / Norse Shamanic Tradition, Seattle Seidr, 2015
Basic Sexual Assault Awareness Training, Pierce County Sexual Assault Center, 2014
Shamanic Education & Healing Arts, Red Crow Sings, 2012-2015
Birth Doula, Seattle Midwifery School, 2013
Medical Astrology: Levels 1 & 2, Steve Dahmus, 2012
Hypnotherapy: Transpersonal Discovery, Mary Lee LaBay, 2013
Hypnotherapy: Awareness & Integration, Mary Lee LaBay, 2013
Pregnancy & Prenatal Massage, Carol Osborne, 2011
Licensed Massage Therapist, Bellevue School of Massage, 2010
BS in Herbal Sciences, Bastyr University, 2010
Energy Anatomy, Karma & Auric Clearing Techniques, The Violet Flame & Ascended Master Teachings, Lin Lungta, 2008-2012
Botanical Medicine Apprenticeship, Molly Langdon/Isla Flora Botanicals, 2007