ABOUT LAUREN MORGAN
Hi! I’m Lauren…
I’m a community herbalist, dreamer, Earth-based ceremonialist, healer, author, mother and teacher, creatrix and host of the Herbs and Dreams Podcast.
I teach classes and convene community gatherings online and in-person devoted to learning how to weave our lives with the wisdom of dreams, in alliance with the healing plants of Mother Earth on behalf of All Life. I live in the majestic Olympic Mountains 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 that holds my offerings.
The herbs and my dreams have been constant and essential companions along the road of my life. They are my greatest teachers, my healers and my kin. I belong to them, they are the medicines in my basket, what I am here to offer to the web of life.
It's an absolute treasure to share with you all I’ve gathered about how you, too, can ally with them for healing on behalf of all, including your own precious self.
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.
Like many on the healer’s path, it’s been a winding road. I did not grow up in these ways, instead I was rewoven bit by bit by the plants, the dreams and Mother Earth herself. As a child it all happened on the inner – awakening and calling me to turn within, look down and to travel on inner threads. All the medicine I have to share has been gathered into my bones through living, healing and being forged in the fire.
Over the course of my journey, I have grown to walk 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,
an embodied understanding of how absolutely interconnected we are and that all we do must align with a prayer to serve All Life,
an apprehension of how completely real the Otherworld is,
a trust that, when given the proper conditions, human beings have an incredible resilience to heal.
I hold a degree in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University and am an adjunct faculty. My most important human teachers have been Tierney Salter, Jeremy Taylor and Dr. Deborah Frances Dancing Crow.
The Path of the Herbalist…
My path of herbalism and Earth-based healing/ceremony have always gone hand in hand, they are inseparable within my being.
I entered my first herbal apprenticeship at the age of 20 with the fabulous, magical Molly Langdon. The experience felt like coming home. It finally watered the seeds of soul and destiny that had been rattling rather impatiently in my heart.
I continue to teach my Herbs and Dreams Apprenticeship, because of how utterly and completely my time with Molly 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.
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.
Dream Devotee…
Dreams are no less than the voice of soul. Here are a few of the biggest ones that have dreamt me and kicked off the destiny that stalks me (which we all have)…
This blog post shares my first and annually recurring childhood dream that is very much still unfolding..
This podcast episode explores a dream featuring my ongoing relationship with the Great Bear constellation..
And this episode hints at one of the most important relationships in my life - with a grandmother Cottonwood tree.
I align with the great Carl Jung when he said that, "God speaks chiefly through our dreams," and that "Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed. “ Dreams have been the compass by which I have navigated, created from, and made decisions in my life. They have served me well.
Dreamweaving is the term I use to describe the path of creating your life from the wisdom of dreams. It’s my unique synthesis of dreamwork, herbalism, restoring connection to Mother Earth and offering your contributions to life, on behalf of All Life.
Though the dreams themselves have been my primary teacher, I was certified as a Dreamwork Facilitator by the late and great Jeremy Taylor and have done Level 1 Dream Teacher Training with the masterful Robert Moss.
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!
With Love, 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