Events
Workshop // Mindfulness for Mental Health
This interactive workshop introduces mindfulness techniques to improve mental health by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression. Participants will learn to cultivate present-moment awareness through guided meditation, mindful breathing, and cognitive techniques, helping to break negative thought patterns and enhance emotional regulation.
Workshop Highlights & Learning Objectives:
Understand Mindfulness: Learn to move from “automatic pilot" behavior to conscious awareness.
Practical Techniques: Engage in guided meditations, body scans, and mindful breathing to immediately apply in daily life.
Stress Reduction: Techniques to manage burnout, improve focus, and build resilience.
Emotional Regulation: Tools for managing difficult emotions and breaking free from negative thought patterns like rumination.
Integrating into Daily Life: Strategies for incorporating mindful moments into a busy schedule.
Instructors //
Rachael McGann, LPC, RYT, RMT
Licensed Professional Counselor and Co-Founder Village Roots
Jean Watson. LMSW, YTT
Licensed Social Worker, Registered Yoga Teacher
Energy Exchange //
$30 per person
Workshop // Kitchen Herbal Medicine - SOLD OUT
Explore the world of herbal medicine with herbs and spices from your own kitchen!
Kitchen Herbal Medicine is a workshop helping you to explore the medicinal benefits of herbs and spices that you may already have in your kitchen cupboards. This workshop is designed to be accessible to anyone, without needing access to growing space or confidence in foraging wild plants. There are also tips and tricks to get the most out of your shop-bought herbs and spices.
What will you learn?
Herbal Remedies
Discover how to make refreshing and tasty herbal remedies with store cupboard herbs and spices
Understand which methods are best suited to different herbs and spices
Explore the key flavours found in all plants
Healthy Herbs
Discover how to prepare store cupboard herbs and spices to make use of their health benefits
Understand how the different preparations work on common ailments
Instructor //
Maria Bouffard, Clinical Herbalist and Co-Founder Village Roots
Energy Exchange //
$30 per person
Workshop // Herbal Remedies For Nervous System Balance - SOLD OUT
Join us for a workshop discussing the combination of our environments, our nervous system, and mental health. We will share tools and remedies to help balance our overstimulated nervous systems, and talk about herbal allies that support stress.
Participants will learn about the function of the nervous system, lifestyle strategies to help us stay calm, categories of herbs that can offer additional support and ways to incorporate herbs into our everyday lives. We’ll explore medicinal plants you can use to help manage your nervous system in the face of daily and long-term stress, as well as help with feelings of anxiety and overwhelm. We will serve a nervous system balancing and nourishing tea.
Instructors //
Maria Bouffard, Clinical Herbalist and Co-Founder Village Roots
Rachael McGann, Licensed Professional Counselor and Co-Founder Village Roots
Energy Exchange //
$30 per person
Grand Opening!
We are excited to open our doors to you! Please join us for an opening celebration.
Herb Shop Open // 10am - 8pm
130pm - 5pm // Messages from your Spirit Guides with Mary Brown
5pm - 8pm //
CranialSacral sessions - 15 minutes for $20 donation - 100% of donation goes to East Haddam Food Bank
Oracle Card Readings
BioScan SRT Demos - A brief introduction of the Bioscan SRT (Stress Reduction Therapy) at the grand opening of Village Roots. See the technology demonstrated, learn about its advantages, and try the non-invasive procedure for yourself. A 10% discount will be available for those who schedule a scan at the grand opening.