Our Team
Astrid Grove, RM, CPM
Astrid Grove is a wise woman herbalist in the Rocky Mountains of western Colorado where she can be found frolicking amongst evergreens and osha. She spends her days homeschooling her two daughters, tending to her gardens and chickens, as well as supporting her community as a homebirth midwife. With her sun in Scorpio and her rising in Pisces, she is a born ceremonialist passionate about simple ritual to support the lives of her family, clients and community. As an herbalist for 25 years and a midwife for 15 years, she has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in women and family wellness and supports her clients with herbal medicine and Maya abdominal therapy. She also teaches herbal medicine and the wise woman way online and around the country. Her core belief is that if women are tended to, supported, healthy, and strong then the world will find its way back to health and wholeness.
“My intention for co-creating The Wise Woman Sisterhood is to support women to blossom into their fullest potential. We need strong women with deep wisdom to lead the people, and I am here to guide you” ~ Astrid Grove
Find more about her work at www.astridgrove.com and www.redearthherbalgathering.com
Leela WH Parker, LMT, TMD
My connection with sacred ceremony began as a child. My mother, a home-birth midwife, re-membered the spirituality of our ancestors as she raised her children. We celebrated the Wheel of the Year in the Pagan tradition, the Solstices, Equinoxes and Cross-Quarter Days. We gathered with other families in ceremony often around a fire and/or in a tipi. In circle I formed my young self.
As I became a young adult, I found my way to Deep Ecology and loving plants. I gathered a sisterhood of other young women feeling the Earth and our eco-system deep in our beings and celebrating the Wheel of the Year. One Summer Solstice I called a ritual at the off-grid community I lived at and led a ceremony in the sacred stone circle for 100+ people. Mostly our ceremonies were 4-10 people gathering regularly.
At age 21, I was called to study with wise woman herbalist and witch Susun Weed, in her live-in 3-month Shamanic Herbal Apprenticeship. Here, I learned of Moon Lodge, which is a version of what many know as Red Tent.
Since that time, I have been celebrating the Wheel of the Year and Moon Lodge/Red Tent in the various places I have lived. When I moved to Colorado I re-connected with my pagan ceremony, Moon Lodge sister of nearly 20 years, Astrid Grove and we together visioned and created the first Red Earth Herbal Gathering in 2016.
Now, I am raising my daughter in the Pagan tradition, gathering with other families whenever we can for these celebrations. My other spiritual practice is that of the Dzogchen teachings of Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. I practice daily myself and 4 times per month with my sangha.
I work as a teacher and program developer for Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine, and I practice Tibetan Medicine, wise woman herbalism, Tibetan massage and Maya abdominal massage focusing on women and people with uteruses.
My intention for co-creating the Wise Woman Sisterhood is to help women dissolve the barriers we’ve been conditioned to create between ourselves and our own wisdom, between ourselves and other women, and between ourselves the rest of the living eco-system. We can relax and realize we are all in this together and together we thrive.
You can find out more about my work at- www.leelaparker.com