Let’s Make Medicine - Two-Day Workshop with Patricia Toulouse and Michelle Beaupre
Let's Make Medicine
A Two-Day Hands-On Workshop
Join us for an immersive two-day experience where you'll reconnect with the wisdom of the land and learn how to create your own natural medicines using traditional teachings and practical, hands-on techniques.
All My Relations
Explore our relationship with Creation and discover how every plant, tree, waterway, stone, animal, and person is connected. Learn the spirit of medicine, why medicine works, and the importance of harvesting plants in a respectful and ethical way, following traditional protocols and giving thanks for what the Earth provides.
Methods of Making Medicine
There are many ways to transform plants into healing medicine. Throughout this workshop, you'll learn a variety of traditional and modern preparation methods through a hands-on experience where you'll see, smell, taste, touch, create, and take home your own medicines.
Together we will make:
• Healing Teas
• Tinctures
• Sun Infusions
• Herbal Oils
• Herbal Sprays
• Herbal Powders (Talc)
• Intention Jars
• Herbal Heat Packs
• Smoke & Smudging Blends for Wellness
Health Topics We'll Explore
Learn which plants and natural medicines have traditionally been used to support many common health concerns, including:
• Inflammation
• Arthritis & Joint Health
• Diabetes & Blood Sugar Support
• Heart Health & Circulation
• Blood Pressure
• Stroke Prevention & Recovery Support
• Liver Health & Detoxification
• Gut & Digestive Health
• Respiratory Wellness
• Skin Conditions & Wound Care
• Hair & Scalp Health, Including Thinning Hair
• Building Your Home Medicine Cupboard
• Supporting the Body During Serious Illnesses, Including Cancer*
*This workshop shares traditional and educational knowledge and is not intended to replace medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
Leave With...
By the end of the workshop, you'll leave with practical knowledge, confidence, recipes, and a collection of handmade medicines that you can continue making for yourself, your family, and your community.
Reconnect with the land. Learn the medicines. Honour the teachings. Take home knowledge that will serve you for years to come.
Workshop Details
Dates: Tuesday, September 1 & Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM each day
Location:
The workshop will be held at the home of Shawn Leonard and Michelle Beaupré in Grand Desert, Nova Scotia. The exact address and directions will be provided upon registration.
What's Included
Your registration includes:
Two full days of hands-on teaching
All herbs, supplies, and materials
Everything you create and make to take home
A delicious lunch each day
Tea and coffee throughout the workshop
Investment: $280.00 CAD (Everything Included)
To reserve your place, full payment is required by e-Transfer at the time of registration. Your spot is confirmed once payment has been received.
Registration
To register, please contact Michelle Beaupré via email or text
Email: belangermich24@gmail.com
Phone: +1(902) 471-3666
Limited Enrollment
To ensure a personal, interactive, hands-on learning experience, this workshop is limited to 18 participants.
Once the workshop is full, registration will close.
We look forward to welcoming you into our home to share the teachings, the medicines, and the spirit of the land together.
Patricia Toulouse
An Ojibwe Mother and Grandmother from Sagamok Anishnawbek, of the Robinson Huron Treaty Territory, along the North Shore of Lake Huron in Ontario.
A Traditional Medicine Practitioner and graduate in Human Services. Works for Maamwesying in Health Clinics in the First Nation Communities of the North Shore. Patricia practices with Earth Medicine, treating ailments by individual symptoms to provide a Traditional Approach to medicine with a focus on your overall Health & Wellness of the Mind, Body and Spirit.
Michelle Beaupre
is a passionate gardener and lifelong student of food, herbs, and natural living. She draws inspiration from Blue Zone communities, traditional healing wisdom, and the rhythms of the seasons, creating spaces where people can explore simple ways to nourish body, mind, and spirit through wholesome food, herbal traditions, and meaningful connection.