Sydney Batson offers bespoke healing containers that combine energetic herbalism, craniosacral therapy, and shadow integration. She loves playing matchmaker for her clients – pairing them with the herbs, therapies, and practices that best suit their unique needs. Sydney manages The Elderberry, a women-run herbal apothecary in Charlottesville, VA, where you can find her preparing custom herbal formulations for her clients and offering in-person and virtual sessions. She is passionate about providing a truly holistic healing experience that restores the health of the physical, emotional, and energetic body.

Meg is a practicing clinical herbalist, graduate of Sacred Plant Traditions, long-term mentee of Suzanna Stone, and apothecary manager and medicine maker at The Elderberry in Charlottesville, VA. She has an undergraduate degree in Gender, Sexuality and Women’s studies with a minor in Psychology and focus on women’s health from Virginia Commonwealth University. Meg’s offerings include one-on-one herbal consultation, teaching, and facilitating. As a clinical herbalist, she works with clients to generate healing and wellbeing with medicinal plants while honoring both her clients and the plants in their wholeness and complexity. She teaches material from medicine making to plant identification to tarot. She facilitates ceremonial events, plants walks, and reads tarot. Throughout all her work she seeks to offer a unique experience that allows her clients and students to shine and safely access their depths with support and love. In addition to the above she writes, farms, and studies nutrition, anatomy and physiology, psychology, astrology, and a host of other subjects. Meg has deep interest and personal practice in ancestral work, handicraft as art, tending wild and cultivated plants, and is dedicated to supporting access to wellbeing for all.