Our Herbalist
Jay is a community herbalist, forager, menstrual cycle educator, and doula. She works at the intersection of herbal medicine, women's wellness, and ancestral healing.
Jay's path into herbal medicine began in 2018, rooted in a desire to explore body sovereignty, cyclical living, and healing outside conventional systems.
Shaped by her Ashkenazi Jewish heritage and the Rocky Mountains she calls home, Jay brings a deeply bioregional approach to her practice. This was crystallized through a pivotal 2020 apprenticeship with Israeli botanist Elaine Soloway, whose work traces the wild plants of the Israeli desert ecosystem back to ancient and biblical medicine. Since then, working intimately with the native plants of the land has been the beating heart of everything she does.
Over the years, Jay has trained through the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and studied under leading voices in women's herbalism including Aviva Romm, Rosemary Gladstar, and Rosalee de la Foret.
"The lives that we are taking are the lives of generous beings, of sovereign beings, and in order to accept their gifts, we owe them at least our attention. To care for them we must know what they need and the very minimum we should know their names, and yet the average American can name over 100 corporate logos and ten plants”
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
Weaving womb healing + herbal medicines
Jay Schwartz weaves herbalism, menstrual cycle education, birth work, and song circles all together.
In 2024, she completed a training in Authentic Relating, and has had the deep honor of a year-long mentorship with Qiddist Ashe, traditional midwife, clinical herbalist, and radical birth keeper, whose teachings have profoundly shaped Jay's understanding of embodied care, herbal medicine, and tending to the womb through all stages of life.
Through Plant Healing Woman, Jay offers herbal consultations, medicine-making workshops, and menstrual cycle education for women seeking to reclaim their relationship with their bodies, the plants, and the earth.
Book a herbal session
As a dedicated community herbalist, I specialize in gut healing, menstrual + reproductive health, skin inflammation, and grief support. An herbal consultation is a space for speaking one on one with an experienced herbal practitioner.
During an herbal consultation, we will explore your current health challenges, your personalized goals, and the obstacles in your life that make it challenging to implement the shifts. I will offer you holistic support according to your unique body and constitution.
These calls serve primarily to educate you around health, wellness, herbs, nutrition and lifestyle practices to help you feel empowered and supported to reach your goals.