Hi, I'm Rosie Cooper.

I'm a herbalist and wilderness rite of passage guide. 

 

I've been in love with plants for about since I was 19, and with herbalism since 23 years old. 

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I have my own way with herbs. 

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Grassroots herbalism is genuinely empowering. There is something unspeakable, which is felt in the moment when you experience the power in the simplicity of gathering herbs from a garden, forest or market and making a medicine which offers tangible, sometimes immediate relief from some ailment. The realisation that this actually works and is real. 

That feeling never gets old.

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I really love to educate people about herbal medicine as an essential form of healthcare.

 

Give a girl balm and she'll stop itching for a week. Teach a girl to harvest and make medicines... and she'll become a community herbalist! (Doesn't quite roll off the tongue)

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I studied Western Herbal Medicine / Naturopathy at Endeavour College and Southern School of Natural Therapies respectively, between 2010 -2012. Super grateful for the foundation in health sciences to broaden my herbal and nutritional knowledge, but in hindsight those studies left my head overloaded with unsupported information and my heart feeling empty and starving for connection with plants and life, and yearning for truly practical, embodied, relevant learning.

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It took me years to find balance again. And for that, I give much gratitude to these particular special people who have been my teachers over the last decade:

Claire Dunn

Rebecca Altman

jim mcdonald

Malcolm Ringwalt

Kiva Rose

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I am so grateful to the people I have learnt from; all who have walked their own path and who live in reciprocity, connection and kindness; holding their roots in deep, turning this culture back to the earth.

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I am forever grateful to the land where I live, Dja Dja Wurrung country, the ancient and present people of this place, who live and tend in reciprocity, kinship and connection with this country.​​​​​​​​