I enjoy skill and knowledge sharing in low-pressure, relaxed environments that empower my clients to connect with their creativity, their bodies, and the natural world. See a full list of my trainings & teachers under the about me section of my website.
I teach from a place rooted in abolishing cultural appropriation, capitalist & white supremacist behavior through making/finding your own ritual tools, learning about native and non native plants (and why we should care for both in their own way), learning ancestral practices from old europe from the time before we were “white” and had a relationship with land, and more. All my workshops are queer, femme, trans safe spaces and anti-racist.
I am usually available for private lessons for groups of 2-10 interested friends. Any of my offered classes below are available for private class settings. Please email me if you have a small group that wants to learn together!
If you aren’t local to the Milwaukee area, check out my substack where I send monthly folk magic musings to paid subscribers!
Upcoming Events - winter season
Sauna Animism and Sacred Bathing Rituals from the north @ Jan 2025 TBA
Join us in the bathhouse for an evening of magical lore as Rachael takes you through her years of experience sweat bathing across the US and the lands of her ancestors. We will discuss sauna history, etiquette, and rituals; as well as sauna herbalism, song, spells and spirits. Participants will leave with a thorough knowledge of sweat bathing from a Northern European / Nordic perspective, a take home zine of ideas to keep you going, and a new community of spiritual bathers! Each class takes place in partnership with a local sauna, so we can embody what we learned through bathing after class is through. 2-3 hrs. Space is limited.
Upcoming Events - 2025 season
I will be on maternity leave, please subscribe to my newsletter to hear when I resume teaching again!
Past Events
A Spell is a Prayer with Props: Apple Magic through Fire Cider @ Cival Collective September 14, 11AM & Sept 28 at 3:30pm at Hedge meadow Apothecary in Mazomanie
Make a Classic Witches Broom Workshop @ Tooth and Nail Sunday Oct 20 2024
Elevated Sauna Sessions with Kindled + FAMILIAR @ July 18 2024 6-8:30pm Homecoming Spring Green
Make a Handbroom Workshop @ Aug 22 6-8pm Hedge Meadow Apothecary
Make a Spring Cleaning Sweeper Workshop @ Cival Collective 4/15 & 4/22 + 4/27-28/2024
Sauna Animism & Sacred Bathing Rituals from the North @ Hot Spell Sauna in St Francis on 1/23/24
We Gave Year: New Work by Rachael M. Gonzalez @ Gallery Night Milwaukee Hosted by Cival Collective on January 19 2024 5-7PM
Ringing Bells, Chimney Spells; the 12 days of Christmas in Northern Folk Tradition @ FAMILIAR in Riverwest on KRAMPUSNACHT 12/5/23 6:30-8:30pm
Samhain Sauna Sessions; herbs, cupping and vihta with FAMILIAR October 26 2023 @ Hot Spell Sauna in St Francis Wi
Sauna Animism & Sacred Bathing Rituals from the North - October 13 2023 @ Hedgemeadow Apothecary
A Spell is a Prayer with Props: Apple Magic through Fire Cider @ Cival Collective - Sept 23 2023
Sauna Animism & Sacred Bathing Rituals from the North March 2023 at Motherlion in Bayview, Milwaukee
Fall into Magic: a weekend Samhain Retreat - hosted by Red Bird Reiki-registration with Introduction to Full size Broommaking with FAMILIAR- Scales Mound, IL October 22-24 2021
Introduction to full size broom making - Mabon- September 12 2020 Milwaukee, Wisc.
Introduction to full size broom making - Midsommar- June 20 2020 Lyndon Station, Wisc.
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