About Marysia

Marysia Miernowska is a teacher, author, Earth activist, green witch, folk herbalist and healer rooted in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing.

A multilingual and multicultural devotee of Mother Earth, Marysia has spent her life traveling, learning and sharing different regenerative ways of tending to the Earth, healing land, and healing people. She apprenticed with Sage Maurer of The Gaia School of Healing, and works with sustainable sources of healing plants that belong to Western Herbalism, Ayurvedic, Siberian, African, Tibetan and Traditional Chinese Medicine paths. 

Born in Poland, she carries with her a lineage of European folk herbalism. Marysia teaches from her own lineage, her training and her personal experience with the plants and connection to the Earth. She shares only practices passed down to her with permission, honoring the source of the teachings when not her own. Marysia acknowledges that cultural appropriation also refers to a particular power dynamic in which members of a dominant culture take elements from a culture of people who have been systematically oppressed by that dominant group. Marysia is committed to holding a safe, loving and non hierarchical container for learning and growth. 

Marysia honors plants as sentient beings, elders, healers and teachers. As a Plant Spirit Communicator, Marysia channels messages from the Earth spirits and guides students to connect with plant spirits through meditation and through their bodies, to receive guidance and learn about the constituents, energetics and properties of plants. 

Marysia’s passion for permaculture and biodynamic gardening combined with her experience as an Earth activist, community organizer, and designer weaves into her work of cultivating spiritual connection to land, and ripples into action. While the teachings she shares come from deep time, she compels students and clients alike to bring these themes into inquiry, participation, and activation: How can we be medicine ~ for ourselves, each other & the Earth?

Her dedication to connecting the healing of people with the healing of land has driven Marysia to consult with farm and land owners. Her signature "Regenerative Land Plan" customizes edible and medicinal sacred gardens and helps bring regenerative farming practices to any sized patch of Mother Earth’s soil body.

As a medicine maker, Marysia grows organic and biodynamic herbs in Malibu, makes herbal medicine for her apothecary, is the formulator and cofounder of Sacred Rituel Skin Care and formulates products for other ethical companies such as Foria. 

Marysia teaches & speaks at conferences internationally, writes, interviews for TV and radio, and appears as a guest expert on TV shows. She is faculty at Esalen Institute and offers yearly retreats.

Over the last several years, Marysia has had the immense honor and joy of training hundreds of herbalists. Many of Marysia’s students have gone on to start successful medicine lines, implement regenerative farming practices on their land, and offer herbalism in their own healing practices. 

Marysia lives in Topanga, CA. with her daughter Flora.