I am Christine Hassler, a long-time herbalist and teacher. I have the privilege to be living with my husband, Jean-Pierre, in a remote valley in the Trinity Mountains.
I am passionate about working with the flowers and herbs that I wild craft, collecting plants in the wild or cultivating them in my own garden to make herbal preparations and medicinal healing products. With the creation of my products I share with you the beauty, healing and peace of this place I call home.
I spent many happy years in my grandmothers garden in southern Germany. There she taught me to love plants and how they can nourish and assist us in a gentle way. When I came to California, I lived for many years in Big Sur, where I deepened my knowledge of herbs while studying with Michael Tierra, Christopher Hobbs, Jeanne Rose and others.
My husband and I started a private rain forest preserve, Parinati, in southern Brazil. There I had the good fortune to apprentice for six years with local women in the traditional healing methods of using plants of the Mata Atlantica rain forest.
Returning to California, I had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge of essential oils while working for Will Lapaz at Eden Botanicals, a renowned essential oil business based at that time in Hyampom.
I have worked in the healing fields for over 30 years, as a Massage Therapist and instructor, as an Herbalist and as a Health and Wellness instructor. My most recent passion for the last 10 years has been in the field of Aroma Therapy, using the essence of the plants in the form of essential oils to include in my products. I am teaching, together with other herbalists, the ancient wisdom of plant spirit medicine at herbal workshops here in the Trinity Mountains and beyond.
I am passionate about working with the flowers and herbs that I wild craft, collecting plants in the wild or cultivating them in my own garden to make herbal preparations and medicinal healing products. With the creation of my products I share with you the beauty, healing and peace of this place I call home.
I spent many happy years in my grandmothers garden in southern Germany. There she taught me to love plants and how they can nourish and assist us in a gentle way. When I came to California, I lived for many years in Big Sur, where I deepened my knowledge of herbs while studying with Michael Tierra, Christopher Hobbs, Jeanne Rose and others.
My husband and I started a private rain forest preserve, Parinati, in southern Brazil. There I had the good fortune to apprentice for six years with local women in the traditional healing methods of using plants of the Mata Atlantica rain forest.
Returning to California, I had the opportunity to deepen my knowledge of essential oils while working for Will Lapaz at Eden Botanicals, a renowned essential oil business based at that time in Hyampom.
I have worked in the healing fields for over 30 years, as a Massage Therapist and instructor, as an Herbalist and as a Health and Wellness instructor. My most recent passion for the last 10 years has been in the field of Aroma Therapy, using the essence of the plants in the form of essential oils to include in my products. I am teaching, together with other herbalists, the ancient wisdom of plant spirit medicine at herbal workshops here in the Trinity Mountains and beyond.
"Out beyond the ideas of right doing and wrong doing, there is a field; I will meet you there"
Jala al Din Rumi
