✦ 2026 gathering ✦
Spirit of the Still
📍 Taos, New Mexico
📅 Sept 13 – 18, 2026
🌿 5-day immersion
A hands-on journey into the art and soul of essential oil distillation. Harvest wild Southwest botanicals. Work with a professional alembic still. Create your own natural perfume in the high desert of northern New Mexico.
- Your own distilled hydrosol + essential oil
- Custom natural perfume you create
- Mini herbarium of wild botanicals
- Full day in Santa Fe perfumery studio
Cathy Skipper · Master Herbalist-Distiller
Dr. Florian Birkmayer · Aromatic Medicine
Jah Skipper · Field Botanist
✨ Limited to 10 people · intimate experience ✨
🍃 Early Bird ends May 31 · save up to $700 🍃
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