Hello & Welcome to Sassafras Healing Arts!
My name is cheré / rere suzette bergeron. I am a healing arts practitioner located in Occupied Dakhóta + Anishinaabe Territory, otherwise known as Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I create medicine + magic for healing justice + collective liberation.
I am a mystic, care worker, ancestral animism re-memberer + weaver, land-tender, herbalist, registered nurse, astrologer, witch, traiteur, völva, writer, researcher, radical folk/ community historian, + memory keeper. I situate myself as a lifelong student, lover, + questioner of these crafts, practices, traditions, + lineages, which are deeply interconnected. My pronouns are they / them.
I value authenticity, care work, interdependence / sacred reciprocity, non-linear time + healing, solidarity, autonomy, boundaries, + pleasure.
I seek to weave my strand in the web of wyrd as a race traitor in service of dispelling + dismantling myths + structures of white supremacy + capitalism. I believe in the power + magic of care webs, mutual aid, + crip, femme, survivor wisdom. As a crip, femme, survivor myself who lives with complex PTSD + chronic pain, I am particularly interested in the intersections of nervous system co-regulation + healing attachment traumas through building relationships + communities grounded in care + interdependence.
MY CURRENT OFFERINGS
Wyrd Magic: Folk Practices, Medicines, + Rituals Online Workshop Series
Ancestral Connection: Bodies + Altars
Folk Rituals: Hearth + Earth
Plant Kin: Plants + Portals
Moondrops: Astrology Lunar Living
At the Threshold: Witnessing + Companionship
Patreon (over 167 pages of written essays, poems, + musings + 18 hours of pre-recorded workshops).
Herbalism + Flower Essence Consultations
Herbal Apothecary
Rooted Rituals Community-Supported Herbalism Program
Astrology Readings
MY PRACTICE
My practice is currently based out of my home office + apothecary in South Minneapolis. I was a practitioner at the People’s Movement Center from 2017 until it closed in 2020.
My approach is informed by my values listed above, which are rooted in healing justice, emergent strategy, disability justice, abolition, anti-fascism, + anti-authoritarianism.
SASSAFRAS HEALING ARTS ORIGIN STORY
I started Sassafras Healing Arts in 2012 after many years of supporting myself with herbal medicine through a variety of health crises. When a sweet friend of my told me that they loved the winter solstice salve I made for them so much that they wanted to get more from me for some of their beloveds, I decided to begin offering herbal medicine to folks in my community.
MORE ABOUT ME
From what I know, I come from Cajun / French, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, Prussian, Polish, Belgian, Austrian, Czech, + Roma working-class farmers, caretakers, healers, herbalists, midwives, nurses, blacksmiths, jewelers, clockmakers, merchants, and more.
I am a disabled, trans, non-binary, queer, femme, southern transplant who spent my childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana — Chickasaw, Chitimacha, + Choctaw Land, my adolescence in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin — Anishinaabe, Dakhóta + Ho-Chunk Land, + my early to mid 20’s in Duluth, Minnesota — Anishinaabe Territory.
I spent my 20’s working as an advocate to survivors of intimate partner violence + sexual assault, a sexual health + pleasure educator, and co-founding SPIRAL Collective. I maintained community-organizing and advocacy practices while also expanding + deepening my care work to include queer + trans-centered herbalism, bodywork/somatics, astrology, ancestral healing, and their varying intersections. In 2017 I began formally studying craniosacral bodywork + cupping therapy. I have been studying tarot, astrology, and ancestral healing since 2015. Runes began to speak to me in my dreams in 2018 and I have been deeply listening ever since. I weave these divination practices into my work with clients as well as my medicine-making practice.
I currently volunteer with Lower Phalen Creek Project planting native seeds + removing displaced plant relatives as part of their protection + restoration work at Wakáŋ Tipi within Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary.
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I provided HRT injections & HIV testing at The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition from 2012 - 2017.
I Co-Founded + Co-Directed SPIRAL Collective from 2012 - 2020.
I also Co-Founded + Co-Directed Herbalists for Racial Justice from 2016 - 2020.
Learn more about my background, training, and teachers here.
For more information please see my Frequently Asked Questions page.
I'm a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association, and am currently working towards my AHN-BC (Advanced Holistic Nurse Board Certified).
FEATURED IN
The New York Times
As An Intense Winter Unfolds, Some Lessons From Herbalists
by Jenna Wortham for the Sunday Styles Section
January 10th, 2021
Make MN Magazine: Perspective Issue
January 16th, 2020
CURRENT STOCKISTS -- ASTROLOGY ZINE ONLY
Franconia Sculpture Park Commons
Shafer, Minnesota
My name is cheré / rere suzette bergeron. I am a healing arts practitioner located in Occupied Dakhóta + Anishinaabe Territory, otherwise known as Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I create medicine + magic for healing justice + collective liberation.
I am a mystic, care worker, ancestral animism re-memberer + weaver, land-tender, herbalist, registered nurse, astrologer, witch, traiteur, völva, writer, researcher, radical folk/ community historian, + memory keeper. I situate myself as a lifelong student, lover, + questioner of these crafts, practices, traditions, + lineages, which are deeply interconnected. My pronouns are they / them.
I value authenticity, care work, interdependence / sacred reciprocity, non-linear time + healing, solidarity, autonomy, boundaries, + pleasure.
I seek to weave my strand in the web of wyrd as a race traitor in service of dispelling + dismantling myths + structures of white supremacy + capitalism. I believe in the power + magic of care webs, mutual aid, + crip, femme, survivor wisdom. As a crip, femme, survivor myself who lives with complex PTSD + chronic pain, I am particularly interested in the intersections of nervous system co-regulation + healing attachment traumas through building relationships + communities grounded in care + interdependence.
MY CURRENT OFFERINGS
Wyrd Magic: Folk Practices, Medicines, + Rituals Online Workshop Series
Ancestral Connection: Bodies + Altars
Folk Rituals: Hearth + Earth
Plant Kin: Plants + Portals
Moondrops: Astrology Lunar Living
At the Threshold: Witnessing + Companionship
Patreon (over 167 pages of written essays, poems, + musings + 18 hours of pre-recorded workshops).
Herbalism + Flower Essence Consultations
Herbal Apothecary
Rooted Rituals Community-Supported Herbalism Program
Astrology Readings
MY PRACTICE
My practice is currently based out of my home office + apothecary in South Minneapolis. I was a practitioner at the People’s Movement Center from 2017 until it closed in 2020.
My approach is informed by my values listed above, which are rooted in healing justice, emergent strategy, disability justice, abolition, anti-fascism, + anti-authoritarianism.
SASSAFRAS HEALING ARTS ORIGIN STORY
I started Sassafras Healing Arts in 2012 after many years of supporting myself with herbal medicine through a variety of health crises. When a sweet friend of my told me that they loved the winter solstice salve I made for them so much that they wanted to get more from me for some of their beloveds, I decided to begin offering herbal medicine to folks in my community.
MORE ABOUT ME
From what I know, I come from Cajun / French, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German, Prussian, Polish, Belgian, Austrian, Czech, + Roma working-class farmers, caretakers, healers, herbalists, midwives, nurses, blacksmiths, jewelers, clockmakers, merchants, and more.
I am a disabled, trans, non-binary, queer, femme, southern transplant who spent my childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana — Chickasaw, Chitimacha, + Choctaw Land, my adolescence in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin — Anishinaabe, Dakhóta + Ho-Chunk Land, + my early to mid 20’s in Duluth, Minnesota — Anishinaabe Territory.
I spent my 20’s working as an advocate to survivors of intimate partner violence + sexual assault, a sexual health + pleasure educator, and co-founding SPIRAL Collective. I maintained community-organizing and advocacy practices while also expanding + deepening my care work to include queer + trans-centered herbalism, bodywork/somatics, astrology, ancestral healing, and their varying intersections. In 2017 I began formally studying craniosacral bodywork + cupping therapy. I have been studying tarot, astrology, and ancestral healing since 2015. Runes began to speak to me in my dreams in 2018 and I have been deeply listening ever since. I weave these divination practices into my work with clients as well as my medicine-making practice.
I currently volunteer with Lower Phalen Creek Project planting native seeds + removing displaced plant relatives as part of their protection + restoration work at Wakáŋ Tipi within Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary.
.
I provided HRT injections & HIV testing at The Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition from 2012 - 2017.
I Co-Founded + Co-Directed SPIRAL Collective from 2012 - 2020.
I also Co-Founded + Co-Directed Herbalists for Racial Justice from 2016 - 2020.
Learn more about my background, training, and teachers here.
For more information please see my Frequently Asked Questions page.
I'm a member of the American Holistic Nurses Association, and am currently working towards my AHN-BC (Advanced Holistic Nurse Board Certified).
FEATURED IN
The New York Times
As An Intense Winter Unfolds, Some Lessons From Herbalists
by Jenna Wortham for the Sunday Styles Section
January 10th, 2021
Make MN Magazine: Perspective Issue
January 16th, 2020
CURRENT STOCKISTS -- ASTROLOGY ZINE ONLY
Franconia Sculpture Park Commons
Shafer, Minnesota
I live + land-tend on Dakhóta homelands, near Ȟeyata Otuŋwe.
These maps have been deeply impactful and informative of my practice.
They were created by both Marlena Myles and Dawí (Huhá Máza).
You can access a copy and order prints of varying sizes + read more about the artists here here
These maps have been deeply impactful and informative of my practice.
They were created by both Marlena Myles and Dawí (Huhá Máza).
You can access a copy and order prints of varying sizes + read more about the artists here here
