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The Gaia Hive
— Established 2017
The Gaia Hive was founded in 2017 as a sanctuary for those who know that the earth is alive, aware, and waiting for us to remember our place within it.
The plants are the stars on earth — ancient teachers who help you remember why you are here and what you came to offer.
Rainbow Serpent Folk Herbalism Mentorship
If you’ve always felt like you live on the edges of society,
this is where your spiritual family gathers.
Julie Gaia had a dream in 2015 of rainbow serpents
telling her to begin teaching what she knew with other people.
People had been asking and she finally listened.
The Rainbow Serpent Folk Herbalism Mentorship is part of a living prophecy — a weaving of people who hear the call of the land and are ready to walk a path of
reciprocity, intuition, and earth‑rooted wisdom.
If you long for fireside learning, elemental connection, and conversations with the more‑than‑human world,
you will feel at home here. We gather around the fire.
We connect with plants, waters, winds, and stones.
We listen to the clouds.
We remember how to hear and be a voice for the earth again.
Join for one day, a ceremony, or a mentorship.
Meet Julie Gaia
Aloha, meet Julie Gaia—a mother, mentor, seed saver, weaver, star seed, animist, friend of the plants, herbalist, land tender, cat lover, and
plant spirit medicine carrier.
Julie came to Earth from the Pleiades and has a deep love for dream work. communicating with plant spirits, and helping others deepen their relationship with the living world.
Her roots are Scandinavian, Celtic, and Germanic. She loves teaching people how to connect with plants and create their own medicines in their kitchens. Through rattling, drumming, and plant songs, she invites people to feel the presence and spirit of the plants working within them. Her medicine cats are also part of the Gaia Hive experience and attend gatherings at her home.
Julie grew up on a dairy farm in southern Ontario, surrounded by the Carolinian forest. Her mother taught her to garden and prepare food, while her father taught her to drink wild water, walk quietly through the forest, observe, and taste the spearmint growing along the creeks. Some of her happiest childhood memories were making mud pies decorated with chestnut flowers and taming barn kittens.
Her formal herbalism studies began with Sage Maurer at the Gaia School in Vermont and Pam Montgomery in California. She is presently a student of Jason Grechanik and Merav Artzi Tobaqueros. Gardening has always been a constant thread in her life, wherever she has lived, and today approximately 95% of her apothecary is locally grown.
Julie’s herbalism journey began in 2004 in Saskatchewan, when she turned to plants while recovering from pneumonia. That experience opened a lifelong devotion to the plant path and deepened her relationship with plant medicine.
The golden thread of life has carried Julie around the world, where she has explored plant medicines and traditional ways of living in Central and South America. Six months on the Big Island of Hawai‘i, one month in Peru, summers camping in the forest, and many winters in Mexico have enriched her path beyond measure. She carries a deep reverence for the meeting of Eagle and Condor medicines.
Today, Julie lives in a straw-bale, off-grid home nestled within a cedar forest in Ontario. From her close living the land, Gaia Hive was born
—a living dream created to share Julie’s love of plants and offer living mentorships rooted in relationship, land, community, ceremony, and hands-on learning.
Julie offers 1:1 herbal consultations and mentorship, group herbalism and plant spirit medicine mentorships, Plant & Tree Attunements, and ceremonies.
May you feel empowered, inspired, and supported on your own plant path.
Julie looks forward to journeying with you.
EDUCATION & TEACHERS
How can one list all of their teachers?
Julie's whole life has been living with
the land & forest.
Everyone you meet is your teacher.
Here are a few of her teachers
in no particular order.
*Some Elders she has worked with have chosen not have to have their names here. Their teachings are woven throughout her life.
Gaia - Mother Earth.
-The plants & Psilocybin
-UFSOL - The Universal free school of life
-Ann Lanigan
-Vandana Shiva (Seed sovereignty)
-Stacy Tekonwanyahe:sen Hill
(Haudensaunee Culture)
& Rebecca Gentle Breeze (drumming & woman's medicine)present
from Saugeen First Nation.
(Anishinabek teachings of Ontario)
-Merav Artzi & Jason Grechanik (Tobaqueros)present
--Pam Montgomery (Plant spirit medicine)
-Sage Maurer (Gaia school herbalism)
--Be Nadine (Munay ki & more)
Sheri Fleischauer (Basket weaving)
Jolie Elan (Botany)
In Spirit:
-Keewaydinoquay
-Juliette De Baircli Levi
-The Ancestors
A message from Julie, "I send gratitude and thanks to my spiritual family for their unconditional love and support. My heart overflows with respect for my Ancestors & the Ancestors of this land. Whenever I need clarity & strength in my life I take some time to be still and rest in the forest. Here is a song I wrote fireside during the winter of 2019 to honour the ancestors from the past and for the future generations. This acknowledges the ancestors of this land and my own. It is for the furred, winged, two-legged, finned, insects, unseen, mountain, stone and tree people. Feel free to sing this song
and make up your tune or rhythm."
Remembering
As we gather on this land
Grounding down
Honing in
I open my hands (2x)
This is a safe space
This a sacred place
May all I do honour you
May all I do honour you
