Meet Barbara

Elder | Nature Mystic | Soul Artist

Barbara’s path weaves art, nature, and energy healing into a single, luminous thread. A former Detroit/New York City artist turned forest-dwelling elder, she now lives in deep communion with the land where she guides others through transition, transformation, and the soul’s remembering.

Her work is both timeless and wild.

Through shamanic journey mentorship, energy healing, Ayurvedic wisdom, and soul-led creative expression, Barbara serves as a wise companion for those navigating rupture, reinvention, or grief. Her presence is rooted and radiant, carrying the calm of the woods and the fire of decades spent walking through the noise toward truth.

As an artist, Barbara marries whimsy with wisdom. Her use of color is both brilliant and tender, revealing an eye attuned to subtlety and spirit. Scribbled letters invite inquiry. Thumbprints become portals. Every piece whispers: the child still lives here.

A writer deeply rooted in the holistic union of the natural world and Ayurveda, she hosts her body of work on Substack at The Quaking Poplar.

Her work is for those standing at the precipice, the seeker ready to surrender to the next shape of their becoming.

Within The Weavers Collective, Barbara holds the elder frequency, the Crone thread. She offers sanctuary, truth, and mythic guidance. Hers is the voice that steadies, the laugh that softens, and the wisdom that cracks illusions open so the light can finally get in.

She is both mirror and mapmaker, helping others reclaim their rhythm, and root back into the pulse of their own aliveness.

Find Barbara on Instagram and Substack at the links below. 

The Rhythm of the Roots

Ayurvedic Wisdom Session | 1:1 Sessions

   A seasonal consultation attuned to your body’s unique rhythm and the living cycles of nature

This 60-75 minute session is designed for those feeling out of balance, physically, emotionally, or energetically, and longing to return to steadiness.

Drawing from the foundational principles of Ayurveda, Barbara helps you understand your innate constitution (your natural state of balance), current imbalances, and how seasonal shifts may be affecting your system. Together, you’ll explore practical ways to restore harmony through simple adjustments in food, lifestyle, and daily rhythm.

Barbara brings grounded presence and years of embodied practice, offering guidance that is both intuitive and practical, helping you build sustainable rituals that support your nervous system, digestion, energy, and emotional clarity.

Includes:

• Personalized Ayurvedic constitution overview

• Insight into current imbalances

• Dietary and lifestyle recommendations

• Daily and seasonal rhythm guidance

• Simple, realistic practices for integration

Exchange: $222

Tending the Thread

Energy Healing Session | 60-75 minutes- online  

A quiet, potent energy session rooted in decades of listening, to the body, the Earth, and the unseen

In this virtual session, Barbara offers intuitive energy healing guided by subtle resonance and deep presence. Her work supports the nervous system in settling, the energy field in realigning, and the body in remembering its innate wholeness.

Whether you are navigating physical depletion, emotional overwhelm, grief, transition, or simply sensing a need to recalibrate, this space allows what has been scattered to gather again.

Barbara works gently, listening for where energy feels held, thinned, or overextended. Through subtle clearing and grounded presence, she supports coherence rather than correction.

She brings the presence of a crone, the steadiness of the forest, and the perceptive eye of a lifelong artist, holding space for quiet repair.

Includes:

 • 60-minute virtual energy healing session (Barbara does this remotely. After an initial intake conversation, she will disconnect to complete the energy healing)

• Gentle clearing and grounding support

• Optional post-session integration message

Exchange: $222

Walking Between Worlds

Shamanic Mentorship Session | 60-75 Minutes

A guided consultation for those seeking clarity, connection, or a deeper dialogue with the unseen

This session is an invitation to step into the mystery, where inner landscapes speak. Barbara walks beside you as a seasoned guide, helping you prepare for, integrate, or deepen your shamanic journeying practice.

In this session, Barbara will guide you to the Lower World where you might meet with an animal spirit guide. You are invited to bring your questions and longings. Barbara offers grounding, presence, and mythic insight.

Includes:

• Personalized guidance around journeying practices

• Intuitive reflection + integration support

• Ritual suggestions (as needed)

Exchange: $222