Calm Mind, Steady Heart: Herbs for Mood & Emotional Regulation

Our emotions are deeply intertwined with the nervous, endocrine and cardiovascular systems. Discover how herbal medicine supports emotional balance, stress recovery and nervous system resilience—addressing both the physiology and energetics of mood regulation.

Learn about the body’s stress response system, including the roles of cortisol, the adrenal glands and neurotransmitters. Gain a greater understanding of how chronic stress or emotional strain can lead to fatigue, anxiety, irritability or low mood. Explore key categories of herbs that help bring balance: nervines, adaptogens and cardiac tonics. Discuss herbs such as lemon balm, passionflower, skullcap, oat tops, holy basil, hawthorn and rose. Review these herbs clinical applications, energetic signatures and how to select the right combinations for different emotional states. Through tasting and discussion, experience how herbal energetics such as cooling, relaxing, uplifting or grounding directly influence the mind and heart.

Price: $48, $43 member

Location: York Street

Instructor: Hollow Kelley

Hollow Kelley is a trained clinical herbalist with over a decade of clinical practice and a deep commitment to holistic healing. For more than 10 years, he has refined his therapeutic offerings and the medicine formulas he creates, crafting a wide range of herbal extracts designed to support health, vitality and overall well-being. Hollow is also an experienced meditation practitioner and ceremonialist. His approach blends plant medicine with somatic awareness, energetic presence and intellectual understanding to create healing experiences that are both grounded and transformative. Hollow integrates mindfulness and ritual as essential companions to herbal practice.