Seraphina Capranos & The Center for Sacred Arts

Seraphina Capranos & The Center for Sacred Arts Seraphina Capranos is a herbalist, homeopath, ritualist & Founder of The Center for Sacred Arts. www.seraphinacapranos.com
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In just a few days, we’ll gather with 38 herbalists, healers, and wisdom keepers from around the world to celebrate the ...
10/11/2026

In just a few days, we’ll gather with 38 herbalists, healers, and wisdom keepers from around the world to celebrate the living medicine of the Earth.⁣ I’m sooo excited about this upcoming 3-day FREE online event. Will you join us?

Featuring Iya Sobande Greer (Iya Angelique "Sobande" Greer) • Darin Olien (Darin Olien) • Gabrielle Bonneville (Gabrielle Bonneville) • Sheleana Aiyana (Sheleana Aiyana, Sheleana Aiyana | Author + Speaker) • Katie Brannock (Tea Lady | Katie Brannock) • Dr Pedram Shojai (Dr Pedram Shojai) • Seed Sistas (Seed SistAs) • Cait Woolery (Veritas Botanica | Caitlin Woolery HHP CCMH) • Tarun Nayar (Tarun Nayar | Modern Biology) • Chris Outdoors (Wild Muskoka Botanicals) • Seraphina Capranos (Seraphina Capranos | The Center for Sacred Arts) • Melaine Stoneman, Wakinyan Ska Wi • Dr. Jacqui Wilkins (Plant Medicine + Earth Wisdom ⊕) • Tara Lanich-LaBrie (Tara Lanich-LaBrie) • Asia Suler (Asia Suler)

This three-day online gathering explores:⁣
✧ Herbal support for the digestive and nervous system
✧ Nature connection through movement
✧ Rooted herbal traditions and regenerative wellness⁣
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🌱 Free registration includes:⁣
• 3 days of live sessions guided by leading herbal educators⁣
• 38 teachers sharing practical and ancestral herbal wisdom⁣
• A global community of more than 60,000 learners⁣
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🌟 Or, elevate your Summit experience with our VIP Circle:⁣
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Join live Q&As with expert teachers and enjoy lifetime access to every session — plus a $250 Ecoversity Gift Certificate, and $1,500 in partner gifts and discounts.⁣
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Comment 𝗦𝗨𝗠𝗠𝗜𝗧 below and we’ll send you the link to register. 💚⁣

09/28/2026

Is homeopathy the only true holistic modality that can facilitate deep healing?

Healing is about mending separation. Whether it be nudging the body out of an inflammatory state because it’s reacting t...
09/24/2026

Healing is about mending separation. Whether it be nudging the body out of an inflammatory state because it’s reacting to a safe substance but interpreting it as harmful, or, mending the incongruency of a body that believes its in a constant state of crisis, in any healing modality, we are supporting the re-membering of a body toward safety and harmony.

The thing is, harmony is not static. health is about flexibility. We don’t always want our nervous systems calm, just as we don’t always want our nervous system in a state of hypervigilence. Health is defined by a quality of freedom. The freedom to be flexible, adapt, recover, rest, feel joy, excitability, and once again, rest. Flexibility is resiliency. Resiliency doesn’t mean being armoured.

Both herbs and homeopathic medicines support the body to remember how to be flexible, adaptable, rest, recover, remember joy, and then come back to rest once again. This is because they speak to the body, and help it remember how to heal. The healers role is to faciliate this conversation between the nature of plants, and the nature of the human being.

09/22/2026

The word “equinox” is derived from the Latin meaning, “equal night”. This is a time of balance between dark and light, yet, it can highlight where you are feeling a lack of balance. As you are pulled to prepare for the darker months ahead you may feel unbalanced, confused and uncertain.

You may feel pulled in two directions because it isn’t only a time of plants dying back, it’s also a time of harvest, abundance, and a ‘second spring’.

Fruit like the rosehips and hawthorn are ripening, the hardy roses are blooming still, and the winter vegetables are swelling with nutrients as they fatten for the cold months ahead.

The Calendula, Nettle, and Motherwort are ready for their second harvest.
At this time of year, nature is showing us the power of letting go.

That new life blooms as we release the leaves, flowers and seeds of yesterday. Lay them on the earth, to compost and fertilize the soil of what we are building.
This time of descent invites you to turn inward as you reflect on bounty. This is a time to contemplate and digest what was so you can embody what is to come.

This is the season to bathe your cells in nutrients, eat as many colourful fruits and vegetables (locally sourced ideally, from farms) to move into the next season well nourished.

Make your elderberry syrup, get as much sun as you can even on overcast days as this is still good for your endocrine system.

If the lack of light and increased cold causes you to feel sad and anxious, consider the homeopathic medicine Natrum muriaticum (made from salt) to help this transition. One dose a day for just 5 days. Then pause, and perhaps take it once or twice a month only.
There are so many natural medicines from the Earth to support us in transitions.

Happy Equinox,
Seraphina

This lunar eclipse may have you feeling more emotional and wobbly, as if you’re walking around in a haze of uncertainty....
08/26/2026

This lunar eclipse may have you feeling more emotional and wobbly, as if you’re walking around in a haze of uncertainty.

This is because we are in a portal for releasing and resetting. This doesn’t mean you need to do any releasing or resetting as it’s already happening; nature is leading the way. There’s nothing to push my friends.

 In addition to this eclipse, we are in a season of transition moving from late summer into fall. You can feel the shift in the air. The changing light. The shorter days. 

The cosmic intelligences at play are greater than any one individual, so in this time of celestial power the wisest thing we can do is surrender, and let nature lead. Let your bones soften. Track your tendency to control, and bring ease to the parts that might feel afraid of surrender. 

Our intuition and inner knowing is nature speaking through us. What does your inner wisdom have to say? 

This is a good time to meditate, sit in stillness, daydream, sleep more, journal, and lean into the wisdom of oracular tools. One of my favourite divination tools is sitting with plants. Make a cup of tea, and sit in silence while in ceremony, and listen. Let the wisdom of the plant move through you, and ask them questions. There’s nothing to push. They will answer. I promise. 

An eclipse has a very real physical impact on your body because we are made of the same ingredients as the sun, moon, and stars.

You too, are connected to cosmic intelligence. You may have sleep disruptions this week, vivid dreams, or feel more exhausted with lower energy than usual. Do your best to avoid fighting this, and instead take good care of yourself. Eat colourful foods that are nourishing and grounding.

Herbs to support this pisces full moon eclipse are Crampbark, Wood Betony and Valerian Root. These help ease rigidity, tension, and control tendencies. They also help restore sleep cycles. Trust this eclipse is releasing what is necessary and making room for what is next. 

Love in changing times,
Seraphina

This lunar eclipse may have you feeling more emotional and wobbly, as if you’re walking around in a haze of uncertainty....
08/26/2026

This lunar eclipse may have you feeling more emotional and wobbly, as if you’re walking around in a haze of uncertainty.

This is because we are in a portal for releasing and resetting. This doesn’t mean you need to do any releasing or resetting as it’s already happening; nature is leading the way. There’s nothing to push my friends.

 In addition to this eclipse, we are in a season of transition moving from late summer into fall. You can feel the shift in the air. The changing light. The shorter days.  The cosmic intelligences at play are greater than any one individual, so in this time of celestial power the wisest thing we can do is surrender, and let nature lead.

Let your bones soften. Track your tendency to control, and bring ease to the parts that might feel afraid of surrender. 

Our intuition and inner knowing is nature speaking through us. What does your inner wisdom have to say? 

This is a good time to meditate, sit in stillness, daydream, sleep more, journal, and lean into the wisdom of oracular tools. One of my favourite divination tools is sitting with plants. Make a cup of tea, and sit in silence while in ceremony, and listen. Let the wisdom of the plant move through you, and ask them questions. There’s nothing to push. They will answer. I promise. 

An eclipse has a very real physical impact on your body because we are made of the same ingredients as the sun, moon, and stars. You too, are connected to cosmic intelligence. You may have sleep disruptions this week, vivid dreams, or feel more exhausted with lower energy than usual. Do your best to avoid fighting this, and instead take good care of yourself. Eat colourful foods that are nourishing and grounding.

Herbs to support this pisces full moon eclipse are Crampbark, Wood Betony and Valerian Root. These help ease rigidity, tension, and control tendencies. They also help restore sleep cycles.

Trust this eclipse is releasing what is necessary and making room for what is next. 

sending love through this change,
Seraphina

07/22/2026

St John’s Wort aka St Joan’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) helps the body and mind receive
more light.

It’s indicated in depression where one feels isolated, lacking a sense of community and connection with the rest of the world.

The person needing this herb can feel disconnected from their own spirit cord, that part of our inner light that connects us to the earth light.

The result of this disconnect may be from trauma, head injuries, or emotional abuse leaving a person lacking
in confidence, feeling isolated, and often riding an
emotional rollercoaster.

So when you are feeling like a heavy cloud is all around you, burdened by pain, consider this light-bearer who blooms at solstice.

This ruby red is the result of the medicine made from these yellow flowers. hypericin, a molecule that turns the medicine red, is extracted when exposing the flowers to sunlight.

Sunlight is the plants medicine.

There are two ways I like to make medicine from SJW: oil for external use, and fresh-plant tincture, for internal use.

Oil:
Harvest on a dry sunny day, and lightly spritz with alcohol to begin the extraction process. The misting of alcohol initiates a potent extraction and also helps preserve the final product. Let it sit with the alcohol for 30min with a lid, then, add oil (thanks to Michael Moore, herbalist, who taught so many of this technique before he died in 2008). Set in the sun for at least 10 days, until it turns ruby red. Bring it indoors at night and on rainy, cold days of course.
Cover with muslin or paper towel so any naturally occuring water can evaporate, and critters stay out.

Tincture:
Simply add fresh buds and flowers to a jar, and cover with high proof alcohol. That’s it! It turns ruby red very quick, usually 1-3 days. Strain after two weeks, or a moon cycle.

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Love, Seraphina

07/07/2026

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06/30/2026

For the full article, and recipes, link in bio.

Our bodies know how to use the nutrients because we’ve co-evolved with plants. Nettles grow all over the world, so most of us have ancestral ties to this plant. We are evolutionarily familiar with one another. Nettles, like many green herbs that are suitable as food, are easy to digest and assimilate. I think of nettle as an ally that cleans up our waterways: the lymph, blood, kidneys, and bladder.

The spirit of Nettle is firm, ferocious crone—strong and tough like the fibres of the plant. Nettle medicine goes deep, breaking up stagnation and removing old, dead waste from our bodies, that’s why this herb can be used to alleviate constipation too. As Susun W**d says, nettle “cuts loose old patterns and re-weaves connections.” 
Nettle improves iron absorption in those with anemia, improves circulation and reduces uric acid in gout. it’s also great for those with arthritis, and a wide variety of skin conditions from acne to eczema.

Many of these benefits are because of the phenolic and terpenoid compounds, but, as a vitalist practitioner, it’s safe to say there’s so much more going on in the plant. The whole plant, including the compounds we haven’t been able to isolate, make up the whole, it’s the essence of the plant at work, and this whole plant, offers our whole body, so much healing. Including an abundant variety of nutrients which make it so good for producing healthy, shiny, hair, strong nails, and an abundant of milk for nursing mothers.
It’s signature is for those who’ve had exhausted boundaries, and because of this they are depleted, and burnt-out.
The seeds are the concentrated form of all of this, namely for exhaustion and depletion. the seeds contain all the energy to remedy our exhaustion. I make a tincture from them to use therapeutically, and then a nourishing salt for daily use. It’s sooo delicious, and nutritious. And just takes 5 minutes to make.
There’s a whole article on this, that’s quite long and extensive on my blog. Check out the link in my b1o.

~ Seraphina

ees have been teaching us about healing and community for thousands of years. 🐝Ariella Daly (Ariella Daly | Sacred Beeke...
06/24/2026

ees have been teaching us about healing and community for thousands of years. 🐝

Ariella Daly (Ariella Daly | Sacred Beekeeping | Dream Teacher) has kept bees for 15 years on her Northern California property, not as a hobby but as a practice. She’s a Cornell Certified Master Beekeeper and founder of Honey Bee Wild, and she’s spent that time studying how honeybees have shaped ecosystems, agriculture, and human culture across ancient Mediterranean, European, and indigenous traditions.

This Thursday she’s joining Seraphina Capranos (Seraphina Capranos | The Center for Sacred Arts) live inside ⁕ Not Your Average Garden Club ⁕ to talk about what it actually means to keep bees in relationship with the land. Colony behavior, natural hive management, and how to begin with bees whether or not you ever plan to keep a hive.

🐝 Comment GARDEN CLUB below and or grab the link in bio to join us.

The knowledge of how to live alongside bees has always been there. If you’ve ever felt drawn to bees without knowing why, this session is for you.
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