Learn the Ancestral Arts Online & In Person
Ash & Bone was born from a simple and ancient longing – to support people in returning to the skills that have shaped human existence since the very beginning.
Our School lives at the crossing of four Ancestral Arts:
Earth-based spirituality • Birth keeping • Natural building • Herbalism •
These are simple Arts at the heart of life itself. Practiced across continents and generations, they are the Arts that have long woven us into the web of belonging. They are the threads that many of us have forgotten, and are learning to hold again.
Come remember with us.
• The Arts •
Art of Spirit
We honor the North, the air, as the place of the spirits, where the ancestors and their wisdom of Earth-based spirituality return us to a life tended through ritual, song, ceremony and rites of passage.
Art of Plants
We honor the West, the water, as the place of the plants and their medicine, where herbalism returns us to right relationship with our green kin and the living ecosystems that hold us.
Art of Birth
We honor the East, the fire, as the place of beginnings, where full spectrum birth keeping, postpartum, and reproductive sovereignty return the next generation to a healthy and sacred start.
Art of Home
We honor the South, the Earth, as the place of belonging, where natural building and permaculture return us to the ancient art of making home from the land itself.
• How We Teach •
The Path Home has Many Doors
We believe the Ancestral Arts are your birthright. We have designed our school to meet you exactly where you’re at, so you can choose the teachings, learning style, and pace that best support your path home.
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Free Resources
E-books, teachings, and written guides to begin the remembering. No cost, no commitment. Just a first thread to follow
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Courses & Retreats
Immersive, hands-on, and land-based. Come work with your hands, with the Earth, and with a living community of Kin.
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Online Courses
Self-paced learning from wherever you are in the world. Begin any Art from your own table, in your own time.
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Mentorship & Coaching
Personalized guidance, in whichever Art calls to you most. For those ready to go deep.
Together We Remember
Online School
Short classes and deep-dive courses into the Ancestral Arts: Earth-based spirituality (the Art of Spirit), birth keeping (Art of Birth), natural building (Art of Home) and herbalism (Art of Plants). Learn at your own pace. Remember in your own time.
Weaving Basics
Traditional Skills
Herbal Basics
We are made of this wisdom.
When the old ways were burned away, they did not vanish. They became ash. And that ash feeds the fertile soil of remembrance. That is where everything begins again. Our bones remember, even when our mind has forgotten.
And so here we are. The conditions are right.
The ancestors have kept the fire, and now it is ours to tend.
Join in-person
These Arts were never meant to be remembered alone. They were carried through community, handed down generation by generation, person to person, lineage by lineage. We create powerful, land-based containers that ground the Arts into your body.
Join us for weekend classes, week-long retreats, and immersive apprenticeships in Earth-based spirituality, birth keeping, natural building, and herbalism.
Natural Building
Herbalism
Doula Training
• Songs That Bring Us Home •
The Ancestral Arts are the skills all our ancestors practiced: building, healing, birthing, growing, praying, and singing. Always singing. Song is not secondary here, It is one of the oldest technologies of remembrance our species has ever known. It bypasses the thinking mind and lands somewhere older in us.
At Ash & Bone, we sing in every retreat, every gathering, and every online circle we hold, the songs help wake up what we know in our bones.
Enjoy some of the songs we share here:
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"[This course] has not only built the foundation for my path as a doula with structure and trust, but it has allowed me to trust my body again."
“As a woman, and as a birthing human with a womb and eager yet devotional hands to serve women in the years to come.” - Doula Training Participant
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"Taking this course will change your perspective on ideas around building, the existence of your essence in the natural world and how both individually and as a community we can create positive change."
“I built so much confidence in myself and abilities to create, dream and plant seeds of the future.” - Elements of Natural Building Course Participant
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“It truly feels like she’s channeling the voices of the ancestors.”
"Ashley is amazing. I love her passion, her fire, and the deep well of wisdom she carries. She embodies this wonderful wild woman of the mountain energy — someone who weaves many medicines together to serve her community. This course felt like an especially potent transmission, and I feel so grateful to be in continued relationship with her — not just as a teacher, but also as a sister and a friend."
Work with Ash 1:1
Threshold Family
Coaching
Building Consults
Elemental Mentorship
Clinical Herbalism Consults
