About Leslie Gossett

Leslie Gossett is a naturalist, educator, practitioner, herbalist, and student of Earth. She finds wisdom and magic walking barefoot through fields collecting plants, and meditating underneath maple trees. Born and raised in Nashville, her best friends were the pine trees, and all the best things she learned from being outside close to the Earth.

She is most inspired by helping people find their own ways to connect with themselves and with the earth, which she believes is innate in the human experience.

Leslie has learned over the years that all of her trainings and approaches lead to one place: the path of awe. She is so inspired to walk this path with others.

Leslie’s Background

Leslie started studying plant medicine officially in 2009, and has since taken many trainings with master herbalists and elders. She is also largely self taught, and considers herself to always be a student.

Leslie became interested in meditation as a teenager, and sought out various meditation techniques which she and her friends would practice. Continuing to dabble in meditation, around the same time she found plant medicine, she also found the practice of yoga. This practice changed her life, and she decided to become a teacher in 2013.

One teacher training wasn’t enough, and Leslie continued on the yoga teaching journey to become a certified Children’s Yoga Teacher, Teen Yoga Teacher, and to train to teach Preschool Yoga, Yoga for Children with Special Needs, and Yoga for Trauma, and to become a Meditation Instructor. She completed her 500 hour yoga teacher certification in 2021.

Leslie has coordinated and led dozens of retreats for adults, families, and children across the United States.

Her plant studies naturally led her to naturalist classes, the study of botany, foraging, and primitive skills. In 2021, Leslie completed her Tennessee Naturalist Certification.

Allowing for the beautiful interweaving of all of her paths and studies, Leslie finally figured out how to use her degree in Education- to teach what she knows and loves, and what she feels the world is craving: the way back to self, back to earth, and back to the ancestral ways of humans before us.

  • No. Leslie believes that all things are interconnected on a basic biological level. The plants around us create the oxygen we breathe. This truth is the foundation of her approach- to help people connect to something bigger, to the sense that we are not living in a vacuum. While Leslie recognizes universal divinity and divine intelligence, she does not teach from a doctrine, and people of all beliefs and approaches can find meaning in her practices.

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