Melissa Rose
With a connection to the plants, the honeybees, and the lineage of the Rose written into my name since birth, I have walked the spiral path of the Rose home to my true nature.
As a medicine woman and wisdom keeper of primordial Gaia, I cherish the medicine of the wild as an infinite library and apothecary. I am here as a soul midwife for the divine-human experience.
In simpler terms, I work alongside the plants and the Earth to restore holistic wellness. I am an herbalist, a ceremonialist, a carrier of song and a lover of the wild ~ both the wild nature of our Earth and the wild nature within each human.
It is my great joy and service to cultivate prayerful spaces of trust and love where all beings may heal, grow and come back into alignment with their divine blueprint. I carry medicines of the Earth, frequency song and embodied presence as tools for healing and transformation.
My Path
I grew up as an imaginative child who could still remember the magic of the Earth. But over time, under the influence of a dense culture that denies magic and ridicules imagination, my perceptive veil thickened. By my coming of age, I entered a dark inner landscape of mental and emotional turmoil that continued into early adulthood. My personal journey through mental illness and emotional instability was the calling that drew me to the path of plant medicine by way of simple herbal remedies that became my first plant allies.
In 2015, I was introduced to the entheogenic plant medicine Ayahuasca and received the mysterious calling that my life was meant to take an entirely different direction. In a wild leap of faith, I set off in search of personal healing and deeper meaning to life.
After traveling Latin America, I made my home base in Colombia for the next six years, following the medicine path through indigenous traditions of the Amazon jungle. On this path I grew into my role as a facilitator, offering support as a ceremony assistant, musician and translator for hundreds of indigenous elder-led Ayahuasca ceremonies. This path offered evolving opportunities to expand my knowledge of traditional plant remedies and shamanic healing, as well as to develop my spiritual and practical skills for ceremonial space-holding and supporting people through sensitive medicine journeys.
A foundational practice for my growth on the medicine path has been master plant dieta ~ a traditional shamanic practice in which an initiate enters into committed spiritual union with a plant to receive healing and shamanic training. My master plant dietas, many held in isolation deep in the jungle, have offered profound experiences of healing and growth.
After years studying within Amazonian medicine traditions, I began to hear the plants of the North calling me home. I began to focus on studying and communing with native North American plants. I found that these plants sparked a deep remembrance within my soul and body ~ the plants of my ancestors and the lands of my birth were coded into my DNA.
To round out a holistic approach to plant medicine, I committed to studying Western Vitalist Herbalism, learning how to address physical healing in a way that honors in the innate intelligence of the body. I continued to deepen my understanding of the energetic significance of physical illness and how our healing potential is optimized when imbalances are addressed on all levels of being.
In spring of 2022, I followed the call of the plants and moved back 'home', landing in the lush forests of the Coastal mountains in Oregon. The new chapter in these magical lands found me deepening into the path of the Rose ~ a homecoming to the womb-wisdom of my own body and the wild power of the primordial feminine.
In 2025, I graduated from a year-and-a-half long training program with the Song of Sophia school. This training was a rich tapestry of womb-centric, plant-taught herbal studies and apprenticeship in primordial feminine ceremonial arts, supported by spiritual-somatic wisdom for trauma recovery and threshold experiences. These studies have been a profound path of personal initiation, which continues to integrate and blossom as my ongoing studies with Song of Sophia continue.
Song and music have always played an important role in my path. As a shy singer in my younger years, the process of opening my voice and finding the courage to share my song became a testament to the power of the healing path to unlock latent gifts awaiting within. My voice has become one of my greatest tools for offering prayers, moving energies, channeling plant frequencies and connecting with the divine. As a songwriter, many of my songs are received directly from the plants and spirit realm.
Additional training & mentorship
Ceremonial Training & Sophianic Wave Certification - Eliza Máora, Song of Sophia
Quantum Doula Certification - Whapio Diane Bartlett, The Matrona
Vitalist Herbal Practitioner Program - Sajah Popham, School of Evolutionary Herbalism
Plant Dieta Mentorship - Kat Courtney, Plant Medicine People
The Medicine of Grieving - Elke Loepthien, Circlewise Institute
Intuitive Plant Medicine - Asia Suler, One Willow Apothecaries
Mayan Ethnobotany & Herbal Medicine - Elisa Fusi, Alquimia Centre of Healing Arts
Shamanism & Master Plants - Elisa Fusi, Alquimia Centre of Healing Arts
Reiki Levels I, II and Master - Marnie Vincolisi, Gayle Fowler, Lisa Powers
Ancestral, Cosmic and Medicinal Gynecology - Karujeima
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology - University of Puget Sound