Hello, and welcome to Manatee Medicinals!
My name is Tavi (she/they)
I’m a witch, storyteller, community herbalist, medicine maker, bodyworker, educator, and podcaster who has been living in so-called Portland, OR for the past 15 years. Originally from urban Southern Ohio, I’m from a multiracial lineage of Black, Indigenous, and ashkenazi Jewish ancestry. Anti-fascism, anti-oppression and anti-zionism inform my work and politics.
Below are some featured products—there are many more detailed listings on my webshoppe! Please feel free to reach out with any questions.
Pain Zap Salve
$22
An infused herbal CBD salve with over 14 botanical ingredients, used topically to soothe muscle, joint or nerve pain, including full-body aches like arthritis and fibromyalgia symptoms. Available in 1, 2 or 4oz sizes!
Passionflower Tincture
$16
Passionflower is a lovely plant that appears to boost GABA in the brain, lowering brain activity and allowing for rest and relaxation. May relieve anxiety, assist with mild to moderate sleep irregularities, racing thoughts or panic, and stomach ulcers.
Should not be taken with other sedative medications.
Love Your Lymph
$26
This sweet-smelling blend of almond, jojoba and essential oils is good for all skin types, but especially perfect for dry, cracked, irritated, congested or red skin, and is safe for body, face and hair!
Brimming with the bright scents of ylang ylang, bergamot and cedarwood, this medicinal, stress-relieving oil is infused with multiple lymphatic herbs and organic hemp CBD flower from Simply Sol, a local farm.
Wounded Healer
$14
Energetic and medicinal protection especially for caregivers and empathetic healers, bodyworkers or therapists of any kind.
Helps to settle the nerves, calm and collect the spirit, and keep your energy safe to yourself so you can show up for others in grace and compassion. Give yourself a bit of a protective shield against vicarious trauma!
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A colorful graphic with an underwater theme reads "Wellness Peer Support", "Chronic Illness Education", "Resource Mapping and Accountability", "Chronic Pain Management", "Sleep and Spiritual Hygiene", "Building your Self-care toolbox", “Nervous System Health and Somatic Practices”. A cartoon manatee floats peacefully in the corner. 
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I make a variety of herbal medicines, with disabled, queer, and BIPOC folks living on the margins of a binary world in mind. I believe that we all deserve access to “alternative” medicines outside of the Medical Industrial Complex, and connection to our ancestral practices in the context of a violent, capitalist society which constantly seeks to disconnect us from those things (and each other.)
With Manatee, I weave together bodywork, herbalism, and traditional African-American folk healing, into a healing arts practice that is uniquely intuitive and therapeutic.
Ethically-sourced materials & many locally-wildcrafted, organic herbs whenever available. Many ingredients come from my beloved local community of BIPOC farmers, growers and other herbalists. Topical products often have strong scents from herbs and essential oils, but I do not use anything marked “fragrance”. I try to label ingredients as clearly as possible for safety and ease!
I make Small batch remedies with an overall focus on healing or lessening symptoms of depression, anxiety, PTSD, grief, exhaustion, adrenal fatigue, chronic illness, gut issues and other common ailments of our time. I see plant medicine as an important tool and ally to help us deepen our connections, and create more space in our bodies to slow down and listen.
Podcast and patreon—support my work!
ABOUT RISE UP GOOD WITCH
rise up! good witch is a podcast and community project rooted in magic, storytelling and collective liberation. self care is magic, resistance is power: using herbalism, tarot, self care, astrology, disability justice framework, and radical community care to foster resilience in toxic capitalism. interviews with healers, artists, and activists. weaving together stories & shared experiences in a loving container, with a dose of humor & skepticism to survive our current hellscape. let's create new worlds.
rise up! good witch was created by corinna rosella in 2018, and tavi joined as the new host in Jan 2023. It is available on apple podcasts, spotify, overcast, iheart radio, and wherever you get your pods.
As we do not make money from these platforms, the podcast is supported by fans on our Patreon—you can sign up for as low as $2 a month to sustain this work, and gain access to extra content like Tavi’s writing, herbal medicine education and classes, and discounts to the Manatee Medicinals apothecary!
The podcast will be on break this summer, to prepare for season 8 this autumn. If you are interested in connecting about being a guest or fiscal sponsor of the show, please fill out the inquiry form here. Tavi can be reached directly at manateemedicinals@gmail.com