The year of the Sneak in 2025 focuses on introspection, wisdom, and personal growth.
Nine Star Ki in 2025 is 2- Earth energy year and marks quite a shift from 3- wood energy in 2024. Understanding our own individual energetic signature in the context of applying feng shui to our homes and workspaces is a very powerfulway to tap into our fullest potential.
Join me and start your sashiko journey in 2025!
Read my blog “Live Life One Stitch at a Time”
Sashiko Basics: Introduction Workshop for Beginners
You’ll dive into the history of sashiko, master the “Unshin” stitching technique, and learn to create the hitomezashi (rice stitch) pattern. Experience how sashiko can calm your mind and spark your creativity, one stitch at a time.
Sunday, June 29, 2025 from 10:30 am to 1 pm
Sunday, May 25, 2025 from 10:30 am to 1 pm
Saturday, March 29, 2025 from 12:30 to 3 pm
at Wildfiber Studio in Santa Monica
$100 including all the material kit
Register here
Wildfiber Studio
1453 14th St E, Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 458-2748
Sunday, June 15, 2025 from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm
Sunday, May 18, 2025 from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm
Sunday April 27rd at 10:00 am~12:30 pm
Toshizo Watanabe Culinary Cultural Center (Japanese American Culture Community Center/JACCC)
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join JACCC and Sustainable Little Tokyo for a hands-on sashiko workshop led by Sanae Suzuki. Explore the beauty and tradition of Japanese embroidery while receiving a Material Kit, which includes:
- Sashiko Threads (color: indigo/royal blue) 20m
- Sashiko Needles (2/pack, sizes: 1 15/16″ and 2 5/8″)
- Takeda Wasarashi Natural Unbleached Cotton Cloth
- 6-inch 8ths Graph Ruler
- Heat Erasable Rollerball Pen
- Small Sewing Scissors
Sashiko at Gardens:
Basics Introduction Workshop for Beginners
Join a hands-on sashiko workshop led by Sanae Suzuki. Explore the beauty and tradition of Japanese Sashiko embroidery while learning how to stitch Sashiko with the material kit.
Sunday, March 2, 2025 12:00 ~ 2:00 pm $85 + process fee
Sunday February 23rd at 10:00 am~12:30 pm
Toshizo Watanabe Culinary Cultural Center (Japanese American Culture Community Center/JACCC)
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join JACCC and Sustainable Little Tokyo for a hands-on sashiko workshop led by Sanae Suzuki. Explore the beauty and tradition of Japanese embroidery while receiving a Material Kit, which includes:
- Sashiko Threads (color: indigo/royal blue) 20m
- Sashiko Needles (2/pack, sizes: 1 15/16″ and 2 5/8″)
- Takeda Wasarashi Natural Unbleached Cotton Cloth
- 6-inch 8ths Graph Ruler
- Heat Erasable Rollerball Pen
- Small Sewing Scissors
Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 10:00 am – 12:30 pm
$80 + process fee
Toshizo Watanabe Culinary Cultural Center (Japanese American Culture Community Center/JACCC)
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Under Sanae’s guidance, you’ll dive into the history of sashiko, master the “Unshin” stitching technique, and learn to create the hitomezashi (rice stitch) pattern. Experience how sashiko can calm your mind and spark your creativity, one stitch at a time.
Sashiko Coaster Making Workshop
Sunday, March 23, 2025 at 10 am ~ 12:30 pm $80 + $8 process fee
The Art of Sashiko: Crafting Coasters with Tradition
Toshizo Watanabe Culinary Cultural Center (Japanese American Culture Community Center/JACCC)
244 S. San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
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The year of the Dragon in 2024 is associated with the element of Wood to bring evolution, improvement, and abundance.
I focus on practicing self-care.
I recommend that everyone join and practice self-care.
If you have any questions, please email me at sanaehealing@gmail.com
2024 Class/Workshop
Japanese Botanical Tincture Making Workshop
Join JACCC and Sustainable Little Tokyo for an immersive, hands-on workshop where you’ll explore the art of crafting botanical tinctures using Japanese loquat leaves and aromatic pine needles. Experience their unique scents, learn how to safely apply them to your skin, and create your personalized tinctures to take home. Along the way, you’ll gain insight into the numerous benefits and traditional uses of these plants, while also mastering techniques that will empower you to make tinctures with herbs from your own garden.
Date: Sunday October 27th, 2024
Time: 10:30 am to 12 pm
Location: Japanese American Cultural & Community Center
244 San Pedro St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Price free with RSVP (donations encouraged)
Japanese Botanical Tincture-Making Workshop
The year of 2023 with hope, love, happiness and healthy life.
We are teaching cooking classes only private since the Pandemic last three years.
Other classes are outdoor classes/workshops and some Zoom, and small events.
2023 Class/Workshop
Botanical Workshop #4
New Year, New You!
Bach Flower Remedy (homeopathic), Medicinal Tea with Nine Star Ki Astrology to Manifest Your 2023!
Date: Sunday, February 5th, 2023
Cost: $50 Buy the ticket from https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bach-flower-remedy-medicinal-tea-with-nine-stat-ki-astrology-for-2023-tickets-518202135537
Time: 1~2:30 pm
Location: Outdoor* Merrihew’s Sunset Gardens https://www.merrihewsnursery.com/
* If it rains, we will be inside the back of the register. You can wear the mask if you want.
Address: 1526 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
The year 2023 is a new cycle of the new year by Nine Star Ki astrology, and it starts February 4th every year. 2023 is a new start – hope and kindness.
The transition to the new year can be challenging for us.
How do we draw a line from last year (past) to the new year (present) and move forward?
How do you make your new year resolutions or goals and manifest?
The world has changed so much and is uncertain in the last three years.
Another new year has come if you feel you are stacked or do not know what you want to do with your life and cannot move forward.
You are not alone.
It takes time and a gradual organic slow process as peeling onion skin to shed to re-birth like butterflies, and then you find the true you.
There is support for you to help your mind safely.
Learn:
- What is Bach Flower Remedy (homeopathic essence)
- Which Bach Flower Remedy (homeopathic essence) will help for your new year or help you find your purpose
- How to take Bach Flower Remedy
- How often to take Bach Flower Remedy
- How long to take Bach Flower Remedy
- What to expect after you take Bach Flower Remedy
- General Nine Star Ki for 2023
Try & Taste:
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Bach Flower Remedy (homeopathic essence) for your condition up to two or three remedies per person.
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Botanical Medicinal Tea (Umeboshi pickled plum and Kombo kelp tea: It is believed that a pickled plum protects us from evil and illness, and a tied of dried sea kelp is a symbol of happiness for New Year.
When you take the workshop, you will receive simple guidelines handout. Please bring your notebook and pen if you want to take a note.
It will be an outdoor setting and sitting on a bench. Please wear clothes or hats that work for you. Please bring your cushion/towel for a seat if you need it. * If it rains, we will be inside and wear the mask if you want.
This workshop is an educational purpose only; if you have health issues, you can contact Sanae Suzuki directly by email sanaehealing@gmail. Website
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Botanical workshop #5 Spring!
Pickles Making, Medicinal Plants and Seasonal Plant-Based Foods (Macrobiotics)
Date: Sunday March 5th, 2023
Cost: $50
Here is the Eventbrite site for details.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
Time: 11:00 ~12:30 pm
Location: Outdoor* – Merrihew’s Sunset Gardens https://www.merrihewsnursery.com/
* If it rains, we will be inside and wear the mask if you want.
Address: 1526 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Learn:
- What to do to support the Liver and Gallbladder (TCM)
- How do you know you need to cleanse the Liver and Gallbladder
- What emotion reflects the Liver and Gallbladder
- How to infuse Medicinal Tea
- How to make Japanese pickles
- Japanese pickles history
- Why pickles are healthy
- What kind of pickles are good to eat in spring
- What types of food and vegetables are good to eat in spring
Taste:
- Botanical Medicinal Tea for Spring
- Japanese pickles
The detail of the workshop may change due to the availability of ingredients.
*The cost includes all the organic medicinal plants and other ingredients you will taste/try in the workshop.
If you want to make remedy and tea at home, you can purchase the ingredients at the end.
When you take the workshop, you will receive simple guidelines handout. Please bring your notebook and pen if you want to take a note.
It will be an outdoor setting and sitting on a bench. Please wear clothes or hats that work for you. Please bring your cushion/towel for a seat if you need it. * If it rains, we will be inside and wear the mask if you want.
This workshop is an educational purpose only; if you have health issues, you can contact Sanae Suzuki directly by email sanaehealing@gmail. Website
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Special Event
Flower Remedy and Medicinal Tea Mini Class and Talk in Japan!
Date: Fri, April 14t, 2023
Cost: 5000yen
Time: 3 pm ~ 4:30 pm
Location: * Brown’s Field Rice Terrace Cafe https://brownsfield-jp.com
Address: 〒299-4504
千葉県いすみ市岬町桑田1501-1
Phone: 0470-87-4501
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Healthy Happy Holistic Care for Dogs and Cats
Date: Friday, July 14th
Cost: https://planetaryhealth.com/online-macrobiotic-summer-conference-2023-information/
Time: 12~1 pm PST
Location: Online https://planetaryhealth.com/online-macrobiotic-summer-conference-2023-information/
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Bach Flower Remedy Level 1 Certification Course
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
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2022 Class/Workshop
Botanical Workshop #3
Medicinal Plants and Plant-Based Foods for Winter
Date: Sunday November 20th, 2022
Cost: $45* eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/botanical-workshop-3-medicinal-plants-and-plant-based-foods-for-winter-tickets-445505227127
Time: 2:00 ~3:30 pm
Location: Outdoor – Merrihew’s Sunset Gardens https://www.merrihewsnursery.com/
Address: 1526 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Learn:
– How to use medicinal plants and plant-based foods safely as tea and remedy for winter
– At least 20 different medicinal herbs/ingredients
– How to support for winter organs of the Kidney and Bladder (by Five elements of Chinese medicine)
– How to help strengthen winter tissues: bones and hair grow with medicinal teas/remedies
– What the winter sense organs are
– How to prevent cold and flu in winter with natural remedies/medicinal teas
– What plants and plant-based foods help to build a healthy immune system for winter (not suppressing it!)
You will taste:
Four different medicinal teas/remedies blends
1) Bone and Hair
2) Sore Throat, Cough, and Sinus (Cold and Flu)
3) Kidney and bladder/Immune Support
4) Prevention/Immune Support
The detail of the workshop may change due to the availability of ingredients.
*The cost includes all the organic medicinal plants and other ingredients you will taste in the workshop.
If you want to make remedy and tea at home, you can purchase the ingredients at the end.
When you take the workshop, you will receive simple guidelines handout. Please bring your notebook and pen if you want to take a note.
It will be an outdoor setting and sitting on a bench. Please wear clothes or hats that work for you. Please bring your cushion/towel for a seat if you need it.
This workshop is an educational purpose only; if you have health issues, you can contact Sanae Suzuki directly by email sanaehealing@gmail. Website
Botanical Workshop #2
End of Summer Herbal/Remedy Infusions
Date: Sunday August 28th, 2022
Time: 3 ~4:30 pm
Location: Outdoor – Merrihew’s Sunset Gardens https://www.merrihewsnursery.com/
Address: 1526 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Cost: $40 eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/end-of-summer-herbal-infusions-tickets-392930815647
Join us for an end of the summer workshop in herbalism!
Learn how to make 3 different herbal infusions:
1. Oil for skin (moisturize)
2. Toner for skin (refresh and hydrate)
3. Tea for supporting stomach/spleen/pancreas (late summer organs in Chinese medicine)
Introduction on how to make organic herbal skin remedies (oil and toner) for after summer sun + medicinal herbal tea to help you rejuvenate and calm your mind after a busy summer.
Your skin is your largest organ and shows the first signs of your health.
Learning to make your own herbal skin care and tea is safe and effective for your skin, physical, and mental health. You can even grow most of the herbs at home!
Come find out how these herbs benefit you while tasting medicinal tea that supports the stomach, spleen, and pancreas, which are connected to late summer in Chinese medicine. Late summer supports autumn’s organs of lungs and large intestine next season to prevent cold, flu and even covid.
Botanical Workshop #1
Medicinal Plant/Herb Tea from Your Garden
Date: Saturday June 18th, 2022
Time: 11 am
Location: Merrihew’s Sunset Gardens https://www.merrihewsnursery.com/
Address: 1526 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
More detail from my blog
Online Healing Bach Flower Remedy 5 series (in Japanese)
1. Sunday March 13th, 2022 at 6~7:30 pm
2. Sunday March 27th, 2022 at 6~7:30 pm
3. Sunday April 10th, 2022 at 6~7:30 pm
4. Sunday April 24th, 2022 at 6~7:30 pm
5. Sunday May 8th, 2022 at 6~7:30 pm
Details and take these class(s) by Achieve
Healthy Happy Pooch Lecture and Book Signing
Date: Sunday March 20th, 2022
Time: 12~4pm
Location: Tortoise General Store https://tortoiselife.com/
Address: 12701 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066
Please check my FaceBook, Instagram or send your email to sanaehealing@gmail.com
Thank you! Love, Sanae❤️
We have been offering classes/workshops events since 1995.
- Cooking and Lecture classes (Macrobiotic basic series, Yin & Yang, Desserts, Detox, Remedies drinks, External remedies, etc.)
- Meditation class
- Bach Flower Remedy
- Medicinal Herbs
- Aromatherapy
- Yoga
- Potlucks
- Hiking
- Love and Healing events
- Movies/Documentary preview
- Etc.
We counted a total of over 480 classes/workshops events we have offered by the end of 2016.
If you want to attend any classes/events contact sanaehealing@gmail.com
2020 classes and workshop
Planing to teach Community Yoga class at a park, Moxibustion class, Bach Flower Remedy class, and Animal Reiki class!
If you are interested to take any of the classes, please send your email to sanaehealing@gmail.com
2019 classes and workshop
I broke my knee so I only offer private cooking and medication classes, Macrobiotic Holistic Nutrition counseling, Bach Flower Remedy Consultant, Reiki, Moxibustion and Shiatsu.
If you are interested in private classes or counseling and sessions, please send your email to sanaehealing@gmail.com
2018 classes and workshop
Community Yoga Class
* please read my blog “Yoga for My Life” how I start yoga
① Wednesday, March 7, 2018
10:30–11:30pm
Donation $5
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
② Wednesday, March 14, 2018
10:30–11:30pm
Donation $5
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
③ Wednesday, March 21, 2018
10:30–11:30pm
Donation $5
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
④ Wednesday, March 28, 2018
10:30–11:30pm
Donation $5
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Introducing To Moxibustion for Your Health
Date: Saturday, June. 16, 2018
Time: 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Place: Studio mugen 2610 23rd St., Santa Monica, CA
Check my blog about this class https://sanaesuzuki.com/2018/06/17/healing-moxibustion-moxa/
Cooking Demonstration Event
Date: Tuesday, Oc. 16, 2018
Time: 7 PM to 9 PM
Place: 401 S Prospect Ave, Redondo Beach, CA 90277-3940, United States
Autumn Potluck
Date: Sun Oct. 28, 2018
Time: 1 PM to 4 PM
Place: Virginia Park in Santa Monica
2017 classes and workshop
Macrobiotic Principle Cooking and Lecture Class12 series #9 (In Japanese)
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017
Time:10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Place: Studio mugen 2610 23rd St., Santa Monica, CA
Homemade Pickles Cooking Class
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Place: Studio mugen 2610 23rd St., Santa Monica, CA
Learn how to make pickles using miso, tamari, sea salt, lemon, etc.
So many pickles are made with sugar and preservatives now. Learn how to make your own pickles, which help our digestive systems to lose excess weight and create a beautiful skin for spring.
If you are interested in this class, let us know by emailing seedkitchen@gmail.com or sanaehealing@gmail.com. We will send you dates and more details as soon as we know.
Introducing To Bach Flower Remedy for Your Mind and Emotions to Heal
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Place: Studio mugen 2610 23rd St., Santa Monica, CA
Meditation
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Place: Studio mugen 2610 23rd St., Santa Monica, CA
Community Yoga Class
* please read my blog “Yoga for My Life” how I start yoga
① Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017
12:15–1:15pm
$5
Santa Monica Yoga
② Monday, Feb. 6, 2017
10:30am –12:00pm
$10
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
③ Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017
12:15–1:15pm
$5
Santa Monica Yoga:
④ Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
10:30–11:30am
$10
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
⑤ Thursday, March 2, 2017
12:15–1:15pm
$5
Santa Monica Yoga
⑥ Monday, March 6, 2017
10:30am –12:00pm
$10
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
⑦ Thursday, March 23, 2017
12:15–1:15pm
$5
Santa Monica Yoga
⑧ Monday, March 6, 2017
10:30am –12:00pm
$10
Clover Park, Santa Monica: 2600 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405
Macrobiotic Principle Cooking and Lecture Class series #10 (In Japanese)