I’m Claire Murray, Naturopath, Herbalist & Health Educator.

At 16 years of age I decided I was becoming a naturopath, and holistic healing has continued to call me ever since.

In 2008 I plunged into naturopathic study, soon after finishing school, and relished learning the inner workings of my body, and the herbs and nutrients that could help address imbalances in our health. 

However, I’m an incredibly firm believer in our emotional wounds, cultural conditioning, general constitution and lived experience carrying the capacity to influence our health, and always felt this element was missing from my quite biochemical training.  

In 2018 I completed a qualification in embodiment and somatic emotional release, which really expanded my practice into being much more intuitive yet grounded, and able to transverse all aspects of the patient in front of me.

The plants continued to call me however, and I started to feel the acute gap in my knowledge between the text-book based learning of herbal medicines I experienced at college, and the actual true wisdom of the grassroots herbalist who grew, touched, smelt, meditated and worked with herbs, thereby getting to know their true nature and personality. 

From here, I have furthered my training in grassroots herbalism, plant spirit communication, medicine making, medical astrology, plant energetics and wholism-centered treatment formulation. 

All of the above learning & exploring culminated in the creation of my own apothecary, Spirit Botanica in late 2022. Here I currently focus on creating remedies that support people to connect more deeply with their body, heart and intuition, so they can feel more grounded and live in deeper connection with their centre.

My own health journey…

Over the years has certainly had its ups and downs, with both my digestion and immune system being at the centre of it all. As a child, and into my adult years, I always struggled with eczema, asthma and food intolerances.

After having my son Hugo in 2020 and becoming acutely unwell, I was eventually diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It was a life-changing and wisening rollercoaster.

I continue to do a daily dance with my health and body; existing in this vessel blasts my heart and mind open as to the true definitions of health, healing and wellness are. It feels part of my path to be here and share some of the musings with you as they emerge.

Health Educating & Writing

 
 

Over the past 5 years I’ve taught naturopaths and nutritionists around Australia in both live seminar and webinar formats with some of Australia’s leading supplement companies. 

I’ve been an interviewed guest on numerous industry podcasts and currently co-host Bio-Practica’s Professional Podcast Series, aimed at natural health care practitioners. 

For patients, I create my own education resources, such as my popular Menstruation Masterclass, and have created e-courses and webinars, countless blogs, articles and patient resources within clinics and businesses I’ve worked with previously.

Having received professional public speaking training and mentoring, creating and delivering educational materials is a deep passion of mine.

If you’d like to discuss working together on the creation or delivery of education material, please get in touch here!

Some Fast Facts On Me:

hugo, nath & i at a lake in wales, we took a trip there in early 2024 for my brothers wedding in england.

  • I currently live on the Sunshine Coast in a little house on the same land I grew up on. We moved from Brisbane in 2023 and it’s been a really positive and wonderful thing to do. Watching Hugo play in the same yard I ran around in as a child just lights me up.

  • I'm married to Nathan. I love him. And we have Hugo, a 3.5yr-old chatty, busy, glorious boy.

  • I am at home in the trees & mountains. Give me a wintery hinterland escape with a stream and some moss (so I can pretend I’m actually Claire from Outlander) and I’m set.

  • Chocolate. One of the true loves of my life.

  • I’m a 4/6 Reflector in Human Design - which for me equals ever-changing desires, the need to deeply trust my own energy and rhythms, having serious introvert downtime, and coming alive around the right environments and people.