LAboratory + oratory + Temple + altar
Who We Are
The Botanical Bathhouse is a modern regional bathhouse rooted in the ecology, medicine, geology, and spiritual traditions of the land and people it serves.
Long before architecture, medicine, or commerce, this landscape knew how to care for those who lived within it.
Water emerged from the earth.
Plants adapted to altitude, drought, and season.
Stone stored heat.
Clay held water.
Steam carried medicine.
People learned by paying attention.
This bathhouse is not an invention. It is a continuation.
Our work is to translate its intelligence into contemporary life.
Every room, every vessel, every botanical preparation, every meal, every ritual, and every conversation considered as an offering at the altar of the natural world.
The landscape is not our inspiration.
It is our first practitioner, lover and friend.
Ella gamble
Founder & Lead Designer at The Botanical Bathhouse and Sovereignty Apothecary
Hello, I’m Ella.
I’m an operative alchemist based in the high desert of Taos, New Mexico. Weaving the connection between planets, plants, and the individual, my work aims to evolve traditional alchemical philosophy with the intuitive framework of human design, offering an advanced, practical, and deeply embodied approach to personal evolution.
Integrating healing arts, cosmology, ritual, and adornment practices, I hold certifications as a Holistic Health Practitioner, Functional Yoga Therapist, Pre & Post Natal Yoga, and Level 1 & Level 2 Usui Reiki Practitioner through the University of New Mexico.
Trained in Laboratory & Operative Alchemy, Perfumery, Metalworking, and Human Design I consider myself a lifelong devotee to these sciences and Arts.
In love with this life, thank you for being here.
To pry for hidden things, to smell out riches hidden in the veins of the earth- these skills will come for you.