Green World Immersion: 12 Month Herbal Medicine Course
Green World Immersion: 12 Month Herbal Medicine Course
Have you or someone you love struggled to overcome chronic illness, and in the process felt utterly letdown and disillusioned by our current medical system?
Turning to holistic and natural ways of healing has likely given you more relief and support than anything you’ve previously tried and now you’re excited and empowered to build on those successful experiences and learn everything you can about healing with what nature lovingly provides so that you can help your body heal itself, and help others do the same.
Herbalist Andrea Larsen will take you on a year long herbal medicine journey through the Green World as you immerse yourself in all things plant medicine.
This unique program will give you the tools and the confidence to prepare your own beautiful and powerful plant medicines at home as well as deepen your connection with the natural world so that you can turn to plants in trust and gratitude to heal all manner of ailments.
Get up close and personal with the green world so that you can gain hands on experience in identifying, foraging, growing and making foods and medicines from a wide variety of medicinal and edible plants.
Because this program runs for the entire year, you’ll hone the art of medicine making throughout the seasons, learning which plants and their various parts will make the best medicines at different times, and what those medicines will help with.
At the end of this program you’ll have made new friends and lifelong allies with many of the plants we work with and you’ll have a wide variety of tinctures, balms and various medicines to take home.
Next Course Begins September 2022. Cost is $1997 including materials.
Available to a max number of 10 local participants only. Now accepting applications.
Course Outline:
1: Foundations in Herbalism
History of Herbal Medicine
Cultivating Relationships with Healing Plants
Introduction to Botany
Plant Families
Herbal Actions /Energetics Overview
2: Materia Medica
Each month we will meet and work with between 4-5 plants in great detail.
Learn to use plant medicines in accord with constitutional evaluation
3: Constitutions, Basic Anatomy & Physiology, Pathology
Excess/Deficiencies (using herbs to tonify, suppress or stimulate as needed)
The Digestive System, Reproductive Systems, Endocrine System, Respiratory System,
Circulatory System/Cardiovascular System, Urinary System, Lymphatic System OverviewsDiscussions of what can lead to disease symptoms in various bodily systems and applications of herbal medicines as therapies.
4: Herbal Energetics
5: Herbal Medicine Traditions
Further explore the history of herbal medicine through the traditions of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda etc.
6: Ethical Foraging, Wild Crafting & Plant Identification
We’ll get out into the forest, into the garden, get up close and personal with plants and all that encompasses that.
7: Growing Your Own Herb Garden
We’ll start seeds, transplant, divide perennials, discuss & practice all things related to growing medicinal herbs.
8: Medicine Making Core Elements
What makes a potent medicine?
How to make teas, syrups, tinctures, salves, creams and more.
9: Advanced Medicine Making
Build upon your skills to create more complex and potent formulas
10: Food As Medicine
11: Herbal Pharmacology: Constituents and the Sum of the Whole
12: Herbal Medicine for Specific Organ Systems
13: Herbal First Aid
14: Herbal Medicine for Chronic Ailments
Cancellation Policy:
Any registration cancellations before August 15, 2022 will be given a full refund minus a $50 administration fee. Refunds beyond August 2022 Will be dependent on circumstances and subject to a 300.00 materials fee.
Students will meet on a monthly basis here in the Cowichan Valley over a weekend as well as be given access to an online portal for extra video resources and reading materials.