Upcoming Live Classes
in Vermont and beyond
Discover what’s on the horizon, both in person and online 🌿
in Vermont and beyond
Discover what’s on the horizon, both in person and online 🌿
The Lyme saturation in which we find ourselves is a powerful teacher about post-antibiotic medicine, the sophisticated movement of plant medicines through ecosystems and the human body, the incredible ability of humans and bacteria to adapt, survive, and continually strive toward balance, and about turning to the plants for deep and lasting healing.
The Lyme complex of infections, the ticks, the forests and fields, do not have to be our enemies – in fact, they are our teachers. And once we understand what's happening in our bodies when faced with these infections, we don't have to feel afraid – we know what to do; we can move toward healing.
This in-depth workshop will cover herbal approaches to the following facets of Lyme Disease: deterrence, infection, acute care, and chronic support. Learn about the most potent plant medicines for Lyme borreliosis and common co-infections, as well as lifestyle and dietary guidelines to strengthen immune health and improve quality of life, whether the goal is avoiding or healing from a long-term Lyme infection.
Suitable for health care professionals as well as the general public.
Our bodies are constantly telling us about where they could use some strengthening, some detoxing, some warmth, or cool, moisture, nutrition, rest .. you name it.
Brought to the awareness of modern western herbalists by William LeSassier and others, and fleshed out (excuse the pun) by Chris Marano, Margi Flint, Matthew Wood, and other contemporary herbalists, face and body diagnostics have once again become an indispensable part of the practice of many health care practitioners.
Eye troubles? Snappy joints? Let's take a look at your liver. Learn about where each of the organ systems opens to the face/head and tongue, how to read a person's thyroid health in their neck, how the shine in our hair and the ridges in our fingernails, or lack thereof, are indicative of kidney and adrenal function, how our tone of voice reflects the health of our organs, even what butt pimples are trying to tell us about our lungs. Each and every part of our external body is relaying messages about what's happening on the inside.
Pro tip: have a little mirror handy during this class!
This class will be held live on May 12th from 3:30pm-5:30pm EST. All registrants will receive a recording of the class to refer back to. If you can’t join live, the recording will be available within 48 hours of the class time.
Join me for this 1.5 hour online workshop to learn about my top 10 must-have medicinal garden plants that are easy to grow, safe to use, simple to harvest, and will make a solid foundation for your home apothecary. Plan now, and you’ll be sipping on beautiful herbal teas (and more!) from your own garden all year long. There will be time during class for gardening Q+A 🪴
This class will be held on Zoom on Wednesday March 18th from 5:00-6:30pm EST, and will be recorded for those who can’t make it to the live class, and for you to refer back to as needed during your garden planning.
“And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’
It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.’”
– Nayyirah Waheed
Our experiences shape us - inside and out. Our life imprints stories into our tissues and bones. Our stories quite literally shape the way we are wired to interact with ourselves and the world. Each of our organ systems holds a sum total of our interactions, experiences, and narratives. To understand what health, and healing, really look like, we have to know how each of our systems interacts with the whole, and how to bring vitality, balance, compassion, and wisdom to our own physical and emotional selves.
This course creates a container for a deep exploration of the systems of our bodies: how each connects with the whole, where different emotions are housed, how and why we respond brilliantly (and at times heart wrenchingly) to stress and to safety, how to nourish ourselves with herbs, foods, awareness, and understanding.
This course meets once a week (on Wednesdays) for 5 weeks. Live classes are on Zoom, and our online classroom holds recordings of each class as well as additional resources for students.