wild medicine making year 

Every act you make in partnership with the Earth is an act of peaceful resistance. Every seed you plant, every cup of tea you drink, and every wound you heal with a homemade remedy is a powerful declaration of independence, peaceful resistance, and resilience.

 

Folk herbalism represents a bond and trust in the wild and natural world, and working with wild native medicinal plants enhances that connection with your immediate environment and the whole. When you allow the land to support your healing process, you consciously choose to work in partnership with wild untamed expressions of life to heal mind, body, and spirit.

 

Our herbal apprenticeship program is now entering it's eleventh year and is a hands on season by season adventure into the world of folk herbalism. The framework of this program is wild native medicinal herbs through the energetic principals of western herbalism. Our unique approach is rooted in relearning how we perceive health and illness, getting to know the herbs themselves, and developing a skillset in keen observation and awareness of the language of the body so that we can recognize 'conversations', patterns of disharmony, and imbalance. This provides a much more useful, practical, and holistic understanding of folk herbalism than simply learning to utilize herbs by matching them with illnesses. You learn to work with them, understand them, and live with them...as green family.

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Throughout this program you will come to understand the foundational properties by which herbs work, how the body's organs and systems respond to them, holistic assessment, and the art of using your senses, intellect, and intuition to perceive the physiological, energetic and etheric properties of herbs, and more. This will assist you in establishing a solid foundation upon which to develop your own unique style and approach to herbcrafting.

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This program is not just about herbalism though, it's much larger than that! It's about a healthier greener way of living, personal development, self awareness, observation, service, and reweaving connection while dreaming yourself into BEing. Throughout the year together, we not only speak about plant allies and their medicinal virtues and herbal lore, but also explore ways of fully integrating them into daily life through conscious nourishment for the head, heart and hands!

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Season by season we mindfully sip and blend healing infusions, nourish ourselves with delicious seasonal wild foods, medicinal syrups, and herbal drinks, we lovingly create remedies and sensory formulas, consciously craft our own natural body products, we explore and develop our own unique ritual tools, creative herbal expression, and more. We discuss themes such as radical peace, ethnobotany, environmentalism and ecology, plant myths, magic, folklore and poetry, regenerative land stewardship, reciprocity and giving back, sustainability and the need for sustainable herbalism, ethical foraging practices, rewilding in modern society, full sensory BEing, indigenous practices, elemental skillsets, ways of walking lightly in our daily life, and so much more.

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Our herbal apprenticeship program takes place in the beautiful Alpine countryside, giving you the opportunity to work outdoors and hands-on with wild native medicinal plants in the surrounding mountains and meadows. Our indoor learning space is Niamh's community clinic and herbal dispensary. Here you will meet a whole new world of wild land dreaming and full sensory plant healing on an intimate level.

 

Would you like to learn how to work with wild native medicinal herbs more effectively? How to sustainably gather, prepare, and work with your own seasonal herbal remedies? Enhance your connection with nature? Gain an extensive skill set in medicine making and natural healing? Would you like to join a fun filled community of like minded nature lovers?

 

If so, then join us!