Introduction to Herbalism

Learn how to cultivate your internal environment and resources with herbs and natural alternatives

Workshops 2021

This series of 4 consecutive Saturdays has been very popular in the years gone and it will be back in 2021.

Here is what it covers.

It gives you a base in understanding how medicinal herbs work, how to grow them and how to use them in a preventative and caring way.  It gives you the tools to develop autonomy in natural care using medicinal herbs and natural health guiding principles. 

The focus is on developing and maintaining strong internal environment and ressources as keys for your health, wellbeing and emotional state.   Develop knowledge and skills on how to care for yourself and your family for day to day health.

Each workshop covers four elements:  cultivation (gardening), a system of the body, four medicinal plants and a method for transforming the medicinal plant in a manner which makes it effective and potent.
The participants go home with homework and hand out notes including references.

• Session 1: Premises of natural health, introduction to medicinal herbs, how they present themselves, their parts, the quality, fresh versus dry and doses, harvesting which part, when.  Model of care. Herbs – Nettle, Red clover, Raspberry, Catnip. Transforming herbs:  preparing an infusion and decoction with beneficial health properties.

• Session 2 Harvesting what, when. Digestive system - the microbiome, how to protect and nurture it.  Herbs – Dandelion, burdock, chicory, slippery elm.  The different ways to transform herbs and how you find them on the market.  Making an effective herbal syrup.

• Session 3: Building soil. Nervous system, caring for it day to day (calming, straightening, restoring, self care) lifestyle. Herbs – Oates, lemon balm, borage, skullcap, St John's wort  Learning about the different ways to make an extract (tincture).  Hands on, making an herbal extract.

• Session 4: The garden:  cultivation, feeding the soil, growing conditions, propagate.  Herbs and their actions.  Natural remedy cabinet content and how to use it:  herbal extracts, syrups, cream and ointment, essentials oils, food, herbal infusions, compresses, poutines.  Day to day ailments.  Guiding premises in applying them.

There is a possibility for the workshops to be offered as a live, online presentation in 2021.  

Dates for 2021 will be confirmed as soon as we can.

Dates: To be advised

Time:  9:00am to 12:00pm
Place:  Tallebudgera on the Gold Coast
Cost:  $450.00
Number of attendees: limited to 10 people
Supplied:  Handout notes are given for each session to take home.
A light meal is serve around 11:00am.

This photo was taken in 2018 at the conclusion of the first workshop of Introduction to Herbalism.