Birthing an Herbalist in 13 Moons
An Interactive On-Line Plant Medicine Apprentice Journey
Did you know it takes 13 moons to birth an herbalist? Yes, it takes the passing of 13 Moons which then brings one to the beginning or your first breath. So we begin right where you are and travel the medicine wheel of life as we cultivate and birth your inner healer into herbalist form. It looks different for each of us because it's supposed to. We are each different yet gestated in the same waters of creation and so are birthed with a unique way about us. The same is true when you birth your herbalist-self and it's such a path of beauty that also takes time and commitment. This course is an experiential journey into your outer and inner terrain with new eyes, new ears, and new tools as we cultivate a new understanding of who you are and how you relate to the plants and landscapes around you.
We spend an equal amount of time in modern science as we do in the ancient teachings of the Celtic, Druid, Native American, and South American healing traditions.
We spend an equal amount of time in modern science as we do in the ancient teachings of the Celtic, Druid, Native American, and South American healing traditions.
What does this mean?
We'll study your nervous system anatomy and journey to the keeper of your nervous system. We'll learn when to plant seeds by the phases of the moon for better germination and be a seed as we craft medicine bundles to support our growth. We'll listen to lungs sounds and feel pulses and assess skin and eyes and tongues and imagine traveling to your own windy caves that dwell in your chest while taking journeys to such places. We'll study your lymphatic and cardiovascular system and follow these waterways in your body much the same as when I encourage you to take field trips to mountain streams and lakes to swim in the water of Earth's vascular and lymphatic system. We'll peer deep into flowers and along stems, leaves, barks and roots, and catch seeds on their releasing day if our timing is impeccable, and sit with an ancient tree and share thanks to the incredible network system deep within Earth's body. We'll learn how to approach a person when they are feeling ill and vulnerable, vicious, or sad and afraid, and how to enter a plant's space with permission and reverence too. We'll explore how to move into modern medicine with yourself intact and your herbalist knowledge honed enough to know when to use what and how. The hospital is just another forest to me and it took a while to get oriented to the concept and place. Being aware of where you are and when to give, take, ask, and receive flows through all we do, yes. This is a taste of how we'll travel together for 13 Moons.
Our On-Line Herbal Circle
Lessons:
Our 13 herbal lessons will be posted to our classroom monthly for you. Live-Webinar check-ins happen monthly in our 'Herbal Council Meetings' during our walk together for Q&A time and new topic information. Did I mention this is content rich! You will have a near 1,500 page reference book that can sit within your apothecary for quick reference by the end of our course time. Kept in loose leaf binders, this can easily expand as your knowledge grows with your deeper walk into the world of plants.
Classroom:
Secure password access to our online classroom at Ruzuku is started immediately upon registration.
All lessons, activities and discussions will take place in our virtual classroom. You will have 2 years access to complete the content and enjoy the Herbal Council Meetings too.
Homework:
Yes and completely optional but recommended and required for ElderMoon School Herbalist Certification. Review questions and activities will be given at the end of each month. Your responses and write-ups are sent to me in one PDF file sent via email when you feel complete with the material. You have 2 years to complete the content and submit homework for certification. Yes, it's content rich and a 'school of medicine' and so we need more time sometimes which is why 2 years is given. Pace and dedication to completion is supported with your 2 years in our 'Monthly Herbal Councils'.
Discussions:
Our on-line classroom has a discussion forum area we use. A private facebook group exists for those who travel there. I will keep you posted as social media shifts. This chat area is a lively, rich part of class time where we learn from each other. Participation in discussions is encouraged AND completely optional. We will respectfully debate any topic, post recipes to share, ponder questions together, post pics of you mixing cream or traveling to a sacred grove to get grounded or plant pics that stir your heart or what your face looks like the first time you taste Wormwood, Goldenseal, Osha or Valerian root!
Teaching Tools:
PDF files (word), audio (soundcloud), video (vimeo), live webinars in the virtual classroom (ruzuku), journal prompts, ceremony and ritual ideas, creating altars, story telling, and ...our Plant, Animal, Stone, Element, and Landscape teachers who will guide the way. We journey every month with our guides. All video and audios are recorded for your convenience. They are made with the thought of you sitting directly with me. Simple, informative, and part of this one-woman-show here where I have lots of tribal support too.
Self-Paced - Start Anytime
Content is delivered monthly for 13 moons. You have 2 years to work the content. You receive emails when your lessons are posted into the classroom each month. I walk with you and check frequently for questions and offer feedback. I hope you're as excited as I am!
Our 13 herbal lessons will be posted to our classroom monthly for you. Live-Webinar check-ins happen monthly in our 'Herbal Council Meetings' during our walk together for Q&A time and new topic information. Did I mention this is content rich! You will have a near 1,500 page reference book that can sit within your apothecary for quick reference by the end of our course time. Kept in loose leaf binders, this can easily expand as your knowledge grows with your deeper walk into the world of plants.
Classroom:
Secure password access to our online classroom at Ruzuku is started immediately upon registration.
All lessons, activities and discussions will take place in our virtual classroom. You will have 2 years access to complete the content and enjoy the Herbal Council Meetings too.
Homework:
Yes and completely optional but recommended and required for ElderMoon School Herbalist Certification. Review questions and activities will be given at the end of each month. Your responses and write-ups are sent to me in one PDF file sent via email when you feel complete with the material. You have 2 years to complete the content and submit homework for certification. Yes, it's content rich and a 'school of medicine' and so we need more time sometimes which is why 2 years is given. Pace and dedication to completion is supported with your 2 years in our 'Monthly Herbal Councils'.
Discussions:
Our on-line classroom has a discussion forum area we use. A private facebook group exists for those who travel there. I will keep you posted as social media shifts. This chat area is a lively, rich part of class time where we learn from each other. Participation in discussions is encouraged AND completely optional. We will respectfully debate any topic, post recipes to share, ponder questions together, post pics of you mixing cream or traveling to a sacred grove to get grounded or plant pics that stir your heart or what your face looks like the first time you taste Wormwood, Goldenseal, Osha or Valerian root!
Teaching Tools:
PDF files (word), audio (soundcloud), video (vimeo), live webinars in the virtual classroom (ruzuku), journal prompts, ceremony and ritual ideas, creating altars, story telling, and ...our Plant, Animal, Stone, Element, and Landscape teachers who will guide the way. We journey every month with our guides. All video and audios are recorded for your convenience. They are made with the thought of you sitting directly with me. Simple, informative, and part of this one-woman-show here where I have lots of tribal support too.
Self-Paced - Start Anytime
Content is delivered monthly for 13 moons. You have 2 years to work the content. You receive emails when your lessons are posted into the classroom each month. I walk with you and check frequently for questions and offer feedback. I hope you're as excited as I am!
An 'Ancient Sacred Wise One' known as Indian Pipe or Ghost Pipe offers the 'Medicine For Healing The Healer'
Course Topics:
- Creating your own Home Apothecary
- Seasonal Herb Identification focused on all plant forms from seaweeds, algae, mushrooms, lichens, to trees and all in between. Yes, even on-line we can deeply imprint your brain to recognize the medicine carriers.
- Medicinal Actions of Herbs - and the many ways to treat the body with herbal remedies
- Wild Food Gathering and Recipes
- Herbal Therapeutics, Basic Anatomy, Physiology, and common conditions for each Body System
- Basic Aromatherapy for the Herbalist
- Making Herbal Products: Teas, Infusions, Decoctions, Capsules,Tinctures, Elixirs, Syrups, Oxymels, Vinegars, Liniments, Salves, Infused oils, Honeys, Aromatherapy Oils, Body Creams, Lotions, Salts, Scrubs, Powders, Poultices, Flower Essences
- Developing Herbal Formulas, The Business of Herbs
- Herbal Harvesting, Drying and Storage
- Herbal First Aid Kit, Recovering from Hospital Stays, Preparation for and Recovery from Surgery
- Herbal Hospice Care, Herbs for Women, Men, Children, and Elders Health
- Herbalist Tool Kit Expanded: Sacred Bathing Techniques, Limpias, Seed Banking for Landscapes, Creating Ceremony, Ritual, and Altars
- Creating a Medicine Garden, Basic Botany & Plant Identification
- Locating and honoring the Heart of your Land, Land Stewardship
- Plant meditations, guided visualizations, and shamanic journeys
- Working with the Elements - Air, Fire, Water, Earth; Working with the Five Great Landscapes of the Earth
- Learning Cycles through The Medicine Wheel of Life
- Creating Plant Profiles for your expanding Materia medica
- Monthly LIVE stream 'Herbalist Council Meetings" for sharing, walking together, Q&A time with Jen.
- Herbalist Certificate of Completion awarded at our Closing Commitment Ceremony
Each person's experience through this journey is a unique spoonful of medicine for their soul as we travel the seasonal cycles together and address our needs and desires while together. This course is quite huge in content and we spend the majority of the time on the study of the plants, the body and the how-to for practice on the physical level. There is a weaving of ancient ways into our journey together where herbalism is a spiritual practice too and something that all our ancestors once did through a deep connection to Nature. Staying connected to Nature is my way and it moves to all levels of being. It is our common ground.
Fee: Birthing An Herbalist In 13 Moons $599 Paid in Full
Fee: Payment Plan - Birthing An Herbalist In 13 Moons
6 Month Payment Plan $109/month
Questions or comments?
Contact via email: [email protected]
All tuition fees are non-refundable, but yes, transferable to apothecary products and services.
Contact via email: [email protected]
All tuition fees are non-refundable, but yes, transferable to apothecary products and services.
Looking for something different? Or maybe you're considering a smaller step toward this vision of yours as you make more space for the larger commitment? I get it. Have a look at the other options offered.
Our Giveback Together...
Joining our on-line 'Birthing an Herbalist in 13 Moons' course includes 5% of your tuition being donated directly to TreeSisters, a gorgeous network of woman working together globally in reforestation projects to seed change for all. This work is right down into the soil, through the hands of women germinating, tending and planting the trees where they are needed to recover from deforestation changes affecting us all. Thank you for joining me in supporting this globally growing network.
"Our bodies are governed by the limitless intelligence and ever changing tides of the living world. When we fully reconnect to the Nature that we are, our experience of belonging, self knowledge and power can literally transform our lives." - Clare DuBois, TreeSisters
"Our bodies are governed by the limitless intelligence and ever changing tides of the living world. When we fully reconnect to the Nature that we are, our experience of belonging, self knowledge and power can literally transform our lives." - Clare DuBois, TreeSisters
