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Workshop Spotlight: Flower Essences Workshop by Elizabeth Russell, M.Ed., NPM, HRM
Learn about the history of Flower Essences, how and why they are used, and how to make and blend your own. Participants will learn how to mix the Mother Essence with alcohol and/or glycerin to create the usable essence. *If time and weather permit, participants will help create a unique "Mother Essence". Each participant will take away a list of flower essences and their uses, and their own sample essence in a dropper bottle. Elizabeth is an Intuitive Holistic Wellness Coach,
Workshop Spotlight: Potent, Portable, Pourable, Practical: Top Tinctures for Common Health Condition
Learn about at least ten herbs that a long term herbal product maker found to be the most useful and important to have as tinctures, from a business and health perspective. Learn how and why these herbs rate great as tinctures and how to make and use tinctures of these plants. A former frolicking forager and proprietor of herbal products as Giving Tree Botanicals, Heather Irvine is now focusing on instructing other herbalists, providing mentorship for intermediate herbalists,
Workshop Spotlight: Infectious Disease and Botanical Interventions: Learning from the Past by Stepha
Before the days of antibiotics, crafting effective herbal remedies to combat infectious disease was a matter of life-and-death. Recent research has confirmed the effectiveness of many of these formulas. This class will help attendees locate and understand historical formulas which can be duplicated modernly and used in clinical practice. We will discuss confusing terminology in archaic documents and stress the importance of closely approximating ingredients and preparation me
Workshop Spotlight: Using Non-Cannabis Herbs to Modulate the Endocannabinoid System by Chip Paul
We share an endocannabinoid system with most life on the planet. In fact current researchers all agree that this major and vital system is being increasingly thought off as our master regulatory system. Researchers are also agreeing that the endocannabinoid system is a resource driven system. So how do we feed it? Certainly cannabis or constituents of the cannabis plant do provide resources, but nature argues there must be other ways. We share this system with reptiles,
Workshop Spotlight: The History of Domestic Medicine and Its Modern Relevance by Stephany Hoffelt, B
Domestic medicine is a term which refers to healing work and self-care that took place in the home. Historically, physicians were the province of the very wealthy and only called to most homes as a last resort. Self-care and physick work was part of the subsistence work of females dominated healing practices until the late 19th century. Women grew medicinal herbs and used them to care for their family and neighbors, yet historically the common woman’s role contribution to hea
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