PLANT MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIP - Cambridge, MA and Brattleboro, VT

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~ The Gaia School of Healing ~

www.thegreenwoman.com

 

 

PLANT MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIP 2008

Cambridge, MA

& Brattleboro, VT

 

Come journey with the sacred healing plants...

 

Join us for a 9-Month Apprenticeship in Herbal Healing, Shamanic

Herbalism, Plant Spirit Medicine, Earth-Centered Spirituality,

Holistic Healing, and Journeying with Plant Devas and Earth Spirits.

 

 

Apprenticeships are taught in Brattleboro, VT and Cambridge, MA,

running from November 2008 until the end of September, 2009.

 

The Plant Medicine Apprenticeship will focus on the Wise Woman

Tradition of healing, remembering the ancient traditions of plant

medicine used by village healers around the world. We will focus on

North American plants as well as plants used in Hawaiian La'au Lapa'au

(Hawaiian healing with plants), Ayurveda, and Chinese herbal medicine.

 

Certification for the 160 hour course will be given upon completion of

the apprenticeship. Classes will be held outside when the weather

permits and locations will be given upon registration. Please take a

look at our apprenticeship syllabus for a closer look at what this

course offers.

 

 

Apprenticeship classes focus on:

 

Medicinal Herbal Healing

Healing Plants of North America, Hawaii, & Asia

Plant Spirit Medicine

Wise Woman Tradition of Healing

Herbal Actions, Tastes, & Safety Levels

Systems of the Body & Herbal Energetics

Medicine Making - (tinctures, infusions, salves, and oils...)

Shamanic Herbalism

Guided Meditation & Journeying

Harvesting & Wildcrafting Plants

Magical Herbalism & Folklore

Plant Identification of North American Plants

Spiritual Ecology & Earth Spirituality

Communication with plant and nature devas

Plant Medicine Walks

Chakra healing with plants

Rituals with nature

 

 

Our Plant Medicine Apprenticeship is an intensive journey into

green medicine and traditional plant knowledge. The apprenticeship is

intended to be a spiritual journey as well as a course in medicinal

herbalism. Classes include lecture, ritual, guided journeying,

hands-on work with plants, medicine making, journeying with plant

spirits, tasting plant infusions and extracts, meditations with

nature, earth and body awareness, journal writing, and deep

exploration with the spirit of the earth. Students learn to identify

and use plants for medicine, form plant allies, and prepare medicinal

teas, tinctures, essences, infusions, oils, incenses, and salves with

plants from around the world. Students will learn to use the energies

of the moon, sun, earth and the elements in their practice and treat

imbalances in the body.

 

The course will be limited to 15 people. Please feel free to

contact Sage with any questions, at thegaiaschool, or call

(617)-838-8094. At the end of the 9 month program, each student will

be brought into the inter-connected web of world healers through ritual

and celebration, given gifts of initiation, and will be certified from the

school in herbal healing and plant spirit medicine.

 

This Apprenticeship is open to anyone interested, regardless

of their gender, belief system, past experience, or knowledge of

plants. We have had both advanced students and beginners as

apprentices, and both men and women. Though the course does often

stress the energy of the Mother present in the earth, both yin and

yang energies present in all things is honored. Women tend to be the

majority in our apprenticeships but green men are welcome and greatly

appreciated in our circle.

 

 

For more information, visit our website at www.thegreenwoman.com.