PLANT MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIP - In Vermont, this November!

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The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education - http://www.thegreenwoman.com

 

 

PLANT MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIP

Fall 2007

 

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, Nature Worship, Holistic Healing, and

Journeying

with Plant Devas and Earth Spirits.

 

 

The next apprenticeship begins November 17th, 2007 in Brattleboro, VT (2 hours

from

Boston). Classes will meet every other Saturday for 9 months, from 11:30-5:30

p.m, until

the end of the summer. 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.

 

This course 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.

 

Each apprentice learns to make and use medicinal teas, tinctures, salves,

essences,

infusions, incenses, and oils with plants from around the world. Students will

learn to use

the energies of the moon, sun, earth and the elements in their healing, as well

as in

treating illnesses of the body.

 

 

APPRENTICESHIP CLASSES FOCUS ON:

 

* Medicinal Herbal Healing & Systems of the Body

* Healing Plants of North America, Hawaii, India and China

* Plant Spirit Medicine

* Wise Woman Tradition of Healing

* Herbal Actions, Tastes, & Safety Levels

* Chakra Healing & Herbal Energetics

* Medicine Making (tinctures, teas, essences, salves, and oils)

* Shamanic Herbalism

* Elemental and Earth Magic

* Harvesting & Wildcrafting Healing Plants

* Flower Essence Therapy

* Magical Herbalism & Plant Energetics

* Edible plants and Healing foods

* Spiritual Ecology & Ecopsychology

* Communication with plant and nature devas

* Dream Work, Divination, and Spellcraft

* Chakra Healing & Energetics

* Moon and Ocean Magic

* Ritual, Meditation, and Prayer

* Reiki & Energy Bodywork

 

 

This apprenticeship is both a course in Western herbalism and in Shamanic plant

spirit

medicine. In each class spirit is blended with science, through meditation,

lecture, plant

walks, and hands-on learning. We seek to unite Western modes of learning and

healing

with ancient traditions of learning from the earth and from spirit. The

apprenticeship is

intended to be a healing journey for each person, and towards a deeper

connection to the

earth. The doorways that are opened and the wisdom gained during class will seep

into

each apprentices home and everyday life. The plants that each student forms

relationships

with changes their lives deeply, helping to guide and support them through life-

body,

mind, and spirit.

 

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 medicine, plant spirit healing, and magical

herbalism.

 

" Healing with plants is probably the most ancient form of wisdom emerging right

from the

core of Mother Earth. It manifests our deepest connection to our past and to

nature. All

healing is free and open to us. By preserving this sacred wisdom and teaching

others we

are again re-establishing our relationship with the Earth. " - Andrea Nandoskar,

Apprenticeship 2006

 

To register, visit our web site at http:www.thegreenwoman.com. Please feel free

to contact

Sage with any questions, at thegaiaschool, or call (617)-838-8094.

Educational and plant materials as well as tea or snacks will be provided to you

in class.

We welcome you to join us in a journey back to the earth, with Sage and the

plants! Please

feel free to contact us with any questions and we'll arrange a time to speak or

meet with

you.

 

 

 

Courses taught by Sage L. Maurer -

Certified Herbalist, Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner, Shamanic Herbalist

 

Formally trained and certified in herbal medicine at The Blazing Star Herbal

School and at

The Boston School of Herbal Energetics, Sage is an independent practitioner and

teacher of

herbal healing, plant spirit medicine, shamanism, and earth-centered

spirituality. Sage has

studied with many well-known herbalists including Rosemary Gladstar, Susan Weed,

Anne

McIntyre, Rosita Arvigo, Mary Pat Palmer, Pam Montgomery, Margi Flint, and many

others.

 

In 2001, Sage founded The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education in Vermont &

Massachusetts where she taught workshops and apprenticeships throughout the

year,

training over 70 apprentices in the past 6 years. Trained in The Wise Woman

Tradition of

herbal healing, she seeks to help reawaken our ancient memory of the healing

plants and

our renew our connection to the earth.

 

 

 

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.

 

 

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