Workshops
The following workshops will be offered during the Conference weekend: |
Aromatherapy (Elizabeth Bloomquist)
This hands-on class dives into the deep realm of
essential oils. You will learn how to safely add
aromatherapy to your daily life. We will discuss
quality control and sourcing, therapeutic properties,
blending techniques and methods of application.
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Ask the Herbalist (Kathleen Maier)
A unique opportunity to bring your questions and help direct this discussion about health and herbs. The beauty of Kathleen’s offerings is her ability to pull from sources scientific and esoteric, practical and spiritual. Enjoy an intimate format with this experienced and gifted clinician. |
Astrology for Health (Phyllis D. Light)
The signs in the heavens can serve as traditional guideposts for health and prosperity. Each Zodiac sign and heavenly planet have correclations to different parts of the body. Likewise diseases come under the influence of planetary changes as do herbs.
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Birth Practices through the Ages (Rowan Farrell Trombetta)
Empowering visual journey through the Birth Art of many cultures. We will dismantle the essential distortions inherent in technology based Birth practices, track evidence of the Sacred Feminine throughout the world and Remember our own primordial knowing. |
Diet Myths (Susan Rubin)
Most diets are fairy tales. Causing your weight to yo-yo down and back up again. That's no happy ending! We’ll cover dieting myths that keep us sick, fat and unhappy and discuss ways to create better health and weight without dieting. |
Flower Essence Therapy (Elizabeth Bloomquist)
This workshop is to introduce you to the basic
fundamentals of flower essences. You will learn what
they are, how they work and the history of their use.
This healing modality can be a helpful remedy for
adults, children, animals, and plants. |
Healing from the Hive (Ceara Foley)
Hive products such as honey, propolis, royal jelly, and bee pollen are valuable medicines. Learn how peoples have used these gifts for centuries as well as recent scientific validation of their efficacy. Discover the synergistic healing capacities of combining honey with herbs. |
Herb Walk (Corinna Wood)
Want to learn more common wild plants and garden “weeds” that are food and medicine? Become more self-reliant and more deeply nourished as you learn how to identify, harvest, and prepare these plants in your daily life. |
Herb Walk (Suki Roth)
Join Suki for a walk of discovery and wonder as we meet the plants of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Learn how to incorporate our indigenous elder plant teachers into your lives for healing and nourishment on multiple levels. |
Herb Walk (Ceara Foley)
Explore nature’s healing allies that fervently throw themselves at your feet. A cornucopia of medicine abounds amongst common, abundant, and renewable, naturalized botanicals. Empower yourself to reconnect with the free food and healing all around us. |
Herb Walk-Historical Mountain Uses (Phyllis D. Light)
Join Phyllis on this unique plant walk which includes the familiar and the unfamiliar. Historical mountain uses of the plants and stories from old-time herbalists and traditional healers such as Granny Light and Tommie Bass will intrigue as well as enlighten. |
Herb Walk-Plant Spirit Journey (Suki Roth)
We can access information directly from the plants themselves by using our six senses to go into deep meditation. We will use this technique to open the doors of plant perception and communicate directly with their heart centered messages. |
Herb Walk-Southern Appalachian Medicinal Plants (Patricia Kyritsi Howell)
You’ll experience using your senses to identify over 20 native and introduced plants traditionally harvested as winter approaches. Learn about ethical harvesting methods, simple recipes for a variety of herbal remedies, and specific dosage strategies for each herb. |
Herbal Toolkit for Moms-Keeping our Kids Healthy and Safe (Jessica Godino)
Fevers, strep, pinworms, ADD? We’ll cover the basics of herbal childcare, including how to create a home first aid kit. Learn about some ancient chinese home treatments for common ailments, including gua sha (spoon scrapping), cupping, and tui na (chinese medicial massage). |
Herbal Preparations (Jessica Godino)
Tinctures? Fluid extract? Glycerites? We will cover the basics of medicine making, the merits of various preparations, and how to determine which to use. Learn the basics of herbal pharmacology and explore the nature of herbal constituents like alkaloids and polysacharides. |
Herbs and the Immune System-Evidence Drawing from Tradition (Bevin Clare)
Take a tour of the immune system and find out about current reasearch in herbal medicines and immunity and how these discoveries support traditional appilcations of medicinal plants in home and healthcare. Discussion of bird flu to Staph to autoimmune conditions. |
Herbs for Ceremony (Ceara Foley)
Incorporate herbs into daily self healing rituals and into ceremony for moon phases and seasonal celebrations. Use herbal allies to focus your intentions and manifest your desires. Learn to prepare incenses, oils, floor washes, spiritual bath blends, and personalized perfumes. |
Importance of Healthy Fats (Susan Rubin)
The story behind Omega 3, 6 and 9 and more. Which fats are beneficial, useful, useless or down right hazardous. We'll also talk about how how fat in your food can help decrease the fat you don't want on your body. |
Introduction to Energy Medicine (Kathleen Maier)
Energy medicine is the healing of the future. Through entrainment, our heart-minds can rapidly download information neurally which we can learn to interpret for deeper understanding. Learn the basics of Depth Diagnosis as taught by herbalist Stephen Buhner and author Joseph Chilton Pearce. |
The Joy of Tonics (Jessica Godino)
Every herbal tradition uses special herbs to increase energy, immunity, emotional well-being, and sexual potency. These herbs are known to counteract cancer and degenerative diseases. We’ll discuss tonic herbs from the East and West, as well as ways to prepare these herbs |
Longevity (Amanda McQuade Crawford)
As we age we are exposed to increased challenges to our health. What makes one 60 year old ancient and another 80 year old vibrant? We’ll outline the issues with aging and review a some herbs, foods, and lifestyle choices to prepare for this time in our lives. |
Nourishing Foods (Susan Rubin)
What to eat for optimal health, energy, and pleasure. Find out about how to choose and prepare foods that will nourish your body mind and spirit even in a time crunched busy life. It’s easier than you think! |
Planet Healing with Plants - Keynote Address (Amanda McQuade Crawford)
Plant medicine provides a time-tested, nature-tested model for the concept of "complexity," the explanation of all that is. Can our study of this deep wisdom evolving from the plants help us to change humanity’s current destructive direction into something creative and healing? |
The Power of Simples (Phyllis D. Light)
Once upon a time, Simples (single herbs) were used for all our physical and emotional health needs. Our elders knew the power and wonder of knowing an herb intimately and using it in-depth. Learn the history and rediscover the power of Simples.
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Recognizing Sexual Abuse (Lady Spirit Moon)
Ten questions may determine if you or someone you know is an abuse victim. Discover the four traits abusers look for when they search for a victim. Learn how behavior disorders are created and what they may look like in adulthood. |
Red Temple Movement Belongs to All of Us (ALisa Starkweather)
Enter the gateway of womanhood. The Red Tent Temple is an emerging grassroots movement changing our culture worldwide. This co-collaborative sacred space offers us an authentic opportunity to care for each other through healing, song, dance, quiet rest, herbs and council. |
Sacred Puja and Movement (Anyaa McAndrew)
A puja, used in tantric circles, is a ceremonial heart to heart connection with our sisters to acknowledge and bless the Divine Feminine within us. Music and dance will follow to allows us to express our own unique blessed feminine sensuality. |
Setting up a Clinic (Kathleen Maier)
This class is for practitioners. Learn the in’s and out’s of running an herbal clinic with this long-time practicing herbalist. Topics include keeping charts, SOAP notes, apothecary practices, ethical & legal considerations, and self care while providing for your community. |
Sexual Healing and the Wounded Feminine (Anyaa McAndrew)
Sexual abuse is an important issue. We have benefitted greatly from uncovering the secrets in our families and institutions. Often we are left with scars and an old model of healing. Let’s explore positive and powerful healing with integrity, safety and joy! |
Shadow Work: Bringing All Parts of Ourselves Home (ALisa Starkweather)
Healing happens when we can hold compassion and embrace that which we’ve judged in ourselves as difficult to love. Whatever we disown, whether it is our ugliness or brilliance, remains in shadow. Shadow Work is the brave journey towards wholeness where no part of the self is left behind. |
Sharing Our Birth Stories (Rowan Farrell Trombetta)
Here is an opportunity to listen deeply and to be deeply heard. Please journal about your stories and experiences of birth prior to attending. This experience will be most insightful following participation in the Birth Practices through the Ages. |
Talking Stick (Ada-Belinda DancingLion)
Learn the sacred art of the Native American talking stick as this circle gathers with the intention for women to share deeply and uninterrupted. Talking stick assures that every voice is heard and honored. |
Three Herbs: Lobelia, Passionflower, Skullcap (Patricia Kyritsi Howell)
Expand your understanding of three native Southeastern herbs used to treat symptoms as diverse as insomnia, lack of inspiration, mental fatigue, allergies and more. You’ll learn practical ways to use them safely and effectively to create energetic and medicinal remedies. |
Travelling Medicine: A Wandering Herbal First Aid Kit (Bevin Clare)
Through her travels in more than 50 developing countries, Bevin shares her tips and stories of herbal first aid in the bush. Learn what to bring for long and short trips, and how to use local medicines wherever you go. |
Understanding PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) (Lady Spirit Moon)
Do you suffer from PTSD? Learn about symptoms, why this is not just about war veterans, how another common mental disorder has similar symptoms that may get you misdiagnosed, and what we can be done to help deal with this disorder. |
Wise Women Herb Garden (Suki Roth)
Dream your own medicinal herb garden and get tips for southeastern regions from this long-time wise woman gardener. She’ll cover choosing the plants, intimacy with your plants, plant care, processing, storage and more in an intimate question and answer format. |
Wise Woman Tradition (Ada-Belinda DancingLion)
Lines, Circles, and Spirals are the physical symbols representing the Scientific, Heroic, and Wise Woman traditions of healing. Learn the differences between the three and how the Wise Woman Way teaches us through simplicity, inclusiveness, acceptance, and nourishment. |
Women's Apothecary (Bevin Clare)
Beyond our beloved raspberry and chamomile teas, we have holy basil, rooibos, honeybush, and our every expanding apothecary! Learn about using elixirs, miels, powders, preserves, and other creative preparations for health and wellness. Taste, experience, and take home recipes. |
