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Folk Herbalism for Self and Community Care: a 10 class series on using herbs and making medicine for personal healing and mutual aid.
This course is designed for beginning and somewhat experienced herbal medicine enthusiasts to come together and learn about sustainable and affective herbal medicine making practices to help support themselves and their communities through trying times.
An overview of the many functions and uses of herbs and plant medicine, this class focuses on a different aspect of health and healing each week, including the global and community contexts for the importance of this medicine in the backdrop of these times. We will discuss the implications of institutional oppression, climate change, trauma and structural violence in each class, as this is important to understand while talking about herbal medicine. We will also focus on the ethics of using plants as medicine, considerations around land and indigenous practices, etc.
This is a community class in that each participant will be an intregal part of our course of learning. Between each class you’ll be asked to work with one herb or formula and report back in the following class. This way we get to learn first hand the way that herbs support each of us differently.
We will meet every other Monday from 4pm-5:30pm PST starting June 22nd and ending October 26th. If you can’t make the live class, it will be recorded- but attendance is strongly encouraged, and we will connect between classes on a discord community with past participants.
Students will receive materials the week of the first class, including a flower essence and dried nettle. all other materials for class will need to be purchased, either through an apothecary local to you or from the online shop.
SCHEDULE:
June 22nd: Introductions: What is Folk Herbalism? Ethical Considerations and Preparations. Intro to Infusions.
July 6th: Kitchen Medicine: Culinary herbs and foods for immune boosting
July 20th: Immuno-modulators, Adaptogens and Anti-Virals: Preventing illness and infection
August 3rd: Environmental Health, Long Covid and Herbs to support the Respiratory Tract.
August 17th: Herbs for Inflammation & Chronic Pain relief
August 31st: Herbs for Nervous System and Adrenal Support
September 14th: Grief and Heart Medicine for Trying Times
September 28th: Flower Essences & Energetic Medicine
October 12th: Flower Essence Case Study
October 26th: Applying your Herbalism Practice for the Future
EXCHANGE:
My goal for this course is to gather people who wish to help their communities, be healers and change makers in their world- so accessibility is important to me. Therefore I have developed a sliding scale and just ask that folks consider the value of the exchange as well as their resources when signing up.
Low scale: $300 (you pay $30 per class- recommended for BIPOC, disabled folks on fixed income, and those who truly could not afford more)
Middle Scale: $450 (you pay $45 per class- this is the recommended baseline exchange for me, as it’s makes teaching this course accessible for me)
High scale: $600 (you pay $60 per class- this rate is for folks who wish to subsidize those at the low scale, are in a comfortable and secure financial position and want to help out those with less resources.
NEED A PAYMENT PLAN OR WANT TO REQUEST A LOWER RATE? Email Corinna at therisenwitch@gmail.com for options!
15 spots available. Registration open through June 12th
About Corinna: Corinna (she/they) has been practicing folk herbalism through medicine making and consultations since 2017, although she has been building their relationship to herbs for more than a decade before that. they have taught folk herbalism to more than a hundred students through Folk Herbalism for Self and Community Care at Milk Thistle since 2023, and between 2019-2022 they taught The Plant Witch Mentorship Circle. Their interest mainly lies in herbalism for disaster relief, trauma healing, energetic medicine, flower essences, healing from grief, reproductive health and abortion, energetic boundaries, autoimmune issues, disordered eating, etc.
Questions? email therisenwitch@gmail.com for more info!
Folk Herbalism for Self and Community Care: a 10 class series on using herbs and making medicine for personal healing and mutual aid.
This course is designed for beginning and somewhat experienced herbal medicine enthusiasts to come together and learn about sustainable and affective herbal medicine making practices to help support themselves and their communities through trying times.
An overview of the many functions and uses of herbs and plant medicine, this class focuses on a different aspect of health and healing each week, including the global and community contexts for the importance of this medicine in the backdrop of these times. We will discuss the implications of institutional oppression, climate change, trauma and structural violence in each class, as this is important to understand while talking about herbal medicine. We will also focus on the ethics of using plants as medicine, considerations around land and indigenous practices, etc.
This is a community class in that each participant will be an intregal part of our course of learning. Between each class you’ll be asked to work with one herb or formula and report back in the following class. This way we get to learn first hand the way that herbs support each of us differently.
We will meet every other Monday from 4pm-5:30pm PST starting June 22nd and ending October 26th. If you can’t make the live class, it will be recorded- but attendance is strongly encouraged, and we will connect between classes on a discord community with past participants.
Students will receive materials the week of the first class, including a flower essence and dried nettle. all other materials for class will need to be purchased, either through an apothecary local to you or from the online shop.
SCHEDULE:
June 22nd: Introductions: What is Folk Herbalism? Ethical Considerations and Preparations. Intro to Infusions.
July 6th: Kitchen Medicine: Culinary herbs and foods for immune boosting
July 20th: Immuno-modulators, Adaptogens and Anti-Virals: Preventing illness and infection
August 3rd: Environmental Health, Long Covid and Herbs to support the Respiratory Tract.
August 17th: Herbs for Inflammation & Chronic Pain relief
August 31st: Herbs for Nervous System and Adrenal Support
September 14th: Grief and Heart Medicine for Trying Times
September 28th: Flower Essences & Energetic Medicine
October 12th: Flower Essence Case Study
October 26th: Applying your Herbalism Practice for the Future
EXCHANGE:
My goal for this course is to gather people who wish to help their communities, be healers and change makers in their world- so accessibility is important to me. Therefore I have developed a sliding scale and just ask that folks consider the value of the exchange as well as their resources when signing up.
Low scale: $300 (you pay $30 per class- recommended for BIPOC, disabled folks on fixed income, and those who truly could not afford more)
Middle Scale: $450 (you pay $45 per class- this is the recommended baseline exchange for me, as it’s makes teaching this course accessible for me)
High scale: $600 (you pay $60 per class- this rate is for folks who wish to subsidize those at the low scale, are in a comfortable and secure financial position and want to help out those with less resources.
NEED A PAYMENT PLAN OR WANT TO REQUEST A LOWER RATE? Email Corinna at therisenwitch@gmail.com for options!
15 spots available. Registration open through June 12th
About Corinna: Corinna (she/they) has been practicing folk herbalism through medicine making and consultations since 2017, although she has been building their relationship to herbs for more than a decade before that. they have taught folk herbalism to more than a hundred students through Folk Herbalism for Self and Community Care at Milk Thistle since 2023, and between 2019-2022 they taught The Plant Witch Mentorship Circle. Their interest mainly lies in herbalism for disaster relief, trauma healing, energetic medicine, flower essences, healing from grief, reproductive health and abortion, energetic boundaries, autoimmune issues, disordered eating, etc.
Questions? email therisenwitch@gmail.com for more info!