UPCOMING CLASSES
May 23rd, 2012 - 8pm
Join us for this fireside chat while these two amazing herbalists talk healing, herbs and the Wise Woman Tradition. In association with the Midwest Women's Herbal Conference.
Katherine is a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist and gardener whose practice focuses on using acupuncture, herbs, flower essences, nutrition and lifestyle recommendations to bring about balance and good health. Katherine has had the pleasure of studying with Lise Wolff and Matthew Wood, and she is the current president of the North Country Herbalist Guild. Her website, www.diamondstoneom.com, contains plenty of inspiration, recipes, links and ways to incorporate wellness into your daily routine.
April 26 - Early Woodland Medicines
May 10 - Spring Edible and Medicinal Plants
May 31 - Introduction to Wild Medicines
June 19 - Medicines of the Summer Prairie
6-7:30pm — Cost: $15 per class
Registration and pre-payment are required. Register in the following ways:
• Online at www.minneapolisparks.org (credit card payment)
• In person at the Visitors Shelter in the Wildflower Garden (checks only) Make checks payable to Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden
• Mail in class request and payment (checks only) to Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, 3800 Bryant Avenue S, Mpls, MN 55409
Saturday, May 26, 2012
1st Session at 10:30am,
lunch, 2nd Session at 4:00pm
Location: Timberlake Orchard
22414 5th Street NW,
New London, MN 56273
Sponsored by: Potpourri Health Food, owner Douglas S. Schmoll & The Lamp Shoppe, owner Connie Karstens, B.S., M.S. & Herbalist, healthbyconnie.com
Registraion & Fees: Please call Potpourri at 1-320-235-5487 to pre-register, leave your phone number with your message. Fees collected at the gate: $5 per person or $10 per family.
After the 1st session we will break for lunch. We have free water, toilets, and some picnic tables to use. You may bring a portable chair. There will be organic beef hotdogs and burgers for sale, we encourage you to bring other food(s) for your lunch also.
- Bring your camera to photograph plants during the herb walk
- Bring a clipboard, we will provide worksheets with the herb names
- Jot down questions, there will be an open forum to cover questions after lunch
The Best of the FES Remedies with Martin Bulgarin
Date/Time: Tuesday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 PM, starting June 5 for 4 evenings
Cost: $25 an evening
Location: Martin's office at 224 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis (just 5 blocks east of the Wedge Food Coop)
The FES flower essence kit is a large collection of essences, some that are so useful they come up every day, others only once in a blue moon. This series of 4 evening classes covers the most important 30 or so remedies from the FES that you will use most often. Descriptions of these remedies are on a deeper level than can be found in most books, based on 22 years of my experience with these subtle energies and how they work in people, including correspondences to the human chakra system. This is one of my advanced topics in flower essence work, so some prior experience is recommended.
To register or for more information contact Martin at 612-872-7998 or bunlion@bitstream.net
(Register for classes at least one week in advance, please)
Five Day Herbal Full Moon Fourth of July Retreat: Energetics and Organ Systems with Matthew Wood
July 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Tuesday afternoon, all day W, Th, F, Sa, Su (9:30 am to 5:30 pm)
Pot luck Tue night (full moon, July 4th at midnight).
After a one year sabbatical from teaching in Minnesota and Wisconsin I am returning to teaching in my home area. I have had to simplify my life due to constant travel and therefore will be teaching almost all classes at my home in Martell, Wisconsin, one hour east of downtown Minneapolis, fifteen minutes east of River Falls.
On Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning we will discuss the 'forgotten energetics of Traditional Western Herbalism,' consisting of the six tissue states. On Wednesday afternoon we will begin with the organ system (respiratory), Thursday (GI), Friday (Liver, GB, Pancreas, Lymph/Immune), Saturday (Cardiovascular), and Sunday (Kidneys, Bladder, and Wrap Up). We will discuss the Endocrine System and female/male medicine next Winter or Spring.
Cost: $450, advance enrollment by May 15, $400
Registration: by email (greenmedic@copper.net), payment by mail (N7874 535th St., Spring Valley, WI, 54767). For information email or call 952-657-8999. No voicemail.
Location: the log house in Martell. People can come out from the cities or camp or find accomodations nearby.
Directions: East on 94 from the Twin Cities into Wisconsin about twenty miles, exit at Baldwin/Ellsworth exit, turn right (south) and go 8 miles down into valley, across bridge, turn left at 535th Street (across from the old school house with the name Martell on it). South two blocks, cross bridge, turn to the right, third house (log cabin).
Not to be confused with the retreat center and log home at Martell Landing near Somerset. (Same family, different part of Wisconsin).
July 6 – 8, at Wellspring Center in Westbend, WI
Isla Burgess will be visiting from New Zealand. She is an extraordinary teacher, bringing 40 years of herbal wisdom to her classes. This event is open to the beginning as well as seasoned professional herbalist. Isla offers cutting edge perspectives on working with plants.
For more information and to register contact: moonwiseherbs.com
The Australian Bush Essences, Part 1 with Martin Bulgarin
Date/Time: Tuesday evenings, 6:30 to 8:30 PM, starting July 13 for 3 evenings
Cost: $25 an evening
Location: Martin's office at 224 W. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis (just 5 blocks east of the Wedge Food Coop)
Australian naturapath Ian White travelled all over the “Down Under” to make his collection of vibrant and powerful flower remedies that embody the aboriginal healing powers of this sacred land. In this class, we will start exploring this collection, covering the remedies from this large kit that come up most often. Much of the material is based on class notes I took during workshops that Ian taught plus my own experiences with the remedies after using them for over a decade. This is a new class of material that I’ve only recently started teaching.
To register or for more information contact Martin at 612-872-7998 or bunlion@bitstream.net
(Register for classes at least one week in advance, please)
July 17-August 7, 2012
This program is a comprehensive 3 week residential program for women held in Coon Valley, WI
For more information and to register contact: moonwiseherbs.com
Animal Medicines, Plant Medicines with Matthew Wood
August 3, 4, 5
Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday all day (9:30 am to 5:30 pm)
Teachings from the Wisdom of Nature: the doctrine of signatures, spirit signatures (plant/animal identities), animal medicines, plants related to animal medicines, constitutional animal types in people.
Cost: $200, advance registration by June 1, $175.
Registration: by email (greenmedic@copper.net), payment by mail (N7874 535th St., Spring Valley, WI, 54767). For information email or call 952-657-8999. No voicemail.
Location: the log house in Martell. People can come out from the cities or camp or find accomodations nearby.
Directions: East on 94 from the Twin Cities into Wisconsin about twenty miles, exit at Baldwin/Ellsworth exit, turn right (south) and go 8 miles down into valley, across bridge, turn left at 535th Street (across from the old school house with the name Martell on it). South two blocks, cross bridge, turn to the right, third house (log cabin).
Not to be confused with the retreat center and log home at Martell Landing near Somerset. (Same family, different part of Wisconsin).
Herbal Evaluation Skills: Tongue and Pulse Reading with Matthew Wood
August 24, 25, 26
Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday all day (9:30 am to 5:30 pm)
As long as we can scrape up a class of 7 (but limited to 12) we will study the pulse and tongue for evaluation, using ourselves (and lucky neighbors?) for lessons.
Cost: $200, advance registration by June 1, $175.
Registration: by email (greenmedic@copper.net), payment by mail (N7874 535th St., Spring Valley, WI, 54767). For information email or call 952-657-8999. No voicemail.
Location: the log house in Martell. People can come out from the cities or camp or find accomodations nearby.
Directions: East on 94 from the Twin Cities into Wisconsin about twenty miles, exit at Baldwin/Ellsworth exit, turn right (south) and go 8 miles down into valley, across bridge, turn left at 535th Street (across from the old school house with the name Martell on it). South two blocks, cross bridge, turn to the right, third house (log cabin).
Not to be confused with the retreat center and log home at Martell Landing near Somerset. (Same family, different part of Wisconsin).
NCHG Special Event: Healing our Spiritual Hearts with Plants & an Equinox Celebration with Robin Rose Bennett
September 22–23, 2012
9/22 12pm–6pm workshop, 7pm-9pm Equinox celebration
9/23 10am–4pm workshop
$125 workshop & Equinox celebration, $25 Equinox Celebration only
Location: Garden Farme (Bruce Bacon) 7363 175 Ave NW Ramsey, MN 55303-3038
Bring your own lunch/dinner and chair. Tea and salad provided
We, and the plants, are more than physical beings and earth connection is an alchemical force that awakens the transformative power of love. Plants are generous healers of the spiritual heart that delights in our interconnectedness with everyone and everything. We will explore simple herbal recipes and practices that can help us heal heartache, heartbreak, shock and grief so that our spiritual hearts can blossom freely. We will engage in simple body/breath/energy awareness practices to deepen our access to the loving energy of the plants, trees, elements, each other, and most assuredly, ourselves. We will practice the most exquisite mindfulness we can muster as we reconnect our hearts to the heart of the earth. Time spent connecting to and hanging out with the plants and trees offers profound healing to our spiritual hearts. We’ll start our day with rose blossoms, one of the flowers most helpful for opening and healing our hearts. We will do plant meditations, take silent walks, smell, touch, and taste the herbs around us, and perhaps make a spiritual heart healing preparation. Experience what it feels like to live in the moment, with awareness of our connection to the web of life, from a spiritual heart overflowing with joy.
On Saturday evening we’ll make a fire and create an Autumn Equinox ritual celebration within a sacred circle around the fire. We’ll focus on the moment we’re in as a profound moment for reaping our harvest, a time of thanksgiving for the gifts of the growing season, both spiritually and physically. Bring your instruments and festive attire if you like!
About Robin Rose Bennett:
Robin Rose Bennett, founder of Wisewoman Healing Ways - Herbal Medicine and EarthSpirit Teachings, is a gifted herbalist, writer, and spiritual teacher. The focus of her healing work is to share the joy she has found through the generosity of the earth and the magic, mystery, and beauty of the web of life. She is a spiritual midwife helping people birth their true selves in this time of profound transformation. Since 1986 she has taught at schools, clinics, progressive and holistic organizations, herbal conferences, and most joyously, outside with the plants. She is a faculty member of the New York Open Center and author of two meditation CD’s. Robin Rose has been a regularly featured guest on radio, and a guest lecturer at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, St John’s Hospital, Montefiore Teaching Hospital, Beth Israel’s Nursing program, and Brown University Medical School. She wrote and published Wild Carrot: A Plant for Natural, Conscious, Contraception and is the author of Healing Magic: A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living. Robin has a private consultation practice in New Jersey and is in the 9th year of offering a monthly sliding scale clinical teaching practice for herbalists at a medical center in Bronx, NY. Her forthcoming book is Green Treasures: Herbal Medicines from Mother Earth. For more information go to: www.RobinRoseBennett.com.
Robin Rose Bennett Event PDF
To register sign up at an NCHG meeting or send an email to bod@nchg.org.
September 28th – 30th , 2012
Viroqua, Wisconsin
friday evening... herbs, humours & temperaments
saturday... herbs, vitalism & holistic immunity
sunday... breathing botanicals
Cost is $160 prior to September 1st; $185 thereafter; friday evening presentation is available as a stand alone class for just $15
for details on registration...
Contact Jess at (608) 637-8751 or send email to pinkpants@riseup.net
Midwest Women's Herbal Conference
June 29th – July 1st, 2012
The Christine Center in Willard, WI
The weekend will feature the dynamic pair of Susun Weed and Isla Burgess, keynote speakers and herbal intensive leaders. You'll also be treated with a diverse array of workshops and plant walks led by Midwest herbalists and earth-based speakers. Centered in the Wise Woman Tradition, the Midwest Women's Herbal Conference provides a gathering space to focus on earth-centered healing, nourishment, and the plants that grow around us. From the ground up, we connect to weave ourselves, our families, and our communities back into the dynamic spiral of health.
Preconference workshops June 29, 2012 (10am-1pm) Cost: $40.00
While these workshops are held as part of the conference, you do not need to attend the conference to attend these programs.
Choose From:
Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way with Susun Weed
Sensitivity, Susceptibility, Strength and Resilience – plants can assist us in adapting to a rapidly changing world! With Isla Burgess
Please see the website for more information: www.midwestwomensherbal.com or contact
herbwomen@gmail.com
PO Box 166, Sheboygan, WI 53081
920-452-HERB (4372)
Western Herbalism Classes with Matthew Wood
Herbal Classes with Lise Wolff
Midwest School of Herbal Studies
Cooking Classes with Jennette Turner
Flower Essence Classes by Martin Bulgerin
Monthly classes Offered through the Coulee Region Herbal Institute
If you teach or know of a class you would like to see listed here please send an email to bod@nchg.org.
The North Country Herbalist Guild does not endorse or take responsibility for the opinions and information offered by teachers and/or practitioners, or the sponsors and content of linked Web sites.
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