The People’s Medicine Bag

This immersive experience incorporates the energy of winter to discover the indigenous meaning and significance of the Water element from the Chinese and other indigenous traditions and the use of this element to support our Kidney organ system. We will take the ocean of our body into our own hands though the embodied practice of plant apprenticeships and people’s medicine making methodologies that center water and traditional healing rituals that support our wholeness.

It’s time to Spring up! This immersive experience incorporates the energy of the spring to discover the indigenous meaning and significance of the wood element and the use of this element to supporting our Liver organ system. We will take the metabolism of our body into our own hands through the embodied practice of plant apprenticeships and people’s medicine making methodologies. We will discern spring foods as medicine and traditional healing rituals that support our wholeness.

What fuels your fire? This immersive experience incorporates the energy of the summer to discover the indigenous meaning and significance of the fire element and the use of this element to support the organ system of the Heart. We will take the master communicator of our body into our own hands though the embodied practice of plant apprenticeships and people’s medicine making methods that center alcohols, fats and traditional healing rituals that support our wholeness.

The gut is the center of our wellness. This advanced, embodied immersion into healing the halobiome is available to experienced herbalists and students who have taken the Winter Immersion and one other. This long form immersion incorporates a powerful protocol for gut healing. We will practice the art of fermentation and traditional food preparation methods from around the world while using all four seasons to ground us in a deep practice and understanding of our gut and its cultivation. Not only will we apprentice with gut healing plants but each student will also receive and work with specific microbial cultures that we provide.

Grief becomes us. We are always loosing something as we gain deeper relationship with the great all that is. We will use the energy of the fall to lean into the metal element and the use the wisdom of this element to support the Lung system. We will take the power of grief into our own hands though the embodied practices of breath work, plant apprenticeships and people’s medicine making methodologies that utilize fermentation, honey and traditional healing rituals that support our ability to move through grief and gain joy again.