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Herbs for Grief

Herbal Strategies for Allergies

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Desert Bloom: Wildflower and Plant Medicine Experience

March 17-22, 2019

Anza Borrego Desert

Come experience the desert as it transforms from winter to spring with the wildflower bloom. This course includes basic botany for plant identification, the medicinal properties of desert plants, as well as how to create and use flower essences and gem elixirs.

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Participants will also be instructed in techniques for communicating with the spirit of plants, and energy medicine. Witnessing the desert in transformation is an invitation to ourselves to get more in tune with the natural world around us. Witnessing the changing seasons is a call to tend to our own transformations. During the day we will have time to soak in healing mineral springs, and nighttime we will be reclaim our place in the universe by naming the stars and celebrating the full moon. Participants must provide their own transportation, carpooling is recommended. Communal meals provided, as well as materials for making essences and elixirs.

 

Contact Krista via FB or email at herbesofafeather@gmail.com for questions and to sign up.Instructor approval required. Registration starting soon.

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Previous Classes

The Herbal Path - A Year On the Wheel 2017

      @Herbes of a Feather Apothecary ~ 10:30-5:00pm. $85

        For more info click Book Online or find us on Facebook. 

• May 21 — Olive Olea spp.

      Infused Oils, Salves Medicine Making; traditional and modern uses of Olive as Medicine.

• June 18 — SUMMER SOLSTICE (Full Moon/Noon)

     Connection to the lesson of the season, plants for support and guidance thru health and disease.
     Therapeutic Treatments and Case Studies of Eczema and other Auto-Immune Diseases.

• July 14 - 17 — Mt. Lassen Trip 

     Mountain Medicine - Plant identification (Mullein, St. John’s Wort, Grindelia, Blue Vervain) and Medicine Making

• August 20 — Honey and Bee Medicine

     Electuary/Infused Syrups Medicine Making; traditional and modern uses of Honey as Medicine.

• September 17 — AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

    Connection to the lesson of the season, plants for support and guidance thru health and disease.

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Fourth Tuesday Tea and Healing - Low-Cost Clinic 2017

     @Homestead Apothecary 11-3. Sliding Scale 

        February 28, March 28, April 25, May 23, June 27, July 25

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First Sunday Herb Walks - Bay Area Locations 11am-2pm

      June 4th, 2017 - Tilden

      May 7th, 2017 - Glen Canyon Park
      April 23, 2017 - Sibley Regional Volcanic Preserve 

      March 5, 2017 - Sunol Regional Wilderness

 

Intro To Herbalism

     @SFSU April 20, 2017 - SFSU

         

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Past Classes and Herb Walks 

Desert Bloom: Wildflower and Plant Medicine Experience

March 20-25, 2016, March 19-24, 2017

Anza Borrego Desert

Come experience the desert as it transforms from winter to spring with the wildflower bloom. This course includes basic botany for plant identification, the medicinal properties of desert plants, as well as how to create and use flower essences and gem elixirs.

Participants will also be instructed in techniques for communicating with the spirit of plants, and energy medicine. Witnessing the desert in transformation is an invitation to ourselves to get more in tune with the natural world around us. Witnessing the changing seasons is a call to tend to our own transformations. 

During the day we will have time to soak in healing mineral springs, and nighttime we will be reclaim our place in the universe by naming the stars and celebrating the full moon.

Participants must provide their own transportation, carpooling is recommended. 

Communal meals provided, as well as materials for making essences and elixirs.

$425 includes meals, camping and instruction if you sign up before 2/20/16

$475 if you sign up 2/21 through 3/18

$100 Deposit Required to Register ( 2 week cancellation notice required for partial 80% refund)

Contact Krista via FB or email at herbesofafeather@gmail.com for questions and to sign up.

Instructor approval required. Sign up through our Eventbrite page 

http://www.eventbrite.com/e/anza-borrego-desert-bloom-wildflower-and-plant-medicine-experience-tickets-21101316606

 

Grape Myth Medicine and Magic: The Herbal Path - A Year On the Wheel

     @Herbes of a Feather Apothecary

        February 26, 2017 10:30-5:00pm. $85

        For more info click Book Online or find us on Facebook. 

Herbal Strategies for Allergies

February 11, 2016

6:30-8:30pm

Homestead Apothecary, Oakland California

Class Description: Allergies can be seasonal, environmental, dietary, hereditary or a combination of all the above. Energetically, allergies call on us to take a look at our selves, our boundaries, and how we interact with the world around us. Often times we become ‘hyper-sensitized’ to common elements. Diet, herbs, and flower/gem essences can help us translate these elements into a language our bodies can understand.

In this class, we will look at how the body responds to common dietary and environmental allergenic triggers and how to stabilize over-sensitivities. We we also learn which herbal allies can alleviate immediate inflammatory symptoms, acting like anti-histamines and mast cell stabilizers; and which to use in creating long-term strategies to strengthen the immune system. We will taste herbs and prepared herbal medicines and you will leave with strategies for self care and how to incorporate them into daily life.

 

 

 

Holistic Moms Network,

Union City, CA

September 17, 2015

The Spirit of Healing with Plants as Medicine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ohlone Herbal Center - Core Faculty

Current classes through Ohlone Herbal Center in

San Francisco and Berkeley: Foundations in Herbal Medicine in San Francisco, Therapeutics in

Berkeley, and finishing up the Apprenticeship in

October. Check out the website to learn more.

 

 

Introduction to Herbal Medicine – San Francisco. Mondays,  6:30pm-9:30pm.

A class for the individual who wants to bring herbs into their everyday life, family, and community.  We will explore the many facets of herbs and herbal medicine.  Class will cover basic human physiology and common herbal remedies for each body system.  Students will learn to prepare and take home a number of herbal products, including herbal extracts, salves, syrups and teas. This class includes an herb walk to a local natural area.

San Francisco Class is held at the Charlotte Maxwell Complementary Clinic, 2601 Mission St., Ste 201. $350

Follow this link to sign up through the Ohlone Herbal Center http://www.ohlonecenter.org/class-details/schedule/introduction-to-herbal-medicine-san-francisco/

 

Second Sunday Herb Walks in Strawberry Canyon Noon - 2:00pm Spring 2015

Come learn about local plants and their medicinal properties including yarrow, nettles, elder and more. You will be introduced to local plants and their traditional and current uses. We will cover some basic botany for identification purposes and you will get to taste fresh plants and tinctures, and end with a brief meditation.

The walk will begin at the Strawberry Canyon Fire trailhead and gradual climbs up in elevation. Our walk will be more like a crawl. Please bring water, comfortable walking shoes, sun protection, and layers of clothing as the trail winds in and out of the sunlight. You may also want to bring a notebook, and camera.

Continued events Scheduled the Second Sunday of the month thru May. Registration recommended via herbesofafeather@gmail.com. Suggested Donation $10-20 payable @ the trailhead. Parking is limited so please carpool, bicycle, etc. Rain or shine :)

 

Homestead Skillshare Festival

When: Sat, May 26th, 2012 from 10-6

Where: Hayes Valley Farm

What: A festival to help educate, inspire and spread sustainable living and self-sufficiency skills.

Who: The BACE Timebank, Hayes Valley Farm, SF Urban Agriculture Alliance, PODER (SF), SF Permaculture Guild, Occupy SF Sustainability Working Group, Transition SF, the Connection Action Project, and more! Please contact mira (at) sfbace.org for more info.

Teach: Beginning Herbal Medicine, Energies and Actions focusing on sustainable living skills.