Welcome to Deepening with Beloved Herbs!
With great joy we invite you to spend six months with us and the plants.
Deepening with Beloved Herbs brings you:
11 hour-and-a-half live classes with Deb and Lauren
5 monthly Q&A Office Hours where you can make a cup of tea, chat with us and ask questions.
6 recorded videos where we take you with us into our apothecaries to show you how we make tinctures, teas, salves; into the garden as we sow seeds, prep and plant the garden; and a sample client intake so you can experience how we match herbal formulas with people
During each 1.5 hour class we will share our knowledge of growing, harvesting, and preparing the herbs we have chosen for each class, as well as their Materia Medica and energetics and how we work with them.
Each class with include a section called “In the Garden—” where Deb will share wisdom and stories from her forty years of gardening. Topics include seasonal rhythms, Biodynamics, soil building, compost, how she learns from plants where they would like to grow, how the climate is changing,
Lauren will share her love of body systems, anatomy and physiology that she has gathered from working with clients for over ten years as a community herbalist. She will share her holistic approach that the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of who we are connected, and she will share the patterns she witnesses that helps us embody this understanding so that we can transform on all levels.
We will share how we experience personalities of the plants, their messages, their idiosyncrasies, how they challenge us, and how they are showing up for us on ever-deepening levels to guide us through these times.
A goal of this class is empower you to develop your intuition and “knowing” so that you can trust yourself to work with the plants directly. We will cover basic techniques for plant communication. We will share our experience of how building personal relationships with the plants deepens our healing path and invites in the magic of connection that we were born to experience.
We will share stories with you from our work as community herbalists and the incredible ways we have witnessed the plants offer their healing gifts and transform suffering—time and time again.
We will share our love of the plants and the profound joy we carry from walking with these magnanimous, dynamic beings.
Join us!—We will be your guides in the work of weaving herbs back into our daily lives, our families and our communities. We believe that this work is an essential part of healing humanity’s relationship with ourselves and Nature. Together we can create a future where all Beings have the right to thrive.
Deb and Lauren bow with gratitude to the generosity of Earth & to the healing plants and their capacity to support the thriving and wholeness of all Beings.
Live classes take place on on MONDAYS from 5:30-7pm EST (2:30-4 PST)
Recordings will be available on the class website the following day.
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COURSE SCHEDULE
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Class 1— January 26th:
Mugwort & Willow
PLANT COMMUNICATION, INTUITION AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
In the Garden—Introduction to Herb Gardening: Place of healing and healing of place
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Class 2—February 9th:
Reishi & Usnea
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
In the Garden—Understanding Earth as a Living, Breathing being: The purpose of the garden
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February—Q&A Office Hour
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Class 3—February 26th:
THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Elecampagne & Lobelia
In the Garden—Building the Foundation: Introduction to Biodynamic gardening and soil
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Class 4—March 9th:
The Seaweeds & Chamomile
DIGESTION I: NOURISHMENT
In the Garden—Building soil: Observation and soil testing
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March—Q&A Office Hour
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Class 5—March 30th:
Yellowdock & Milk Thistle
DIGESTION II: ELIMINATION
In the Garden—Building soil: Tillage, cover crops, raised beds, mulches
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Class 6—April 13th:
NERVOUS SYSTEM I: HOW THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WORKS
California Poppy & Linden
In the Garden—Building compost: Biodynamic compost preparations
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April—Q&A Office Hour
Class 7—April 27th:
Valerian & Hops
NERVOUS SYSTEM II: SUPPORTING CONDITIONS AND BUILDING FORMULAS
In the Garden—Inviting the plants, trees and shrubs: Plant propagation from seed to the garden
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Class 8—May 11th:
Red Sage & Garlic
THE HEART AND CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
In the Garden—Paying attention to the Cosmos: Seasonal, solar and lunar rhythms
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May—Q&A Office Hour
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Class 9—May 25th:
Horsetail & American Ginseng
BONES AND BEAUTY IN THE AGING PROCESS
In the Garden: Making nettle and comfrey teas & climate challenges
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Class 10—June 8th:
Purple Bee Balm & Goldenrod
KIDNEYS AND BLADDER
In the Garden—Tending the Garden and Gardener: Developing a sensitivity to the garden’s needs and your needs
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June—Q&A Office Hour
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Class 11—June 22nd:
Arnica, Yarrow, Calendula, Plantain and St. John’s Wort
HERBAL FIRST AID & SUPPORTING OUR COMMUNITIES
In the Garden—Gratitude practices: Relationships with pollinators, birds, Nature Spirits and Elemental Beings
What does the course cost?
The cost of the course is $480.
We offer a few payment options.
You can:
pay the full amount upfront (this is helpful for us if you can do it!)
Make 2 or 4 payments
We are committed to promoting inclusion, accessibility and equity. We acknowledge that all healing is bound up in our collective liberation, the repair of historical harms and the creation of an equitable, just society where all Beings (human and more-than-human) have the right to thrive.
Please visit the Registration page to access the course at reduced cost.
Who is the course for?
This course is geared toward a wide range of herbalists, herb lovers and gardeners. For new explorers, lifelong learners, parents deepening their herbal toolkit for their families, clinical practitioners and community care workers. Being in relationship with the healing plants is an ancestral memory we all carry in our blood.
If delving into learning about herbs is new for you, we have put together a list of resources & books you can check out to accompany the course.
Our goal is that you walk away from this course with the confidence to work with each of our forty beloved herbs in a personal, family or community setting.