BrancheS: Short courses

Fridays in May & June, Hands-On Herbal Medicine Making Series w/ Toyia Hatten. 6-8pm. $30 per class. Experience the ancient art of creating herbal remedies firsthand! Attend the full series for a broad knowledge base to create your own concoctions at home, or attend a single class where you would love to know more. Leave each class with your own herbal medicine to take home and create your own herbal medicine chest.
                        May 9- Save Our Skin- Oils, Salves and Lotions
                        May 16- Herbal Potions- Teas, Elixirs, Vinegars & Wines
                        May 23- A Spoonful of Sugar- Glycerites, Syrups & Honeys
                        June 6- Cooking with Herbs- Adding vitality to meals using herbs
                        June 13- Bathing Beauty- Herbal Baths & Body Care  

"(This class) is like being shoved into an elevator going striaght to awesome!" -Winter 2008 Medicine Making student

Tuesdays & Thursdays in May, The Complete Herbal Mama Series. 9:30am-12:30pm. $25 per class. Discover the plethora of ways herbs can enhance you & your child’s lives. Learn herbs for first aid, homeopathic remedies for common health concerns, movement for   tranquility & flexibility of both mother & child, and create healing remedies to take home with your new empowerment. Taught by Moms for Moms.
                        May 20- Natural Healing of Common Childhood Ailments w/ Amanda Burry
                        May 22- Making Herbal Remedies for Children w/ Amanda Burry
                        May 27- Holistic Support for Better Parenting w/ Brooke Sullivan
                        May 29- Creating a Homeopathic Kit for the family w/ Brooke Sullivan

May 18- Finding Free Food & Medicine in the Wild w/ Marc Williams. 1-6pm. Sliding scale $30-$50. At Soulflower Botanical Sanctuary. Learn to identify and harvest wild spring edibles and medicinal plants, and cook and enjoy a healing gourmet meal from your newly discovered plant allies!

May 30- Differential Treatment of Depression & Anxiety w/ Botanical Medicines w/ Renowned Herbalist David Winston RH(AHG). 6-9pm. $45, discounts for students of  affiliate herb schools. (REGISTRATION DEADLINE MAY 23rd!) It seems almost everyone in our country is either depressed, anxious or both.  We live in a very stress filled society and the mainstream solution is to take a pill.  What if you don't want to take an SSRI or anxiolytic medication, what if you understand that mental health is more than a deficiency or excess of neuro-chemicals.  In this class we will discuss the causes of depression and anxiety, and how mild to moderate cases can be effectively treated using the appropriate herbs.  The common misconception that St. Johns Wort or any one herb is the "depression" herb is ridiculous and we will look at the specific indications of emotional dysfunction and the specific remedies to treat them.

May 31- Applied Remote Viewing w/ Leigh Culver. Three weekends: May 31 & June 1, June 28 & 29, July 26 & 27. 9am-7pm each day. $425. Remote viewing may be defined as the acquisition and description, by mental means alone, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shielding, or time. This course teaches students how to detect, decode & describe in words, sketches, and modeling material, information that could not have been known any other way than through “non-physical” contact with a distant target. (Class registrants will meet 7PM Friday evening on May 30th for introductions and initial briefing.)

"C. Leigh Culver is a true Jedi & a very gifted teacher!"- Winter 2008 Applied Remote Viewing student

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June 14- Meet the Living Herbs; A plant walk w/ Lisa Ganora. $15-$25, sliding scale.The Appalachian region in home to a wonderful diversity of nutritional, tonic, and medicinal plants. Join Lisa at the Botanical Gardens to discuss traditional and ethnobotanical uses of the plants along with their roles in contemporary botanical medicine. In addition, learn how to safely avoid poisonous plants and to evaluate  others through smell, taste, and knowledge of their characteristic constituents.

June 15- The Phytochemistry of Herbs w/ Lisa Ganora. 10am-4pm. $50 in advance,   $75 at the door. Enhance your clinical skills & expand your understanding of botanical remedies with this exploration of medicinally active herbal constituents. Using colorful PowerPoint presentations with botanical illustrations, we will explore the nature, relationships, & activities of phytochemicals within the context of the most commonly used herbs. We will also discuss the pros & cons of standardization & address the important herb–drug interactions.

June 16 & 23- The Art of Distillation w/ Vincent Wrenn. 7-9pm. $75. Learn how to safely set up and operate a distillation system, work with the process of creating The Archaeus of Water, and know how to quickly extract essential oils from plants. If you can cook you can operate your own home laboratory! (Prerequisite: The Art of Spagyrics; Plant Alchemy 101)

June 21- Celebrate the summer solstice with FREE classes! Join our 2008 Clinical   Internship graduates for a day of free workshops on Making Alcohol-Free Herbal Remedies, Rejuvenating Herbs for Post-Partum & Beyond, Foot Soaks for Whole Body Health & Utilizing Our Plant Friends to Manage Modern Stressors.

July 14 & 21- Paracelsian & Alchemical Medicine w/ Vincent Wrenn. 7-9pm. $75.Paracelsus, the father of modern medicine, codified & systematized the practice of western alchemical medicine. This class presents an in depth history & practical instruction on Paracelsian Western Alchemical energetic diagnosis and treatment with Spagyrics. Topics covered will include the three pillars of Medicine, the four Humors, the five Ens, cures from Sympathy, calculating the Constitutional remedy, and an in depth view of planetary energies & their physical correspondences. (Prerequisite: The Art of Spagyrics; Plant Alchemy 101)

July 21-25 (Session I) & July 28-August 1 (Session II)- Earth Sprouts! Herbal Day Camp for Kids. 9:30am-3:30pm. $175. Let your children delight in the sounds, sights, and smells of nature in a safe nurturing environment at Soulflower Botanical Sanctuary. Your child will learn to identify safe common plants that will enrich their lives & several uses from arts and crafts to wound healing will be taught. Children leave with a deeper respect for nature and a better understanding of community and cooperation. They may even bring home some health tips for you!

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September 6 & 7- A Journey with Cancer without Chemo: Working with Your Body and Spirit to Heal w/ Mary Pat Palmer of the Philo School of Herbal Energetics. 10am-4pm. $150. Confronting cancer and other life threatening illnesses takes courage and, even more importantly, knowledge. This workshop prepares the participant to have many modalities and   skills to journey through illness to health.

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September 13- Ayurveda for Health w/renowned herbalist KP Khalsa, RH(AHG).   10am-4pm. $75 (or $140 for both this class & the one following if paid by August 21st.)

September 14- Botanicals for Chronic Pain w/ KP Khalsa, RH (AHG) 10am-4pm. $75   (or $140 for both this class & the one preceding if paid by August 21st.)
         
KP Khalsa will also be seeing clients while in Asheville!
Contact Sat Pavan at 541-242-3314 to schedule your appointment.

October 25 -Fertility Awareness for Pregnancy Achievement or Natural Birth Control w/ Corinna Wood. 10:00am-4pm. Sliding scale $75-$95, you decide. This is not about counting the number of days from your period until you're "safe"! Come learn why the Rhythm Method doesn't work, and why Fertility Awareness does. Fertility Awareness is a scientifically validated day-to-day method of determining when in a woman’s cycle she is fertile. This information can be used to plan or prevent a pregnancy, or simply to learn more about your body’s cycles.

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