Learn Herbal Medicine.
Live & Online Courses.
Welcome more of the herbal world into your daily life habits and gain access to the tools and knowledge that will support your and your family’s health. Returning to the foundations beneath you and deepening your connection to community and local ecologies, the Community Herbalism and Nutrition two-year program prepares you to see and source the abundance around you while growing your herbalism practice into its next season of wisdom. From nutrition empowerment to plant identification to herbal remedies addressing root causes of symptoms and common ailments, weave a tapestry of community and herbal allies to guide you and foster your wellbeing.
In this two-year comprehensive program you will have access to:
- Live and recorded online lectures and workshops
- Downloadable worksheets and herbal informational guides
- Optional in-person medicine-making workshops
- Access to lead instructor, and online community forum
Year 1 hosts:
- Herbal actions and energetics of Southwest plants lectures series (January - June)
- Plus companion Herbal Apprenticeship field study for those who interview and apply
- Foundational Herbalism (June - September)
- Foundational Nutrition (September - December)
Year 2 hosts:
- Lectures series on the ethical use of toxic botanicals and clinical uses of common plants (January - May)
- Plus companion Herbal Apprenticeship field study for those who completed the first year
- Clinical Herbal Formulations and Constitutional Theory (July - December)
By the end of the two-year program you will be able to:
- Answer basic physiology questions and nutrition for optimal health
- Determine organ system involvement in symptomatology
- Understand herbal responses to common ailments such as colds, heartburn, skin issues, and more
- Apply herbal remedies to address acute and generalized symptoms based upon the person’s need and history
- Identify edible weeds and common lookalikes
- Ethical and sustainable harvesting and medicine making
- Deepen your relationship with the medicinal plants around you
- And so much more
Who should join this program?
This program is right for you if you are ready to deepen your commitment to yourself
and your community through a better understanding of how nutrition affects our daily lives
and how to address common deficiencies through herbal remedies and wildcrafting.
Especially if you:
- Yearn for a deeper connection with nature
- Have an interest in natural health
- Have a desire to source local medicine
- Work in a herb shop or health food store
- Have an interest in working clinically with your community
- Are already enrolled in one class
- And you want to expand your work with Sage Country Herbs
- Then we look forward to connecting with you!
When can I get started?
- If you want to sign up for the online program with the field work, it starts with requesting an interview.
- Interviews for the Field Apprenticeship open in August - until we are full. There are 14 Field Apprentice spots per year.
- If you want to sign up for the online program, click the sign up button on this page.
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Registration for the Community Herbalism program opens twice per year.
- Nov. 15th - Jan. 15th registration opens to begin our online program with Actions & Energetics of Southwest Plants.
- During this registration period, approved Apprenticeship applicants can sign up.
- April 15th - June 15th registration opens to begin our program with Foundational Herbalism.
- If you have filled out the form on this page or signed up for our free mini-course series, then you are already on the list for preregistration.
Cost
Discounts for program registration over ala carte course purchase
Community Herbalism & Nutrition Online Program
2 year program $4450 if purchased separately.
One time payment of $3500 (saving $950!)
OR
22 Payments of $165 (saving over $800)
2 year Community Herbalism Program online program with field apprenticeship
* An interview is required for this option.
Go to the Apprenticeship page & request one.
1st year Field Apprenticeship plus Botanical Eyes
Community Herbalism Program
Payment in full for first year $3900, (save $800)
Or 12 payments of $330, (save $700)
1st year must be completed before acceptance into 2nd year field
2nd year Field plus Botanical Eyes CHP
Payment in full for 2nd year is $3700
OR
12 payments of $310
1st Year Course
January - May
We will meet every other Thursday @ 6pm (pst) for 1 hour Q&A.
Bi-weekly video drops.
Immerse yourself in the ecology, history, and incredible abundance of Southwest plants.
- What are plant actions?
- Herbal energetics
- Identify weedy edible plants
- Medicine of SW plants
- And so much more...
1st year course
June - September
We will meet every Thursday @ 6pm (pst) for 1 hour Q&A.
Weekly video drops.
3 live-in-person medicine-making workshops available
Our first meeting will be a 3 hr,
live zoom.
Learn all aspects of integrating herbal medicine into your life today:
- Medicine Making
- Smoke as Medicine
- Exploring Extracts
- Herbal Stress Support
- Tea Formulation
- How to address common health issues
- And so much more...
1st year course
September - December
We will meet every Thursday
for 1 hour Q & A.
Weekly video drops.
Live-in-person recipe workshop available.
Understand how your body works with the macro and micronutrients needed
for you to thrive.
- Role of pH
- Food & Inflammation
- Blood Sugar
- Digestive physiology
- Fabulous Fiber
- And so much more...
2nd Year Course
January - May
We will meet every other Tuesday from 6 - 9 for a live lecture on Zoom.
- Advanced Botany
- Herbal actions and energetics of local plants with a focus on drop dosage medicinals
- Physiology of organ systems and corresponding local herbs
- How to prepare, dose, and apply advanced herbal remedies in the field and at home
- Bioregional herbalism
- How to understand dosage dependent toxicity and safe usage
- Activities to deepen your relationship with nature
"I am at the moment very much overwhelmed with gratitude for all the information, and I do greatly appreciate all the resources that I can wade through as needed. I know the direction to head and see your handouts, lectures, and shared stories as a road map to good health for my loved ones and myself."
Kimberly
"There could be no better environment than the field,
and it was the best classroom
I’ve ever been in!!
I also think the virtual environment was a great way to introduce topics, information and discussion.
Both were advantageous and
conducive to learning."
Amanda
"Above all else,
Shana has instilled in me the eyes to see the beauty of desert blooms when before I only saw dried branches,
to see medicine in weeds,
to see the pulse of life in the wind
as it rushes through grass on hillsides."
Haley
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