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The Wisdom Of Plants Herbal Apprenticeship Program
You can enter Level 1 or Level 2 initially since both are introductions to the differing ways in which plants offer their healing capacities to humankind. Neither requires any previous knowledge or experience.
LEVEL 2: Introduction to Traditional and Plant Spirit Healing
Ceremonial Winter Offering to the Earth's Health 2002
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This level is an alternative and also introductory level, allowing for a deeper experience of healing at the soul level through a loving engagement with a Plant Totem Ally and therefore freeing the Self of disease. It allows for a radical yet gentle transformation of your experience of yourself, your experience of yourself within Nature, and the meaning of healing within anyone's life. It builds on Level 1 information but that level is not a prerequisite. Level 2 is open to anyone who wishes to explore getting to know him or herself and learn how to alter their "problems". You will get to know your Ally in a new way as well as the plant-friends of the others in the group.
Acknowledgement 2001
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You will see how the plants can show us how to live well on Mother Earth, how to deepen into your truth over time with their loving wisdom and guidance and how they assist optimum health throughout the entire soul-body. If you are unfamiliar with using herbs but feel drawn to Wisdom and Wholeness, this level will also offer time-honoured tools and techniques to access your Inner Healer through working in your own process.
Level 2 may include any or all of the following:
• The Three Traditions of Healing
• Laying the Foundation for Personal Responsibility and Living with Heart
• Introduction to the Wise Woman Tradition; Accessing Your Inner Healer
• Introduction to Understanding the Healing Process, Health and Disease
• Introduction to Reading the Body's Signals
• Introduction to the Chakras and Herbals for Mind/Body Health
• Introduction to the Medicine Wheel
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• Journey with Plants as Totem Allies
• Simples & Compounds
• Introduction to Herbal Energetics & Constitutional Health
• Introduction to the Language of Plants
• Introduction to Simple Ceremony
• Homework
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2009-10 Dates: Six two-day weekends, 10am Saturday until 4pm Sunday:
May 23 & 24, June 27 & 28, Aug 15 & 16, Oct 24 & 25, Nov 21 & 22, Jan 23 & 24.
In addition, it is possible to schedule four practical work days between June and November, if you need or would prefer more hands-on experience with the plants and general garden know-how.
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What some of my students have said over the years about Level 1 (or How to know if you are a Budding Herbalist):
"A lot of healing happened for me this year in unexpected ways & I really hadn't anticipated that. I'm very happy about that." - Jennifer S.
"You know, I've studied herbalism & gone to a lot of different workshops in the last 6 years. Why has no one ever told me all this before?" - Anne M.
"I feel connected to the Earth in a deep & profound way". - Paul P.
"I'm going to have to take a day off work! I have to go out & collect seeds & roots & things". - Lisa B.
"I have a thing now for Boneset. It's the first plant that I identified myself. I've been hoping that I would get sick this winter with a cold or flu so that I could try it". - Robin M.
"A friend of mine told me about his clogged ears & ear infection. He had been on different antibiotics over a few months & it wouldn't go away. I gave him the garlic honey that we had made & it went away completely". - Paul L.
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