Welcome to our second year of herbalism training!

It is an honor and pleasure to join you for a second year of journeying with the plants together! I come in service to the plants and to all of Gaia, humbly offering what I can to them and to you. I hope we continue to learn from the plant elders directly this year, asking for their wisdom and compassion to guide us! May we surrender our minds to the wisdom held in our hearts, and the wisdom held in the earth beneath our feet.

The spring is here, and the gardens are getting prepared for seeds… We are ready to begin a year of healing, growth, and learning with you. This year we’ll continue learning the foundations of plant medicine, connecting to the plants, and steeping our whole bodies in green! I’m so excited to see all of the medicine and magick we will create this year.

This Year 2 Apprenticeship will continue building on the training from our first year course, deepening relationships with the plants and advancing your herbalism training. I hope this course will help prepare you to practice as an herbalist in your community! You will keep the strong foundation of your own personal relationship with the plants at the root… building your knowledge of restorative herbal medicine for another year. We will explore more advanced medicine making, and how to safely recommend herbs to support others.

We begin with traveling around the sacred wheel through the elements, journeying deeper with the plant spirits. Here you will call the council of your teachers and elders to surround you. We will call our plant allies from all directions, through time and space, to join us. We ask for their guidance and wisdom as we walk this path of sacred and ancient medicine.

Next we will dive deeply into each system of the body from a treatment perspective. We’ll explore deeper levels of healing through the energy centers and organs of the body, focusing on specific illnesses, and strengthening organs or tissues. As we did in year one, we will also move through the emotional energy centers of the body. You will create herbal formulas for each system, bringing your allies and harvests throughout the year into magickal blends! I’ll move us through different ways to help specific ailments, creating herbal formulas and protocols. We’ll be asking deeper questions around what is needed for healing individually and collectively.

I invite you this year to steep yourself in wild nature, calling on the plant nations, and our Gaia family to encircle you. Know the medicine we need is always within reach… just outside our doors. Let us enter the wildness of the plant realms and let their consciousness seep into ours… Let’s nourish our time spent with the plants this year. Sitting with them, watching them grow throughout the year, and bringing them close to us. May we enjoy every moment brewing medicine, tending our beloved plants, harvesting medicine, and giving back in gratitude... Let’s get our hands dirty and our bodies covered in plants!

This year invite each plant’s wisdom and magick wash through you at its own pace… Welcome the medicine of the plants to teach you in their own time. Their teachings come over years spent together. Invite in their intelligence. The plants will use you as a vehicle to get to others who need them… They will spread their wisdom and healing energy through our communities. Trust in their wisdom. The plants are our elders, and they carry immense intelligence.

Bring back in your practice of tea meditations. While you relax in a bath, before bed, or in the morning in those quiet hours… Just close your eyes for ten minutes and invite the plant healer to go where it’s needed. Think of them as close friends who also want to spend time with you. The friendship is two way… We give love and appreciation to them, and they give back. Sink into that sweet relationship.

The most helpful way to open the doorway to hearing the plants speak, is through shifting your consciousness… moving from our thinking mind to dreaming mind. Awakening the part of your consciousness that can receive information through energy, feelings, sensations, images, and dreams. The spirits of the plants will guide you from within your own body, heart, and psyche. Create sacred space to receive them, opening your heart and 3rd eye in order to listen to them talk. We use relaxation practices, deep breathing, blessing herbs, music, drumming, and sometimes movement to help us shift consciousness. There are whole worlds within and around you, hidden in places of mystery for you to find. The plants are gateways to awakening and walking through realms. Let them lead you.

May you discover a team of plant healers walking beside you guiding the way.
They are asking us to carry medicine to our communities.
Our healing is intertwined with theirs.

In love and gratitude,
Sage

Welcome Message ~

Year Two Live Lecture Series

Zoom Class Package
12 Monthly ~Three Hour Classes

For those looking to go deeper into this course we are offering monthly live lectures in addition to the monthly plant meditations at the special rate of $300 for current Year of Gaia students. Students who are in the lecture series have the option of joining the certificate track as well. There will be 12 three hour classes meeting monthly.

Certificate Track

Would you like to receive a certificate for completing Year Two Online Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeship? The certificate track option is for anyone who is enrolled in the Year Two lecture series and would like to do homework in order to receive a certificate. More information on the certificate track is located below. Please email us with any questions!

~ Course Modules ~
Part One
The Sacred Wheel

JOURNEY TO THE ABOVE
& BELOW REALMS

* Heavenly Realms & Channeling Healing Energies
* Plants of the Above & Below realms.
* Inviting guides & allies - Loving spirits & Ancestral guides. 
* Underworld Journeys & Plants for Transitioning
Creating Sacred Space to Receive

The Above Realm Module
* Below realm to be posted in the fall.

~ Course Modules ~
Part Two
Healing Systems of the Body

Module 2
MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
HERBAL THERAPIES

* Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System
* Herbal therapies for Musculoskeletal System disorders.
* Formulas, medicine making, and recommendations for musculoskeletal support.
* Chronic ailments & acute ailments
* Plant allies for the musculoskeletal system

The Musculoskeletal System Module

Module 3
SACRAL CHAKRA THERAPIES
& REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM
* Plant Medicines & Holistic Therapies for the Sacral chakra
* Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Reproductive  System
* Holistic therapies for Reproductive System disorders
* Formulas, medicine making, and recs for reproductive health
* Chronic ailments & acute ailments
* Plant allies for the reproductive/generative system

The Reproductive System Module

Module 4
SOLAR PLEXUS
& DIGESTIVE SYSTEM THERAPIES
* Solar Plexus - Therapies for creating wholeness and healing
* Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Digestive System & Organs
* Herbal therapies for Digestive System disorders – spirit/body/mind
* Formulas, medicine making, and recommendations for digestive support
* Plant allies for the digestive system
* Chronic ailments & acute ailments

The Solar Plexus Module

Module 5
HEART CHAKRA
& CIRCULATORY SYSTEM THERAPIES
* Heart Chakra - Therapies for creating wholeness and healing
* Plant allies supporting emotional healing and compassion
* Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Heart & Circulatory System
* Herbal therapies for Heart & Circulatory System disorders
* Formulas, medicine making, and recommendations for heart support
* Plant allies for the heart & circulatory system
* Chronic ailments & acute ailments

The Heart Chakra & Circulatory System Module

Module 6
THROAT CHAKRA
& RESPIRATORY HERBAL THERAPIES
* Plant Medicines & Holistic Therapies for the throat chakra.
* Plant allies supporting communication, breath, freedom, listening, inspiration.
* Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Respiratory System
* Treating Throat & Respiratory System disorders
* Formulas and medicine making for respiratory health
* Plant allies for the lungs, upper and lower respiratory system

The Throat Chakra & Respiratory System Module

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Module 7
THIRD EYE & NERVOUS SYSTEM
HERBAL THERAPIES
* Opening sacred space - blessing herbs, meditation, and tea.
* Third Eye & Crown Chakra - Therapies for healing.
* Plant Medicines & Holistic Therapies for 3rd eye & crown chakra.
* Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Nervous System
* Formulas, medicine making, and recs for nervous system health
* Plant allies for the nervous system & brain. 

The Third Eye & Nervous System Module Part One
Part Two
*** Videos still being added.

Module 8
HERBAL CONSULTATIONS –
INTAKES  & STRUCTURE
* Herbal Consultations & Intake Sessions
* Outlines for intakes, consultations & healing sessions
* Initial recommendations & forms for the client
* Guidelines for recommendations, dosages, and routines for herbal medicines
* Weaving plant spirit medicine, intuitive diagnostics, and energy healing into sessions

Coming Soon ~ Refer to our live class on Consultations & Intake

Return Home
NOURISHING WHOLENESS - CENTER/SELF/SPIRIT
* Journey ~ Center of the Wheel
* First Steps of Healing - Nourishing, building, and restoring
* Teaching self-care, self-dosing, and co-creation btw. practitioner and client
* Receiving Medicine from All Directions
* Self –care practice & plan. Self-care Worksheet & Calendar

Coming Soon

Year Two
Optional Course Projects

Home Practice For the Certificate Track Year Two

a. SYSTEMS OF THE BODY BINDER

b. MATERIA MEDICA

c. MEDICINE MAKING

These three optional projects can be done at your own pace. Those who are working on the certificate track for the first year can use this course to finish your medicine making and materia medica.

Systems of the Body Binder

In this binder you’ll collect the class handouts, articles, and information on herbal medicine and holistic anatomy and physiology. Include articles you find on herbal treatments for each system of the body. This will be an important reference tool for you, and a good binder to gather a lot of your information from our class.

Plant ID & Plant Profiles Binder ~ Materia Medica

In this binder you will have all of your plant profiles, drawings, and photographs to ID each plant. Include information that you gather on plants you are getting to know. You will want to start with your allies and any plants you want to keep information on. Copy or print information from sources on different plants that you are planning  to use in your practice - just make sure it’s reliable info!

Herbal Medicine Blend Making ~

I invite you to create 3 medicine blends for each chakra / system of the body after each class module. This will give you practice making formulas from the simples created in Year One. Share your blends with the whole class if you make some that are particularly amazing. We will be doing some medicine blend swaps by mail for those interested in sharing with each other!

Audio Talk ~ Course Projects

Tea Meditations ~
Journeying with the Plant Teachers

Daily Tea Meditations

Another year of blissing out with the plants…

As I hope you enjoyed in the first year, our main practice is meditating with plants to receive directly from them. We communicate with our plant teachers through our bodies, our heart, and mind, in order to receive information about their medicine directly from them. The plants flow through us, communicating with our cells and organs. They move through our being with their own intelligence. When we meditate and enter into an altered state of consciousness, we open to receiving these intelligent beings.

Meditating with plants allows us to become more receptive to a plant’s medicine and consciousness. The plants speak to us through images, physical sensations, feelings, thoughts, and energy. The physical medicine of the plant acts as an anchor for the spirit and consciousness of the plant.

Through each module choose 1-3 plants to journey with. Below is a guided meditation for you to journey with each plant. You can choose yourself the plants to work with each month through the course. I recommend always journaling after your meditations in order to remember anything you receive. Take note of the taste and feel in your body, any sensations, images, or messages that you receive. Let the plants introduce themselves to you directly.

Tea meditations usually last for about 20 minutes, and can also be incorporated into a daily practice of meditation or rest. Use the linked spodify playlists for music if you like, Feel free to pause the recording at any time, and rest into receiving the plant without distraction of my voice if that is most helpful.

Spodify Soundtrack for Meditations

Plant Journey ~ Guided Tea Meditation (with music)

The Ritual of Tea

This time spent receiving from the plants should feel like a delicious moment of rest in your day. Drinking tea can be a beautiful ritual. Create sacred space first, and then welcome the spirit of the plant to join you. Light a candle and burn some blessings herbs that will help you to relax and shift out of your everyday thoughts. My favorites are evergreen resins, juniper, mugwort, copal, cedar, and sage to help me shift consciousness and welcome in the spirit of the plant teacher. For those working with the sacred wheel, construct a simple circle with rocks or stones beside you. I choose 4 stones for each direction, with a candle at the center. I recommend calming music for journeying and to help you relax. Set the sacred space for a healing session, as you prepare to welcome the plant healer to join you. You will find a music playlist at the bottom of this page to use for tea meditations.

Brew a tea of a plant you would like to receive from. As you brew the tea, ask the spirit of this plant to come visit with you. I recommend holding the plant material in your hand or to your heart for a few minutes. Breathe in its scent, and ask from your heart for this elder to join you. If you are needing a specific kind of medicine, ask the plant for the support you’re seeking.

Get yourself really comfortable with pillows and maybe a blanket. Set up your comfort for meditation. This is more important than you think, since discomfort will distract you too much.

Bring your attention to your breathing, and into your body with each breath. Turn your gaze inward to all the sensations below your skin, meeting yourself with compassionate presence. Play attention to any body sensations that come through your awareness as you breathe. Spend 5 minutes or so breathing, relaxing, and arriving into your body.

As you drink the tea slowly, invite the spirit of the plant to join you. I like to call it from my heart and communicate directly. I recommend visualizing the plant in your mind and imagine reaching out to it. As I visualize the plant in my mind, I often make offerings to it in spirit, as a way of giving love and honour to this holy being. You can offer your love, some sacred smoke, flowers, water, or anything you’re moved to.

Spend time asking the plant to show itself to you and listening quietly within to the plant’s subtle energy. Let go of any need for a specific experience, and just allow the plant to show itself on its own time. Allow the spirit to get to know you as you sit together, inviting it into your heart and body. If your mind wanders, just invite the plant to anywhere your attention or thoughts are drawn. Ask for its support wherever your thoughts go… Continue to return to your breath, and the feeling of the plant with you. Observe how the plant feels in your body and being. Allow any messages, thoughts, images, feelings, or sensations to happen. Take all the time you would like to receive its energy and medicine. Enjoying being together, without demanding or rushing your pacing together.

Offer gratitude and thanks to the spirit of the plant for anything you received, and offer some blessing herbs to the loving guide who joined you. You may want to bless yourself with the smoke, and then write down in your journal anything that came through in your experience with the plant. Any images, sensations or thoughts that came through. If it was simply a quiet time of rest, that is just what you needed.

May we receive the medicine we need from all directions, with gratitude.