Create a path of practice that fills your heart and soul…
Student Mentorship with Sage
Beginning May 2026
10 Live Class Sessions & On-site Immersion Option
This 10 month journey with Sage is designed for apprentices wanting support in building an herbalism practice rooted in relationship with the plants, personal vision, and service to community. Students will develop tools for creating offerings in alignment with their heart, while deepening connection to their community. Through this 10 class series, students will cultivate the foundations needed to offer healing work with joy, authenticity, and devotion. The mentorship begins with deep inner listening and visioning practices that help participants identify their soul’s calling and clarify the kind of work they feel drawn to offer.
Throughout the program, participants develop practical skills for creating offerings that integrate plant medicine, ceremony, education, and community healing. The mentorship supports students in designing classes, rituals, plant walks, and medicine-making practices while learning how to hold safe and sacred space for others. Students explore their personal lineages, relationships with place, and the plants growing in their local landscapes, grounding their practice in both ancestral wisdom and the ecosystems that surround them.
The course also addresses the practical realities of sustaining a plant-centered healing practice, including creating nourishing structures for offerings, and developing ethical approaches to marketing and exchange. You’ll receive support in creating our own unique and inspired offerings. Alongside practical elements, participants are encouraged to cultivate a their devotional relationship with the plants through solitary practice, self-care, attentive listening to themselves, and the wisdom of wild nature.
The mentorship culminates in the development of a personal practice of service in which students share their herbalism practice and healing offerings that arise from their own authentic relationship with the plants and the Earth. Rooted in reverence for nature and commitment to community wellbeing, this program supports participants in weaving together spiritual practice, plant knowledge, and practical skills to create a meaningful herbalism practice.
10 Monthly Sessions ~ May 6th, June 10th, July 8th, August 5th, September 9th, October 14th, November 11th, December 9th, January 6th, February 3rd
Wednesdays, 5 - 7:30pm EST
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All lessons are held on Zoom. Each month includes:
10 Monthly Sessions
2+ Hour Classes
Solo 2-hour mentorship session with Sage
Recordings of all live sessions for future viewing
Group communication between classes.
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1. SACRED PRACTICE & VISION ~
* Inner Listening & Visioning - Identifying the soul's desires.
* Medicine, Rituals, & Activism for the earth, animals, people.
* Designing Community Offerings - Soul calling
* Self care practice & goals ~ Wheel Journeys
2. ROOTS & LINEAGE ~
* Creating from your roots - Body & soul
* Connection to home, landscape, and local plants.
* Honoring our Lineages – Where do we come from?
* Building community, roots, sense of place/home.
* Herbal garden & Apothecary project
3. SACRED PRACTICE & PLANT STUDY ~
* Aligning Practice with Visions
* Plan of training & practice and study.
* Identifying strengths & struggles
* Preparation for offerings.
* Timelines & planning.
4. CREATING YOUR VISION & PRACTICE -
* Nourishing business structures.
* Successful marketing & money exchange.
* Setting up class space, and offices.
* Apothecary & Offering medicines.
5. SACRED SPACE & HEALING TOOLS ~
* Guidelines for holding safe, sacred space in class.
* Channeling the plant spirits.
* Tools & practices for facilitation.
* Structure & preparation of offerings.
* Class exercises, tools, and activities to use.
6. ROOTING INWARD ~
* Inner listening & trusting yourself.
* Self-care & solitary connection to the plants.
* Sharing from what you are receiving.
* Knowledge from lineage, ancestors, community.
* Personal Practice - Offering what you receive.
7. CONNECTION TO THE PLANTS ~
* Facilitating wild plant connection & plant walks
* Growing medicinals & facilitating harvests
* Facilitating medicine making.
* Nature connection & rituals.
8. COMMUNITY & PARTNERSHIP
* Mentors, co-facilitation, and models of practice.
* Learning from others shares & mutual discovery.
* Facilitating co-created offerings.
* Weaving traditions together
* Group vision project
9. SPIRIT CONNECTION ~
* Prayer & Healing rituals in your practice.
* Facilitating ceremonies and healing space.
* Rituals with Plants & Nature.
* Structure & practice of healing rituals.
10. DEVOTIONAL SERVICE - BUILDING A HEALING PRACTICE
* Devotional service ~ Offerings from our heart – Student Share
* Growing a practice ~ Expectations, patience, devotion.
* Sustaining an Herbalism Business & Community offerings
* Student offerings of lessons, ceremony, and ritual.
Scroll down for detailed course information & for low-income payment plan options.
Create a path of practice that fills your heart and soul…
Facilitated by Sage L. Maurer,
Director of The Gaia School of Healing
Sage founded The Gaia School of Healing in New England in 2001 and has trained over 50 rounds of apprentices. She blends traditional folk herbalism with plant spirit medicine, teaching in partnership with ten acres of abundant healing plants in Southern Vermont. Sage’s courses include sacred plant medicine, ethnobotany, ancestral herbalism, deep ecology, and eco-spirituality. Her students over the last 25 years have created their own incredible herbal businesses, schools, and holistic practices. Learn more about Sage.
In-Depth Herbalism Education for All
Accessible Pricing Options
We price our courses lower than most because we believe in keeping herbalism education accessible. This course is priced with the intention of fighting the ever-increasing prices of herbalism and natural medicine training. We hope to ensure that plant medicine is available to everyone, as it is the primary and most ancient method of health care globally. Our offerings are made in service and gratitude to our ancestors, communities, and plant teachers. We hope our alumni will also help uphold this ethic by keeping herbal education accessible and affordable for future generations.
PAYMENT PLAN OPTION
We understand that some folks may be needing tuition support more recently. This payment plan option is reserved for low-income students who require tuition assistance. We are offering a payment plan of $50 per month using the link below.
*Payment plans begin on the date of purchase and continue for 10 months. Once the payment plan is completed, you will receive unlimited course access including all future updates or additions.
