Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeship: Year Two

Online Course, 2026

Unlimited Access to 12 Months of Modules
& Monthly Live Classes Beginning in April

The Sacred Plant Medicine Year Two Apprenticeship continues building on the training from our Year One course, deepening relationships with the plants and expanding your herbalism education. This course can be taken to prepare herbalists to work in their communities, or to deepen your knowledge of restorative herbal medicine in order to care for yourself and your loved ones. Students strengthen their understanding of healing plants, explore more advanced medicine making, and learn how to safely recommend herbs to support others. Year Two also offers budding herbalists a more in-depth understanding of the systems of the body and physiology from a holistic perspective, addressing patterns of illness.

$680.00
One time
$360.00
For 2 months

Scroll down for detailed course information & for low-income payment plan options.

 


Deepening our Connection with the Plant Realms

 


Course Overview

In this second year of the Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeship, students journey further with their plant guides and build on what they’ve learned in the first year training. Whether or not you plan to work with others in the future, this journey continues to deepen your relationship with our plant teachers.

We begin by traveling around the sacred wheel through the elements, journeying more deeply with the plant spirits. We then move into focused study of each system of the body from a treatment perspective—exploring specific illnesses, strengthening organs and systems, and working with the emotional and spiritual energy centers of the body. Students create herbal formulas and build on their Year One foundation through continued practice and study.

This apprenticeship is both a course in Western herbalism and plant spirit medicine. In each class, spirit is blended with science through meditation, lecture, plant walks, and hands-on learning at home. We seek to unite Western modes of learning with ancient traditions of learning directly from the earth and from spirit. The focus is on healing from the heart, supporting continual wholeness, transformation, and nourishment of the self.

  • All lessons are hosted on our beautiful members platform area. Each module includes:

    • 5–10 video classes & audio lectures each month

    • Guided meditations & tea meditations

    • Written content & downloadable handouts

    • Optional monthly live class lectures *Offered every other year - see ‘Course Details’ section below for more information on Live Lectures*

    • Unlimited access to all course materials

    • Recordings of all live sessions for future viewing

  • The advanced course is designed to guide students in holding space for others on their healing journey, utilizing restorative medicine and herbal therapies. We focus not on curing illness, but on supporting individuals as part of a broader circle of care that may include other practitioners and doctors. The advanced course continues to emphasize the foundations of nourishment and restorative healing through plants and holistic therapies. We recognize that learning plant medicine unfolds over years of practice and experience, and students are encouraged to move at their own pace—learning through personal experience, research, and the deepening of relationships with personal plant allies and guides, month by month.

    Our Year Two Apprenticeship classes focus on:

    Advanced Foundations of Herbalism

    • Folk & Traditional Herbal Healing

    • Restorative Herbal Medicine

    • Advanced Herbal Energetics

    • Materia Medica

    • Holistic Anatomy & Physiology

    Healing Practices & Clinical Skills

    • Herbal Consultations

    • Holistic Healing Strategies

    • Formula & Medicine Making for Systems of the Body

    • Chakra Healing & Therapies in Sessions

    • Energy Healing & Bodywork

    Plant Spirit & Ancestral Lineages

    • Plant Spirit Medicine in Healing Sessions

    • Personal Ancestral Lineages

    • Plant Communication

    Plant Study, Research & Relationship

    • Ethnobotanical Research

    • Plant Medicine Walks & Harvesting

    Herbalism, Earth Care & Social Change

    • Creating Social Change & Sustainability

    • Herbalism in Social & Environmental Activism

Meet Your Teacher

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.

 

Course Details

  • You can start this course anytime and move through the modules at your own pace, with unlimited access to all lessons and future updates. Each month, you’ll receive Sage’s mentorship through live classes, plant meditations, videos, audio recordings, and written content — and you’ll be able to ask questions and receive guidance via an online class group.

    Monthly online plant medicine journeys are included, and students who wish to attend the optional live lecture series can register in the members area. If you enroll after the course has started, you will receive access to all previous class recordings.

    Module One — Sacred Wheel Journeys ~ North

    • Opening sacred space & circle. Journey in the North – Earth

    • Honoring our lineages & ancestors – Re-discovering our roots

    • Social Justice in Herbalism & Holistic Healing

    • Nourishing and Restorative Therapies vs. Acute Treatment

    • Wild food, healing foods, and nourishing herbs

    • Wheel of the Year – Winter – Rooting & Restoring

    Module Two — Sacred Wheel Journeys ~ East

    • Opening sacred space & circle. Journey in the East – Air/Wind

    • Offerings to the Air/Wind spirits

    • Therapies – Purification, cleansing, and clearing in healing work

    • Healing sessions – breath work, sacred smokes, and blessing herbs

    • Plant Medicines of the East & Air Element

    • Wheel of the Year – Beltane / Springtime – Spring Clearing

    Module Three — Sacred Wheel Journeys ~ South

    • Opening sacred space & circle. Journey in the South – Fire

    • Fire ceremony. Offerings to the South / Fire spirit

    • Plant Medicines of the South / Fire & Fire / Yang Therapies

    • Plants for transformation, protection, and banishing

    • Wheel of the Year – Summer Solstice – Lammas

    Module Four — Sacred Wheel Journeys ~ West

    • Opening sacred space & circle. Journey in the West – Water

    • Plant Medicines of the West & Water Element

    • Exercises in intuitive healing, perception, and understanding of illness

    • Healing with water, ritual bathing, steams, sweats, and washes

    • West Journeys – Emotions, mysteries, dreaming, healing

    • Wheel of the Year – Fall & Samhain – Releasing, Entering Dreamtime

    Module Five — Journey to the Above & Below Realms

    • Opening Sacred Space – blessing herbs, offerings, meditation, and tea ceremony

    • Plants of the Above & Below realms

    • Inviting guides & allies – loving spirits & ancestral guides

    • Creating Sacred Space in sessions

    Module Six — Root Chakra & Immune System Herbal Therapies

    • Opening meditation, tea ceremony, and drum circle

    • Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Immune System

    • Herbal therapies for Immune System disorders – spirit / body / mind

    • Formulas, medicine making, and recs for immune support

    • Plant allies for the immune system & cancer treatment

    • Chronic ailments & acute ailments

    Module Seven — The Musculoskeletal System

    • Root Chakra – Soul & Body Healing

    • Plant Medicines & Holistic Therapies for the Root Chakra

    • Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of the Musculoskeletal System

    • Herbal therapies for Musculoskeletal System disorders

    • Formulas, medicine making, and recs for musculoskeletal support

    • Plant allies for the musculoskeletal system

    Module Eight — 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

    • Plant allies for the reproductive / generative system

    Module Nine — 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 recs for digestive support

    • Plant allies for the digestive system

    • Chronic ailments & acute ailments

    Module Ten — Heart Chakra & Circulatory System Therapies

    • Heart Chakra – Therapies for creating wholeness and healing

    • Plant allies supporting emotional healing, compassion, love

    • Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of Heart & Circulatory System

    • Herbal therapies for Heart & Circulatory System disorders

    • Formulas, medicine making, and recs for heart support

    • Plant allies for the heart & circulatory system

    • Chronic ailments & acute ailments

    Module Eleven — Throat Chakra & Respiratory Herbal Therapies

    • Plant Medicines & Holistic Therapies for the Throat Chakra

    • Plant allies supporting communication, breath, 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

    Module Twelve — Third Eye & Nervous System Herbal Therapies

    • Opening sacred space – blessing herbs, meditation, and tea ceremony

    • Third Eye & Crown Chakra – Therapies for wholeness and healing

    • Plant Medicines & Holistic Therapies for 3rd Eye & Crown Chakra

    • Holistic Anatomy & Physiology of Nervous & Endocrine System

    • Formulas, medicine making, and recs for nervous system health

    • Plant allies for the nervous system & brain

    Module Thirteen — Herbal Consultations: Intakes & Structure

    • Herbal Consultations & Intake Sessions

    • Outlines for intakes, consultations & healing sessions

    • Initial recommendations & forms for the client

    • Guidelines for recommendations, dosages, routines for herbal medicines

    • Weaving plant spirit medicine, intuitive diagnostics, and energy healing into sessions

    Module Fourteen — Nourishing Wholeness ~ Center / Self / Spirit

    • Opening sacred space & circle. 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

    • Partner exercise on care plan. Self-care worksheet & calendar

  • 3 Bonus Zoom Classes ~

    • Herbal Consultations - Dosing Safely & Legally

    • Building an Apothecary & Creating an Herbal Business

    • Journeying with Plants & Guides

  • This course includes monthly tea meditations via Zoom. Dates will be sent via e-mail in advance.
    Alumni are always welcome to join tea meditations.

    First Meditations of 2026:

    • 1-3 pm EST, April 21, 2026

    • 1-3 pm EST, May 27, 2026

    • 1-3 pm EST, June 24, 2026

  • The Year Two Advanced Apprenticeship includes an optional live lecture series, consisting of 12 monthly zoom lectures (3 hours each). Students who want to attend the live lecture series for this course can register in the members area after enrolling. All classes are recorded for future viewing.

    Important Note: The Year Two course can be purchased anytime, but monthly live lectures for Year Two will only be offered every other year (odd numbered years). Students who purchase Year Two during even numbered years — and want to attend the live lectures — can receive recorded live zooms of the previous year and then attend the live lectures the following year.

  • Students attending the lecture series can also sign up for the Certificate Track. Please review the Live Lecture Series tab above for more info about it.

    Optional Home Practice for Year Two Course
    Part of our Certificate Track

    • Blending Herbal Formulas

    • Apothecary Stock of Simples started in Year One

    • Intake Forms & Practice Consultations

    • Materia Medica

    • Readings & Research

    • Monthly Tea Meditations

A world of plant magic awaits you this spring!

 
2025-26 Year Two Apprenticeship ~ Full Course Online
$680.00
One time
$360.00
For 2 months

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL:
Includes 12 Live Zoom Classes ($300 Savings)
Special ends January 15th

 
 

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 sliding scales from $45–$65 per month. Use code ‘tuitionassist’ at checkout for the lowest income option of $45/month.

Early Bird Special (until January 1st): Includes 12 live Zoom class lectures ($300 value).

2026-2027 Year of Gaia - Low Income Option
$65.00
Every month

*Payment plans begin on the date of purchase and continue for 12 months. Course modules are released monthly from April through March. Once the payment plan is completed, you will receive unlimited course access including all future course updates.

YEAR OF GAIA BIPOC SPECIAL

Black, Indigenous, and People of Color are invited to join the full 12-month course at a reduced rate of $500 using the discount code BIPOCSPECIAL.
If additional support is needed, we encourage you to apply for a scholarship. Scholarships are awarded beginning in January, and we offer dozens each year.

Apply for BIPOC Scholarship