2010 Workshop & Intensive Listing
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Rosemary Gladstar has been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 35 years. She is the author of nine books including the popular Herbal Healing for Women, Gladstar Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Well Being and The Science and Art of Herbalism, an extensive home study course. She is the founder/director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center and Botanical Sanctuary, Founding President of United Plant Savers, and director of The International Herb Symposium and The NE Women’s Herbal Conference. She is also the co-founder of Traditional Medicinal Tea Company. Along with creating community and loving people, herbs are her passion and joy in life. Visit her website at www.sagemountain.com
North America's Most Vital Healing
Plants
Join us for a visual feast as we travel across the meadows, woodlands, and
backyards of North America via an exquisite slide presentation identifying
our potent and common medicinal plants, weeds and back yard medicine. Often
forgotten in our quest for the new, the miraculous and the exotic, these
remarkable yet common medicinal plants play an even more important role
in our modern herbal pharmacopoeia as the need for sustainable, renewable
sources of medicinal plants becomes ever more evident.
EVENING PRESENTATION ~ Planting the
Future ~ Stewards of Healing Herbs, Ecological
Concerns of Native American Medicinal Plants & What We Can Do to Help
Preserve Them.
Through a beautiful slide presentation, Rosemary will discuss the conservation,
preservation and cultivation of important Native Medicinal Plants. We’ll
also discuss land as sanctuary, how to create botanical sanctuaries on your
own land, building native medicinal plant trails, and the work of United
Plant Savers, a grass roots non profit organization.
INTENSIVE – Herbs for
Winter Health
Winter is Saturn’s season, a time for reflection and inner creativity.
In this intensive, we’ll evoke the spirit of wellbeing so that we
can embrace the beauty and reflective nature of this wonderful season.
Do you wonder what to do for flu? What is the best approach for colds and coughs, sore throats and head congestion? Or Seasonal depression? Better yet, what to do to prevent the malady’s that often come with the long months of winter. In this eminently practical hands-on Intensive, Rosemary will share her favorite recipes, remedies and herbs for winter health. Our focus will be first and foremost on prevention, then remedies for wellness and, finally, what to stock in a winter pantry to be fully prepared for the health concerns of winter. We’ll make, sample and share recipes. Bring your favorites recipes for winter health to share.
Karyn Sanders has been working, teaching and practicing herbal medicine for 36 years. She co-directs the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine in northern California. She also has a live radio show, The Herbal Highway, (on KPFA 94.1 kpfa.org), that has been airing for the last 15 years. Karyn has been trained in traditional Native American practice and also apprenticed with a curandera. Karyn is an enrolled member of the Chata Nation and has a full-time healing practice.
Animal Medicine
This class focuses on animal medicine - what the different medicines are,
how and when to use them, what plants are associated with them and the timing
of using animal medicine.
Plant Families from an Indigenous
Perspective
This class will focus on plant families from a traditional native viewpoint,
what medicine is created from the different families and how to keep plant
stands healthy in the wild and in your garden.
INTENSIVE – Light Falling from
the Stars
Karyn will talk about her traditional training in Chata, and Mexican herbal
traditions. She will discuss what is medicine from a native perspective,
hear stories about the plants and animals, look at energy as the source
of balance and health and cover many aspects of spirit and traditional medicine
doctoring and much more.
KATE GILDAY is a practicing
herbalist, flower essence practitioner and teacher who is presently completing
training as an Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultant and working with Collaborative
Healing, a group of practitioners in upstate New York who address health
care through a unique integrative network educating the community and combining
conventional medicine with expert complementary care. She brings her love
of the wild places, song and healing to the workshops she presents throughout
the Northeast.
DON BABINEAU has spent his life in the forests
and on the shoreline of the Northeast. From backpacking and winter camping
in the White Mountains and Adirondacks to sailing the coast of Maine, he
has come to a deep attunement with this land. He and his wife, Kate, are
certified New York State Guides. As a woodworker of over 30 years Don also
enjoys using and teaching primitive skills and crafts of these woodlands.
His respect and reverence for the trees and wild places continues to grow
with time.
Becoming Well! - Through conscious
Daily Choices
Many of the dis-eases we see in our clients arise from poor choices made
over many years. Diabetes, heart conditions, arthritis and other chronic
dis-orders can be addressed, and also avoided, when one understands his/her
personal constitution, impact of nutrition, emotional health and sense of
connection. Kate will weave Ayurvedic concepts with herbal traditions, specific
nutritional recommendations, flower essences and case studies to share ways
of supporting those who have the courage to change old patterns to experience
a new-found vitality and renewed sense of self.
The Spirit of Place: Four Magical
Places
Share an interesting and inspiring look at environment through the eyes
of the naturalist, the herbalist and the spiritual wanderer. We will share
the light and essence of these special places through storytelling and photography.
Our travels have brought us to the Provincelands and Great Island on Cape
Cod, the Adirondack Mountains, rocky, coastal Maine and The Burren of County
Clare, Ireland. Each of these wonderful locations has inspired us in our
practice of the wild. Forests, plant communities, foundational stone, wind,
and the spirit of the people and the past have led us to our love and connection
with these four magical places.
Leslie Silver lives in Middletown Springs, VT, tending gardens, collecting wild foods and making medicines which nourish her family and community. She believes growing and preparing homemade foods is crucial for our well being now, and will be even more important in our uncertain future. She teaches yoga as a means of bringing people home to their body. Leslie will also offer Morning Yoga.
“Got Culture?” The Art
of Fermenting
Cultured food: Japan has miso and pickles, France has wine and cheese. With
our industrialized food that has been processed, pasteurized and artificially
preserved, one might say America has no culture. Learn how to put some culture
back into your life with fermented foods, such as sauerkraut, yogurt, kefir,
cultured butter and pickles. Learn what's in them, how to make a few of
these items and why lacto-fermented foods are important and beneficial to
our health. Sauerkraut and kefir are two foods we will focus on.
Bevin Clare is a clinical herbalist, nutritionist, and plant lover. She is the Clinical Division Chair of the MS in Herbal Medicine Program at Tai Sophia Institute in Maryland where she teaches and practices. Bevin holds a MS in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine based on her years of travel around the globe and witnessing the power of plants. She serves on the board of directors of United Plant Savers and of the American Herbalists Guild. Bevin works to bring plants into the lives of people through food, medicine, and spirit.
Clinical Journeys: Learning Through
Case Studies
Clients are our biggest teachers in a clinical practice. We’ll examine
detailed case studies to learn the many teachings within each, from methods
and techniques of assessment, to building comprehensive client strategies,
formulations for the clients, and their outcomes.
Cultivating Fertility
Through food, herbs, and lifestyle we can have a tremendous impact on our
ability to conceive. In recent years we have learned more about how everyday
factors influence fertility, and whether for clients or for self-care, we
will explore ways to increase conception and the building evidence-base
in this area.
Matthias and Andrea Reisen co-founded Healing Spirits Herb Farm and Education Center in the Finger Lakes Region of New York where they have lived and been stewards of the land for over 30 year. Living simply, seeking a life of balance and harmony with all creation.
The Dirty Dozen
No, this is not about the 70's movie but another group of individuals or
plant characters that we call the dirty dozen, with great honor and respect.
They are the roots of the plants that are under foot as we walk upon the
earth. These roots that pull up rich medicine from the earth are our connection
to the vital life force that we need. They help keep us grounded and nourish
our root charka. Learn what they feel like, how they taste in the raw, and
some interesting ways to BE with them.
Growing the Herbs You Love
We have been growing medicinal herbs for 20 years, over a ton dry and 1/2
ton fresh each year. How do we grow, harvest and dry such spectacular plants
with healing spirits. Come journey with us as we explore the growing realms
of the plants.
Margi Flint runs a busy practice in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She mentors a monthly clinic and live-in week-long clinical experiences. Flint has been trained by some of America's pioneers in herbalism, some who began their paths in teen years, including the late William LeSassier, Rosemary Gladstar, David Winston and Matthew Wood. Annie McIntyre has also been a major influence in how to see clients. Her latest teacher is the amazing Karyn Sanders. Flint taught at Tufts Medical School, and continues to lecture at Mass College of Pharmacy and NSCC. She is an American Mongrel practitioner, Author of The Practicing Herbalists now in its second edition.
Living with Cancer
Coping with Cancer as a current or genetic issue grows. Nutritional support
from foods and supplements greatly improves well being. Topics will include
foods, pre-flora, digestion, assimilation, elimination, supplements &
essential oils which influence inflammation, tumor suppression, immune modulation,
and viral control.
Reading the Body
Observe face, nails, tongue and body to understand indications of lines,
blemishes, marks and colors. Identify the constitution, train your eyes
to see, hand to feel, indications of hot, cold, damp, dry and wind. The
study is long, observations become clear, indications change with time and
healing. How are your lines changing?
Pam Montgomery received training from Empire State College in Alternative Health Education. Pam has been organizing the Green Nations Gathering for the past twenty years and has presented the Spirit Healing Conference and the Healing With Flowers Conference. She teaches workshops internationally on herbal medicine, Plant Spirit Healing, and spiritual ecology. Pam is the author of the best-selling book, Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness published by Bear & Co., Partner Earth; A Spiritual Ecology and a contributing author in Planting the Future. Pam is an herbal and plant spirit healing practitioner who offers consultations and treatments both in-person and long distance. Pam’s popular apprentice program is taught from her home at Sweetwater Sanctuary in Danby, Vermont. To learn more about her work visit www.partnereartheducationcenter.com.
What Every Herbalists Needs to Know
About the Intelligent Nature of Plants
Scientific research is now discovering what indigenous healers and shamans
have known for millennia: that plants are highly intelligent multi-dimensional
beings capable of large quantities of information storage, complexity in
communication and a high degree of retention in order to make decisions
at a future time. Plants can do all of this, and much more, without a so-called
brain. The ability to access source energy is at the core of efficient and
effective healing. Join us and learn how the sentient nature of plants and
their intelligence engages the healing process.
Chris Marano, RH (AHG), MA, BS, is a master clinical herbalist of Western, Chinese, and Native American healing traditions, registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and professional member of the Northeast Herbal Association, founder of Clearpath Herbals, creator of high-quality herbal preparations, and director of Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine, dedicated to the teaching of herbalism, holistic health and Earth-based wisdom and sustainability. Chris lives in Wendell, MA.
Herbs and the Four Vital Substances
This class is intensive introduction to the Four Vital Substances in human
beings: qi (energy), xue (blood), jing (essence), and shen (spirit) –
how and where they function, imbalances, and herbs that nourish them.
Human Technology: Awareness, Breath
and Body
Recognizing the medicine innate to our own beings we will explore the healing
benefits of awareness (including mindfulness, visualization, and more),
breath (including sound), and our bodies (posture, movement) and how they
may be used to impart and enhance clarity, stability, resiliency and the
ability to be grounded in our daily lives. Includes experiential exercises.
7Song is director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine (now in its 15th year). He is also Director of Holistic Medicine and a clinical practitioner at the Ithaca Free Clinic in Ithaca, NY. 7Song believes in integrating herbal medicine with current medical modalities while maintaining the integrity of the uniqueness that herbalism offers. He is an ardent observer and is constantly engaged by the plant, fungi and animal life (including human and insect) around him. He also enjoys teaching and looks forward to spreading the herb word at Green Nations.
Introduction to Clinical Skills and
Intake
This class is intended for herbalist's beginning their clinical practice.
We will discuss clinical skills including managing intakes, and looking
at constitutional and patho-physiological approaches to discern health care
problems. The goal of this class is to have attendees feel more comfortable
working with patients.
Plant and Field Walk
On this walk will we discuss the diversity of plants that we find and look
at botanical details as well as ways to use them for medicine. Other organisms
we encounter (fungi, insects, etc) will also be discussed.
Lesley A. Wooler, B.Sc., RA, CYT, earned her degree in Horticulture at the University of Rhode Island. She completed her herbal apprenticeship and advanced herbal studies in the 1990’s and is the owner of The Herb Wyfe in Wickford, RI. She serves as President on the council of NEHA (North East Herbal Association). She is a Registered Aromatherapist through the Aromatherapy Registration Council and a Regional Director for NAHA (National Association of Holistic Aromatherapy) as well as a professional member of AIA (Alliance of International Aromatherapists. Lesley is a Flower Essence Practitioner, having completed her training with David Dalton of Delta Gardens in 2000. She is also a professional member of FES (Flower Essence Society). Lesley has maintained her own landscape/gardening business “Gardening with Finesse” for the past 10 years and is a RICH (Rhode Island Certified Horticulturist) through RINLA (Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association).
Sustainable Landscaping with Native
Medicinal Plants
Sustainable landscaping is about reducing waste, energy and materials. Its
purpose is to design and create systems that imitate nature and turn the
problems into solutions. This class will provide you with the basic working
knowledge to design, plant, and maintain your own native medicinal plant
garden. Whether you want to incorporate into an already existing landscape
or wish to start with a clean palette this information will be beneficial.
Handouts will be provided.
Mark Carlin was first initiated as a New Warrior with the Mankind Project in 1993 and has since participated on the staff of many trainings. He has vision quested and supported traditional practices on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Mark has completed the certified Permaculture Design Course through Earth Activists Training with StarHawk. After moving from his lifetime home of Minnesota, he is now an active partner and ceremonial leader at Partner Earth Education Center in Danby, Vermont.
Prayer Lodge
The container for the Green Nations Gathering is held through this prayer
lodge ceremony. This is an opportunity for you to be with the four foundational
elements: the transformation of fire, the transmittance of water, the breath
of air and the womb of earth.
Susun Weed, green witch and wise woman, is an extraordinary teacher with a joyous spirit, a powerful presence, and an encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health. She is the voice of the Wise Woman Way, where common weeds, simple ceremony, and compassionate listening support and nourish health/wholeness/holiness. She has opened hearts to the magic and medicine of the green nations for three decades. Ms. Weed's four herbal medicine books focus on women's health topics including: menopause, childbearing, and breast health. Visit her site www.susunweed.com for information on her workshops, apprenticeships, correspondence courses and more!
Ovation for the Ovary
Our ovaries are storehouses of stories. They are the libraries of the wisdom
of the Ancients. We have fallen so out of touch with them that we allow
surgeons to cut them out far too often. Join me as we learn how to cope
with ovarian pain, melt away ovarian cysts, help women with PCOS (polycystic
ovarian syndrome), and prevent ovarian cancer. With knowledge - and a few
songs to sing - we can keep our ovaries.
Power Up the Prostate
We'll delve into PSA and screening tests, herbs and diets that lower PSA,
allies for men with LUTS (lower urinary tract symptoms) and BPH (benign
prostate hypertrophy), and a focused look at the best ways to prevent and
deal with prostate cancer.
INTENSIVE - Your Green Ally
Your green ally is the keeper of the mysteries of the green nations. Your
green ally is a guide and a translator for you as you explore the magic
of herbal medicine from the heart. Your green ally is a friend and a mentor,
a touchstone and a security blanket. We will touch briefly on finding a
green ally, but most of our time will be spent in solo and group exercises
- including a shamanic trance - that will connect you more deeply with your
green ally. Please come to this class with a green ally. This can be any
medicinal or edible plant that you love. To get the most from this intensive,
you will want to bring with you: a picture or photo of your green ally,
a pad or book of blank paper, a pen and a pencil, and some colors (markers,
crayons, watercolors).
Bonnie Kavanagh has worked in community healthcare for thirty years both as a registered nurse, with expertise in geriatric psychiatric care and adult ambulatory medicine, and as a practicing community herbalist. Bonnie is The Herbal Nurse, and specializes in the integration of botanicals into the allopathic system of healing. She has lectured extensively throughout the Northeast, to health care professionals and the general public, on the various aspects of using herbs as food and for the enhancement of health. She is a founding member of the Ocean State Herbalist Association, council member of the Northeast Herbal Association and an active member of United Plant Savers. She is the co-author of the book Rubies in the Sand: Recipes from the Cape Cod Cranberry Bogs which will be available to the public in early 2010.
Medicine Making 101 with the Herbal Nurse Join Bonnie as she shares the secrets of medicine making made easy. During this hands-on demonstration you will learn how to make tinctures, vinegars, syrups and cordials the wise woman way; the way people have made them since the beginning of time. No math skills are needed for this class! Bring a wide mouth glass jar or two to take your creation(s) home with you.
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