Herbal Medicine Classes

MANUFACTURING FOR PRACTITIONERS

2 days 10a.m. - 5 p.m.

PREPARING HERBAL TINCTURES AND EXTRACTS

- with fresh and dried herbs.

Harvesting, drying, solvents (alcohol, vinegar, water), garbling, maceration, pressing, bottling, preserving, storing, usage and mixing; preparation of infused oils.

PREPARING CREAMS AND OINTMENTS

- using fresh and dried herbs, herbal tinctures and extracts, water infusions and decoctions, infused oils, essential oils, vegetable and nut oils, vegetable and nut butters, beeswax. Making your own base cream; use of infused oils; preparation of herbal tinctures, extracts, infusions, decoctions for the cream/ointment; preparation of fresh plant oil based herbal decoctions; methods of blending oils & water preparations into creams/ointments; natural emulsifiers, humectants and preservatives.

NO synthetic chemical additives or preservatives used. NO sulphates or parabens.

NO toxic plant or animal derivatives used. NO Mono or Di-glycerides.

Workshop is hands on experiential - small groups only.

Participants get to take home products made on the days and will be given information sheets and recipes used. When you book you will receive a list of equipment you need to bring for each of the 2 days.

Ingredients used incl. fresh herbs, infused oils, tinctures, alcohol, vegetable & nut oils and butters, shea butter, beeswax, vinegar, essential oils. Most of these are provided.

CLINIC SKILLS

Clinic Experience Groups - 8 people - to meet fortnightly or monthly.

To teach consulting, diagnosing, designing herbal treatment programs, with an underpinning of counseling skills to assist the client in insights into negative attitudes, personal sabotage beliefs.

To teach how to use a large dispensary of Flower and Gem Essences, Himalayan Flower Enhancers and Healing Oils as an important emotional support in the clients treatment. To teach manufacturing of herbal tinctures for general dispensary stock; also manufacturing and use of healing creams and herbal oil mixes for general use and philosophies of designing these for individual medicinal uses.

All clients will be interviewed by one group member, supervised by me and attended by the other group members. The client treatment program will be designed by the group work-shopping ideas together. Patients studied by group will come from people, brought by the group, who are in need of ongoing treatment by the group; also clients from my own clinic having ongoing treatment from me. We will also look at case studies from my records.

THE HEALING GARDEN

Two weekends

Weekend 1 - THE HERB GARDEN

Meet 20 common herbs. Hear about their medicinal properties and actions and how to use them as teas, mixed decoctions, various infusions, in cooking, as tinctures and as applications. Each herb has a character with special uses to calm and restore body functions and this is described with stories from direct experience and handed down through history, which give us our traditions of use. Linda's stories, and others shared by the group help us become familiar and close to these healing companions. Touch them, smell them, drink them. Workshop is experiential supported by demonstrations. We go walking locally to identify them and collect them in the wild. We make medicinal strength decoctions and infusions.

Weekend 2 - LOTIONS AND POTIONS

How to make fresh herb tinctures with brandy and vinegar. Watch demonstrations of how to make tinctures, oxymels, oil infusions, lotions, creams, and ointments - then make them with guidance from Linda. Find out how to use these preparations by turning them into delicious drinks to enjoy with family and friends - honey syrups and cordials. Take home what you make. Workshop is hands-on experiential. Participants are given information sheets, including recipes, and will take home products made. Ingredients used include infused oils, tinctures, vegetable and nut oils and butters, beeswax, vinegar, essential oils. Some are provided.

We use NO toxic chemical additives or preservatives, NO acids or colours, NO toxic emulsifiers, NO sulphates or parabens, NO thickeners, NO animal derivatives..

Each weekend is Friday 7-9p.m. Saturday and Sunday 10a.m. - 5p.m.

FLOWER ESSENCE USE IN CLINIC

- 8 x 2 hour sessions fortnightly or 1 weekend. Diagnosing and prescribing flower essence support for your clients - how to use sun sign astrology to assist you in looking at different levels of emotional imbalance and different ranges of flower essences. Flower Essences can create breakthroughs for your clients at those times when nothing seems to be shifting. Bach flowers studied in detail and Himalayan Enhancers in brief. This one is also a personal journey.

SUN SIGN ASTROLOGY IN DIAGNOSIS AND COUNSELLING

- 8 x 2 hour sessions or one weekend. Consulting and prescribing with the depth of acceptance and support this knowledge can provide for you as a practitioner.

My background experience for teaching these groups comes from 24 years of running my own clinic plus 8 months of running herbal medicine student clinics this way at NSW School of Nat. Med. in Coffs Harbour. Also 5 years of teaching herbal Medicine at Nature-Care, the Australasian College of Nat. Therapies and at Coffs Harbour

Please phone 9388 0861 for more details and costs

And go to CONTACT