FOUNDATIONS PROGRAM
100 HOURS

For plant curious beginners interested in supporting their community with common kitchen spices and herbal medicine.

The Community Herbalist Year is the start to learning how to turn spice rack ingredients, neighborhood weeds, and commonly found market herbs into potent herbal medicines.

This 100-hour live online program focuses on understanding and supporting common ailments, personal ancestry, and how herbalism can seamlessly empower your daily life.

Through monthly medicine making classes in your home kitchen laboratory you gain confidence in basic preparations to apply herbs with clarity. In community cohorts supervised by clinical herbalists.

You are supported to complete homework assignments including 20 herbal monographs, stay engaged with the fellow classmates, and practice of folk herbalism outside of your 100+ educational hours.

With an emphasis on your personal ancestry, you will dive into a self study of herbal medicines of your lineage and learn to make one traditional herbal preparation. This course is truly for every human seeking to uplift the health and wellness of friends, family and self.

INTERMEDIATE PROGRAM
200 HOURS

For herbalists-in-training ready to dive deeper into pathophysiology, cross-cultural approaches, and diagnostics.

The Apprentice Herbalist Year is the foundation of your clinical practice and a comprehensive base for a clinically minded approach to herbal medicine.

This 200-hour live online program focuses on basic anatomy and physiology, energetics, aromatherapy, intermediate medicine making, plants spirit medicine practices and a cross cultural look at medicine systems that comprise North American Medicine.

The course is experiential with monthly plant meditations and medicine making class in your home kitchen laboratory, allowing you to develop your direct sensory relationship to herbal medicine.

With extensive readings and projects throughout the year, you will engage with supervised clinical herbalists to complete 40 herbal monographs, 1 client session, and self-care medicine making - all presented in a closing weekend with your peers.

You will leave as an Apprentice Herbalist skilled in holistically identifying common pathologies from a cross cultural perspective, building basic herbal medicine formulas, basic understanding of body systems,  intermediate medicine making, and plant spirit techniques.

CLINICAL PROGRAM
250 HOURS

For intermediate herbalists who want to be in 1:1 clinical practice with clients and develop their herbal business.

The Clinical Herbalist Year is the pathway into clinical practice by learning how to sit in a session and utilize your diagnostic skill sets to custom blend herbal medicine formulas.

This 200-hour live online program empowers your foundational understanding of herbalism with diagnostic skills, a rigorous investigation of pathology, body systems, advanced medicine making, and constitutional theory.

With extensive case study research and advanced herbal formulations, you will engage with clinical herbalists to support you in the practice of clinical herbalism. You'll complete 40 herbal monographs, bi-weekly case studies, and client sessions all while to staying engaged with the fellow classmates.

We prepare our students with business classes for you to depart into the entrepreneurial wellness world with clarity.

You will leave as a Clinical Herbalist with the grounded confidence to embark into professional practice because you're ready to sit in a session with clients, utilize tongue and facial diagnosis, and build custom formulas with precision and confidence.