In the Community Herbalist Year you will learn 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 out of class community cohorts supervised by clinical herbalists, you are supported to complete homework assignments, stay engaged with the fellow classmates, and the 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 your friends, family and self.

All online classes are live held on Zoom.

Apprentice Herbalist Year is the foundation of your clinical practice. This 250-hour live online course is a comprehensive base for a clinically minded approach to herbal medicine.

You will learn 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 research and medicine making projects, you will engage with out of class community cohorts supervised by clinical herbalists, to complete 40+ herbal monographs, and the practice of clinical herbalism.

You will leave skilled in holistically identifying common pathologies from a cross cultural perspective, building basic herbal medicine formulas, intermediate medicine making, and plant spirit cleansing techniques.

All online classes are live held on Zoom

In Clinical Herbalist Year you will build your therapeutic skills to step into clinical practice.This 200-hour live online course empowers your foundational understanding of herbalism with diagnostic skills, a rigorous investigation of pathology, advanced medicine making, and constitutional theory.

You will learn how to sit in a session with clients and utilize your diagnostic skill sets to custom blend herbal medicine formulas. With extensive case study research and advanced herbal formulations, you will engage with out of class community cohorts supervised by clinical herbalists to support you in the practice of clinical herbalism, complete 40+ herbal monographs, and to stay 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, ready to sit in a session with clients, create lifestyle strategies, utilize tongue and facial diagnosis, and build custom formulas with precision. Find grounded confidence to embark into professional practice as a clinical herbalist.

All online classes are live held on Zoom

Is the School of Herbal Medicine right for me?

Have you noticed a constant curiosity about medicinal herbs? Or perhaps it’s a calling to sit with your community to support them as they recover from illness?

Whether you are curious, passionate, or ready for a change of career into the world of herbal medicine, Verse's Herbalist Certification program can guide you into becoming a Community Herbalist (year 1), Apprentice Herbalist (year 2), and a Clinical Herbalist (year 3).

Each of these herbalist certifications is a stepping stone to becoming a practitioner of herbal medicine. Often, we witness students finishing their 100-hour Community Herbalist Certification and feel satisfied with their wisdom gained to support themselves and their immediate family. Other times, students are eager and dive into the Apprentice and Clinical Herbalist years of deep study, fulfilling their dreams of becoming a clinical herbalist with a private practice, a product line, or shifting a career into the herbal medicine industry.

An herbalist certification is a powerful tool to enhance your quality of life, your current healing arts practice, give meaning and purpose to your passion, while you're gaining knowledge and experience to be a healing resource for all of your community.

What are the Course Outcomes?

The completion of each year of herbalist training will advance you further to becoming a skilled practitioner, offering supportive guidance in natural health and self-care tools for yourself and your community.
 
- You will be able to create advanced herbal to build your personal apothecary and craft custom herbal remedies for clients.
 
- As a Clinical Herbalist you will have the ability to utilize pulse and tongue diagnosis when working with clients, creating a stronger foundation of understanding western and eastern energetics.

 - You will walk away from each year with a deeper understanding of your own ancestral healing, diving into your lineage of traditional medicine.

 - With business guidance infused throughout each year, you should finish your herbalist certification with knowledge to support your dreams.