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Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. Enjoy, taste, and become informed about unique handcrafted exotic delicious blends of tea that have healing qualities to soothe your body and soul. Join Jayatilake’s lively, fun, and engaging hands-on tea blending experience. Gain a unique understanding and purpose to enlighten and enliven making...

Join us to learn about three herbs for health that you can use this fall! Come and meet Ellyn Schmitz, The Resiliency Institute Bioregional Herbalism instructor, while she introduces you to local herbs for first aid, nourishment, and immune boosting (perfect for upcoming cold & flu season). She will discuss tinctures, infusions, syrups and salves. ...

Flower remedies are extracts that come from plants all over the work that can improve emotional and spiritual balance. When you are not feeling your best, perhaps with a loss of confidence, anxiousness, enthusiasm, or unhappiness, that is your negative state of mind. It can come from any simple argument, trauma, or even birth. Find out how to use...

During your two-hour Scentsational Experience, we’ll introduce you to the wonderful world of essential oils and how they can benefit your health, beauty, mood, stress, sleep and more. While you sip on bubbling champagne, you’ll also savor farm-to-table appetizer delights fresh from our own Nourished kitchen table. Our team will guide you to explore...

An Oriental medicine practitioner training is not complete without an understanding of Qi mechanism. Qi Gong exercises and meditations are the best tools to provide a first-hand understanding of the flow of Qi in the body and its guidance through various organs and body parts. These exercises serve as base for self-development and self-healing, which...

Be attuned to specific symbols that amplify physical and emotional healing. Tap chakras as energy access points to restore balance, health, and harmony. Use it to send Reiki energy for distance healing to others.  Increase your capacity to work with stronger energy and specific tools to concentrate healing on a physical or emotional issue and...

The power of the medicine bag is a mystery to many people because they do not quite know how to use it or what it is. Make your own medicine bag as you explore particular herbs to use in it. Discover the secrets of the medicine and how to hear its song. Your medicine bag is as unique as you are. When you wear your medicine bag, it is a part of the...

Ayurveda is a natural healing system that has been practiced for thousands of years based on the theory of five elements found in all living things. Your dosha is the unique way these elements manifest in you.  Identify your personal dosha type and learn basic, restorative adjustments you can make now to bring you closer to a healthful balance....

See, touch, smell, and taste common ways to use herbal preparations including dried, capsules, teas, decoctions, infusions, salves, tinctures, syrups, poultices, essential oils, and flower remedies/essences. Learn how “dis-ease” gradually builds and how to reverse it. Make four items for an herbal first-aid kit to take home and receive reference...

This class is a continuing practice designed to be taken in multiple, consecutive sessions.  It explores ways that energy medicine exercises can help with specific issues. These may include such topics as: hormone balance, allergies, food and supplement testing, insomnia, digestive problems, colds and flu, and others based on the interests...

This Intro to Aromatherapy Class covers the origin & production of essential oils along with their healing properties. We'll look into oils that are known for particular properties such as for sleep, muscle ease, insect repellent, joint pain, stress-relief, headache, and meditation.

Clinical Applications of Hydrotherapy, Joint Mobilizations & Manual Lymphatic Drainage Techniques Course Description Accessory Techniques for Bodyworkers educates the student in the therapeutic and safe application of techniques and accessory tools used in both the Eastern and Western bodywork traditions.   Course Learning Objectives: ...

Prepare herbal immune boosters to protect your family from viruses this fall and winter! Ellyn Schmitz, Bioregional Herbalism instructor, will teach you what herbs to use, how to prepare and use them to support a healthy immune system. Proactive nourishment is your best defense against colds and flus! Make an oxymel, cough syrup, tincture and sample...

Walk + Learn Herbalism with an experienced herbalist, Ellyn Schmitz, to discover the healing benefits of fall roots! Let's Walk + Learn Herbalism walks are guided by experienced herbalists who will teach you the health benefits and how to identify 10-15 herbal plants during each walk! This is a wonderful way to learn a new skill and reconnect with...

Walk + Learn Herbalism with an experienced herbalist, Ellyn Schmitz, to discover the healing benefits of summer wildflowers! Let's Walk + Learn Herbalism walks are guided by experienced herbalists who will teach you the health benefits and how to identify 10-15 herbal plants during each walk! This is a wonderful way to learn a new skill and reconnect...