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Medicine of the People:
Path of the Herbalist (Workshop)

Prioritize self-care in challenging times with a unique weekend workshop exploring the intersection of herbalism and regenerative living. Understand the direct link between environmental health and personal well-being. Covering regenerative lifestyle and design, integrated wellness and herbalism, and community and social awareness, this workshop offers a holistic approach. Participants will engage with living plants and people, fostering resilience. Ready to confidently practice herbal home care? Join this program to kickstart your herbal journey and enhance self-sufficiency.

May 3 - 5, 2024

“What makes us human isn’t all the information and knowledge …it’s our connection to the Earth and our heart.” - Rosemary Gladstar

In these trying times, it is important to prioritize self-care and celebrate important events. Having herbalists in our homes and communities is beneficial. This unique weekend workshop combines two interdisciplinary fields, exploring how the health of our environment directly affects our personal well-being. The workshop will cover regenerative lifestyle and design, integrated wellness and herbalism, and community and social awareness. Participants will have the opportunity to work with living plants and people to build resilience.

Are you interested in confidently practicing herbal home care for yourself, your family, and your community? If so, this program can help you start your herbal journey and become more self-sufficient.

Why herbalism?

Plants connect us all. It’s our ancestral right to know how to use herbs to build health and resilience for ourselves and our communities.

The practice of herbalism embraces people’s physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects. It appreciates traditional knowledge in a contemporary context. It is creative, exploratory, immersive, and fundamental to our human experience.

Herbalism in Action

“To become a true herbalist, therefore, means to become a seer…It is to learn to listen when the plant speaks, to speak to the plant as to another human being, and to look upon it as one’s teacher.”
~Dr. David Frawley, The Yoga of Herbs~Henry David Thoreau

Through a combination of theory and hands-on practices, we will cover the following:

  • Introduction to Herbal Medicine

  • The History, Energetics & Spirit of Plant Medicine

  • Herbalism, Regenerative Philosophy & Practice

  • Wild-crafting

  • Herbal First Aid

  • Deep Ecology of Herbalism

  • Wild Medicinals

  • Herbal Therapeutics

  • The Art of Herbal Medicine Making

  • The Medicinal Kitchen

  • Herbal First-Aid

  • One Herb – Many Uses!

  • Plant Spirit Medicine Meditation

  • Mindfulness and Celebrations

Registration Details

  • Dates:
    May 3 - 5, 2024
    Friday 7 – 9 pm (Ethical Foraging Herb Walk)

    May 4 - 5, 2024
    Sat & Sun.
    9 - 5 pm

  • Cost:
    Early-Bird – $300 (two weeks before starting date)

    Regular – $350
    Plus HST tax

  • Please send an e-transfer to our email address: info@thelivingcentre.com.

  • Pre-registration is essential for participation. Kindly register at least a week before the commencement date.

Meet your instructor

Shantree Kacera

Shantree Kacera, R.H., D.N., Ph.D., is a highly respected author and teacher who has been co-directing The Living Centre Eco-Spiritual Education Sanctuary since 1983. He is recognized worldwide for his expertise in Ayurvedic Medicine, Living Nutrition, and Herbalism and has a doctorate in Nutritional Medicine and Herbalism.

As a Canadian herbal elder by the Canadian Council of Herbalist Association, Shantree has gained notoriety for advocating for preventive well-being and has been mentoring and counselling clients worldwide from 26 countries.

On his 50-acre botanical sanctuary, Shantree employs organic veganic forest gardening practices, featuring a unique circular medicinal-wheel forest garden and a one-kilometre native plant trail. His garden is a perfect blend of science and spirituality, where he integrates herbalism, plant medicine, and forest gardening with scientific insights for a regenerative and evolved future.

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