Come Learn With Us!
The world needs more herbalists. We offer herbal education courses covering all the magic of this rich healing tradition.
Upcoming Herbal Intensives
2024 & 2025
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Foundations in Herbalism
December 8-14 2024 | January 3-9 2025 | February 19-25 2025
Join us for this 7-day immersion covering the energetic architecture of herbalism and many ways of making medicine. With this framework, you will gain knowledge of how to choose the appropriate plants and preparations for specific people.
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Wise Womb Way: Herbalism for Women
December 17-22 2024 | January 14- 18 2025
Celebrate and revel in the female form in our 5-day deep dive into the anatomy and lore of the womb space and all the wisdom it holds. We share body literacy, herbal allies, and ceremony ...
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Doula Training
March 5-9 2025
Discover the profound impact you can make by providing compassionate support during conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and pregnancy release.
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Plants & Planets
March 11-17 2025
Dive into the magical world of planetary correspondence, medical astrology, and herbalism. After this course, you will see the patterns of creation that move the plants within the body and our bodies and souls amongst this planet.
“This calling of the plants is deeper than a profession or a hobby. The true herbalist is not designated by any certification or degree; our mark is invisible, for it is inscribed into our hearts by the hand of Nature itself.”
― Sajah Popham
We love teaching people how to use plants medicinally
As a trifecta of teachers, we have a diverse array of backgrounds, perspectives, and disciplines to offer our students. We share collective knowledge of a wide scope of medicinal preparations, along with traditional knowledge and materia medica, as well as the latest science to confirm ancient wisdom. The symbiotic exchange of ideas and philosophies is part of the alchemy of teaching, and we experience the fun of learning every time we share our knowledge of herbal medicine. There are always new and exciting connections to be made, as we delve into the rich body of work that is herbalism.
WHAT WE COVER
Vitalism -
Alchemy & Spagyrics -
Medicine Making -
Plant ID -
Materia Medica -
Organ Systems -
Herbal Actions -
Foraging -
Vitalism - Alchemy & Spagyrics - Medicine Making - Plant ID - Materia Medica - Organ Systems - Herbal Actions - Foraging -
Student Testimonials
Our Philosophy
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History of Herbal Medicine
We always take time in class to dive into the rich traditional history of using medicinal plants with an anthropological view to holistically conceptualize this complex and diverse history.
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Tissue States and Organ Systems
In every course we will cover tissue states and how they manifest in disease patterns, how to pair those patterns with herbs that fit the same profile. Its about using all the tools and unique ways of understanding plant energetics that’ll give you a language for the forest and the body.
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Medicine Making 101
In every course there is a medicine making component where we learn a number of different preparations depending on the theme of the course material. We will have some fun in the lab, and you get to take home with you the medicine you made yourself.
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Herbal Actions and Energetics
Learn how plants express energetic actions and affinities through their taste, appearance, and growing environment. Learn the terminology necessary to speak and think like an herbalist, and see the plant world with new eyes.
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Heart Connection and Talking to Plants
In order to deepen your practice, a budding herbalist does best incorporating a rooted spiritual understanding of herbal medicine. Learn how to sit and connect with plants from a place of humility and respect. Every course we host will explore these connections with plants.
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Responsible Herb Craft
Learn the ethics of being an herbalist. How to best source your materials, wildcrafting and tending wild stands. With this knowledge, you will ensure abundance and contribute to the continued thriving of plant medicines in the wild.
Meet Your Teachers
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Julia Bentley
Founder of Casa Curativa, Herbalist, & Doula
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Ashley McDonall
Natural Builder and Herbalist.
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Lindsay Chestnut
Apothecary Manager and medicine making genius.