2023 Fall Herbal Allies
Join Ancestral Arts steward Daniella Valencia and herbalist Violet Moon for an introduction to herbal medicine based on the Fall season!
Over 7 class meetings, we will discover seasonal allies, medicine making techniques, and engage deeply with one plant ally of your choice as we journey together through the season.
Included: receive a medicine box valued at $125 with a mystery herb of the week and surprise graduation gift!
Class Dates:
Thursdays: 10/5, 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2, 11/9, 11/16
In-person Herb Walk: Saturday 10/14 @10am (Oakland, CA)
Class Details
LIVE Classes offered via Zoom with Closed Captions
Class recordings will be made available within 3 business days with Subtitles & Transcripts
Class is hosted on the Thinkific platform.
In-person optional Oakland, CA In-person guided herb walk
This course is offered seasonally three times a year with an opportunity to engage with Spring, Summer, and Fall/Winter seminars. Different topics covered each season.
Herbal Allies is available on a first-come first-serve basis. There is a participant cap for all Sessions to cultivate a connective container. Class requires a minimum of 8 registrants or may be cancelled.
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Join the team for an overview of the weeks to come, introduction to your 6 week herbal ally engagement, and co-create your own immune boosting Fire Cider!
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Learn about your respiratory system and discover ways to tend to its health, especially as we enter into potent fire season in California and across the nation. We will practice techniques to make an herbal strength tea!
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Meet us in Oakland as we take you through the local landscape and practice our herbal skills in a bioregional-focused plant walk.
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As the holiday season commences, learn to boost your immune system and make an elderberry syrup from scratch!
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Make a warming medicinal chai and discover how roots are key to vitality.
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Adaptogens are the buzzword, but do you know how they work? We’ll discover more and prepare for the abundant mushroom season of November<3
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As the sun disappears and we enter deep winter, emotions shift and become more difficult to lift. Discover seasonal lore and familiarize yourself with herbal allies that support these expressions.
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Join your classmates for an end of series presentation on their chosen “Herbal Ally.”
What is an herbal ally?
An herbal ally is any plant that can support your body, heart, and spirit with its medicine. This class will focus on building your relationship to our herbal allies and learning season-based and practical medicine making skills. We will be sharing herbal recipes, teaching folk medicine making, learning about flower essences and other summertime essentials. Each class we will learn different herbal actions, plant profiles, body systems, and medicine making projects.
This class is centered on QT2S /BIPOC folx but open to allied people of all backgrounds and genders.