
Become an Herbalist with Ancestral Arts
Learn More about our Herbal Certification Program
Discover Our Pathways
Home Herbalist
Craft personalized remedies that support your individual wellness, gaining foundations in the supportive connection of herbs and your body.
Beginner Friendly
250 Hours
Hybrid- Los Angeles
No Prerequisites
Interested in auditing?
Learn advanced therapeutics while deepening your skills as a knowledge holder and resource to your greater community.
Intermediate
225 Hours
Hybrid TBD - Virtual
Application Required
Communal
Apprentice
Build your practitioner protocols, learn business basics, and applied diagnostic skills with formulation practice and theory.
Advanced
~6 Months~
Hybrid / Virtual
Interview Required
Already started on your herbal education but want to be in community?
Finished a program but want a refresher that isn’t full price?
Curious to learn, but certification is not the goal?
Work with mentors in a round-table style clinical advisory session while problem-solving case studies with fellow clinical students.
Mentorship
- Ongoing-
Virtual
Interview Required
Mentorship
Are you ready to be an herbalist?
Pray
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Tend
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Embody
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Make potent medicines with market herbs, neighborhood weeds, and ingredients from your spice rack
Support common ailments with plants instead of pills, holistically
Deepen in relation with the plant kin through ecological spirit practices
Uplift your community as a natural wellness lifestyle resource
Tune in with your body’s systems and find balanced equanimity
Approach your practice with an intersectional lens
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Inspired by the work of our former Founder, Atava Garcia Swiecicki ~ our programing empowers a self-led re-connection with reclaiming your own lineage, plant and humxn kin alike. Through journal prompts, a year-long exploratory project, affinity discovery groups, and guided discussion we support you in your personal journey of re-membering.
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~ Work with multi-cultural and expansively identified faculty whom approach herbalism through a decolonized lens within their own practice
~ Divest from the euro-centric allopathic narrative by integrating holistic perspectives that embody the spiritual and energetic qualities of care labor
~ Experience a sense of radical inclusion with an accessibility and accommodations friendly environment
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~ Through our organized Reciprocity Action Days (RADs) we support local organizations with volunteer community tending
~ Learn strategies and systems to launch your own pop-up herbal clinic
~ Participate in political campaigns that protect indigenous and marginalized folx worldwide
~ Join a communtiy of like-minded individuals and band together and mobilize during crisis
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With accessibility in mind, all curriculum content is available to students virtually.
As herbalism is an embodied practice, we bring together our student cohorts once a month in-person in both Northern and Southern California to build local community through guided plant practice.
Our programming is limited to the Bay Area (Nor Cal / Oakland) and Los Angeles (proper). Camping trips are located in an extended geographical range.
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We will have a class discussion community and graduates will be able to access our alumni network to stay in touch and connect with Semillas from years past and cohort’s concurrent!
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Certification students receive guaranteed access to our Audit Program.
This vision acknowledges the tending of our mission with student participation, investing in our program and it’s future. Audits build stronger herbal practitioners, empowers different learning styles, and weaves resilient networks of connection – embodying our values and empowering our students.
Our goal in building our Herbal Certification Pathway is to offer retroactive cohort auditing throughout your journey. What does this mean?
For example, you have completed your first year with us and will be moving forward into Year 2. Automatically included in your ongoing tuition is the opportunity to audit the next year’s cohort while you are actively enrolled. As a student progresses along our certification path, they will continue to have the opportunity to refresh their skills, review material, and connect with our broader certification community members.
While we are in the process of developing a program we stand behind - this is a stop gap way to continue to embody this vision. As far as we know, herbal certification audits is a completely unique offer solely provided by Ancestral Arts today industry wide.
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