~ The Gaia School of Healing ~
www.thegreenwoman.com


PLANT MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIP 2008
Cambridge/Boston, MA


Come journey with the sacred healing plants...

Join us for a 9-Month Apprenticeship in Herbal Healing, Shamanic
Herbalism, Plant Spirit Medicine, Earth-Centered Spirituality,
Holistic Healing, and Journeying with Plant Devas and Earth Spirits.


Apprenticeships are taught in Brattleboro, VT and Cambridge, MA,
running from November 2008 until the end of September, 2009.

The Plant Medicine Apprenticeship will focus on the Wise Woman
Tradition of healing, remembering the ancient traditions of plant
medicine used by village healers around the world. We will focus on
North American plants as well as plants used in Hawaiian La'au Lapa'au
(Hawaiian healing with plants), Ayurveda, and Chinese herbal medicine.

Certification for the 160 hour course will be given upon completion of
the apprenticeship. Classes will be held outside when the weather
permits and locations will be given upon registration. Please take a
look at our apprenticeship syllabus for a closer look at what this
course offers.


Apprenticeship classes focus on:

Medicinal Herbal Healing
Healing Plants of North America, Hawaii, & Asia
Plant Spirit Medicine
Wise Woman Tradition of Healing
Herbal Actions, Tastes, & Safety Levels
Systems of the Body & Herbal Energetics
Medicine Making - (tinctures, infusions, salves, and oils...)
Shamanic Herbalism
Guided Meditation & Journeying
Harvesting & Wildcrafting Plants
Magical Herbalism & Folklore
Plant Identification of North American Plants
Spiritual Ecology & Earth Spirituality
Communication with plant and nature devas
Plant Medicine Walks
Chakra healing with plants
Rituals with nature


Our Plant Medicine Apprenticeship is an intensive journey into
green medicine and traditional plant knowledge. The apprenticeship is
intended to be a spiritual journey as well as a course in medicinal
herbalism. Classes include lecture, ritual, guided journeying,
hands-on work with plants, medicine making, journeying with plant
spirits, tasting plant infusions and extracts, meditations with
nature, earth and body awareness, journal writing, and deep
exploration with the spirit of the earth. Students learn to identify
and use plants for medicine, form plant allies, and prepare medicinal
teas, tinctures, essences, infusions, oils, incenses, and salves with
plants from around the world. Students will learn to use the energies
of the moon, sun, earth and the elements in their practice and treat
imbalances in the body.

The course will be limited to 15 people. Please feel free to
contact Sage with any questions, at thegaiaschool@hotmail.com, or call
(617)-838-8094. At the end of the 9 month program, each student will
be brought into the inter-connected web of world healers through ritual
and celebration, given gifts of initiation, and will be certified from the
school in herbal healing and plant spirit medicine.

This Apprenticeship is open to anyone interested, regardless
of their gender, belief system, past experience, or knowledge of
plants. We have had both advanced students and beginners as
apprentices, and both men and women. Though the course does often
stress the energy of the Mother present in the earth, both yin and
yang energies present in all things is honored. Women tend to be the
majority in our apprenticeships but green men are welcome and greatly
appreciated in our circle.


For more information, visit our website at www.thegreenwoman.com.