2013 is, I believe, going to be a very centered year. Moving past the collective apprehension on changes to come in 2012, 2013 bodes as a perfect year for recognition that our lives, including those of our ancestors, our Earth, our Solar System, the Greater Cosmos and our Health, are connected together through cycles of various intensities. As we look at our lives, from birth to death, and everything in-between and both the between s, we can learn to ride the wave and work with them to enhance our health, our lives, our community and our shared Earth. Dates for classes below will be released soon. As always, private classes may be arranged, please send an email if you would like to inquire on how to set one up!
WORKSHOP/CLASS LIST:
Foraging Intensives, Plant Walks, Medicinal Talks and Ethical Foraging Guideline classes and groups will be announced throughout the season!
Plant Love, Planting Love: This class will pop up between other workshops during the season, as a get together discussion group about our love and devotion of plants, and ways to be careful and committed guardians of the plant world, of the gifts of creation. This class is especially for people who would like to participate in seeing plants through the “Eye of the Heart” and who do not view plants, medicines and healing on a purely “commodity” level, but rather, as fellow, living beings. We come together in poetry, love, and not resource extraction. We come together in devotion of the Divine World!!!
“What’s in the Pantry, the Medicine of Olde” Workshop: “What’s in the Pantry…the Medicine of Olde” is still the primary medicine for the majority of people around the globe. Learn the art and craft of beginning medicine making, and health prevention and nutrition the “Wild Way”, the “Easy Way”, and the truly “Sustainable Way”. Learn about some of the core plants to identify and have on hand to treat a variety of complaints. Learn about your Self, your Body, as a step to make informed decisions, so you know when to seek help and when not to. Come, reclaim the knowledge and deepen your intimacy with the world through your own medicine and nutritional making! We will make herbal infusions, poultices, syrups, salves and so much more!
Pantry Pickles Cold and Flu Immunity Workshop: In this workshop, we will learn how to make some of the remedies for winter viral season, basics about human immunity and learning about the interaction between different herbs, physiology and viral typing.
Put up some edible brews for wintertime sniffles, joyous whiffs and holiday gifts!
This Autumn herb class will cover fun, edible, sometimes delicious and sometimes strange concoctions that nourish the body and spirit. Together, we will prepare nourishing infusions, syrups, vinegars, medicinal honey’s and other fantastic, nurturing fun! This class is a ‘happening’ and hands on work-shop, so come prepared to roll up your sleeves and play! This class is also potluck, so please bring a dish to share, as well as your own mug, fork, spoon and napkin.
Olde Fashion Pickling Bash!: Immerse yourself in this hands-on workshop with Pickles! You will leave this workshop with a variety of methods and some of your own, home-made pickles! Together, we will play and explore in the world of pickling, taste lots of fun stuff and experiment! I will share some of the secrets of Hungarian and Ukrainian Pickles, and we will learn about this living art-form and the beneficial effect pickles, especially live pickles have on our bodies! This class is potluck, so please bring a dish to share, your own mug, fork, spoon and napkin!
Kimchi Makin’ Workshop: We will gather together and learn how to make traditional Kimchi. Kimchi is a naturally fermented food, and is the national food of Korea. I fell in love with Korea living there as a child, and I would like to share a Taste of Korea while we prepare traditional, healthy food! We will learn about the medicinal aspects of traditionally fermented food in a group discussion.
Women’s Health Workshop: This workshop focuses on the beautiful body of women, how to gracefully move through the transitions of adolescence to elder-hood and our special needs, as women. This class is a pre-requisite in a series that will be built together, addressing specific health issues of women, including the major transitions of menarch, prenancy, motherhood, and menopause.
The Arts of Poulticing Workshop: This is a GREAT class to attend, as it is in depth and congruent with the basic Herbs workshop, Tonic workshops and our new series of Women’s Health workshops that have been in the works for a year now! Remember, our shindigs are potluck, as brain cells work best with good company and good food, and heck, most people wouldn’t have it any other way!>>>>>> What is poulticing? Through a variety of techniques, one can heal burns, reduce abscesses, move the lymph system, kill infections, raise or lower fevers, and nurse sore organs and muscles, to name a few. These are old-fashioned techniques for at home self care that can be used on a day to day basis, in emergencies, simple sickness, at home or hospital births, or as companions to other forms of medicine. I had my son Ben in a hospital, and with the help of my Husband, used poultices to prevent complications in a complicated pregnancy. There are many types of poulticing and many ways to apply them, and they are an invaluable aid as well as a lost art that is being revived. ~Summer<<<
Poulticing, Tonics and the way of Community Healing Workshop:
Come and prepare yourself, before the wintertime blues whisk you away! Come for an evening of hands on poultice and tonic makings to help smooth those winter blahs as well as enjoy companionship and stories of folk methods about community healing. This class is a ‘happening’ and hands on work-shop, so come prepared to roll up your sleeves and play! This class is also potluck, so please bring a dish to share, as well as your own mug, fork, spoon and napkin.
Be prepared to smell interesting smells, taste interesting tastes, and get your hands dirty with folklore!
Beginners Herbal First Aid Workshop and Emergency Herbal First Aid Workshops: This workshop was a hit last year, and I’ve been asked enough, so will teach this again! We cover the basics of emergency trauma, infections, and happenings. Great life skills to have when you are out trekking in the woods, or anywhere where getting to a hospital is impossible or delayed. We will have a second workshop, later in the year, to cover even more emergency applications, including splinting techniques!
Herbal Burn Care Workshop: This workshop is another in an ongoing series of Herbal First Aid Workshops offered by local Herbalist Summer Michaelson of Serendipity Plant Lore that address various aspects of emergency and home healing. Participants will leave this Burn Care Workshop with an understanding of burns and their types, how the body heals with plants and ways to form a relationship with healing. This hands on workshop is suitable for both those who wish to learn how to treat burns when medical attention is not available or out of reach, and suitable for those who wish to understand how to take care of oneself or a loved one at home, or desire understanding of how people took care of themselves before the invention of modern medical care systems, how to augment current medical care, broadening knowledge of the human being, and thus, being one’s own best advocate by having choice.
Preserving the Autumn Harvests: Olde Fashion and some New Fashion Techniques for preserving your foods, harvests and forages naturally, with low level intensity. Learn some easy techniques for pickling, root cellars, wet and dry salting, drying, and more! This has always been a fun class experience, with fantastic group discussions!
Down Home Medicinal Bee Love Worshop!: “Bee” the Love you want to create in the world! Come join this workshop that celebrates the healing power of the charming honey bee. We will craft and create fragrant and medicinal love poems that aid our bodies and souls amongst conversation of how we can return the favor and protect the nations of bees.This class will have interesting smells and things to taste. We will also have a potluck, please bring a dish to share, your own plate, fork, spoon and mug and stories!
Healing the Causes of Autism with Herbs and Foods: This class will be an in-depth exploration of autism, its seeming existence and non-existent aspects, and techniques of “healing” autism, that can be brought home and put into practice immediately. We will learn about and discuss special diets, allergies, environmental factors, social factors and also will help put people in touch with each other who have taken the “healing” into their own hands. In the end, there is no such thing as “Autism”, it is a dance of factors that swirl together in each individual. Children can break out of the box or autism, and do everyday. We are here to learn about increasing health and strength in our children, in a nourishing way that can remove many of the stumbling blocks in front of us. Autism is as much a spiritual crisis as anything, not just a crisis happening within families, but a symptom of our community and lack of care for our environment, our food, farmers, soil, water and air. Please join this workshop if you would like to learn the techniques to “break open” the spell of Autism!
SCD, GAPS and WAP Basics Class!: We will gather together and learn about these unique diets, and how we can tailor them to address specific and individual needs for healing Allergies, Autism, Chrohn’s Disease, IBD, Ulcerative Colitis, Celiac Disease, various Auto-Immunity Diagnosis, Candida Imbalance and more!
(c) 2013 Summer L. Farkas Takacs Michaelson, CH
serendipityherbals 