Summary
With the intensity of a global pandemic and rising environmental and social justice movements, our immune systems are vulnerable to many stressors. This workshop is an opportunity to lean into the pleasure activism* of nourishment in the form of interacting with plant medicine and prioritizing the wellness of ourselves and our loved ones. Medicine making skills in this offering will focus on key herbal strategies to prevent and relieve symptoms of common ailments including immune boosting remedies such as elderberry syrup and fire cider.
*Pleasure activism is a phrase and movement popularized by adrienne marie brown and the title of her new edited book published in 2019. Check it out; it’s amazing and life/movement-changing!
All Herbal Immersion courses will feature a pre-ordered Herbal Skills Materials Kit, a virtual video to follow along with, and an interactive Community Connect Call via Zoom. NOTE: Limited quantity of Herbal Skills Materials Kits available per offering.
Herbal Skills Immersion — Nutritive Herbs & Bitter Roots
This offering focuses on consuming plants as nourishing food and medicine to deepen your relationship to the natural environment while nourishing yourself and preventing disease. We will also explore the benefits of bitter herbs to liberate the body’s intrinsic vitality and “spark”, unleashing and focusing our unique offerings as activists and earth lovers. Basic principles of therapeutic herbalism and whole food nutrition will be covered in the context of modern public health challenges and simple solutions from your land and kitchen. Together we will prepare nutritive tea blends, root broths, and deliciously root-y “Bliss Balls.”
All Herbal Skills Immersion courses will feature a pre-ordered Herbal Skills Materials Kit, a virtual video to follow along with, and an interactive Community Connect Call via Zoom. NOTE: Limited quantity of Herbal Skills Materials Kits available per offering.
Program Details
Metta Earth is offering the Herbal Skills Immersion using a “gift economy” model.
To put it simply: everyone is welcome to enroll and to request a materials kit, regardless of whether the suggested contribution is out of reach. Instead of making finances a barrier, we are trusting that the collective generosity of our community will help sustain our work and enable us to continue giving.
Suggested Contributions
Please attune to your capacity to give, and give only what is comfortable.
If you can contribute more, please know that you will help us gift herbal healing education and supplies to community members in a different financial situation.
Online course and supply kit: $110 ($50 for materials & shipping, $60 for course development)
Online course only: $60 (for course development)
Scholarships
If you would like a scholarship to support attending the Herbal Skills Immersion (or any Metta Earth program), you may apply for a grant through the Vermont Student Assistance Corporation (VSAC).
Metta Earth and Spoonful Herbals are approved organizations through VSAC.