Weekend Workshops 2008
Herbal Medicine-Making
with Karen Aguiar and Terri Jensen, Saturday & Sunday, March 8 & 9, 10am - 4 pm, 2 day course, $150-$110
Why buy herbal products when it’s so simple and empowering to make your own? This hands-on class includes instruction on harvesting, drying, preserving and preparing medicinal plants. Learn how to make medicinal teas, infused oils, salves, tinctures, vinegars, glycerites and more. We’ll also discuss the principles of ethical harvesting. Includes samples of tinctures and medicines made in class.
Plant Spirit Medicine
with Pam Montgomery, Saturday & Sunday April 5 & 6,
10am - 4pm $225 - $195 sliding scale
The latest scientific research shows that plants are intelligent beings who have the capacity to store enormous amounts of information while being highly efficient in communicating and making decisions. Indigenous healers have known this about plants for centuries and have recognized that it is actually the spirit of the plants that does the communicating and healing. During this weekend intensive we will explore both science and traditional knowledge to learn how to communicate with plants. Through entering the daydream of the plant and through shamanic dream journeying we will come to understand the spirit of the plant and how it can serve as a guide, ally, and friend helping us in our lives with everything from serious physical illness, to making decisions in our lives, to bringing an all-around sense of well being.
Old Ways Living Skills - For Adult and Kids (9 and older)
with Tamara Wilder, Saturday May 3, 10am - 4pm, $85 per adult, $25 per child 9 and up (Includes Materials Fee)
A fun and unique hands-on introduction to old ways living skills. Make a necklace from sticks, seeds and stones by drilling holes in soapstone with sticks spun between the hands, grinding pine nuts into beads, and making string from natural fibers. Additional activities will include fire making by friction and if time allows, throwing and shooting a variety of hunting weapons like spearthrowers (atlatls), bows and arrows and rabbitsticks.
Whole Shoot Open Twined Basketry
with Carol Hart - author of NATURAL BASKETRY
Saturday May 10, 10am - 4pm
$75-60 sliding scale plus a $25 supplies fee to be paid to the instructor.
Learn to make a whole shoot basket, tray, or sculptural piece using open twining techniques employed by tribal weavers around the world for fish traps, cradle boards, winnowing and sifting baskets. We will view local plant materials suitable for our project and discuss their cultivation and management for basket weaving. Basic cordage making will be included in this class.
Materials provided for this class include cultivated basket willow. Wild gathered shoots and orchard cuttings may also be included for variation in color and texture. Pre-cut and individually bundled commercial plant cordage is also included. No previous basket making experience necessary.
Plants Of Pomo Canyon ~ Herb Walk
with Autumn Summers, Saturday, May 17, 10am-2pm, $30 - $25
Discover the wild plants of Sonoma County and their medicinal uses. A wonderful gift for anyone! This is our most popular walk please register early! Meet at 10am at Pomo Canyon. Maps will be sent along with confirmation. BRING: water, lunch, comfortable walking shoes, a light jacket, and sun protection.
Seaweed as Food and Medicine
with Autumn Summers, Friday, June 6, 6:30pm - 9pm (class) and Saturday, June 7, 8am - 10am (field trip), sliding scale $75 - $55
From ancient times to the present, seaweeds have been used by coastal people all over the world to nourish themselves and their gardens, as well as to treat disease. The Sonoma coast is incredibly rich in seaweeds that can be used as foods and medicines. Learn how to identify, use and collect, in an ethical way, this abundant resource. Evening class will be at CSHS. Maps will be given out for Saturday morning field trip location during the Friday evening class. Field trip location is 40 minutes from CSHS campus.
Herbal Beer Making
with Jen Bredesen, Saturday June 7, 10am -4pm, $75 - $60 sliding scale
Brewing beer is an ancient craft that combines cooking skills, art, and science into a potentially healthy beverage. With the addition of herbs, this hearty beverage can also become a personalized remedy or a unique fermented drink. In this class we will brew a partial-mash herbal beer (with whole grains, malted-barley extract, hops, yeast and additional herbs), while learning the concepts of beer-making, as well as successful techniques for incorporating a wide variety of tasty and medicinal herbs.
Medicine Show and Herbal Bazaar
Brought to you by the students of CSHS, Friday, June 27, 4pm -7pm, tuition: FREE!
This gala event presents the culmination of a semesters worth of medicine making and herbal endeavors by our full-time students. Come and taste herbal teas, tinctures, elixirs and foods. Meet the staff and students and learn about what we do here. Parking is limited. Please register early!
Herbal Medicine-Making
with Karen Aguiar and Terri Jensen, Saturday & Sunday, September 27 & 28, 10am - 4 pm, 2 day course, $150-$110
Why buy herbal products when it’s so simple and empowering to make your own? This hands-on class includes instruction on harvesting, drying, preserving and preparing medicinal plants. Learn how to make medicinal teas, infused oils, salves, tinctures, vinegars, glycerites and more. We’ll also discuss the principles of ethical harvesting. Includes samples of tinctures and medicines made in class.
Creating a Successful Herbal Business
with Trinity Ava, Saturday October 4, 10am - 4pm, $75 - $55 sliding scale
Be supported financially with your passion for plants! Perhaps you have an herbal business, are planning to start your own, or offer herbal consultations. This one day seminar is intended to walk you through the many phases of growing a business in the natural products industry or enhancing a smaller local business. Topics include: using your website to expand your herbal business, marketing to new customers, herbal trends in the retail world, strategic planning of growth, DSHEA compliance and the FDA standards for legal structure and function claims and labeling issues, utilizing herbal associations such as AHPA (American Herbal Products Association). Trinity Ava has owned her own business, and worked for companies small and large in the natural products industry for over a decade. It is her intention to see more independent business owners succeed in earning a sustainable livelihood with plants.
Advanced Aromatic Medicine - Going Beyond "Aromatherapy"
with Trinity Ava, Sunday, October 5 10am-4pm, $75 - $55 sliding scale
Expand your awareness with in depth formulation strategies and clinical experience to easily and safely utilize essential oils. Topics include: cold and flu, fungal infections, herpes, pain, trauma and injury, practical internal uses of essential oils and Materia Medica of 10 primary essential oils. Prerequisite: Beginning Aromatic Medicine or equivalent course work.
Fungi Farmaceuticals & Delectable Wild Edibles
with Terri Jensen, Karen Aguiar and Autumn Summers, Saturday October 25, 10am - 4pm,
$75 - $55 sliding scale
We’ll spend the morning with a foray into the world of medicinal mushrooms and root around the duff of historical uses, current findings, and folklore. We will look at some interesting mushroom samples and discuss how to make these into medicines. In the afternoon we’ll explore local wild foods by making acorn porridge, roasting bay nuts and baking cattail pollen scones. A wonderful way to spend a fall day!
Herbal Holiday Gift Making
with Autumn Summers, Saturday, December 6, , 10am - 2:30pm, Sliding scale $75 - $55
Get into the holiday spirit! In simpler days before modern technology, holiday gifts were made at home, from the heart. Learn how to make your own homemade gifts using herbs, spices and flowers. You will learn how to make lip balm, dream pillows, hand cream, bath salts, and more. Recipes and samples will be given to each student. This day is a gift in itself.
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