Bioregional Herbalism - Sedona
Exploring the Terrain
with bioregional herbalist, John Slattery
Sedona, AZ
Saturday & Sunday
August 28-29, 2021
Workshop fee - $190
SALE Price (through Aug 1) - $165
Where should one go to learn about desert plants for healing, but to the plants themselves!
Learning about desert plants as food or medicine is part of an ancient pathway. Like many other ancient practices, it has become new again. Fortunately, this practice is a way back to our true selves, one which promotes insights, knowledge and care of self, and enlivens within us integrity and compassion.
Bioregional Herbalism
I call it bioregional herbalism. It’s not just about learning the facts of the natural world around you - it’s about relationship. Taking time to observe, listen, and contemplate, learning grows from a natural fountain of inspiration. Learning to embrace this practice is a way of coming home.
If you are called to develop relationship with the plants around you for food and medicine, but unsure how to begin, then this workshop is just for you.
Also, if you have been gathering knowledge about the plants around you, but would like to go deeper, this workshop is also for you.
In this two day field study workshop we will explore the fundamental aspects of bioregional herbalism: developing relationship with place and the plants within it. This endeavor leads us to the study of field botany, respectful wildcrafting and participation with our environment, plant energetics, landscape observation, developing and exercising the senses (particularly the feeling sense), herbal medicine making, and applying these medicines for well-being and healing utilizing our knowledge of our homeland, the flow of the seasons, and plant energetics.
In this workshop we’ll cover roughly 20-25 different edible and medicinal wild plants.
We’ll touch on several key areas of bioregional herbalism in this workshop as we learn to follow the lessons set before us. With John as our guide and facilitator, we seek to embark on a path that is revitalizing, challenging, and enlightening for all who participate.
In an uncertain world, the embrace of Mother Nature can remind us of who we truly are and who we are meant to be. The deeper healing potential of plants can be realized through direct relationship and interaction with these vital beings.
Deep connection through continued observation is the foundation for a bioregional herbalist. Knowledge is derived from experience, and wisdom through continued practice and observation of Nature (people, place, and plants). Learning about the plants found naturally occurring around us, in their natural habitat, begins to deepen our relationship to place. Little by little, patterns begin to emerge which inform us as to how we can use plants for medicine.
In this workshop we’ll also explore the core concepts of plant energetics while experiencing them directly through the plants we study. Experiencing the plants in their natural setting, while rooted in these fundamental concepts, and consuming small amounts of plant medicine in context allows one to acquire this knowledge readily.
Additionally, the exercises in this workshop will introduce the participant to a method of learning which is empowering, distinctly individualized, unusually contextual, and highly experiential.
Bringing together concepts which are deeply familiar, yet widely applicable serves to lift the participant up into a new level of growth and learning.
Participants come away from these experiences appreciating plants in a whole new way, even when they already had a deep appreciation for plants.
Following are select comments from a previous participant:
John is breathing new life into an ancient way of engaging with plants. What seemingly begins as an outward exploration of the local bioregion, quickly becomes a profound study of the internal landscape, of one’s own capacity to be in dialogue with the intelligent, living medicines of the green world. John reawakens in each of us, our own ability to receive wisdom directly from the source- from the plants themselves- through his invitation into stillness, an open heart, the body’s felt sense, and other subtle impressions.
The bulk of our time will be spent on walkabout through Oak Creek Canyon and the surrounding desert hills. Although multiple locations may be visited throughout the weekend, we will likely only travel to one location each day.
Specific location details will be sent upon registration.
Take advantage of this opportunity to explore the wild plants with John as the summer vegetation has reached its zenith and begins its descent into autumn. Given the promise of a wet summer, our classroom is likely to be full of lush green growth.
Join me for this intensive workshop to begin to transform your approach to working with plants. Starting in your own backyard you can become a master of the wild food and medicine that grows within arm’s reach. Then begin to branch out with the basic principles and practices learned in this workshop to continually learn more about your local environment including unique ways to apply the herbal medicines you learn about. Becoming equipped with a hands-on approach to field botany can open up many opportunities for gaining unique knowledge about the plants you work with.
Time permitting, we may also engage is some medicine making on Sunday. A list of recommended supplies will be sent upon registration.
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