Join me for this year-long apprenticeship offered in the lineage of the Irish and Native European tradition. This intensive is a journey of becoming a community herbalist, a person with the cure, as we were referred to in Ireland, and includes herb school in Ireland, a week to connect with the plants and make remedies on and with the ancestral land.
Join me to reclaim what it means to be a community folk herbalist, to tend to your own hearth and to the hearth of your community. This course focuses on the traditional herbal medicines of Ireland, where I have lived and studied for over 20 years, and is part of a lineage, as taught to me by my teacher Gina McGarry.
Throughout history, an apprenticeship has been a primary way of learning that included immersing and actively engaging with the topic, not just sitting in a classroom learning from a linear perspective. This is the way of Ancestral Herbalism: to participate, to create and co-create, to listen, to taste, to smell, to tend to the land and engage with the herbs. Every single day.
You will learn, at my virtual hearth (all classes will be via Zoom in MST) and at my physical hearth in Ireland. As an apprentice, you will actively put into practice what we learn by creating herbal remedies and potions: we will create three or four remedies every month, which will build your herbal apothecary and actively integrate herbs into all aspects of your life.
Remembering the herbs and the remedies held in the memory of your DNA will change your world and the world to whom you tend.
Please note, this is not a substitute for therapy or trauma work. Tonja is not a licensed mental health or health care professional. She is your guide as a folk herbalist who has been practicing for 20 years using the folk and traditional medicine techniques from Ireland. She is your guide to empower you to reclaim these traditional ways and care for your own communities.
