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Shamanic Herbalism: Animal Medicines, Plant Medicines with Matthew Wood

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Shamanic Herbalism: Animal Medicines, Plant Medicines with Matthew Wood

Time: November 19, 2016 to November 20, 2016
Location: Bow, WA
Website or Map: http://www.wildrootbotanicals…
Phone: 360 724 7668
Event Type: workshop
Organized By: Leslie Lekos
Latest Activity: Oct 9, 2016

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Taught by: Matthew Wood MS (Herbal Medicine)

Registered Herbalist (American Herbalist Guild)

class is from 10 to 5 both Saturday and Sunday

Course Description

Closeness to Nature, animals, plants, and dreamtime are characteristics most frequently associated with the shamanic path.  In this class we will learn about the three selves of the shamans: conscious, animal, and dream, and why they are so important.  Then we will study medicine animals – the animals serve as the spokespersons, so to speak, of our natural self and our unconscious.  As we do this we will study the corresponding medicine plants because the most powerful plants are associated with medicine animals and we learn back and forth, from kingdom to kingdom.  A few examples: bear (burdock, angelica, spikenard), elk and deer (wild bergamot and many mints, sumach, cleavers, dogwood---despite the name), rabbit (rabbit tobacco, nettle, wild yam), turtle (gravel root, boneset, oak, black walnut), wolf (agrimony, cinquefoil, true solomon’s seal), panther (valerian, catnip, chamomile, cramp bark), underwater panther/catfish (white water lily, blue flag, true and false solomon’s seal, marshmallow root, slippery elm, mucilages). Time permitting, we will do a plant spirit journey or two. 

$175 for the weekend

About Matthew Wood

Matthew has lectured in all parts of the United States, from Georgia to Maine, New York to California, and Santa Fe to Sperryville, Virginia. He has also taught in Canada, Scotland, England, France, and Australia. He is known throughout the world as an excellent teacher of herbal medicine. He is also the author of seven acclaimed books on herbal medicine.

 

Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers (1987)

Vitalism, The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, originally entitled The Magical Staff (1993)

The Book of Herbal Wisdom (1998)

The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism (2004)

The Earthwise Herbal, A Complete Guide to Old World Medicinal Plants (2008)

The Earthwise Herbal, A Complete Guide to New World Medicinal Plants (2009)

Traditional Western Herbalism and Pulse Evaluation: A Conversation (2015)

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Comment by Angela MacLeod on October 9, 2016 at 8:41am

Thank you.

Comment by Leslie Lekos on October 9, 2016 at 8:35am

Hi Angela it is from 10 to 5 both Saturday and Sunday. It would be lovely to have you with us.  Let me know if you have any other questions at leslie {at} wildrootbotanicals {dot}com.

Comment by Angela MacLeod on October 8, 2016 at 9:29am

What are the times that this event happens?

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