Kick off your new year with new herbal learning.
Join us for an incredible weekend of advanced clinical and practical herbal medicine classes. These live 4-hour herbal intensives offer an opportunity for herbalists, naturopaths and healing professionals to deepen their learning from some of the most highly regarded teachers in the field.
Aimed at advanced-level practitioners, these live intensives allow you to refine your medicine making skills, expand your knowledge of functional materia medica and add specialized clinical skills to your practice.
2020 and 2021 Conference Pass Holders enjoy preferred rates to these one-of-a-kind intensives. Ensure you are logged in to your account to receive the savings.
Registration ends on Thursday January 20, 2022. Your ticket allows you to attend all 4 live herbal intensives and access the Recordings for 1 Year.
Herbalists have so much to offer towards supporting transgender health. Are you wondering how you can make your herbal clinic or educational spaces more welcoming to transgender folks? Are you already working with trans clients or students and wondering how you can create more comfortable and affirming spaces for them? This class will begin with an introduction to gender and the barriers that transgender folks face in society and healthcare settings. Then, through examining how these barriers show up in herbalism, we will explore how to move towards a more gender-affirming, trans-inclusive herbal medicine culture and practice. We will cover plenty of practical tips for trans-competence as well as considerations for choosing safe and effective herbs for your trans clients. What you take away from this class will benefit all of your clients and will be one more step towards collectively creating a more liberatory, accessible and affirming herbal medicine
Join Lisa Ganora for an introduction to herbal constituents - we'll explore their occurence, relationships, classification and significance for medicine-making and clinical practice. Learn how and why a knowledge of basic phytochemistry can help you understand herbal medicine and pharmacy. We'll look at polarity and other influences on solubility, the actions and energetics of important constituents, which medicinal foods and herbs feature which constituents, and how to coax these phytochemicals out of the matrix and into our medicines. We'll also explore the importance of synergy and variability, and how to interpret studies on isolated constituents in the context of actual herbs and extracts. If you've been wanting to develop a deeper understanding of how botanical medicines work, this class offers practical insight and tools for further exploration.
Curious about how to create fresh plant extractions and get the alcohol to water ratio correct? Wondering about dual extraction techniques and when this should be applied? Wondering about the elusive percolation technique and how this plant extract is completed? Preparing herbal medicine extractions that are effective and continue to have measured and repeatable outcomes from one extraction to the next takes research and a well thought out process. Ensuring that a systematic, organized and consistent process is followed is an important consideration to effective plant medicine extraction. Starting with foundational principles of extraction this intensive will review basic principles of phytochemical constituents and the solvents known to provide effective extractions. From there we will explore several methods of extraction including: Scientific Measurement Maceration Basics Tincture Extractions: Fresh & Dried Herb Methods Dual Extraction Percolation Method During this 4 hour live intensive Colleen Emery will be demonstrating each technique from
In this course, Bev will explain the concepts of accuracy and precision of the most common blood tests that are routinely completed at a GP’s office. The significance of each blood test discussed will be framed to understand it's role in several common health issues. The goal of this course is for the participant to gain an understanding and confidence in reviewing and analyzing laboratory tests. This will allow the herbalist to design effective treatments as a part of self care or for their patients.
RHP (HANS)
Ember Peters (they/she) is a clinical herbalist and educator based in Port Lorne, Nova Scotia, Unceded Mi'kmaq Territory. They are the founder of Wild Current Herbalism and faculty at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism.
Ember has been in clinical practice since 2014, focusing on providing accessible sliding-scale herbal care to underserved people and clinical mentorship to advanced clinical students. Guided by nature, Ember’s teaching and clinical practice integrates scientific knowledge with energetic systems and recognizes community based holistic health as a tangible step towards collective and individual liberation and resilience.
Ember is a Registered Herbal Practitioner with the Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia (HANS).
Phytochemistry, Clinical Herbalism
Lisa Ganora began studying traditional Western herbalism in the ‘80s. Later, she lived and wildcrafted in the Appalachians where she studied with folk healers and created herbal products to sell as she traveled the festival circuit with her herb booth. After practicing as a community herbalist for a decade, Lisa returned to college and graduated from UNCA summa cum laude with multiple awards in biology and chemistry. After graduation, she focused on studying pharmacognosy and phytochemistry.
In addition to directing the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism since 2012 and managing Elderberry’s (a Rocky Mountain herb farm and education center in Paonia, CO), Lisa has also served as Adjunct Professor of Pharmacognosy at the
Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, and has lectured and taught classes at numerous schools and conferences around the U.S. She is the author of Herbal Constituents, a popular textbook on herbal phytochemistry for natural health practitioners, which is used by schools and universities
worldwide.
Lisa is available for consulting in medicinal plant chemistry, synergy, and formulation for the
herbal and natural products industries.
D. Phyt., MNIMH, RHT, RH(AHG).
Back in university, Bev earned a reputation as a tenacious inquisitive driven to make sense of nature through scientific endeavours . This reputation has withstood the test of time. Today, as a practicing Medical Herbalist and international speaker at medical conferences and colleges, Bev focuses on demystifying menopause for patients that don’t respond to traditional medicine.
Bev’s unique background informs her deep investigative approach. Her science studies led her to work in fundamental research, pharmaceuticals, anaesthesia, oncology, urology, transplantation and neurology for twelve years before training as a Medical Herbalist and opening her own clinic. This unique blend of education and experience provided her with a rare ability to study the intricacies of our nervous, endocrine and digestive systems for physiological, emotional and spiritual root causes to medical concerns associated with the menopausal process, some of them deep seated and lifelong.
Bev’s inquiring personality (encouraged by both parents being teachers) has lent itself to her style, as a generous and passionate speaker particularly adept at empowering her audience to deconstruct complex ideas into their simplest form and apply this learning in the context of their own medical practices.
In addition to her work at Maya Natural Health, Bev also works in collaboration with several Medical Doctors specializing in wholistic solutions during midlife at Haven Healing & Health in West Vancouver, B.C. and Westcoast Women's Centre for Hormone Health, Vancouver, B.C.
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Cl.H, RHT (BCHA)
Colleen Emery acknowledges that their family and business gratefully reside and operate on the traditional, ancestral and unceded təmxʷulaʔxʷ (homeland) of the Sinixt Peoples.
Colleen Emery has been involved in the herbal medicine community for over twenty years, bringing a diverse toolbox of skills that have been honed through continued formal education, apprenticeship, clinical experience and connection to generational folk arts. Educated and experienced in both Eastern and Western focused Herbal Medicine and Clinical Aromatherapy, Colleen’s clinical practice mandates affordable care for all ages with a focus on reproductive wellness, children’s health and eldercare along with complex health conditions.
Colleen maintains professional membership as a Registered Herbal Therapist (RHT) with the British Columbia Herbalists Association.
Founded in 2003, Emery Herbals Botanical Dispensary, Healing Suites and Teaching Centre in the West Kootenay Mountains operates as a family business in Winlaw, BC. Emery Herbals provides open access to consciously sourced botanicals, professional health services and empowering education experiences that encourage and cultivate sustained wellness.
Offering access to both onsite and live, online workshops and programs, Emery Herbals provides education opportunities on numerous topics including single day skill building workshops and longer more involved herbal medicine training programs.
Colleen sits as Vice-Chair on the West Kootenay Permaculture Cooperative Association’s Board of Directors working to encourage local food security through education and community outreach. Colleen also sits as a Vice President of the BCHA. Colleen co-organizes the Kootenay Herb Conference & the Canadian Herb Conference and is on the faculty of the Wild Rose College.
The Art and Science of Blending with Essential Oils
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