Green World Immersion: 4 Month Herbal Medicine Course, Starts October 6, 2024

Registration Now OPEN
Questions? Please contact Andrea at info@andrealarsenrncp.com

Have you or someone you love struggled to overcome chronic illness, and in the process felt utterly letdown and disillusioned by our current medical system? Are you, or have you been tired of taking pharmaceutical pills that never solve the problem and leave you dealing with undesirable side effects?

Turning to holistic and natural ways of healing has likely given you more relief and support than anything you’ve previously tried and now you’re excited and empowered to build on those successful experiences and learn everything you can about healing with what nature lovingly provides so that you can help your body heal itself, and help others do the same.

Herbalist Andrea Larsen will take you on a 4 month herbal medicine journey through the Green World as you immerse yourself in all things plant medicine. Students will meet monthly here in the Cowichan Valley on a weekend as well as be given access to an online portal for extra video resources and reading materials.

This unique program will give you the tools and the confidence to prepare your own beautiful and powerful plant medicines at home as well as deepen your connection with the natural world so that you can turn to plants in trust and gratitude to heal all manner of ailments.

We can take herbal medicine from a place of “hey, try this organic tea” to, “you can rely on this to save your life”. Whatever ails us, there are plants nearby that can come to our rescue.

Plants have always been and still are humanities primary medicines. Their complex chemistry is always adapting to environmental conditions and therefor plants have, over millions of years, honed sophisticated responses to deal with all matter of infections and environmental distress. Those chemical compounds are complex and synergistic with each other. Best of all, plants are entirely free for those who learn how to identify them where they grow, harvest, and make medicine from them. Also, plants don’t discriminate; anyone can use them, very safely.

Herbal medicines are the people’s medicine. It doesn’t take years and years of school to learn how to use plants for healing. Within the first few months of this course, you’ll be surprised at how quickly your knowledge, understanding and ability to confidently and successfully use plants as medicine, grows.

In this course, you’ll get up close and personal with the green world so that you can gain hands on experience in identifying, foraging, growing and making foods and medicines from a wide variety of medicinal and edible plants.

This Course Is For You If:

You’re disheartened that properly prescribed prescription drugs are now the 4th leading cause of death in the United States, and you are ready to walk away from the “pill for every ill” kind of thinking…
You want to live a heathier life
Using and trusting plants as your primary source of holistic medicine appeals to you
You want to always be prepared in any situation and never have to rely on pharmaceutical drugs... you want to be fully self-reliant.
If you’re someone who prefers to learn in a comfortable, group setting, where you get to meet the plants, taste them, smell them and see where they like to grow, and who they like to grow in community with, you’ll love this course.

This Course is Not for you if:

You're attached to the idea of substituting herbs in exactly the same way drugs are used.
You tend to trust your doctor's advice, and do what they tell you to do, even if it may have felt "wrong", because after-all, they're the expert with the degree and "Who Am I?"
You have no desire to use herbs instead of pharmaceuticals, or even to try.
You already have so much experience in working with plants and natural remedies, that generally you're disappointed whenever you take a class and feel frustrated that you didn't learn anything new.
While you recognize that Pharmaceutical companies have made mistakes, on the whole, you believe that what guides their work is a genuine desire to heal people which outweighs their need to make money.
You believe Bill Gates is a generous philanthropist

If the following statements are generally true for you, than I can honestly say this course will not be a good fit for you. I warmly request that you refrain from applying. There are many other herbal related courses that will absolutely be of more relevance for you. I bless you on your journey, may you find what you need.

If this course is exactly what you've been waiting for...

Here’s what a typical class will look like:

When you arrive, get settled with a warm cup of freshly brewed herbal tea.

We’ll start by having a brief check in with each other and have some time to share our stories of working with particular plants and putting into daily use and practice the medicines and teachings we’ve collected since our last class. Andrea will go over the day’s plan, including which plants we’ll be working with and if there will be a particular focus on a bodily system such as digestion or the circulatory system for the day. On days where we focus on a particular system, the herbs we work with will have a particular affinity and be especially useful for that system.

The day will be split up into part lecture, part skills-building. Our lectures will focus on studying theory around botany, basic human biology & physiology, plant chemistry, various herbal healing traditions, pathology and the core principles in medicine making. The hands-on, practical activities will include plant walks & field trips, plant communication, foraging, planting seeds, dividing perennials, drying herbs, making water soluble plant medicines, syrups, making alcohol extracts, and making infused oils, creams, lotions and salves and so much more. We’ll end the day with a question period and closing circle.

Usually, this program runs for the entire year, so that you’ll hone the art of medicine making throughout the seasons, learning which plants and their various parts will make the best medicines at different times, and what those medicines will help with. However, with current times, it’s been necessary to allow students a smaller time commitment than a full year. I’ve broken up the year-long course into three 4 month sections for this year. I may very well change that back next year, but for now, you are welcomed to sign up for as many sessions as needed, each one will be different and involve learning about different plants.

At the end of this program you’ll have made new friends and lifelong allies with many of the plants we work with and you’ll have a wide variety of tinctures, balms and various medicines to take home

Course Outline:

1 : Foundations in herbalism
• History of herbal medicine
• Cultivating relationships with plants
• introduction to botany
• plant families
• herbal actions/energetics overview
2 : Materia medica
• each month we will work with between 4-5 plants in great depth and detail
• learn to use plant medicines in accordance with constitutional evalutations
3 : Constitutions, basic anatomy & physiology, pathology
• excess/deficiencies (using herbs to tonify, suppressor stimulate as needed)
• Overview of bodily systems, including: the digestive system, reproductive systems, endocrine system,
respiratory system, circulatory system/ cardiovascular system, urinary system, lymphatic system
• discussions of what can lead to diseases symptoms in various bodily systems and applications of herbal medicines as therapies

4 : Herbal Energetics
5. Herbal Medicine Traditions
• further explore the history of herbal medicine through the traditions of traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda etc.
6 : Ethical foraging, wildcrafting & plant identification
• we'll get out into the forest, into the garden and get up close and personal with plants and all that encompasses that.
• Ethics of wildcrafting & harvesting.
• Asking Permission
• Plant Communities
• Learning the Language of Plants
7. Growing Your Own Herb Garden
• starting seeds, transplanting seedlings, dividing perennials, discuss and practice all things related to growing medicinal herbs
8 : Medicine Making Core Elements
• What makes a potent and effective medicine?
• how to make teas, infusions, decoctions, syrups, tinctures, salves, creams & more.
9 : Advanced medicine making
• build upon our skills to create more complex and potent formulas
• Plant chemistry
1 0 : Food as medicine & Medicine as food
• Daily use of herbs in food
• Wild Salads
• Juicing herbs (succus)
1 1 : Herbal pharmacology: constituents and the sum of the whole
• Why the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
• Plant synergy

1 2 : Herbal medicine for specific organ systems

1 3 : Herbal first-aid
• Infections
• Wounds & bleeding
• Strains, sprains & broken bones
• Rashes & skin conditions
1 4 : Herbal medicine for chronic ailments
• Stress disorders
• Sleeping problems
• Digestive issues & more

What Current Students Are Saying...

“I was quite nervous to try to learn because I have no science background, but you are very approachable and have so much knowledge and the group has been so supportive so I’m so glad I decided to do it!”

"I really like the pace and how classes are spread out over a longer period of time!”

“I like the intimate settings and small group and appreciate how much knowledge Andrea has and her enthusiasm is contagious”

“I’m usually a do-it-yourselfer, but I’m loving the in-person, hands on experience which has been removing a lot of barriers of uncertainty that prevented me from actually doing at home.”

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Important Details:
This course is available to a maximum number of 15 local participants only.

The Course Price is $525 (Payment Plans Available). This includes:

• 20 hours of class time with Andrea.

• Tincture bottles, jars & necessary medicine making supplies

• Printed book of detailed Materia medica, course topics, notes.

• A wide variety of medicines you’ll get to take home, including: tinctures, salves, creams & syrups. (Valued at over $100)

• The experience of working directly with plants that you simply can never learn from books.

BONUS #1:
You will be given access to an online portal where filmed footage of the course material is kept so that you can watch it over again and refresh your memory whenever you need to.

BONUS #2:
Any student who takes this course can come to select other herbal or nutritional workshop I offer at half price.

Cancellation and Refunds Policy:
Any registration cancellations before September 15, 2024 will be given a full refund minus a $50 administration fee.

My goal is to create an experience for you, every month, that completely blows your expectations out of the water. I’ve been sharing and teaching herbal medicine workshops for nearly 10 years now and students always leave feeling excited, inspired and empowered to apply what they have learned and enthusiastically continue learning about herbal medicine. But, if after taking the first class, you decide that this just isn’t for you, I offer a prompt and courteous refund, subject to a 100.00 materials fee (and you can keep your printed book and equipment if desired). There will not be refunds offered beyond October unless they are due to unprecedented and unforeseen circumstances, which then, of course, all efforts will be made to find a fair resolution.

CLASS DATES:

October 6th, 2024:
Intro to Western Herbalism & Plant Energetics
Overview of Digestive System & How herbal medicines can help for various common digestive ailments
Our monthly 5 herbs and their materia medica

November 17, 2024
Intro to TCM & continued learning about energetics and bodily systems and how it relates to herbalism
Monthly 5 herbs & materia medica
Respiratory System & learning about how herbs and which ones can be useful for respiratory health
Tincture making and cough syrup

December 8, 2024
Intro to Ayurvedic medicine & overlaying/comparison with TCM and western traditions
Nervous System and herbal medicine
5 monthly herbs and materia medica
Making fire cider

January 12, 2025
Tree Medicine
Poplar and red alder Harvest and medicine making
Making Salves & creams
5 Monthly herbs & materia medicaReady to Sign Up?

⬇⬇⬇ If you’re feeling excited and inspired to sign up for this 12-month Herbal Medicine Course, you can click the link below to apply. ⬇⬇⬇

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Upon acceptance, I’ll send you some preliminary homework to prepare for our first class, get you pumped and show you how to navigate the student portal where videos, downloadables, resources and extra bonus content will be featured.

And if this course is a little out of your financial budget right now… that’s okay too. Please send me an email at info@andrealarsenrncp.com. I will always try and work out an alternative payment schedule for those who need it.

I also offer various half-day herbal and medicine making workshops throughout the year which are posted on my website and facebook.

PS: If you scrolled to the bottom and missed most of what is written above...

Here’s what I said in much less words:
• I’m running an intimate 4-Month Herbal Medicine Course for 15 people
• It’s going to be a ton of FUN.
• You get to work hands-on and up close and personal with dozens of plants.
• You get to take home lots of herbal medicines that we make together.
• You get some awesome bonuses like 50% off future courses and access to recorded content.

✅⬇⬇Click the link below to put in an application.⬇⬇✅