Workshops
Seeking a Peaceful Mind
3 Classes Exploring Herbal Medicine and Meditation for A Peaceful Mind
6:30 to 8:00 pm
Cost: $25.00 plus hst per webinar or sign up for all 3 for $65.00
All classes will be recording. The recording will be sent out on the morning following the class.
You feel restless, anxious, maybe even depressed, probably overwhelmed. You tried Mindfulness Meditation and it’s boring. You drink your chamomile tea before bed and you still don’t sleep. What else can you do? During these two classes will talk about how meditation and herbal medicine can help you catch breath and recall meaning, purpose and joy.
Class One: Meditation
Monday, October 26 6:30 to 8:00
Let’s explore meditation as if it is medicine. Not medicine that is a one size fits all, but a kind of medicine that can be customized to your specific needs. During this webinar we will explore different types of meditation and how they are useful to a calm mind and heart in the chaos of life.
Class Two: Herbs for a Calm Mind
Monday, November 9 6:30 to 8:00
To support your meditation practice let’s talk about how herbal medicine bring your nervous system into balance and support a clear mind, calm heart and good digestion. During this class we will sample an herbal tea to help shut down racing thoughts and taste a few tinctures that move deep into the body to help reset your nervous system.
Class Three: Herbs for a Good Night’s Sleep
Monday, November 23 6:30 to 8:00
Insomnia as a symptom with many causes. Herbal medicine is a unique in that it can ease insomnia no matter its cause: hormonal shifts, pain, a restless mind, or sluggish digestion.
Let’s talk about a how herbal medicine deepens one sleep no matter cause.
A Woman’s Body is Miraculous
5 Classes Exploring the Different Phases of a Woman’s Fertility Cycle
6:30 to 8:00 pm
Cost: $25.00 plus hst per webinar or sign up for all 5 for $100.00
All classes will be recording. The recording will be sent out on the morning following the class.
A woman’s body is a miraculous. It is with our bodies that we feel, love, care for other, discover beauty and create. A woman’s body is a finely tuned to the rhythms of the Earth and the Moon. During this series of webinars let’s unveil the mysteries of the female body and consider with kindness and compassion the cycles within cycles a woman passes through as she moves from girlhood to crone. During each webinar we will talk about how herbal medicine supports a woman’s well-being as the seasons of her life shift and change.
Class One: The Fertility Cycle
Monday, January 18 6:30 to 8:00
Discover how a woman’s cycling hormones is more than estrogen or progesterone. Let talk about a woman’s fertility cycle influences her whole body and mind, including her liver, thyroid, fat cells, heart and the immune system. Using a wide angle lens, let talk about the changes a woman’s body goes through as she moves through her monthly cycle. During this class we will focus on lifestyle choices to support a woman’s health.
Class Two: Puberty
Monday, February 1 6:30 to 8:00
Everything changes as a girl and becomes a woman. It can be a challenging season for many. Let’s talk about how a girl’s body, including her brain, transitions to womanhood and the many ways herbal medicine can ease this miraculous transformation. During this webinar we will explore herbal medicine for painful periods, acne and mood swings.
Class Three: Fertility
Monday, February 15 6:30 to 8:00
Let’s talk fertility, pregnancy and the time following pregnancy. Let’s consider how fluctuating hormones effect a woman’s physical and mental health during her years of fertility whether or not she becomes a mom. We will discover how herbal medicine supports women as she moves through the season of fertility with a specific lens on endometriosis, PCOs and post-partum depression. We will briefly discuss herbal medicine during pregnancy.
Class Four Perimenopause
Monday, March 1 6:30 to 8:00
Often just a woman feels like she gaining her stride in life, perimenopause arrives bringing a disorientating array of change. Let’s consider it the changes perimenopause brings, heavy periods, insomnia, weight gain, mood swings and how this important transition in a life can be supported with herbal medicine and knowledge.
Class Five Menopause
Monday, March 15 6:30 to 8:00
Like every season in life, it is difficult to understand until you are in it. And even then, it can be difficult to understand. Let’s talk about changes a woman experiences after she ceases to bleed. We will explore the physical changes that happen once monthly cycles ceases and the deeply spiritual nature that blossoms for a mature woman. We may even talk about sex during menopause.
Herbal Medicine to Overcome Chronic Infection:
A Holistic Approach
3 Classes Exploring Using Herbal Medicine to Overcome Chronic Infections
6:30 to 8:00 pm
Cost: $25.00 plus hst per webinar or sign up for all 4 for $85.00
All classes will be recording. The recording will be sent out on the morning following the class.
During this series of four workshops we will explore how a herbal medicine can help overcome a chronic infection such as Lyme Disease and its co-infections, Viral infections such as Herpes and Epstien Barr, and Streptococcus spp. Each class will look at different stages of healing chronic infection and specific herbal medicine used at each stage.
Class 1: Understanding Microbes and Your Biome: A Paradigm Shift
Monday, April 5 6:30 to 8:00
Your microbiome, whether you are struggling with a chronic infection or not, is unique to you to. It’s diversity, strengths and weakness, are created by your ancestors, your life history, the food you eat, the air breath and your cleanliness, just to name a few. To overcome a chronic infection it is essential to understand your dynamic biome and how it supports you in health and rebels during illness.
Class 2: Repair the body
Monday, April 19 6:30 to 8:00
One of the challenges of chronic infections is it spreads creating pain, inflammation and an array of symptoms throughout your body in different tissues. During this class we will talk about how herbal medicine and simple lifestyle changes can support your healthy tissues and slow the spread of infection. These plants also support your body in repairing tissues damaged by infection.
Class 3: Limit the Activity and Population of the Infecting Microbe
Monday, May 10 6:30 to 8:00
Many different plants have been labeled as anti-microbial. These plants support the body in finding and killing infection microbes. Many of these plants also support the health of your microbiome. During this class we explore how these plants not keep pathogens in check but support the microbes essential for your health.
Class 4: Maintaining Health
Monday, May 17 6:30 to 8:00
Recovering from a chronic infection is not easy. How to maintain health after recovering from an infection can also be challenging. During this class we will talk about how herbal medicine and simple lifestyle tips can continue to support your health after you have recovered from a chronic infection.
Facilitator: Abrah Arneson is a Clinical Herbalist with 20 years experience of using herbal medicine to help people regain their health.