Herbal remedies & medicine courses

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Explore how to identify, grow, harvest, dry, store and use herbs in teas, infused oils, ointments, creams, rubs and more and understand how their medicinal properties promote health.

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Natural skincare course - make balms, body butters and more

Natural skincare course - make balms, body butters and more

Cheshire - Next course on 8th February 2020

Would you like to learn how to make your own skincare with all-natural ingredients? It’s time to take control over what goes onto your skin and decide which beneficial ingredients (many of which you will find in your kitchen) you would like to indulge your skin with. All the products we make will be preservative free which means they are made without water and as such they are completely natural. With a hands-on practical approach, you will make a selection of skincare products to take home with you. You will...

Our Healing Garden - Herbal Medicine

Our Healing Garden - Herbal Medicine

Dorset - Next course on 18th April 2020

Introduction to herbal remedies An introductory day of plant knowledge, traditional healing and remedies. Learn how to use herbs medicinally, including sensory sessions and tastings. We will look at ... Herbal medicine: how the plants help us to heal The plants: identification and how we use them The remedies: we will cover the basics - teas, tinctures, oils, salves Your first steps: growing your own herbs, wild harvesting, preparation, preserving

Introduction to herbal medicine - weekend courses

Introduction to herbal medicine - weekend courses

Herefordshire - Next course on 25th January 2020

Introduction to herbal medicine - A weekend course covering the basics of using herb in the home Course Overview An Introduction to Herbal Medicine Making. An exploration of the uses of herbs and learn to make your own top quality cosmetics and herbal preparations. Includes ID, growing, harvesting from my organic garden, drying and storing herbs. A practical 2 day workshop making teas, decoctions, infused oils, ointments, creams and other remedies This herbal medicine making course run by qualified herbalist Rowan McOnegal, who has 30 years experience of working as...

The art of natural perfumery - weekend course

The art of natural perfumery - weekend course

Herefordshire - Next course on 14th March 2020

The Art of natural perfumery - Create your own perfumes using essential and infused oils How to use essential oils to make your own unique perfumes Course Overview: An appreciation of a lost art as we explore the creative and sensual possibilities of using natural oils in perfumery. Natural essences resonate with our emotions and our memories, as well as our body, mind, and spirit. This weekend we will delight in the aromas of the natural world, creating our own individual perfumes using essential oils and other natural ingredients.

The natural health chest: assemble your own herbal medicine chest for health and wellbeing

The natural health chest: assemble your own herbal medicine chest for health and wellbeing

Herefordshire - Next course on 18th January 2020

The Natural Health Chest: Assemble your own herbal medicine chest for health and wellbeing, including herbal approaches to common conditions Course Overview We will be using the principles of holistic natural medicine for maintaining health and wellbeing and discussing herbal approaches to, and useful herbal preparations to have on hand for, common ailments. We will look at many different herbs in different forms, and make preparations from them. This will include making a tisane, an infused oil, an ointment, a cream, which you will take home with you, together with...

Wild Food Day: Walk & Forage

Wild Food Day: Walk & Forage

Foraging Day at Hafod Estate, Ystwyth Valley, Ceredigion (about 12 miles from Aberystwyth) Join professional forager Jade Mellor for a full day of wild food foraging. Spring is a time of abundance and new life. Of fresh, green leaves, edible blooms and the most tender, tasty and nutritious wild food. Join me in this very special opportunity to spend a whole day foraging in the heart of the beautiful, magical, Hafod estate . We will explore woodland and meadows, next to waterfalls, along meandering paths and streams. We will be...

Botanical gin and wild cocktails

Botanical gin and wild cocktails

Herefordshire - Next course on 16th August 2020

Botanical gin and Wild Cocktails Find out about the history of gin and explore the huge range of fresh and dried herbs and spices that you can use to make your own gin blend. From its origins in the Middle Ages, gin has evolved from a herbal medicine to an artisan product. Create your own botanical gin using freshly foraged herbs from the garden, together with dried herbs and spices, and learn to identify and blend these botanical ingredients to make your own gin creation, which you will take away...

Create a personalised massage oil and heart shaped fabric decoration hanger using Neal's Yard essential oils and carrier oils

Create a personalised massage oil and heart shaped fabric decoration hanger using Neal's Yard essential oils and carrier oils

Lancashire - Next course on 2nd February 2020

You will be talked through the origins of essential oils and given opportunity to explore and choose those that awaken your senses. A well earned thought break will be served with tea/ coffee and heart shaped delicious cookies. You will then create your personalised blend using two Neal's Yard essential oils and mix with Neal's Yard 100ml grapeseed carrier oil to take home. After which you will add the same personalised aromatherapy blend to your fabric heart wading and sewn together with glass beads at your leisure in an aromatherapy...

Hedgerow Medicine

Hedgerow Medicine

Norfolk - Next course on 15th June 2020

Join the authors of "Hedgerow Medicine" for 5 days of connecting with plants, foraging and practical medicine making. At the end of the course, you will have a range of different seasonal medicines to take home with you, as well as the knowledge to continue working with edible and medicinal plants. The medicine making methods we will cover include tinctures, glycerites, poultices, foot baths, infusions & decoctions, electuaries, oxymels, vinegars, flower essences and distilled herbal waters.

Herb walks at the Mary Ward Centre (concessions available)

Herb walks at the Mary Ward Centre (concessions available)

London - Next course on 14th June 2020

An opportunity to see medicinal plants that grow and live in London and discover how they can be used to help our health and well-being. On our first walk we will meet at the Chelsea Physic Garden, the oldest botanical garden in London, where we will see some of the plants that provide us with food, including some of those now referred to as 'superfoods'. On our second walk we will meet at Kensington Palace Gardens. Please wear weather appropriate clothing and practical walking shoes. (Entrance fees are included in...

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