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Herbalist Susun Weed Talks Sexual Health "Down There" click below to listen... Susunweed.klccpublicradio.laura.mccandlish 2/22/2011 By Laura McCandlish The Northwest Passage featured this interview with veteran herbalist, "green witch," and author Susun Weed. She was in Eugene earlier this week speaking about herbal medicine for sexual health. She has a forthcoming book, Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way. |
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with Dawn Gettig
In this Introductory Free Webinar, Dawn will discuss some of the basics of the Native American Medicine Wheel combined with Feng Shui to create a home filled with your very own personal style and meaning.
If you missed this class or simply want to listen again click the direct link here: https://www.fuzemeeting.com/replay_meeting/wisewoman/1081461
About the Mentor: Dawn Gettig lives in northeastern Ohio in harmony with nature in her colorful, sacred home, with her husband, 2 daughters (9 and 6 years old), and 2 cats. She loves to paint, write, practice yoga, and spend time hiking and meditating in nature, where she finds inspiration and connects with spirit.
To learn more about Dawn's online course click here
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with Jan Calloway-Baxter
In this informative Free Introductory Webinar, Jan will be discussing how to begin or deepen your writing practice by standing witness to the moon’s cyclic influence in our lives.
Webinar replay direct link here: https://www.fuzemeeting.com/replay_meeting/wisewoman/1073189
ABOUT THE MENTOR: Jan Calloway-Baxter lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her Green Man/Soul Mate husband and their children, dogs, cats, and city chickens. She loves growing herbs, making medicine, cooking and eating good food, writing, making Goddess Dolls, doing almost anything with fabric and fiber, reading everything that comes her way, traveling, sleeping, listening to music, walking in the woods and sitting by the fireplace.
For more about Jan's online course click here
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with Doug Grunther
In this introductory Free Webinar Doug will discuss how your dreams can provide valuable insights into your physical, emotional and spiritual life.
Direct replay link here: https://www.fuzemeeting.com/replay_meeting/wisewoman/1069149
About the Mentor: Doug Grunther is a certified dream work facilitator and has been Woodstock, NY’s most noted radio talk show host for over twenty-five years. His program, The Dream Show, heard over WDST-FM, Woodstock, and over the Internet at WDST.com and WCBS.com, offers listeners the opportunity to call in with a dream and receive valuable insights from dream experts.
For more detailed information on Doug's online class click here
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Perinatal Mood Issues - Free Webinar
24 minutes listen at your leisure >>
with Jill Diana Chasse
Join Jill in this enlightening Free class where you will explore all of the moods that come with birth and the stages of motherhood.
Perinatal Mood Issues with Jill Diana Chasse (Free Webinar)
direct link here: https://www.fuzemeeting.com/replay_meeting/wisewoman/1057137
About the Mentor: Jill Diana Chasse, PhD is a counselor certified in "Handling Loss and Grief " and "Understanding Depression." She has additional training in postpartum depression, maternal mental health, and post traumatic stress disorder. She is a member of the APA and certified by IACT. She also holds an MS in family and developmental psychology and a certification in "Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders."
For a more detailed description of Jill's online class at the Wise Woman University click here
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Herbal Medicine Making
with Linda Conroy
Free 30 minute Webinar on Herbal Medicine Making
This six week online course starts on the first of each month. To listen to a sample class of Herbal Medicine Making with Linda Conroy click here: Live Virtual Class on Herbal Medicine Making.
The world health organization states that in some parts of the world 80% of the population uses herbal medicine for primary health care. Most of this health care occurs in the kitchen and is administered by a family member, often a mother or grandmother. Many in the western world have not had this wisdom passed on, but we still carry the memory in our cells. This course is an invitation to remember. The lessons will guide you toward looking outside at the green world to support health and wellness. The goal is to provide the tools for the beginning medicine maker. To help participants feel confident and excited about the plant world and all it has to offer.
No matter where you live there are plants that have significant healing as well as nutritive qualities. This class will include a list of my favorite herbs and the healing qualities that I appreciate about those plants. You will be invited to add to this list as you explore plants on your own. Historically a good herbalist knows a lot about a few plants and as you will see the common weeds that grow around us can offer the vast majority of support that our bodies need.
Course Outline:
The first lesson will focus on plant terminology and will provide a brief history of herbal medicine, along with the purpose and scope of herbal medicine. A step by step exercise on plant identification will be offered and a list of items you will want to purchase if you would like to actually take part in the hands on aspects of the subsequent lessons.
The second lessonwill offer information on making herbal teas, decoctions and infusions. You will learn what plants and plant parts are ideal for each preparation and how to prepare each herb for optimal benefit. Step by step instructions as well as daily exercises will be offered.
The third lesson will guide you through making your own herbal infused oils and salves. It will offer you the opportunity to learn about several significant plants that are powerful when applied topically to the skin for specific as well as general purposes. Step by step instructions will be provided and information about other approaches to topical application will be shared i.e. poultices, compresses etc.
The fourth lesson will provide information about tinctures what they are, how to ingest them and how to prepare several types including: alcohol, vinegar and glycerin based. Step by step instructions will be provided as well as information about the benefits of each medium and information about plants that are ideally prepared with each medium.
Course goals: The goal of the course is to have participants become familiar with herbal medicine, to become comfortable incorporating herbs into daily life and to gain hands on experience making simple remedies at home. Participants will have the opportunity to make a small home remedy kit that they can continue to build on over time. The kit could include up to 10 different preparations. While it is not required that participants make all 10 remedies they will be expected to make at least one remedy and one tea or infusion during the 6 week course and report back on their experience.
Learn more about this Course and the exciting information that will be offered by viewing this free promo class, where Linda gives a taste of the Medicine Making journey! Click here
To register for Herbal Medicine Making please click here and you will be directed to the Wise Woman University page.
And to learn about Linda Conroy, your mentor, in this course, click here
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Midwives Talk ~ April 3, 2011 ~ 7-9P
$40 at the door
Wise Woman Herbs for the Childbearing Year with Susun S. Weed
Contact Susan Brockmann brocbeat@optonline.net
New York State Assoc. of Licensed Midwives
Susun will discuss:
For the complete PDF of what Susun Weed will share during this event click here: Download Midwives Talk April 3, 2011
Susun Weed is the author of the Wise Woman Herbal Series, available at the Wise Woman Bookshop. Her forthcoming book Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way will be available June 2011.
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BeeKeepress Apprenticeship
May through October
This program is designed to help familiarize you with all aspects of the wise woman’s way of the beekeepress, that we will explore together. It combines practical hands on experience with a spiritual approach relating to the idea of bees as our ancient allies.
The cost is $800.00 for 10 sessions plus optional candle making session in November, includes most materials and… bees. You will need to purchase your own tie down veil. Work study is available as well as a payment plan. A down payment of $100 is required by April 1st to secure your place
May 4th Introduction to organic beekeeping principles
May 21st Honeybee language and Beeology 101
June 4th Honey Plants and Trees and plant families
June 18th The Nourishing Nectars Path of Pollen
July 2nd “ Live and let die” and other curatives
July 23rd Apitherapy Cures
August 13th Druid Fluid Mead making & Moonlodge
August 27th Robbing Bees Cut comb & Wax rendering
Sept 10th Over wintering vs migratory practices
Oct 8th Bee Priestess Ritual Graduation with Goddess Presentations
Nov 5th Candle dipping & salve making (Optional)
Ongoing is drumming and meditative practices and honey tasting
For further information and to reserve your place contact sharonamj@yahoo.com
“Go to the bee, thou poet,
consider her ways and be wise”.
George Bernard Shaw
Sharon is a Bee Priestess who is becoming each day . She has lived with bees and her partner/ husband Kirk for 30 years. She raises queen bees in the winter at their Florida Farm and is interested in developing a queen with mite resistance for Michigan. She is the owner of BeeDazzled “Gifts of the Hive” which is open May-December, specializing in Hand-dipped beeswax candles, natural soaps and skincare products. Sharon has studied Bee Priestess Drum workshops with Layne Redmond and is currently studying “The Way of the Mellisae” at the Sacred Trust in England. She has nursing background and is an herbalist trained in the “Wise Woman Way “with Jackie Rushton.
Sharon loves gardening , playing with her grand children,talking to the plants and bees and long trail rides with her horses and dog Pucca.
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A Symposium to touch your heart and soul as well as mind and spirit, this gathering is for all people enraptured by the healing essence of herbs. The International Herb Symposium offers herbal enthusiasts an incredible opportunity to learn from the worlds leading experts in botanical medicine and herbal lore. Whether a novice or advanced in your herbal interests, the Symposium offers classes, workshops, panel discussions and learning experiences to touch every level of your being.
Inspiring * Educational * Empowering
Learn, Have Fun and Network with other herbal/plant lovers
You can register online here: http://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/registration-information.html
If you would prefer, you can also call or write for a brochure and register the old fashioned way through mail and/or phone:
IHS c/o Sage Mountain Herbs
P.O. Box 420
E. Barre, VT 05649
802.479-9825
Read more about this amazing event filled with many classes, intensives and other activities: http://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/the-schedule/classes-workshops.html
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Power to the Prostate - digital download
c. 2011 Susun S Weed
MP3 audio lecture at Green Nations Gathering 2010 on the prostate by Susun Weed, sexual and reproductive health expert. Listen to a clip below and to order the entire lecture click here
For the first half of a man’s life, the prostate is invisible, unnoticed, and unimportant. At midlife, however, normal hormonal changes cause the number of cells in the prostate to increase, enlarging it. Testosterone, the primary male hormone, interacts with an enzyme called 5-alpha-reductase, to form dihydrotestosterone (DHT), which prompts cellular proliferation in the prostate.
This normal, age-related prostate enlargement often occurs without symptoms. But symptomless prostate enlargement may also be caused by early stage prostate cancer. Modern medicine, through tests such as PSA, attempts to distinguish benign swelling from malignant changes.
If your PSA is elevated, you may be urged to have further tests. Wait! Injecting dye into your bladder, inserting a tiny telescope through your penis, even being catheterized, can be irritating, painful, counterproductive, and damaging. Before agreeing to invasive diagnostic tests, try these effective herbal and food remedies.
MP3 audio lecture at Green Nations Gathering 2010 on the prostate by Susun Weed, sexual and reproductive health expert. Listen to a clip below and to purchase the entire lecture click here
You can learn more about sexual and reproductive health in Susun's new book, due out on June 21, 2011! "Down There:Sexual and Reproductive Health the Wise Woman Way".
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