Herbal Intensive: What, Why and How? The Cowichan Valley supports a lush growth of plants that have been traditionally used for medicinal purposes, as well as for food. Join us to study indigenous, wild, and cultivated botanical with a Master Herbalist who has 35 years experience. In this 3 1/2 day Intensive you [...]
According to Stanford Research Institute 80% of all consumers are very interested in improving their personal health. The public is inundated with thousands of well meaning health companies trying to sell them products. The internet is loaded with various health products, Alive and other health magazines are full of advertisements and all ads are very [...]
Local Education 2013 Home Herbal First Aid Learn to understand and feel confident in the uses of herbal first aid treatments. We will learn remedies for common colds, flu, cuts, burns, fever, diarrhea, cramps, and more. Will look at sources and costs to prepare your own herbal first aid kit. Tues. Jan. 15th – [...]
We had 10 people take part in our 2012 Annual Medicine Wheel workshop to learn how the four elements can be used to understand the actions and principles of herbs, and then how this apply this knowledge to help keep us healthy. A smaller group of us joined together for the next 3 days of [...]
A quick hello from the Yukon, where we are enjoying a visual palette of blooms: wild blue lupin, lady slippers, jacob’s ladder, sages, which is the common name, although they are not of the sage family, but rather Artemisia. Not yet in bloom but coming up are delphinium, yarrow and more. I have included a [...]
Herbal Intensive: What, Why and How? The Cowichan Valley supports a lush growth of plants that have been traditionally used for medicinal purposes, as well as for food. We will study indigenous, wild, and some cultivated botanicals with a Master Herbalist who has 30 years experience. In this 3 1/2 day [...]
Our Annual Herbal Intensive was busy and full of stewing and brewing. As we had typical West Coast winter weather, (not at all typical for July!), picking and identifying had to fit in between sun and rain spells. Despite this we learned how to identify, harvest, store, prepare and use over 30 herbs on this [...]
We have been enjoying these sunny days preparing our herb gardens for the upcoming Medicine Wheel Workshop and Annual Herbal Intensive. Registration is open until July 14th. For more information or for help with achieving your optimum health levels, please contact our office by phone: 250-748-6802 email: TakeTheNaturalPath@gmail.com Website www.naturalpathremedies.com Articles added to our blog since [...]
Our Medicine Wheel workshop integrates the four pillars of health: physical, spiritual, mental and emotional with the four elements: air, fire, earth and water. We learn the actions of the medicinal herbs in each category and their use for healing. Friday, July 15th 1:00 – 4:00 pm About the Instructor: Lorene Benoit is a Health [...]
Perhaps having lived in northern BC and the Yukon for 13 years makes the Summer Solstice very special to me, so I just wanted to send blessings and wishes to enjoy the energy that this offers us. Here’s interesting advice about the solstice that is timely: http://spiritualnetworks.com/shamancarla/blog/summer-solstice-a-message-from-the-elders-whispering-in-the-winds/ Looking forward to a great Herbal Intensive this [...]