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 Intensive you will learn:
Ø introduction to botanical terms
Ø plant families and identification
Ø medicine wheel & plant energy
Ø drying and storage
Ø doctrine of signatures
Ø harvesting
You will also learn how to prepare and apply herbs in a practical and fun “hands on” setting:
Ø Poultices, fomentations and compresses
Ø Infusions, decoctions and juices
Ø Sweat baths, inhalations
Ø Herbal oils and salves
Ø Enemas and douches
Ø Tinctures, herbal vinegars
Ø Preparations for eyes, teeth, sinus and nose
Ø Glycerites, syrups and more…
Someone might get a poultice applied; another a compress. Faces often contort as we taste the various decoctions!
We learn how to prepare and apply herbs in a practical and fun “hands on” setting.
Plus: 1/2 day Medicine Wheel Workshop, July 15th, 1-4 pm
Ø Understand the 4 element model that has endured from ancient cultures around the world,
Ø Learn to apply this to 4 pillars of health:
- physical,
- spiritual,
- mental and
- emotional.
Ø Learn to understand herbs and conditions
People can take Medicine Wheel Workshop on its own, (Contact the office) and those attending the Intensive are encouraged to arrive early and participate in the Medicine Wheel workshop.
One trained practitioner from Calgary, Alberta wrote this in her evaluation:
“I learned to identify herbs out in the field, herbs which I have used with people for many years but never knew what they looked like. It was great to see them in their natural habitat. It helped me get to know them better as living beings! ”
Monica H. Calgary, AB.
Join us to experience the healing powers we have been provided with by getting in touch with herbs. Feel the peace of nature seep into your cells, guided by one of Canada’s leading herbal experts, Master Herbalist and Healer of over 30 years.
On beautiful Vancouver Island, British Columbia – build a holiday of your lifetime around this event! Please contact our office for posters with details.
You will keep a minimum of three herbal products you help make.
Date: Friday-Monday, July 15th– 18th, 2011
Investment: $475 includes: ½ day Medicine Wheel Workshop Fri, plus 3 full days Sat, Sun, Mon, all supplies, samples, and organic lunches.
Early Bird Discount for payment received by June 15th: save $100!
Registration closes July 7th $50 of registration fee is a non-refundable deposit
About the Instructor: Lorene Benoit is a Health Educator with a Bachelor of Education in Biology and Physical Education. She has a Master of Holistic Health; is Certified as Herbal Consultant, Iridologist, Contact Reflex Analyst and several Body-Mind Healing modalities. She has engendered nutrition, lifestyle management and natural therapies for more than 30 years. Her passion is empowering people through down to earth education of their own bodies, herbs and health on all levels. In her vision to help people move towards optimum health, she offers consultations in her Vancouver Island office, writes and travels extensively to lecture and teach. This annual intensive is a favourite, where all the connections of healing come together in nature!
Location: These courses are being taught on 5 wild and cultivated acres within the temperate rain forest, and riparian (riverside) habitat of the Cowichan River, Vancouver Island.
5175 Bills Road, Duncan, British Columbia, V9L 6S7, Canada
Payment: Money order can be mailed to Lorene Benoit at above address.
A list of local accommodations, B&Bs, or camping options & other activities available to help you stay and enjoy the Cowichan Valley paradise!
Register: Health Education, 250-748-6802 ;
email: TakeTheNaturalPath@gmail.com
I can only encourage everyone to attend this inspiring & educational event. Once you embark on this opportunity to identify, smell, and work with a wide variety of herbs you will gain a greater understanding and appreciation of the healing powers herbs have to offer. The medicine wheel and other teachings on all pillars of health will bring you closer to nature and discovering your true inner self – reminding you the importance of incorporating all aspects of life into your daily living to achieve well-being.
I attended this event last year accompanied by people whom travelled from afar. Vancouver Island also serves as a great location spot – the beauty will amaze you.
Take advantage of this event held in a beautiful paradise – only a walk away from a crystal clear river, taught by a very knowledgeable and successful instructor & provided with delicious meals fresh from the garden!
Lorene
This course was amazing! This was the first time I was introduced to this kind of information.
I am a farmer and know alot about plants; but not these plants.
I was in awe about all the different uses for these plants, and all the different ways of doing things
with them. Who knew, that the things we call weeds are so beneficial to our health. The Medicine Wheel,
is a brilliant idea. One that I hope to duplicate in my yard this year.
The organic lunches were very delicious. It was the first time I tasted pesto.
I came to this course because I want to learn what people in the past (my grandparents ages and older),
use to do to treat people of their ailments. They never ran to the doctor for everything. This course is
soooo informative, I may need to come back, to let the information all soak in, deeper.
Your course has also led me into the Certified Health Consultant program at Tree of Light. Your course
and this course complement each other very nicely.
Keep up the awesome work Lorene, our society really does need to be educated!
Kerry
Hi Lorene
Many thanks for the information you so readily share in presenting the world of herbal medicine. As we are inundated with pharmaceuticals which provide bandaid medicine, it is refreshing to embrace the world of plants that are naturally provided for us and support the healing mechanisms of the body. Getting out in the field with you is a necessary primer to identifying and recognizing the plant world and all it offers. Sorry I’m unable to join you this year. Also your book on PawPaw is extremely helpful in guiding my clients who are seeking alternative treatments in dealing with cancer!
Yours truly,
Carole Quinn,Reg.N, E.T., IEWS., Cert Auricular Medicine.
Ontario, CA
I will try to attend Summer Herbal Intensive, July 15th to 18th. Please try to recommend bed and breakfast, or good accommodation close to you. I have never travelled to Duncan. My husband and I have spent time in Victoria. We would drive down together and I would be interested in the course. Many thanks. Fran Kovacs
I would highly recommend the herbal intensive course with Lorene. She is very knowledgeable and a great teacher. The area itself is stunningly beautiful. The workshop is well worth the investment!
Tara
Vancouver, BC
Hi Fran , there are lots of great accommodations nearby; I will send you an attachment I have with updated prices on some B&B and hotel options. We do have space for 1 or 2 people also as our B&B guests, although we have a natural health student from Holland already booked for one month. I am pleased that there will some veteran health experts like yourself attending – there is always a good variation on learning levels and something for everyone!
Hi Everyone,
I took this Herbal Intensive with Lorene back in July of 2007. I had a blast and look forward to doing it again sometime. The Cowichan Valley is absolutely stunning.
Thanks for your comments Dawn. I certainly enjoyed your input on the course you attended here, and would love to have you join us again, as there is different learning every year. Each person coming always contributes something special, and we are looking forward to a great class this year with Canadians from a few locations, and well as our natural health student from the Nederlands!
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Thank you Janna for pointing this out. We have no idea why this error occurred, but have fixed it on both the Herbal Intensive July, 2011 and July, 2012 blogs. Must be some weird computer glitch. Next Herbal Intensive will be July, 2013. Hope you will check back in to our website blog for details, but heads up it will probably be July 19th-22nd.
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