She is a registered expressive arts therapist, music therapist and has practiced authentic movement for many years. Lori has worked in the field of arts and healing since 1981. This course will provide an introduction to the plants of the western materia medica with a focus on using mediciinal plants within a holistic approach to health. There is an emphasis on developing a sensory and experiential realtionship with the medicinal plants and students will participate in hands-on preparations of plant medicines. Attention will be paid to ecology, aspects of cultivation, and preservation of wild plant populations.
Course includes two field trips to local medicinal herb gardens.
Within, an herbal apprenticeship program for women. She has extensive knowledge of healing plants and is formulator for Herbal Abundance, an herbal product company making extracts and oils since 1990. EMDR helps people clear past traumatic events from their systems by using patterned eye movements in an integrative therapy. These patterned eye movements act in the way REM or dream sleep works, to process information that is held in the body-mind and to release it. In this course students will learn the basic EMDR method and a variety of protocols for a wide range of diagnostic categories.