How to combine intellect and instinct, to achieve a better understanding of how to use herbs, will be explored. Noticing our first impressions, checking out our hunches, honoring our feelings and validating our innate power to discern the true nature of a person, plant, or a disease will be discussed. This course will answer these and many other questions to help the student to develop a standard of professionalism, essential to a successful herbal practice. An introduction to the history, theory and practical application of water for healing. We will examine water treatments alone and with herbs, and whenever practical and possible, students will practice hands-on application of the therapies introduced.
Special attention is directed towards the unseen role denial plays in a client's health.
This course considers the role the practitioner plays as a facilitator in the clients process of assuming personal responsibility for his or her healing. We will explore techniques of grounding, centering, sensing and sending energy, and emotional and physical body-balancing. Students will become conscious of the energetic space they open in their lives for healing and how they can become responsible for what enters or leaves that space. Healing the evolving emotional body, by understanding the role denial of it has in creating disease in the body, will be the focus of this course. Students will be introduced to a variety of subjects designed to enhance their own personal growth and healing process.