Start your Herbal Journey

We offer two totally free courses to help you start your herbal journey!

(really free - no credit card required!)

Each course gives you lifetime access to all the materials (video, audio, and printables!), AND access to our live Q&A sessions each week. Plus you'll have access to our student community, so you can chat with new herby friends from across the country and around the world!

 

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This free course teaches you the strategies we use to get healthy and stay healthy - naturally.

These are skills you can apply right now to improve your practice, no matter how long you've been practicing herbalism!

 

Herbal Energetics
How do we choose the right herbs? How do we build formulas that work? Learn to work with your senses to identify the most appropriate and effective medicinal plants for each person.

Four Pillars of Good Health
How do we maintain good health? Four cardinal areas of lifestyle and habit - nourishing food, manageable stress, abundant movement, and restorative sleep - are all critical for staying vital and resilient.

Aligning with Nature
How do we know it's working? How do we know that what we're doing is going to help? When we support the body, we're going in the right direction.

Herbalism as a Lifestyle
How do we fit herbs into our busy lives? Herbalism isn't just for "medicine" - it's for nourishment, self-care, and delightful indulgence too!

Each chapter includes about 20 minutes of video as well as supporting materials, activities, and more.

Plus you'll be invited to our Live Q&A sessions that happen twice a week, every week, where you can ask us anything!

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This course made it all make sense!

I never understood why sometimes herbs worked and sometimes they didn't - but now I totally get it!
I feel like I know "the secret" now - I can't wait to learn more!
-Jesse S.
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This free course makes learning herbalism easier!

This free course is filled with exercises and activities you can do to help you actually remember everything - so that you're ready when you need it!

It's a fun way to support your herbal journey, no matter where it leads!

 

Learning your way
Learning is easier when you find the ways that are best for you. Some people learn by taking notes and some people really need to experience something in order to learn it. This course has a whole chapter of activities you can do to match up your studies with the best learning style for you.

Study without the stress
So many people feel pressure to "be a good student", but herbalism doesn't require you to sit up straight and have your number 2 pencils sharp! Herbalism is a skill you live in! There are activities and exercises to help you bring herbalism out of the theory and into your life - because once you live it, you won't forget it!

Learning with kids
Sometimes folks want to share herbs with the kids in their lives - we've got activities you can do with children to make it easy for them to learn! And sometimes folks are trying to learn and parent at the same time: no problem! We've got solutions for that too!

Our favorite herbal formulas
Bonus - we also share three of our favorite herbal formulas and break down how we created each one, so that you can incorporate these steps in creating your own successful herbal formulas!

This course includes about 4.5 hours of video as well as supporting materials, activities, and more.

Plus you'll be invited to our Live Q&A sessions that happen twice a week, every week, where you can ask us anything!

alicia jackson
Falling into place

I've learned about herbs from lots of different places but it's hard to remember what i learned when i need it. Now it's all falling into place in my head. And I even made my own version of your "gut heal" formula!
-Alicia J.
Start the Herbal Study Tips course - FREE!

But wait, there's more!

In every course we offer, we provide features to accommodate all the different ways people like to learn, so you can internalize the information easily!

You'll get:

Lifetime Access
Every single one of our courses comes with lifetime access, so you can review the content as many times as you like, forever!

Weekly live Q&A sessions with Katja and Ryn
Ask your questions directly, live and in person, twice a week! (They're even archived, so you can watch them anytime!) This course has 3 months of live Q&A support.

Ask questions anytime
We're always just a click away: you can ask any questions in the integrated discussion forum, and we're committed to personally answering your questions, usually within 24 hours

Multiple formats for every learning style
You'll get self-paced videos if you like to watch-and-learn. You also get downloadable .mp3 files you can take with you anywhere, so you can learn on the go! And there are printable PDF quickguides if you like to have visual cues.

Join the conversation in the Community Space
We have our own herbal community where you can chat with other students - and you don't have to log into social media to do it!

Online herbal courses for beginners all the way to professional mentorship!

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Your Instructors

katja and rynKatja & Ryn almost always teach together. They each have particular talents and areas of interest, and their perspectives on certain issues are quite different! Together, they convey a fuller picture of the realities of herbal theory & practice than either one could do alone.

Ryn and Katja are the authors of Herbal Medicine for Beginners, and the creators of the weekly Holistic Herbalism Podcast.
Together, Katja and Ryn teach everyone from children to elders, as well as pharmacy students from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Northeastern University School of Pharmacy, where they both serve as associate faculty.

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