The kidneys are a lot more active than you might think!

They're more than mere "filters" for the blood; they work proactively to maintain the mineral and chemical balance of your blood, and to keep your fluids moving and circulating.

Learning to take good care of them, as well as the bladder and urinary vessels, goes far beyond "herbs for UTI" - though that's a good place to start! We'll take you through the whole system so that you can keep everything running right.


The course includes 10 hours of video instruction, as well as PDF quick guides, quizzes and homework assignments, and integrated discussions where you can talk directly with Ryn and Katja.


Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Urinary Health!

    2. Live Q&A sessions twice a week!

    3. Mountain Rose Herbs + Foster Farms discount codes

    4. How to use this platform

    5. The "What's New" button on your dashboard

    6. How to use the Discussions feature

    7. Meet our Friends!

    8. Chatting in the Community Space

    9. Use of Course Material (Intellectual Property)

    10. Herbalism (and health!) is Bioregional

    11. Herbalism (and health!) is Bioregional [audio]

    12. Every Body is Different

    13. Course Outline

    14. Action Prompt: Plan Your Herbs!

    1. Introduction and Kidneys

    2. Introduction and Kidneys [audio]

    3. The Bladder

    4. The Bladder [audio]

    5. Ureters, Urethra, and the Pelvic Floor

    6. Ureters, Urethra, & the Pelvic Floor [audio]

    7. Squatting

    8. Squatting [audio]

    9. Squatting more

    10. Pelvic Floor Party

    11. On Water...

    12. On Water [audio]

    13. Quick Guide: Urinary A&P

    14. Urinary A&P Quiz

    1. Herbal Actions for the Urinary System, part 1

    2. Herbal Actions for the Urinary System, part 1 [audio]

    3. Herbal Actions for the Urinary System, part 2

    4. Herbal Actions for the Urinary System, part 2 [audio]

    5. Quick Guide: Herbal Actions for Urinary Health

    6. Urinary Actions Quiz

    1. Urinary Tract Infections

    2. Urinary Tract Infections [audio]

    3. Yeast Infections

    4. Yeast Infections [audio]

    5. BPH - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

    6. BPH - Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia [audio]

    7. The trouble with PSA testing

    8. Understanding probability in screening tests

    9. Kidney Stones

    10. Kidney Stones [audio]

    11. Antibiotics and Kidney Stones article in Medical News Today

    12. Oral antibiotics and their relation to kidney stones, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

    13. Antibiotics and Kidney Stones, JASN 2018

    14. Gout

    15. Gout [audio]

    16. More on Gout

    17. Incontinence and Overactive Bladder

    18. Incontinence and Overactive Bladder [audio]

    19. Pelvic floor insufficiency and incontinence

    20. Incontinence and the Pelvic Floor

    21. Magic Pants for incontinence

    22. Interstitial Cystitis

    23. Interstitial Cystitis [audio]

    24. Nutrition and Interstitial Cystitis

    25. Covid and Interstitial Cystitis (and other urinary inflammatory issues)

    26. Autoimmune Nephritis

    27. Autoimmune Nephritis [audio]

    28. The "Nettle and Friends" blend

    29. Kidney-Endocrine connection

    30. Kidney-Endocrine Connection [audio]

    31. Quick Guide: Urinary Pathology

    32. Additional pathology resources

    33. Urinary Pathology Quiz

    1. Simple Steps to Building Urinary Health

    2. Building Urinary Health

    3. Building Urinary Health [audio]

    1. Materia Medica for the Urinary System [printable]

    2. 🌿💊 Herb-Drug Interaction notes for Urinary Health

    3. 🌿Herb Safety in Pregnancy🌿

    4. Urinary Materia Medica part 1

    5. Urinary Materia Medica part 1 [audio]

    6. More on Juniper

    7. Urinary Materia Medica part 2

    8. Urinary Materia Medica part 2 [audio]

    9. Cranberry Relish

    10. Urinary Materia Medica part 3

    11. Urinary Materia Medica part 3 [audio]

    12. Dandelion as a Diuretic

    13. Urinary Materia Medica part 4

    14. Urinary Materia Medica part 4 [audio]

    15. Saw Palmetto research

    16. Saw Palmetto studies

    17. Urinary Materia Medica part 5

    18. Urinary Materia Medica part 5 [audio]

    19. The "Nettle and Friends" blend

    20. Urinary Materia Medica Quiz

About this course

  • $150.00
  • 100 lessons
  • 11 hours of video content

But wait, there's more! 🙂

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

  • Lifetime access - so you can review the content as many times as you like, forever!

  • Weekly live Q&A sessions with Katja and Ryn - to ask your questions directly, live and in person! (They're even archived, in case you miss one!) This course has 1 year 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

  • Printable PDF materials - if you like to follow the videos along on paper, or keep them handy for a quick reference

  • Downloadable MP3 files - so you can review the content while you commute, workout, garden, ... anytime!

Certificate Information

You will receive a certificate for the successful completion of this course. 

This course has 37 credit hours.

This represents the actual time of video instruction and live Q&A, as well as the time allocated for your capstone assignment, quizzes, and other assignments & activities required for completion of the course.


It is reasonable to plan about twice that much time to complete the work: this is because most students like to watch the videos more than once, review their notes, and many students complete more than the required activities. You might also enjoy joining a study group in our Student Community, and you might choose to work on extra activities together as a group to help you internalize all that you've learned. 


Regardless of how long it takes you, there is never any pressure! You have access to this material for life, and in fact, when we add updates and new materials, you receive it all for free, automatically!


If new material is added after you have received your certificate, we are happy to send you a new updated certificate to document the additional time when you complete the new material.

Scholarships & Discounts

You can find complete information about our scholarships and discounts here.

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"I researched different online herbalism courses for about two months and am so glad I found you two. There is so much more than just the material to this course. Because you teach everything in videos, and then with the live Q&A sessions every week, I feel like this is more of an in-person experience than an online course and I love that."

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So much detail

Jessica Morse

This course is wonderfully comprehensive, well-laid out, and full of herbal knowledge. It includes an introduction to urinary A&P, holistic approaches t...

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This course is wonderfully comprehensive, well-laid out, and full of herbal knowledge. It includes an introduction to urinary A&P, holistic approaches to building better urinary health habits, urinary pathology (and plenty of it!), in-depth discussions on herbal materia medica suited for the urinary system, and wraps up with a summary road-map for maintaining urinary health. Thanks for such a great course!

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5 star rating

useful course!

Cari Nadeau

absolutely amazing! I started using this material right away at work helping people with herbs!!!

absolutely amazing! I started using this material right away at work helping people with herbs!!!

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Your Teachers

Two heads are better than one!


Katja & Ryn
Katja & Ryn

Katja & 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.

Katja is an herbalist and teacher working to help people rebuild their relationships with their bodies and their own ability to heal. She’s been in practice for nearly 20 years, but it all began with a desire to make her own “fancy tea” at home instead of paying high prices for imported blends at specialty stores. She’s kept that do-it-yourself ethic close to her heart.

Ryn has been a practicing herbalist since 2010. He came to herbalism by way of martial arts, where his first experiences with herbs were focused on getting back into the game and becoming more flexible, adaptable, and resilient. Passing that experience on to others is what keeps him motivated every day.

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. Ryn and Katja are also the creators of the weekly Holistic Herbalism Podcast.

Zero-Risk Return Policy

Teaching isn't just about conveying information - there's also an aspect of being someone's "cup of tea".

So we want you to take the first 14 days to really decide if you love it or not. If for any reason you feel like this program isn’t right for you - if we're just not your cup of tea - we’ll give you a full refund. You don't even need a reason - just please let us know within 14 days of purchase.