Forest to Sea: Earth Based Medicine

With Yarrow Willard

September 1 - 6, 2020

Date and Time Details:
Starts with dinner on September 1
Ends with lunch on September 6

Location: Cortes Island

Tuition: $545 + $30 Material Fee (covers costs of Herbal Pharmacy supplies - participants will take home medicines they create in the workshop).

Package Price: $1,130 - $1,890/ 5 nights. Includes tuition, material fee room, all meals, and Hollyhock activities (depends on accommodation choice). Excludes taxes and fees. A $395 deposit is required at registration, with the balance due on your departure day.

Scholarships: Full and partial scholarships are available based on financial need. We prioritize Indigenous people, people of colour, people who identify as LGBTQ2IA+, youth, elders, and those who can articulate how their Hollyhock experience will support positive impact in their life and communities. A $195 refundable deposit is required, please apply within your registration form.

  • Single w/shared bathroom* – CAD $2,197.50
  • Couple w/ensuite Oceanfront* – CAD $4,230.00
  • Couple w/ensuite* – CAD $3,835.00
  • Couple w/shared bathroom* – CAD $3,440.00
  • Twin w/ensuite oceanfront* – CAD $2,117.50
  • Twin w/ensuite* – CAD $1,917.50
  • Twin w/shared bathroom* – CAD $1,717.50
  • Three-share w/shared bathroom* – CAD $1,512.50
  • Women Dorm – CAD $1,267.50
  • Women Dorm - Upper Bunk – CAD $1,267.50
  • Mixed Dorm – CAD $1,267.50
  • Mixed Dorm - Upper Bunk – CAD $1,267.50
  • Tent Site Single – CAD $1,242.50
  • Tent Site Couple – CAD $2,235.00
  • Glamping – CAD $1,167.50
  • Commuter – CAD $1,067.50
    • (All prices include CAD $942.50 base amount)

This program will either be moved to a virtual gathering, be rescheduled to another date in 2021, or cancelled. 

We are currently working out all the details. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you so much for your patience, support, and understanding.

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Awaken the herbalist within and deepen your connection to the healing power of the natural world.

Learn to recognize the nature of health, disease, flow and relationship, as you sharpen your senses and grow your connection with the medicinal plants, mushrooms, and seaweeds of the west coast.

In this intensive we will evolve our understanding of holistic health and the earth based medicine path. In doing so, we will explore a variety of techniques, tools, wisdom teaching and old world diagnostic practice, as we build a rich language of relationship with the world around us.

Our time will be broken up into blocks of direct connection, group work, plant walks, medicine making, and mindfulness practices. All woven together with a focus on deepening connection and relationship our path as healers and active stewards of the earth.

Participants will walk away a rich understanding of a variety of healing modalities,  samples of the herbal products we make together in class, and an in-depth medicine crafting hand-out to start creating at home with. They will also get a PDF version of all the diagnosis maps, slides, and diagrams used in class.

Be prepared to take notes, get your hands dirty and build your confidence in our ability to support the health of people, plants and planet.

This Program will support you to:

  • Learn the language(s) that nature speaks in
  • Feel into the intelligent design found in yourself and other organisms
  • Read and recognize patterns of health and disease and stagnation and flow
  • Harvest and Process plants in an ethically and integral way
  • Make a wide variety of plant medicines and herbal preparations
  • Get to know the plants, mushrooms, seaweed and other organisms found in the pacific northwest ecosystem
  • Weave together wisdom teachings from old world herbal systems
  • Build a deeper relationship with people, plants and planet

 

About the Presenter

Yarrow Willard

Yarrow Willard (Herbal Jedi) is a second generation Clinical/Master Herbalist, residing in the unceeded territory of the Comox First Nations on Vancouver Island. He is the co-founder of Harmonic Arts, and Director of the Wild Rose College of Herbal Medicine. As an educator, YouTuber and herbal ambassador, Yarrow delivers rich and original content, focused on reclaiming health […]

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