Thanks for your interest in the 2025 PLANT as PORTAL Class!
The PLANT as PORTAL apprenticeship is something I look forward to every year. Teaching this class has become a huge passion of mine; a personal, beautiful, continuous ritual of honoring the beloved plants, seasons, and ancestors. I would be honored to have you join us.
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:: PLANT as PORTAL ::: Herbal Apprenticeship
This is a 7 month Herbal Apprenticeship from April to October, 2025.
You can sign up for EITHER Monday evening OR Tuesday evening from 6 - 9:00 pm.
This is a path for those who wish to cultivate a deep relationship with the ancient use of plants for healing, ritual and transformation. Form a real connection to the healers growing alongside us in our forests and own backyards. Through lecture and hands-on experience students will learn about the inner workings of our body’s systems and how plants have a direct impact. We will start each class with a 2 hour lecture and end with a lecture-related herbal medicine making workshop. Students will take home herbs and herbal remedies each week.
There will be many herb walks to ID and learn about traditional uses of local plants, we will spend time in local gardens within Bloomington, as well as, swim, sweat, laugh, dream, and cry together.
Expect to learn:
Herbal Actions
Plant communication, folklore, alter building, dreaming with plants
Making herbal formulas, tinctures, decoctions, syrups, herbal smoke medicine, ointments, poultices, flower essences, etc.
Medicinal Mushrooms
Holistic Dentistry
Basic Nutrition
Local Plant ID
Healing body systems - digestive, nervous, immune, skin, endocrine, urinary, respiratory, etc.
Personalized Herbal First Aid Kits
Connection to ancestry
Total cost ::: sliding scale from $1000 - $1400 - Payment plans are available - 4 payments of $250-$350 ((Non-Refundable)) You Must contact me directly if you need a payment plan, otherwise a full payment is due before or on the first day of class.
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::: DATES :::
Please note :: you are signing up for EITHER Monday night or Tuesday night class, and will only be attending ONE Saturday or Sunday class per month. Ideally, Monday’s students would attend Saturday classes and Tuesday’s students would attend Sundays class - but this is flexible.
April
Mon 7th / Tues 8th - 6:00 to 9:00
Mon 21st / Tues 22nd - 6:00 to 9:00
Sat 26th / Sun 27th - 10:00 to 1:00
MAY
Mon 5th / Tues 6th - 6:00 to 9:00
Mon 19th / Tues 20th - 6:00 to 9:00
Sat 24th / Sun 25th - 10:00 to 1:00
JUNE
Mon 2nd/ Tues 3rd - 6:00 to 9:00
Sat 28th / Sun 29th - 10:00 to 1:00
JULY
Mon 7th / Tues 8th - 6:00 to 9:00
Mon 21st / Tues 22nd - 6:00 to 9:00
Sat 26th / Sun 27th- 10:00 to 1:00
AUGUST
Mon 4th / Tues 5th - 6:00 to 9:00
Mon 18th / Tues 19th - 6:00 to 9:00
Sat 23rd / Sun 24th - 10:00 to 1:00
SEPTEMBER
Mon 1st / Tues 2nd - 6:00 to 9:00
Mon 15th / Tues 16th - 6:00 to 9:00
Saturday 27th / Sunday 28th - 10:00 to 1:00
OCTOBER
Sat 4th / Sun 5th - 11:00 to 2:00
Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions, I am happy to chat with you . Email - indianaherbalcenter@gmail.com