Workshops
Welcome to the workshop and events page. This is where you have the opportunity to take a course, participate in a webinar, herb camp or go for a walk to enhance your knowledge of herbal medicine.
Often workshops are for both those who are beginners and curious and for those who have practicing herbal medicine professionally for years. Hope to see you at a workshop soon.
Workshops for Winter 2025
Let's Tend to Our Hearts
A webinar Tuesday, April 1 7:00PM, to 8:30PM EST
On-line
Cost: $20.00 (E-transfers work)
To Register: email Abrah at abrah.arneson@gmail.com
Let’s tend to our hearts with a herbal tea formula to calm and mend your heart, stories to heal the heart and a simple meditation to make your heart whole.
This session will be recorded if you can’t make the date.
The Herstory of Women, Plants and Contraception A webinar
Tuesday, May 13 7:00PM to 8:30PM EST
On-line
Cost: $20.00 (E-transfers work)
To Register: email Abrah at abrah.arneson@gmail.com
Let’s time travel to the Essex County in the 1500’s and meet Agnus Waterhouse, the first woman hanged in England under the country’s newly written witch craft laws. Agnus was a herbalist who practiced woman’s medicine using the plants growing in her garden and the meadows near her home. During this workshop we will explore how women lost the knowledge of plants used for contraception while discussing the plants Agnus offered the women in her community to support their reproductive health. Be ready to deepen your understanding of Moon Medicine.
Nuance of Herb Series Beginning in September 2025
On-line
To Register: email Abrah at abrah.arneson@gmail.com
A Deep Dive to the Language Herbalists Use to Describe a Plant’s Medicine
Have you ever leafed through an herbal only to discover every plant is an anti-inflammatory. Have you ever wondered why there are so many herbal diuretic when it seems all herbal teas make you pee? Then there is question of anti-microbials which seem to be able to support a healthy the microbiome as oppose to killing off a specific microbe.
During these webinars we will explore how to understand a plant beyond the actions it is labeled through its taxonomy, phytoconstituents that determine a plants energetics, traditional uses and biomedical research.
Get ready to rethink your thinking on plants and their medicine.
Dates
(all webinars will take place between 6:30 and 8pm EST)
September 23 – The Anti-inflammatories
October 21 – The Anti-microbials
November 25 – The Aromatics
(No December Class)
January 13 – The Bitters
February 24 – The Emmenagogues
March 27 – The Diuretics
April 21 – The Laxatives
May 26 – The Demulcents
Costs
- Buy the full series for $160.00 plus 20.80 tax total 180.80
- Buy one webinar at a time for $25.00 plus 3.25 tax total 28.25
- Cash or E-Transfer
Please note: The Webinars will be recorded. Recordings will be sent out the morning after each session and will be available for 1 month to download.
Downloadable PDF of Workshops for Winter 2024
Let’s Talk about Emmenagogues
Tuesday, January 23 at 7pm – 8:30pm
On-line
Cost: $20.00
To Register: email Abrah at abrah.arneson@gmail.com
There always seems to be confusion around plants assigned the action of emmenagogue. Women wonder are emmenagogues safe during pregnancy? Herbalist wonder if one should offer emmenagogues when the period is heavy? During this workshop we will explore the origins of the word emmenagogue, the difference between emmenagogues and abor;facients, and take a deep dive into the medicine some plants labeled as emmenagogues carry.
Please note, if you are not able to take part in the class on the 23rd, a recording of the class will be sent out the following morning.
Let’s talk about the Cervix
Tuesday, February 13 at 7pm. – 8:30pm
On-line
Cost: $20.00
To Register: email Abrah at abrah.arneson@gmail.com
During this workshop we will take a close look at the cervix, its anatomy and physiology, health challenges and how to protect it with herbal medicine.
Please note, if you are not able to take part in the class on the 23rd, a recording of the class will be sent out the following morning.
Let’s Talk About Inflammation, Anti-inflammatories and Herbal Medicine
Tuesday, March 19 at 7pm. – 8:30pm
On-line
Cost: $20.00
To Register: email Abrah at abrah.arneson@gmail.com
Is inflammation a healing response or a disease process? How are plants that reduce inflammation different from pharmaceutical drugs when it comes to easing inflammation? During this workshop we will look at what inflammation is and its causes as well as how plant medicine helps bring it to resolution.
Please note, if you are not able to take part in the class on the 23rd, a recording of the class will be sent out the following morning.
Downloadable PDF of Workshops for Fall 2023
Herbs for Contraception
Tuesday, October 17 at 7pm
On zoom.
Cost: $15.00
Let’s talk about how to use herbs to control your fertility. We will talk about the challenges and the benefits and you can ask me whatever you are needing to ask.
Awakening Ancestors
Tuesday, October 24 at 7pm.
On zoom.
Cost: $15.00
Join me to explore how plants and intention can help us understand the lives of our ancestors and heal transgenerational trauma.
The
Nuance of Herbal Medicine:
Bitter Pungent Herbs
Tuesday, November 28 at 7pm
On zoom
Cost: $15.00
Bitter pungent herbs offer useful winter time medicine for chest colds, bronchitis, even pneumonia. They are also good to move a sluggish digestion along. Just to name two of the ways herbalists use them. But how do you decide which bitter pungent herb to use. This evening we will explore the different medicine Elecampane, Sweet Flag, Angelica and Rosemary carries even though they are all classed as bitter/pungent herbs.
Dreaming Your Medicine
Tuesday, December 19 at 7pm
On zoom
Cost: $15.00
May your dreams bring you medicine on the longest nights of the year. Herbalist from all traditions have used dreams to seek and understand a plant’s medicine or a patient’s health. Let’s spend an evening talking about the medicine in dreams.
To register for any of these workshops, please reach out to me through email: abrah.arneson@gmail.com