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SUMMARY:Aromatics Herbalism Weekend: Crafting Hydrosols\, Essential Oils\, Herbal Incenses\, Smokes and More
DESCRIPTION:This event is FULL with the exception of a few Friday night spots and space available in the Sunday session for students with prior herbal experience! \n Join us for a weekend of unique herbal offerings on aromatic herbalism at the beautiful Rhoneymeade Arboretum.  Our weekend will center around aromatic herbalism–the unique oils and scents in plants\, and ways to unlock their medicinal value.  This will include an overview of aromatics and aromatic medicine making using local and wildcrafted ingredients.  This will include how to make several unique aromatic medicines\, including essential oils and hydrosols\, herbal incenses\, herbal smoking blends\, and more. We will also offer two opportunities for plant-based ceremonies with aromatic herbs.  On Friday evening\, you will have an opportunity to deep dive into one of two tracks: learning about the breath/diaphragm and how breath is a center point of healing with aromatic medicine (with Briel) or for those more spiritually inclined\, experiencing an introduction to plant spirit communication and a plant initiation ceremony (with Dana).  Advanced herbal students can also stay for our advanced herbal intensive on Sunday (for students who have completed at least 25 hours of herbal instruction with us).   \nWe note that this weekend is a very unique offering:  the medicine making and other practices this weekend require space\, time\, and being outdoors–so these are not subjects we teach in our typical 2-hour classes or in our foundations series.   See our descriptions of the different classes below for more information.  \nRegistration includes Cacao\, Lunch and Dinner on Saturday as well as make and take for our herbal preparations–you will go home with hydrosol\, a handcrafted incense and/or smoke blend. Registration options are: Friday & Saturday\, Friday-Sunday*.  Again: *Sunday is for our certificate students or students with prior herbal experience\, you can sign up for Sunday only if you would like by going to the class calendar and looking for 4 hour herbal immersion! \nCamping and Lodging: You are welcome to camp at Rhoneymeade for $20/night (paid directly to Rhoneymeade). There are also easily drivable places to stay in State College and in the surrounding community\, including hotels and AirB&Bs. \nFood:  We will have a potluck on Friday night (please bring something to share).  The cost of registration includes Lunch and Dinner on Saturday.  Herbal tea will be continually made from garden herbs. Please bring your own breakfast and snacks. \nA full schedule is as follows: \nFriday:  \n\n4pm – Arrivals \n5pm – Opening Circle\n6pm – Potluck\n7-9pm – Friday Night Intensives:  Track 1: Introduction to Plant Spirit Communication and Plant Spirit Initiation Ceremony – With Dana O’Driscoll (this class may go past 9pm) – 2 hours of Stewardship/Plant ID Track 2:  The Power of Breath: Diaphragmatic Breathing\, Anatomy\, and Aromatics – with Briel Beaty – 1 hour body systems/1hour Materia Medica\n\nSaturday: (3 hours of Medicine making and 1 hour of Materia Medica) \n\nBreakfast bring your own\n8-8:50am – Morning Yoga – Briel\n9-9:50am – Cacao Ceremony with Dana and Briel\n10 – 12 – Introduction to Aromatics & How to Make Essential Oil/Hydrosol – Dana and Briel.  The Alembic will be going all afternoon and you will have a chance to visit throughout the day. \n12-1:00 – Lunch (provided by Websters Bookstore and Cafe)\n1:00 – 2:15 – Introduction Herbal Smoke blends\, Incense\, and Smoke sticks (demos)\n2:30 – 5pm  – Open herbal crafting (hydrosols\, make your own smoke blends\, smoke sticks\, and handcrafted incense.  etc).\n5:30 pm – 6:30pm  Dinner (provided)\n6:30pm Aromatics Closing Circle\n7pm and onward – Fire circle\, community\, and music.  Bring instruments\, drums\, poems\, and joy to share around the fire. \n\nSunday*: 4 hour herbal immersion course – *Completion of Foundations of Holistic Herbalism OR at least 25 hours of courses with us and a general understanding of herbal actions/energetics.  Please reach out to info@paherbschool.com to check eligibility. \n\n9:30 – 11:30 – Session 1: Low Dose Botanicals\, Materia Medica and Clinical applications/formulation\n11:30 – 12:15 – Lunch (bring your own)\n12:15 – 2:15 – Session 2: Herbal Antibiotics and Berberine plants Materia Medica\n\n(Note: All 100-hour Holistic Herbalism Certificate students are required to complete 8 hours of Advanced Herbalism Intensive classes.  We tailor these classes to the needs and interests of the students who enroll.  \nDescriptions: \nFriday: Plant Spirit Communication and Plant Spirit Initiation Ceremony. With Dana O’Driscoll. The plants are humanity’s oldest herbal teachers\, and as you deepen your work with medicinal healing plants\, trees\, and mushrooms\, you may seek to develop or deepen a spiritual relationship with them.  In this session\, we will do a deep dive into the spiritual side of plants–how we can work with them as teachers and guides\, how we can communicate with them\, and understand them from an animistic perspective. Dana will share a number of techniques to begin and strengthen your skills in plant spirit communication.  In the second half of the session\, Dana will lead a plant spirit initiation ceremony where you will have a chance to meet and learn from a plant ally\, receive their blessing\, and deepen your work in this direction.   \nSaturday: Cacao Ceremony:  Cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is an incredible healing plant with a wide range of medicinal benefits\, although most people experience cacao through highly processed chocolate products. Instead\, we are going back to the way this highly medicinal and sacred drink has been prepared for millennia in South America and learn about the medicine of this plant.  Join Dana and Briel for a cacao ceremony where we offer teachings about cacao\, how to make cacao\, and then drink our cacao in gratitude with each other.  \nSaturday Morning: Introduction to Aromatics and Essential Oil/Hydrosols: This workshop will provide insight into Aromatics as one of the six foundational actions in herbalism: what aromatics are\, how they function for healing\, common aromatics we can grow or wild harvest in our region\, and how to make medicine.  We will demonstrate two methods for making essential oils and hydrosols: a pot method that anyone can do at home and the traditional method using an alembic (a copper still).  After these workshops\, we will be running the alembic throughout the day with several different plant and tree preparations (depending on the abundance\, but likely mint\, white pine and possibly one other). Everyone will get some hydrosol home with them. \nSaturday: Introduction to Aromatic Herbal Smoke Blends\, Smoke Sticks\, and Herbal Incense Crafting & Open Herbal Crafting time:  Burning herbs for medicinal purposes is a rich and ancient tradition that has been done globally across many cultures.  In this class\, we will demonstrate three different approaches to aromatic smokes with medicinal benefits.  This workshop will begin with a discussion of the medicinal and spiritual uses of herbal smokes and their history of use.  Then we will cover how to make three different kind of herbal smokes \n\nSustainable herbal incense crafting.  Incense crafting in the ancient art of burning botanicals for medicinal or spiritual purposes.  However\, today many of the ingredients traditionally used in incenses\, including aromatic woods and resins\, are critically endangered.  We will teach you to craft incenses focusing on abundant ingredients that are found primarily in our local ecosystem.  This will include a discussion of how to formulate an incense blend in terms of both notes and ratios\, typical herbs and resins you can use\,  how to break down herbs into bowder\, and how to create both combustible (cones and sticks) and non-combustible (powders or granules) to burn on a charcoal block.\nHerbal Smoke Stick crafting: Smoke sticks were traditionally burned either for spiritual/religious purposes or in the event of airborne sickness.  We will demonstrate the basic approach to making your own smoke sticks from local and abundant plants\, including many you can forage or grow in your garden.\nHerbal Smoking Blends:  When we think of “smoking” in this culture\, it is often seen as a terrible thing due to the additives and chemicals and the addictive properties of tobacco.  But herbal smokes–including herbs such as mullein\, mugwort\, damiana\, and more–have a rich history and can be used to support lung health\, end nicotine and tobacco addiction\, and calm the nerves.  We offer an introduction to how to create smoking blends for medicinal benefit.\n\nAfter this workshop\, participants will have time to circulate through each of the make and take stations\, crafting their own herbal incense\, smoke sticks\, and smoking blend. \nTicket options:  \nTicket options are as follows:  Friday and Saturday (Aromatics weekend)\, Or for the full weekend Friday-Sunday (please note Sunday is a 4 hour herbal immersion for advanced students with at least 25 credits of instruction from the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism with a basic understanding to the basic methods of Traditional Western Herbalism/energetics/Herbal actions). It is possible to just attend the Sunday immersion if you aren’t available the rest of the weekend. \nCost and Sliding Scale:  \nAll of the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism’s classes are on a sliding scale.  This means you pay what you can afford to pay within a range.  Those who make more income should pay at the higher rate on the scale\, which covers some of the cost of folks on the lower end of the scale. It is a way for us make herbalism education accessible to everyone. \nAromatics weekend: Friday and Saturday – Sliding scale from $195 – 325 (please choose the ticket below for what you can pay)\nAromatics weekend + Sunday Intensive – Sliding scale from $250 – $425 (again\, please choose the ticket below for what you can pay). \nNOTE – We have a few Friday and Saturday ONLY slots avaialble ($130-180). Please see below for pricing and availablity.  \nIf you wish to pay an amount not listed below you can do so here via PayPal or send Venmo to @PAherbschool – please list what you are paying for when sending the payment. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.paherbschool.com/event/aromatics-weekend/
LOCATION:Rhoneymeade\, 177 Rimmey Road\, PA\, 16828\, United States
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