Description

This year’s Herbal Birthwork Circle dates are as follows:

• Wednesday, April 7
  • Introduction
  • Queering herbal [their]story
  • Framing western vitalist clinical herbalism
  • Plant energetics
  • Client & human energetics
• Saturday, April 17
  • Endocrine & hormone system A&P
  • Herbal liver + kidney support
  • Wilds foods
  • Baby greens and tender little things (herbs & babies and frail lil ones)
• Wednesday, May 5
  • Teas, tisanes, infusions and decoctions
  • Food as medicine, herbal nourishment
  • TTC, fertility and early pregnancy
• Saturday, May 22
  • Self care and integration
  • Herbs & fertility awareness method
  • Gut healing and food intolerance
  • Digestive system
• Wednesday, June 2
  • Herb walk
  • Tincture making, folk method and percolation tincture
• Saturday, June 19
  • Mushrooms as medicine & food
  • Abortion & loss support
  • Client integration, nervous system & trauma
• Wednesday, July 7
  • Flowers, herbal oils and infusions
  • Salves and topical medicines
  • Cannabis and the endocannabinoid system
• Saturday, July 24
  • Sexual health & chronic pelvic medicine
  • Chronic (and acute) yeast infections, UTIs, BV, HSV
  • Autoimmune conditions such as lichen sclerosus, lichen planus, lichen simplex chronicus
  • Skin sensitivities & environmental allergies
• Wednesday, August 4
  • Herb walk
  • Herbal baths and sacral steaming
  • Postpartum herbal care
• Saturday, August 21
  • Placenta medicine
  • Flower essences
  • Heart/uterus medicine
  • Circulatory system
• Wednesday, September 1
  • Plant walk
  • Herbal barks & berries
• Saturday, September 18
  • Immune system A&P
  • Herbal immune syrup making
  • Closing