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Vitalist Healing Workshop Series, 2024
June 8, 2024 @ 11:00 am - 3:00 pm
|Recurring Event (See all)
An event every month that begins at 11:00 am on day Second of the month, repeating until August 10, 2024
This workshop is perfect for anyone seeking a more holistic approach to health and wellness, whether you’re new to herbalism or looking to deepen your understanding of its principles. Join us on this truly holistic journey towards vitality and connection! Led by esteemed instructor and herbalist Lisa Ganora with her vast and varied experience, we aim to revive the traditional way of practicing herbal healing.
Building Relationships with your Herbal Allies – learn to understand and cooperate with plants as healers & teachers through sensory & intuitive connection
- Learning how to learn from plants
- Respecting plants as allies & teachers
- A traditional method of meeting & understanding new herbs
- Using your senses to understand herbal medicines
- Intuition & science supporting each other
- Strengthening our connection with the healing powers of Earth
- Inviting herbs to dream with us
Herbs & Medicinal Foods for Restoring Vitality – build the health of body & soul with superfoods & herbal allies for your constitution
- Understanding the unique needs of our bodies
- Matching herbal energetics to your constitution
- Herbal actions & the individual response
- When is a food an herb? When is an herb a tonic?
- Restorative herbs for the roots of health & vitality
- Nourish the microbiome to regenerate health in body & mind
- You can’t solve a food problem with an herbal band-aid
Herbal Constituents are Plant Spirits – a truly holistic approach to understanding how the body responds to the energetics & actions of herbs
- The art of organoleptics: understanding constituents, actions & energetics with our senses
- It’s all energy – tuning in to molecular vibrations
- What exactly is an herbal constituent & why does it matter
- How can science lead us home to the soul
- How herbs work on the “physical” level
- Why & how do we make herbal medicines (infusions, tinctures, oils, etc.)?
- Making Vitalism a part of your daily life
Lisa Ganora began studying herbal medicine in the early ‘80s. After practicing as a Wise Woman tradition community herbalist, wildcrafter, and medicine-maker for a decade, Lisa returned to school at UNCA and graduated summa cum laude with multiple awards in biology and chemistry. After graduation she focused on exploring herbal constituents in the context of western clinical herbalism and Vitalist therapeutics.
In addition to founding and directing the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism from 2012-2020 and managing Elderberry’s Farm (a Rocky Mountain Herbal Education Center in Paonia, CO), Lisa has also served as Adjunct Professor of Pharmacognosy at the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine, and has lectured and taught classes at numerous schools and conferences around the world. Lisa especially loves to share the art of organoleptics: how to use our senses to understand the power and personalities of the herbs. This sensory approach is a traditional way to connect and communicate with plants as teachers and healers.