S O L D O U T !
Join us for a 6 month course to cultivate deeper relationships with local California plant allies and their medicinal uses. Learn foundational spiritual tools for working with any kind of plant medicine.
Each monthly class meets for 2 hours and focuses on a particular Plant Teacher, its medicinal uses and related spiritual tools.
Class offerings include guided plant meditations, herb walks, qi gong and energy awareness, sound healing, plant baths, shamanic journeying, and more….
Oak, a beautiful ally for grounding, strength, and connection with our ancestors
All plants are medicine, and all plants are visionary. Partnership with plants is what makes us human- it goes back for millenia and it’s encoded in our DNA. The local plants growing right outside our front doors can be our best medicine, when we learn how to listen.
The same fundamental spiritual tools apply whenever we choose to work with any plant conciousness. It doesn’t matter if its chamomile, cacao, or enchanter’s nightshade. When we have basic skillsets in place like grounding, protection, reciprocity, energy awareness and shamanic journeying, we can deepen our relationships with healing plants and more easily integrate our experiences into daily life. And, anyone can learn!
Join us for a 6 month journey into the Roots of Plant Medicine!
Class Schedule:
Sundays, 10am- 12pm, in Oakland, CA
1/26/25 GROUNDING~ Oak
2/23/25 PROTECTION~ Yarrow
3/23/25 RECIPROCITY~ Tobacco
4/20/25 PLANTS AS SPIRIT~ Reishi
5/18/25 JOURNEYING WITH PLANTS~ Mugwort
6/8/25 ALLYSHIP~ TBD
Warrior’s Plume (Pedicularis densiflora) Harvest 2022
About the Instructor~ Athene Eisenhardt has followed the plants in one way or another her entire life. Professional work as a Field Botanist for Yosemite National Park led her to begin wildcrafting herbs and studying the Taoist 5 Elements in nature. This led to formal study of Taoist Herbal Medicine, Western Herbalism, and Ayurveda. Athene also spent 2 years living and training in the indigenous plant spirit healing traditions of the Amazon, and has continued to train rigorously in the Shipibo Amazon lineage since 2009. An active teacher, Athene regularly offers Community Herb Walks in the East Bay, and is a Professor of Herbology at Acupuncture & Integrative Medicine College in Berkeley, CA.
All materials for this course including course schedule copyright 2024 by Dr. Athene Eisenhardt, L.Ac, all rights reserved.