A Year of Gaia
Sacred Plant Medicine Course
Join us for a full year of plant medicine!
We are so glad you’d like to join this course for the rest of the year. Please fill it the registration form linked below so we have all of your information. To purchase the full course, access the Paypal links below if you have already purchased our sample month for April! If you would like the payment plan option for the other 11 modules, follow the link below. Please let us know if you have any questions, and we will send you a confirmation email within 24 hours! If you have registered via PayPal and are not receiving emails, please let us know as we may not have the correct email address for you.
Many blessings,
Sage Maurer
Director of The Gaia School of Healing
A Year of Gaia 2022 ~ Continuing for a full year’s cycle!
PayPal ~ Discounted Tuition Payment in Full. Single payment of $585 to receive the full course for 2022. Course includes 12 modules updated for 2021 with bonus lessons, and live monthly zoom calls! You are also welcome to pay via check to The Gaia School of Healing, 172 Pine Banks Rd, Putney, VT 05346.
Payment Plan Option ~ 11 Months via PayPal ~ Monthly payments of $65 to receive each module monthly for 2022. Course includes 12 modules updated for 2022 with bonus lessons, and live monthly zoom calls!
Join us for a year of magic!
A Year of Gaia
Online Course Includes ~ 16 Sessions
Beginning April 1st of 2022
Nourishing Roots - April
Session One ~ Welcome ceremony, and guided meditations. Offerings to the Earth & Spirits. The Wise Wo/man Tradition (Tradition of the Elders). Plant allies. Nourishing medicinal herbs. Restorative herbalism. Nettles, Oatstraw, Chickweed, Burdock, Dandelion, Violet. Making fresh herbal juices. Daily nourishing self care. Harvesting & preparing spring edible plants.
Ritual & Offerings - May
Session Two ~ Offerings & Creating sacred space with earth spirits. Blessings herbs: Spruce & Pine Resins, Mugwort, Juniper, Sage, Cedar, Sweetgrass, Frankincense, Copal, Dragon’s Blood, Myrrh and others. Sacred Plant Conservation & Cultural Appropriation. Traditions of our Ancestors & Sacred smoke offerings. Grounding, blessing, and cleansing the body/spirit. Cleansing, clearing, protecting, and banishing herbs. Consciousness Shifting Herbs ~ Mugwort, Passionflower, Blue Lotus, Kava kava, Damiana, and Blue Vervain. Beltane & Spring Rituals. Meditation, brain waves & altered states of consciousness.
Harvesting & Wildcrafting - June
Session Three - Ceremony & Practice of Plant Harvesting & Wildcrafting. Plant Communication & Offerings. Harvesting herbs in an ethical, respectful, and sacred way. Wild foods and edible plants of the spring and early summer. Plant Walks. Endangered Native plant protection & care. Litha & Summer Solstice rituals.
Sacred Medicine Making - July
Session Four - Ceremony & Practice of Medicine Making. Hands-on folk herbal preparations. How to make tinctures, teas, infusions, and salves. Medicine making with the moon phases, incorporating blessings and prayers. Herbal constituents, extracts, and methods. Herbal energetics explored. Herb safety levels, dosages, & tastes. Yin/Yang, Four Element Theory.
Immune System & Root Chakra - August
Session Six ~ The Root Chakra journey. Rebuilding, nourishing, & strengthening. Honouring our lineages & Ancestors. The Immune system overview, protection and boundaries. Herbs for healing and strengthening the immune system. Adaptogens, Deep-immune tonics, Immune stimulating herbs - Astragalus, Reishi, Siberian Ginseng (Eleuthero), Schizandra, Holy basil, Ashwagandha, and Maca. Lamas/Midsummer Rituals.
Reproductive System & The Sacral Chakra - September
Session Seven ~ Sacral Chakra & Plant allies for the reproductive system. Endocrine system & Hormone balancing with phytosterols. Herbs for balancing androgens and estrogens. Herbal support for menstruation, fertility, pregnancy, and menopause. Genitourinary herbal medicine, prostate health and andropause. Transgender herbal health care & support. Herbal Aphrodisiacs & Pleasure plants. Red raspberry, White peony, Red clover, Vitex, Motherwort, Angelica, Cacao, Vanilla, and Hibiscus.
Mabon / Fall equinox rituals.
Solar Plexus & Digestive System - October
Session Eight ~ The Solar Plexus - Healing plants for the solar plexus. Solar plexus prayers, rituals, and healing practices. The Digestive System overview – Holistic & Herbal Healing. Healing digestive issues with plants. Sacred Plant Medicine for self-care and self love. Ginger, Turmeric, Lemon balm, Sweet & Bitter Orange, Marshmallow, and Dandelion. Samhain Rituals.
Heart Chakra & Circulatory System - November
Session Nine ~ The Heart Chakra ~ Healing & strengthening. Plant allies for the heart and circulatory system. Heart chakra prayers, rituals, and healing practices. Heart & Circulatory system therapies. Herbs for grief, love, and compassion - Linden, Rose, Motherwort, Hawthorn, Wild Cherry, Rhodiola, and Alma.
Respiratory System & Throat Chakra - December
Session Ten ~ The Throat Chakra ~ Holistic therapies to restore health. Throat chakra prayers, rituals, and healing practices. Herbal medicine the respiratory system. Strengthening plant allies for the lungs. Sacred plants for channeling, expression, & breath - Mint family, Sage, Elecampane, Mullein, Angelica, Calamus, Pine, and Evergreens. Yule / Winter Solstice rituals.
Nervous System & Third Eye - January
Session Eleven ~ Third eye chakra ~ Awakening the dreaming mind. Herbal medicine for nourishing and supporting the nervous system. Holistic healing for stress, depression, and anxiety. Adaptogens, nervines, herbal pain relief & muscle relaxants. Brain tonics for memory and cognition. Supporting left & right brain communication. Oatstraw, Skullcap, Peach, Blue vervain, Heather, Sage, Butterfly pea, Gotu kola, Valerian, and St. John’s Wort.
Plant Spirit Medicine & Consciousness Shifting - February
Session Five - Plant Spirit Medicine. Communicating and journeying with plant allies. Guided journeys & Meditations. Working with spirit guides and ancestors. Third eye opening, dreamwork, & dream herbs. Spirit/dream journeying and communicating with earth spirits. Crown Chakra & Crown Chakra plants ~ Holy basil, Elder flower, Egyptian blue lotus, Rose, Sage, Jasmine, Valerian flower, Meadowsweet, and blessing herbs (Copal, Frankincense, Sweetgrass, Juniper, Cedar, etc.). Imbolc rituals.
The Sacred Wheel & The Medicine Path - March
Session Twelve ~ Guided journeys & meditation with our plant allies. Offerings & thanks to our plant teachers. The Sacred Wheel / Medicine Circle in healing and magic. The four elements and directions - Earth/North/Winter, East/Air/Spring, South/Fire/Summer, West/Water/Fall. Journeying with the spirits of the wheel, gathering medicine and connecting with allies. Journeying with our elders and continuing the self care journey.
Bonus Lessons ~
Flower Essences & Learning Botany
Bonus Session ~ Plant Identification, plant families & botany. Using a plant key. Garden & Woods plant walk. Harvesting wild & cultivated medicinals. Sacred, ethical, and wildcrafting techniques. Plant families. Meditations & Healing with Flowers. Flower walk & Flower essence making. Communication with flowers. Flower ID & Plants for pollinators. Doctrine of Signatures.
Spellcraft & Magical Herbalism
Bonus Lession ~ Spellcrafting & Magical herbalism. Sacred Plants of the Witch. Ritual & magic for healing & transformation. Working with the spirits of plants & earth. History of Witchcraft & Magical herbalism around the world. Poisonous plants for protection & banishing.
Tree Medicine & Magic
Bonus Lesson ~ Communicating with Tree Spirits. Guided meditations & meeting tree allies. Medicinal uses & lore of trees. Wildcrafting and medicine making from trees. Outdoor Tree Walk and ID. Black birch, White pine, Spruce, Cherry, Peach, Willow, Elder, Hawthorn, Gingko, Linden.
Fall Roots & Seeds
Bonus Lesson ~ Harvesting roots & root medicine making. Eating, preserving, processing root medicine and food. Harvesting medicinal herb seeds & Seeds saving. Fall plant harvests & gathering our apothecary from the year’s harvests. Root harvesting of Yellow dock, Burdock, Elecampane, Dandelion, Valerian, Echinacea, Marshmallow and others.
