Herbalism Education
Since in 2001
Honoring 24 Years of Devotion to Plants
The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education founded in 2001 has been offering courses and workshops in sacred plant medicine over the last 20 years based primarily in New England. We offer year long trainings, retreats, and immersion classes in folk and ancestral herbalism. In 2024-2025 we will also offer classes in Toronto, Canada, Sweden, and Colombia. Our courses are in depth trainings in both the physical and spiritual medicines of plants, where students learn from seed to harvest. Explore our current offerings!
Over 70+ rounds of herbal medicine apprenticeships,
thousands of students have journeyed with us into the plant realms.
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Extended discount for email list subscribers.
Sacred Plant Medicine Courses
Offered in New England, Canada, Hawaii, and Colombia.
In Person and Online
Our Gaia community is growing around the world.
At The Gaia School we weave together folk herbal traditions of our ancestors with science and ceremony. Our sacred plant medicine apprenticeships offer hands-on training in herbal medicine, plant communication, ethnobotany, local plant ecology, ethical wildcrafting, growing medicinals, and medicine making. Students will learn how to identify and work with healing plants through the whole growing season. We teach plant communication, tea meditation, and journeying with the spirits of plants in all of our courses. Students form deep relationships with many healing plants that will support them for many years to come! Our advanced students continue on to offer plant medicine to their communities around the world. View some of our alumni here.
PLANT MEDICINE APPRENTICESHIPS
In Person
Registration Open for 2025
Courses fill quickly! Waitlists available as needed.
2025
Sacred Plant Medicine
Apprenticeship
Year One Course
IN PERSON ~ VERMONT
2026
Advanced Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeship
Year Two Course
IN PERSON - VERMONT
Online Learning Courses
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR SPRING
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with code EARLYBIRD20
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Online 2025
A Year of Gaia ~
First Year Plant Medicine Apprenticeship
BEGINS APRIL 2024
Online 2025
Advanced Sacred Plant Medicine Apprenticeship ~
2nd Year Course
BEGINS APRIL 2025
2025
Plant Medicine Workshops
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR SPRING
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL 20% OFF
with code EARLYBIRD20
*** Discount only available from December 1st - January 15th. Extended discount for email list subscribers.
ONLINE CLASS
Botanical Art Class
ONLINE CLASS
Plant Medicine For Lyme Disease & Babesia
Gardening with the Wild
ONLINE CLASS
The Medicine of Trees
ONLINE CLASS
FIELD TRIPS
Upcoming Courses in Sweden, Canada, Hawaii, and Colombia!
Learn ancient medicines of our ancestors.
Deepen your relationship to sacred plants from around the world...
Gather with us in the Garden
“Our indigenous herbalists say to pay attention when plants come to you; they’re bringing you something you need to learn... Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them.
Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
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The Plant Medicine Sutra
That night the bodhisattva awoke…
She found herself surrounded by vines, branches, flowers, roots, sap, essence of the plant world, and the wildness of nature, all supplicating her for a teaching... The bodhisattva spoke: It is you, not I who needs to speak… it is your voice that is needed to awaken the self-centered human species to the vast web of life and love and awareness that is the intimate birthright of us all. Your sap, your juices, your fibers, your chemistry. We ask that all of you speak through and to our species, blood and bone, in a language that is unmistakable... ~ Robert Schrei
“We seek medicine the earth has placed in our hands since the beginning... Our most ancient medicine. Plants teach us to understand our bodies as living breathing ecosystems, transforming and changing every moment. Moving with the stars, the seasons, the sun and moon, and the shifts happening on earth. The plants come into our rivers of blood and fluid, sending their energy and power to every cell. Their chemicals dance with ours, soothing our nerves, illuminating our mind, and nurturing our body. This sacred path is covered in beautiful flowers, sweet scents, sensory magic, and juicy roots. Let the plants speak to your body and senses. They will guide you back to the medicine of wild nature...”
