Enter the realms of the plant kingdoms,
and discover ancient medicine in your hands.
Listen to the wisdom of the plants, and the magic of wild nature.
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 24 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 offer in depth training 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.
Remember the medicines of our ancestors,
and discover healing plants outside your door...
Sacred Plant Medicine Courses
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.
In Person 2025
Sacred Plant Medicine
Apprenticeship
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ear One Course
VERMONT LOCATION
In Person 2026
Advanced Plant Medicine Apprenticeship
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Year Two Course
VERMONT LOCATION
Online Herbalism Courses
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 2025
Learn from home and go at your own pace.
Join for live zoom classes or watch class recordings.
Online 2025
A Year of Gaia
Year One
BEGINS APRIL 2024
Online 2025
Advanced Plant Medicine Apprenticeship
Year Two
BEGINS APRIL 2025
Workshops & Intensives
REGISTRATION OPEN FOR 2025
Communicating with Plants - Immersion
IN PERSON - VT
ONLINE CLASS
ONLINE CLASS
ONLINE CLASS
A world of magic waits for you…
“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...”
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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
“The plants are asking us to listen.
They can teach us directly... speaking through the heart, the body, and the mind. We ask for the help and guidance of the plant kingdoms, understanding their wellness and healing is tied to ours. Their energy flows like light to all places of pain and wounding, bringing peace and healing where it is most needed. Many of us are called to return to these ancient beings, in service to the earth and path of healing. We are shown the majesty and magic these ancients possess.
The plants say, they are waiting for healers who are willing to listen again.”
