2023
Rainbow Serpent Folk Herbalism
Durham, Ontario
Join us for 5 nourishing weekends
from April until September.
Meet the plants in person and make folk medicines.
Create your own apothecary or
enhance your present one.
Make a rattle, clay beads, and learn the
basics of Eco plant dyeing.
This mentorship is for personal healing and connection to plant spirits & elemental beings.
Each day will start with an opening circle and land acknowledgment. All voices will be heard.
9:15- 9:45 will be time to play musical instruments by the fire and enjoy a local herbal tea.
Every day you will have time in the forest, experience guided plant spirit journeys,
and have time with the living plants.
~2023 Schedule~
Dates
April 28,29,30
May 27 & 28
June 24 & 25
July 22 & 23
September 16 & 17
April
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Land acknowledgement.
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You will make your own rattle from cedar wood and raw deer hide with Abby Fry of Coyote Tales.
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We will travel to Bancroft Ontario for our first weekend together.
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Abby is a deer medicine woman and tender of many wild acres of land.
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Experience the hand crafted sauna with song circles.
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Enjoy a guided journey with dogwood.
May
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Plant Communication & elemental medicine
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Make clay beads with Lara Eliot for offerings
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Tinctures, teas, decoctions, infusions basics
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Honey ceremony for the ancestors
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Spring plant medicine harvest
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Herbal vinegars
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Smoke bath & ritual
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Swamp medicine portals
June
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Summer plant medicine harvest
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Flower essences creation
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Cedar bowl burning
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Group gifting
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Solstice community fire
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Heart opening ceremony at a local waterfall & river
July
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Visit to local Moon Lake sanctuary with Karl Backhaus. In the 1960's he started planting 50,000 trees, dug a lake, built his home from a log cabin book, and now it is home to a myriad of animals and plant species. Karl says he is 6 million years old. He feeds the birds from his hands, talks to the animals, and shares spring water with the community.
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Water and stone communication & tree medicine
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Bio dynamic vegetable & herb garden tour with Vitold. He has been a student of the garden since 1986.
September
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Autumn & winter plant medicine making
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Eco plant dying with Rebecca
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Asters the stars on earth
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Honey Ceremony for the ancestors
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Community service planning
Energy Exchange Includes
Classes from 9:15am - 530pm.
A rustic outdoor kitchen is available to cook your dinners and breakfast.
A light vegetarian lunch is provided.
Camping on site Saturday nights.
If driving a distance you can also camp Friday night. Beds in the Greenwood are available for an additional fee.
Sliding scale price:
$2700- $4700 for the year.
Pay anything in this range.
This payment range makes this work
accessible to those with lower incomes.
Payment plans are an option
Two work trade spaces & two $1000 scholarships have been taken for 2023.
A phone call will be your registration.
Please use the contact link to book a call.
After registration: Once a $600 deposit is received you will receive a welcome letter & reading book list to help you prepare
for the classes.
Mentorships are open to all genders. It is a safe place for LGBTQIA folks. We will work together to co-create a loving and healing space for everyone. Plants are amazing non-binary teachers.
The learning area is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.
Mosquitoes, deer flies, & wasps are present.
These insects are our teachers.
May Gaia bless them and teach us how to love them.
We will be walking on uneven terrain.
