Backwoods Basics:School of Wildcraft Medicine
Healing Arts & Traditional Lore
“The Essence of Wildcraft Medicine is an approach to life, to herbs and healing,
that spring from the forces of Earth and Sky.
We do not have to go to another place and time to find our connection;
we need only to look around us, to that collective earth memory alive in all things; plants, trees, rocks, rushing water, wind and rain.”
Beginner's Level - introduction to Wildcraft Medicine
10 month program (Feb. to Nov.)
one weekend a month
prerequisites: none
This practical beginners level wildcrafting program is designed to put control of your health and your families
health, back into your hands; using what the earth provides. The classroom is the earth; the subjects,
the wild plants growing in our river basins, forests and fields, how to use them and when to use them for medicine.
All Backwoods Basics courses are based our regional ethnobotany.
Course includes:
hands on foraging, harvesting and processing of plants for medicine.
Local ethnobotany and folklore.
Beginners level medicine making
sustainable harvesting techniques
focus on spiritual, ethical approach to wildcrafting......and more.
And of course field trips too!
Beginners Level Information and Payment Options:
Commitment:
course offered the second weekend of every month (March to Oct.)
drop ins allowed with option of attending just one day (sat. or sun.)
Costs:
$70 a day
$130 full weekend
(all supplies included in price unless otherwise stated)
Payment options:
Cash and Paypal
Advanced Level Wildcraft Medicine
2 year certificate program
-consists of 2 full weekends a month
+ 100 hrs. practicum
with a recognized medicine person.
(Feb. - Nov)
prerequisites: Backwoods Basics beginners program
or equivalent bush experience
(placement in advanced course by interview with program instuctor.)
Program delves deeper into the mysteries of wild healing, continuing what we began in the beginners program,
still practical hands on wildcrafting; we will expand into work with plant spirit and earth energy in healing; plant communication.
“More than hands on – We're using all our senses!”
Much of the focus in the 2 year Advanced program will come through case studies, exploring culturally
diverse folk herbal practices, pioneer medicine and first nations practices.
First Nations cultural adviser and visiting teacher Della Rice Sylvester
Course includes:
total immersion wildcrafting, harvesting and processing of plant medicine
building your own apothecary
working with plant energy in healing
dowsing and diagnostics
case studies
advanced medicine making; simpling, formulas and combinations, tinctures and more.
And field trips of course!
Advanced Level Information and Payment Option:
Commitment:
course offered 2nd and 4th weekend monthly (March to Oct.)
Cost: $250 mthly.
2500.00 Annual fee (10% discount if paid in advance)
Optional part time program – one weekend monthly over a 3 year commitment
Cost. $130 mthly.
1300.00 Anuual (10% discount if paid in advance)
Payment Options.
Cash or Paypal
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For Bursaries and other financial arrangements contact me, Sheila Wray.
Instructors:
Sheila Wray, wildcrafter, folkherbalist and co founder of Backwoods Basics School of Wildcraft Medicine;
30 years+ experience.
Della Rice Sylvester, First Nations medicine woman and Cowichan Elder.
1.250 701 2293
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