Thorns and All - Rose Medicine for the Heart

Date and Time

• Thursday, Feb 13, 2025  6pm - 8pm

Location

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Details

Join us for a heart-centered exploration of herbs that nurture both the physical and emotional heart. This class will dive into the healing properties of the Rose Family, including hawthorn, rose, peach, and raspberry, as well as other supportive allies, to promote heart health and emotional resilience. You’ll learn how to craft and use a variety of preparations while learning practices for deepening your connection to each plant.

We’ll discuss how to work with a variety of preparations, including teas, powders, tinctures, and salves, both for attending to the spiritual heart, as well as the cardiovascular system as a whole. Whether you’re interested in supporting physical health, emotional well-being, or cultivating a connection to plant spirit medicine, this class offers tools and inspiration for working with the medicine of this diverse and locally abundant plant family.

Cost: $45

Class space is limited to 14. Please pre-register online:
https://goldenpoppyherbs.as.me/thorns-rose-heart-medicine

BIO: Kat is a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild and a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist from the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where she studied under Paul Bergner.

She teaches workshops on herbalism, wild foods, and botany, while also running her clinical practice through Meet the Green. Approaching her work from a Vitalist perspective, Kat believes in the intelligent life force within us all.

For 12 years, she worked at the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism in Boulder and Lafayette, CO, where she served as faculty and Clinical Program Director. Kat co-founded the Forest to Field Festival, promoting land-based skills and ancestral knowledge, as well as the Apothecary Academy, an online herbalism program. Originally from the East Coast, she has a passion for bioregional herbalism, especially the herbs and ecology of the Southwest.

She can be found on her website www.meetthegreen.com and on instagram as @kat_the_herbalist

This event is produced by an outside organization and is unaffiliated with the Downtown Development Authority. The DDA website serves as a marketing outlet for events and promotions occurring inside the Downtown boundary. For questions regarding the event, please contact the event producer.