Скачать или смотреть Mountain Rose Herbs Giving Project Application: Orcas Island Herbal Medicine Apprenticeship Program

Funding from the Mountain Rose Herbs Giving Project will allow this Apprenticeship program to continue in 2019, providing an opportunity for new and returning students to participate in this experience and will continue to build interest for the coming years in our community. Students will come away not only with medicinal preparations, information and learning experiences that will unfold and serve them for years to come, but also an understanding of their relationship to our local environment, of sustainability and interdependence, as well as a sense of empowerment for what it means to be a medicine maker and healer for themselves and others. They will be inspired to take what they have learned in this program in new and creative directions, helping to build a new way of living on the earth.

Offering the Apprenticeship program is important to me because it is how I first learned about herbalism ten years ago—through an Apprenticeship program with Robin Rose Bennett in New York. It helped reconnect and enliven my spirit in ways I had never thought possible, and the nourishing, beautiful space Robin created for us fostered intimate relationships with sisters I will have for a lifetime. This is the type of experience I hope to pass on to the students in my Apprenticeship. Ryan Drum has taught me so much about life, off-grid living, health and wellness in addition to our local land and sea plant medicines. I hope, through this program and my other teachings, to continue his legacy of vast knowledge of the plants in our islands and wildcrafting ways for the next generation of herbal medicine students.

Through living off-grid in a primitive situation, I developed a new relationship and deep connection with the resources in my environment. I realized in a very tangible way how much these resources are impacted by everyone in our community, our region, and our world and that we can’t create health and sustainability for the planet in isolation. I loved the freedom, empowerment and rich connection of being able to harvest wild foods from the land and sea. Eating where I live and spending time harvesting and working with plants in my environment over the course of many seasons, many years, has been an invaluable teacher of how to work with plant medicines sustainably—not just through the avoidance of inflicting harm on the landscape but in new ways of engaging with plants in our environment that are collaborative or beneficial to the system. What’s more, this work has instilled a deep-rooted investment in defending the health of the place where I live and continues to inspire creative ways to sustain it for generations to come. It is my hope that through this immersive Apprenticeship program, I can offer a setting for similar learning experiences to happen for more people who bring their own gifts for innovation and change—as my small part in the greater work that so many others are doing in these times: creating a new future for the coming generations and deep nourishment and healing for people, plants, and the planet.

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