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Communal Herbalism ~
Learning without lectures
Cooperative
Spring 2011
$150 by the day, let me know you are coming!
Weekends Saturday10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. ~ Sunday 9a.m. - 5:00 p.m
June 18 & 19, July 9 & 10
Join Margi Flint in the kitchen, apothecary and gardens for exploration of cooperative herbalism. Shared knowledge will will our minds and hearts these weekends. Accomplished and budding herbalists will meet for two more gatherings. You can spend Friday/Saturday overnight here for $35 each night.
We will cover everything in Rosemary Gladstar's correspondence course – moving through it at a free flowing pace. There will be plenty of opportunities to get your hands in the dirt,working with and learning from the plants themselves.
You may learn how to identify herbs, how to make herbal preparations, skin care products, and formulas, how to work with flower essences, how to incorporate aromatherapy into your practice, may even see a client and observe intake and more!
Margi will pepper the classes with occasional facial readings to help you learn to interpret he meaning of the lines on people’s faces. And will share stories of how the plants have helped her clients heal over her many years in practice.
Students of all levels are welcome.
Living in Practice
June 27th to 29th Post Internation Herb Symposium
$550 for all 4 days -- $500 if paid by May 15
$150 daily
$35 a night for a room, sheets $10
Are you looking for an opportunity to hone your clinical skills?
Whether you are an experienced practitioner or are just beginning to explore working with clients, Living in Practice will help you learn and grow.
You will be immersed in the daily life of a clinical herbalist -- working alongside Margi and the amazing community of herbalists she has built around her as we help clients develop herbal, lifestyle, and nutritional strategies to support their healing. Working with clients is the best way to learn clinical practice -- and Living in Practice will provide you with a safe and supportive opportunity to gain practical experience while sharing in the wisdom and knowledge of your fellow practitioners.
Karyn Sanders Returns
Working with Spirit
We are honored to have Karyn with us.
This three day energetic workshop will focus on learning techniques for reading your energy and understanding your energy, how to move and control your own energy. You will also learn how to understand and recognize when your 'issues and traumas' come up and how to not react to them with old patterns. Most of our physical imbalances are rooted in these old unconsious and consious energetic patterns. We will be using plant medicines, plant meditations and guided meditations.
We will also be doing long meditations with energy and herbs. we will be starting the practice of controlling energy and how to see energy in somone else.
August 26 - 28
$450
Paid by July 1st 425
350 for Saturday and Sunday only
Consultation time August 23 - 24
by appointment $200
Reading the Body ~ Pulse Testing ~ Clinical Skills
Margi Flint
Brown Mountain at Los Ranchos de Albuquerque New Mexico
September 24 - 25th 2011
Contact: www.BirkmayerInstitute.com
About The Workshop:
This two-day seminar will focus on various diagnostic techniques including the practice of Pulse Testing to determine herbs, flower essences, supplements, or essential oils for correlating organ systems. Recognition of facial signs, tissue colour, elimination analysis, signs of hot, cold, damp and dry conditions will be reviewed. The seminar will consist of lecture and abundant hands on learning with ample opportunity to ask questions. You will observe, be the recipient, and practice these very traditional and valuable tools for knowing how to read the body. All levels of herbalists and other healing modalities are welcome.
Margi will be sharing the meaning of facial lines, colors and blemishes on the face, and tongue and marks on the fingernails as a way of reading the body’s signals in regards to health issues. We will explore the practice of drop-testing herbs & other substances on the pulse to confirm the best choice in our own, and classmate’s bodies. This will be an engaging, dynamic and interactive presentation and includes some very traditional and valuable tools for knowing how to read the body and translate that into a more specific herbal protocol for healing. Participants please submit a client for the practicum; Margi will schedule one full intake and three brief readings for the weekend.
September after TraditionsSeptember 19 - 29
I will be seeing clients in Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque
contact me at margi@earthsongherbals.com
Womens Herbal Conference
New Hampshire
August 19-21
sagemt@sagemountain.com
Fire Circles Have Begun!
7 pm or after
June 12 & 18 & 22, July 9 & 29 & 17 pot luck 6 pm
Come along to light the fire, enter through the driveway through the gate, and into the gardens. Bring water, good intentions and share your dreams. Bring a smile, positive words, maybe a blanket & some wood or a donation.
If it rains call to confirm- we might still be out there!
OPPORTUNITIES FOR CLIENTS
PRACTICE IN CIRCLE
Clinical practice HERBAL CONSULTATIONS
monthly
June 27th to 29th
Do you need to see an herbalist? Lack funds for a private consultation? Do you desire to be heard and treated in a group setting by diverse herbalists? Call to book an appointment, be seen individually, and depart feeling fully empowered and supported. Follow-up appointments are requisite. Take care of yourself now.
These consultations are performed by herbal practitioners who come to practice their skills and glean insights from their peers. The gifts of practice in circle are bountiful for the one in focus. As a client you will receive the professional input from one to five talented herbal minds and hearts. One and a half hours of questioning which includes medical history, diet, supplement and prescription use, plus suggestions for herbal protocols, references for adjunct therapies and lots of laughter.
Cost: Sliding scale from $50 - $170
Call or email to book appointments.
Contact margi Flint at 781-631-4312 to book appointments in Massachusetts
Contact Kay Parent at 401-849-7068 or kayparent3@aol.com in Rhode Island
PRIVATE CONSULTATIONS with Margi
WHERE Earthsong Herbals 10 Central Street, Marblehead, MA
WHEN By appointment
COST $170.00 By appointment
Each one and a half hour consultation includes a detailed overview of your medical history and lifestyle which may include diet, work, movement and thought. During our visit, herbs, diet, supplements, dietary changes or referrals may be discussed. You will be seen and recommendations will be made for your unique needs. I will introduce changes as gently as possible. Come prepared to enjoy yourself and find balance.
Margi Flint phone 781-631-4312 www.earthsongherbals.com margi@earthsongherbals.com
Living in Practice
Matthew Wood, Margi Flint and
Kay Parent
Feb 22th - 26th 2012
$170 by the day
All 5 days ~ $750 paid by January 15th 2012
...A unique opportunity for herbalists to hone their clinical skills while working alongside three of the premier herbalists teaching and practicing today!
10 AM Wednesday
Focus will be on Pulse taking, Intuition, Facial lines and Tongue reading
9 AM - 5 PM Thursday through Sunday will be a rare opportunity to observe Matthew Wood Kay Parent and Margi Flint with clients - seeing how each herbalist approaches issues, works with clients, and discovers the infinite mystery of re-discovering glowing health with clients. The use of intuition, testing skills and visual observations will be shared and taught daily. Time will be set aside daily for hands on work within the group.
Come for one or all the days you are able
Lodging is $35 a night, $10 for sheets. Reserve space early for private bedrooms.
MATTHEW WOOD has been a practicing herbalist since 1982. In a period when many authors and lecturers are merely "arm chair herbalists" who offer theories and opinions based on book learning, and others have turned to the exotic traditions of India or China, he has been an active practitioner of traditional Western herbalism. He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage. He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and has earned his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).
Wood is the author of a number of books including The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism, The Book of Herbal Wisdom, Seven Herbs, Vitalism, and the two volume Earthwise Herbal.
MARGI FLINT owns and operates EarthSong Herbals, a busy family practice and herb school in Marblehead, MA . For over thirty years she has worked as a labor coach, polarity therapist, and herbalist. She has been Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine where she taught a four-week rotation in clinical herbal medicine for Fourth Year Medical Students and practitioners at Union Hospital and her clinic in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She continues to teach Herbal Pharmacology at North Shore Community College, and for The Masters of Applied Natural Products course at Massachusetts College of Pharmacology. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and serves as an Herbal Mentor for those who aspire to professional membership in the organization. She oversees two Practitioners Circles, one at her clinic in Marblehead and one in Newport Rhode Island at Kay Parent’s clinic.
Flint is the author of The Practicing Herbalist, meeting with clients, reading the body, now in it’s second edition. Reviewing the book, Rosemary Gladstar wrote “With all the skill of a master alchemist, Margi weaves together her years of experience as an herbal practitioner with the best of the teachings and the teachers she’s studied with. She stirs in just the right amount of honey, a bit of sass, and a healthy dollop of humor to bring us one of the most eminently useful books on herbal practice available today."
KAY PARENT runs her practice Earthweaver in Newport and also a successful Practitioners Circle monthly. Practicing since 1996 she has become a well admired character in Rhode Island. Her skills as an intuitive practitioner are eclectic and worthy of aspiring toward. She has taught at the Internation Herb Symposium and the Womens Herbal Conference.
To register please e-mail margi@earthsongherbals.com
OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES with Margi Flint
Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference
to be held at Ghost Ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico
September 15-18, 2011
3 Full Days of Classes
Living with Cancer is my class
http://traditionsinwesternherbalism.org
Friday & Saturday Night Concerts with:
R.I.S.E. (formerly Rising Appalachia)
You are cordially invited to make plans to attend, sponsor or vend at our 2011 Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference, (with “Western” loosely defined as traditions drawing from Western Europe and South, Central and North America). The TWHC fills the need for a gathering together of many of our time’s most vital voices into a single forum to provide inspiration and knowledge to a growing population of community healers and herbal students of all levels… as well as the general public interested in self healing and natural medicines, or in simply making their families less dependent on the corporate health system.
TWHC
PO Box 688, Reserve, NM 87830
http://TraditionsInWesternHerbalism.org
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I'll be doing consultations in Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque through the end of September. I'm available for lectures during that time as well- Love New Mexico!
Reading The Body
Pacific Rim College Victoria BC
November 5th - 6th
Learn to read the face, nails, tongue and body to understand indications of lines, blemishes, marks and colors.
Understanding the cues of the organ/body correspondences is a precious gift (and a curse). Indications of hot, cold, damp dry and wind conditions can easily be read once you train your eyes to see. Margi shares the knowledge learned from her teachers and clients over the past three decades.
Topics will include:
-- Facial signs – lines and markings of the tongue, ears, eyes, mouth and nose and their organ/body correspondences. Also nail signs.
-- Significance of tissue color in diagnosis.
-- Signs of hot, cold, damp and dry conditions.
-- Elimination analysis by stool and urine appearance.
-- Discussion of herbs for organ systems.
-- Use of pulse analysis when selecting remedies.
The weekend will be spent partly in lecture and partly in looking at the face, tongue and nails of participants as well as pulse-testing for confirmation of herbs.
We will end each day with a plant meditation.
To register, e-mail James Christian jchristian@pacificrimcollege.ca
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October - November 2011
Traditions in Western Herbalism ~ Portland Oregon
May have some small living room classes in Portland and Seattle
Bastyr University ~ Seattle, WA
Pacific Rim College ~ Vancouver BC
Protection from Radiation
I share knowledge of protection from the coming radiation with you all, for we are all connected, sisters, brothers, children, parents, friends from around this planet. “Though fear is the most normal response in a situation like this, it weakens not strengthens the immune system. So breathe out fear, breathe in light and healing and love. Its what the world and the Earth need and are calling forth right now.
I think always of the wise and simple words of Thich Nhat Hanh:
Breathing in I calm my body,
breathing out I smile.....
breathing in I calm my body,
breathing out I smile.
When the big waves comes for us, let us remember to smile....” in conversation today with Rosemary Gladstar.
1. Miso soup is highly protective. Eat Kelp or any seaweed. Put it in soups, smoothies, cooked rice. Eat as much as you can. Sea vegetables but especially kelp (also known as Kombu) has very bioavailable iodine.
2. Eat Reishi, Ganoderma and other medicinal mushrooms to boost the immune system and deal with radioactive fallout. Mushroom Harvest.com 14 mushroom blend or www.herbsetc.com for lots of the products mentioned. He has great orbs that are so pure and so amazing.
3. Eat tons of Blue green Algae or chlorella. Chlorella is 10% chlorophyll. It can squelch toxic debris. It has 40 times more chlorophyll than wheat grass. Herbs Etc ChlorOxigen orbs.
4. Put sea salt in your water and drink it. It will help to detoxify halogens; chlorine, fluoride, bromine and radioactive iodine. Epsom Salts in the bath.
5. Increase selenium (Standard Process Cataplex E) or eat Brazil nuts
6. Ashwaganda, Withania somnifora helps the thyroid deal with radioactive debris.
7. Coconut oil protects the Thyroid.
8. Take High doses of Vitamin C
9. Increase Magnesium
10. Fresh Yarrow flower tincture protects the cells with a healthy boundary and releases radiation from the body. Yarrow Special formula FES or Delta Gardens Yarrow Flower essence.
For News presented with truer facts go to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.youtube.com/user/russiatoday?blend=1&ob=4
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/
http://www.foe.org/
Organize to permanently dismantle all nuclear power plants from this beautiful Earth Mother, she doesn’t like it. The future of all our children is in taking action, dropping apathy and “I’m too busy”…. In hopes of many lovely springs to come, Margi.
GATHERING TEXAS HERBALISTS
Please send your contact information to me so that we build a list for the upcoming journey back to Austin Texas and Houston
Place in your subject line "Texas" and mail to margi@earthsongherbals.com
GATHERING FLORIDA HERBALISTS!
There is a request for me to teach in Florida. Please send your email address and I will begin a list. The Floridians are ready!
I will be teaching at the American Herbalists Guild Symposium in October 21st - 23rd
private consultations are available prior and post symposium
Place in your subject line "Florida" and mail to margi@earthsongherbals.com
Gathering Herbalists from
Ontario
Nova Scotia
Montreal
British Columbia
Place in your subject line "Canada" and mail to margi@earthsongherbals.com
BOOKS AND CDS
CDs of William LeSassier's teachings are available!
Facial Diagnosis and Palpation Video CDs are
available through www.earthsongherbals.com
HIS FACIAL DIAGNOSIS POSTERS AS WELL.
Go the the store at the www.williamlesassierarchive.orgto order his brilliance now.
Do not wear headphones, sound is irratic.
"The shining light of his wisdom be yours." Margi
