Embodied Plant Teachings
A seven month immersive experience of plant teachings and embodied learning.
For most of human history, plants weren't viewed simply as medicine. They were teachers, allies, and living beings with whom people formed deep relationships.
When we truly pay attention to plants, we encounter something much deeper than herbal knowledge. We encounter ourselves.
Plants teach us how to become present in our bodies, attuned to our emotions, aware of the subtle forces moving through us, and more capable of meeting life with consciousness and intention.
Each plant offers us a unique way of understanding medicine and healing. They ask us to participate in our growth and personal evolution through the relationship, guidance, and journey they offer.
This is the heart of Embodied Plant Teachings
Over seven months, we will journey deeply with medicinal plants as teachers and allies. Through embodied practices, traditional herbal knowledge, modern scientific understanding, observation, ritual, and direct relationship, you will learn to engage with plants not only through your mind, but through your whole being.
Embodied Plant Teachings will give you the frameworks, language, and cosmology to relate to plants as teachers, and to transform your life with their medicine.
Whether you are brand new to herbalism or someone seeking to deepen your herbal understanding, this journey is for you.
Over seven months you will…
Form an embodied relationship with plants that extends beyond memorization, into lived realationship and experience.
Develop a deeper capacity to listen to your body, emotions, intuition, and the natural world.
Learn to work consciously with your own vital energy rather than continually overriding, suppressing, or abandoning it.
Clearly see your own healing and evolution as inseparable from your relationship with the wider living world.
By the end of this journey, you won't simply know more about plants: you will have spent seven months allowing them to change you.
This is not a passive experience, but rather an invitation to deeply engage with the magic of life that is ever present, should we choose it.
Embodied Plant is for the person who:
Desires to form direct relationship with medicinal plants, learning from them as teachers.
Craves an approach to medicine and herbalism that weaves together mind, body, and spirit.
Wants to explore healing as something deeper than symptom management: a process of becoming more embodied, aware, present, and alive.
Is ready to allow plants to support their process of healing, transformation, and personal evolution.
Wants practical herbal knowledge they can bring into everyday life: we’ll explore everyday use, medicine making, and ethical sourcing (and how all of this is not separate from the plant’s deep teachings)
Learns best through experience, observation, experimentation, and relationship rather than simply memorizing information.
Enjoys group learning and collective sharing
The plants are calling.
What’s Included
Monthly live classes with recorded playbacks to revisit anytime
Monthly pre-recorded classes to build your herbal foundations, somatic awareness, emotional intelligence, and ability to understand the language of nature
Detailed notes packages to revisit anytime
Ongoing access to all recorded content inside of your student portal
Community Telegram group to stay connected throughout our seven months together (ask questions, share your insights, form friendships, nerd out!)
Optional: Add a herbal bundle that includes tinctures and tea for the six herbs we’ll cover (Canadian addresses only)
Why Only Six Herbs?
Many herbal programs teach dozens, even hundreds, of herbs. While breadth has value, we've found that depth creates lasting relationship, offers space for transformational experiences, and gives students the confidence to apply what they've learned.
By spending an entire month with each plant, you'll remember it not because you memorized a chart, but because you've experienced it. You'll taste it, prepare it, observe it, notice how your own body responds, and build a relationship over time. The plants become mirrors, teachers, and catalysts for transformation. They can invite us into greater embodiment, help us develop a more intimate relationship with our emotions and energy, and offer new ways of understanding the vital force moving through us.
Our hope isn't simply that you know more herbs. It's that you experience herbalism as a living practice that allows you to build meaningful relationships with any plant you encounter.
What You’ll Learn
November
Live Class : Animism, Plant Intelligence & Embodiment
Pre-recorded Classes: Vitalism & Herbal Energetics, Foundations of Holistic Medicine (Mind, Body & Spirit)
December
Live Class: The Medicine of Hawthorn
Pre-recorded Class: Somatics & the Emotional Body
January
Live Class: The Medicine of Yarrow
Pre-recorded Class: Ways of Knowing & The Doctrine of Signatures
February
Live Class: The Medicine of Astragalus
Pre-recorded Classes: Plant Spitit Medicine, Alchemy & Evolutionary Herbalism
March
Live Class: The Medicine of Rosemary
Pre-recorded Class: Taste & Pharmacology
April
Live Class: The Medicine of Meadowsweet
Pre-recorded Class: Medicine Making (Tinctures, Oils, Salves)
May
Live Class: The Medicine of Mullein
Pre-recorded Class: Ethic Wildcrafting & Sourcing
Live Call Times
The live classes will take place on Sundays from 10-12am PST over Zoom
All classes will be recorded and uploaded to the student portal within 48 hours.
The dates are as follows:
November 15, 2026
December 13, 2026
January 17, 2027
February 14, 2027
March 14, 2027
April 11, 2027
May 16, 2027
Meet the Facilitators & Teachers
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Marie Zak
SOMATIC THERAPIST & CLINICAL HERBALIST
CO-FOUNDER OF ALTHAEA HERBALS -
Travis Cartwright
CLINICAL HERBALIST
CO-FOUNDER OF ALTHAEA HERBALS
Student Testimonials
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"Your complimentary, gentle, and nourishing ways, have reminded me that herbs don't do the work for us. They may point the way, like chamomile did for me and help us along if we let them. I really opened up and felt connected. So thank you for these gentle nudges in the right direction and deep learning."
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"I love the format of the course (learning about the plant from direct experience; coming together at the end of the month to learn in depth)... I also love the opportunity to gathering with other plant enthusiasts and learn from clinical practitioners."
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"The Teachers are incredibly knowledgeable and passionate about herbalism. They have studied for many years and the dedication and love for the plants truly shines through. I am SO grateful for their teachings and guidance over the training."
Join Us
Please note the herbal bundle is optional and sold separately and is only available in Canada
Please note that this purchase is not refundable.
FAQ’s
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No problem! All live classes will be recorded and uploaded to the student portal so you can watch from anywhere.
You can ask questions, and stay in touch with the collective through our shared Telegram group throughout the month.
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There is no experience needed. Whether you are brand new to herbalism or someone seeking to deepen your herbal understanding, this journey is for you.