Misty Meadows - Advanced Herbal Studies

Misty Meadows Herbal Center

Lee, NH

2012 Advanced Herbal Studies Program

This year's teachers:

Dr. Jody Noe’
Kathleen Maier, AHG, PA
Amanda McQuade Crawford,
Chris Marano
Jim McDonald

This program is for herbalists, body workers, nurses & nurse practitioners, physicians, naturopaths............all health care practitioners who are interested in broadening their knowledge of natural healing. This 5-weekend program offers a wealth of information taught by our nation's leading herbal teachers.

Topics will include: Understanding the Endocrine System; Cardiovascular Health & Disease; Understanding & Rebalancing STD's; Women's Health Issues; Metabolic Syndrome; foundational herbcraft... actions & energetics in traditional western herbalism.

Class Dates: May 4-6; June 29-July 1; August 17-19; September 14-16; November 9-11

Early Bird Registration: $1200 when you register by March 15 and pay in full with cash or check.
$1350 after March 15 ($350 Deposit required with registration). Visa/MC/Discover

Payment Plan: $350 Deposit due with registration
$339 Due before class in June, August and September
(includes a $5.67 processing fee per payment)

Cancellation Policy:
If the class is cancelled by Misty Meadows for any reason, all monies will be fully refunded.

Cancellations made before March 15 are fully refundable, minus a $25 processing fee.
Cancellations made between March 15 and April 15 are refundable minus $350 deposit.
Cancellations after April 15 are non-refundable.

Space is limited -- register early & save $150!

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About the Faculty:

Kathleen Maier, AHG, PA has been a practicing herbalist for over twenty years. She was co-founder and Director of Dreamtime Center for Herbal Studies and has taught at nationally known herb schools and centers for the last ten years. Her studies of plant medicines began as a Peace Corp volunteer and have included the wisdom of Stephen Buhner, Rosemary Gladstar, Susun Weed and Matthew Wood. Her training as a Physician's Assistant allows her to translate the language of medicine we know today and ground it in the wisdom of earth-centered practices known for millennia. She is very active locally with United Plant Savers and the restoration of native plants and the preservation of fragile ecosystems.

Chris Marano, RH(AHG)

Chris Marano, MA,BS is a clinical herbalist with a health care practice in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. His practice and teachings take him throughout the US, Canada and the British Isles. He is founder of the Clearpath School of Herbal Medicine, dedicated to the teaching of holistic health, herbalism and Earth-based wisdom; and Clearpath Herbals, offering health consultations and high-quality, custom-blended herbal preparations.

His experience draws upon Chinese, Native American and Western healing traditions. He is a registered herbalist in the American Herbalist Guild (AHG), a professional member of the Northeast Herbal Association (NEHA), veteran teacher, author, meditation instructor, and has degrees in pre-medicine, Chinese philosophy and science education from Columbia University, a graduate degree from The Herbal Therapeutics School of Botanic Medicine, Zen and Chinese philosophy training from the Institute of Chung-hwa Chinese and Buddhist Culture, and training in Cherokee and Annishnabe traditions. In addition to teaching workshops, courses and apprenticeship programs through Clearpath Herbals in both Western Massachusetts and Coastal Maine, Chris also teaches Clinical Herbalism at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Jim McDonald, Herbalist/Herbal Educator. In 1994, while living in an old, overgrown farmhouse in Okemos, MI, I discovered a tattered, purple herb book left out haphazardly on the kitchen counter by one of my roommates. I began flipping through the book, and within a few weeks had begun foraging through the abundant weeds that covered the property and brewing them into strange tasting teas. Til then, I had little interest in either herbs or health, and so my sudden and growing passion with them was perhaps unusual. In hindsight, I think something in those first sips of strange tea woke in me my passion for plants and their medicine. From those first curious experiences, my hunger to both learn from and serve my green friends has been without end.

I am, in may ways, a self taught herbalist. This is not to say that I'm responsible for learning everything I know myself, but rather that I've never really had any formal training with any other herbalist, gone through any courses, or attended any schools. Though every now and again I get grief from those who value credentials, I hardly view this as a liability. If anything, it has provided me with a unique opportunity to learn from doing, and to base my knowledge firmly upon my own first had experience. My education in herbcraft has been, above all things, experiential. Unable to readily find a teacher (this was in the dark ages before you could look online for people teaching hear you), I was left to my senses and intuition. While plenty of time was spent in libraries and bookstores devouring what information I could find, more still was spent wandering through the forests and fields around my various homes in southeast Michigan, learning one by one the plants I shared this land with, and the communities that together they created. This, by far, was (and still is) the most valuable study I've ever engaged in. Being with the plants creates relationships with them, relationships that change entirely one's understanding of their medicinal uses.

Amanda McQuade Crawford, B.A., MNIMH is an herbalist, and teacher. She received her BA in Medieval History from Vassar College, but later went to England where she could study herbal medicine in a depth that was not possible in the United States where herbal medicine had no legal status. She spent time at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland where she participated in growing and using medicinal herbs. She received a Diploma in Herbal Medicine from the College of Phytotherapy in England and was elected a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists(MNIMH) in 1986. She returned to the United States where she is currently in private practice in Ojai, California and travels to teach at schools and herbal conferences. Philosophically she integrates her knowledge and clinical experience of primarily western herbs and nutrition with stress management, and an awareness of spiritual well-being.

Amanda is a well known international public speaker and author. She wrote The Herbal Menopause Book and Herbal Remedies for Women. She is the Associate Director, for the United States of the International College of Herbal Medicine.^[3] She has more than 20 years experience in clinical herbal medicine, is a founding member of the American Herbalists Guild ^[4]and the founder of the National College of Phytotherapy in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She serves on numerous professional advisory boards and scientific review panels including The American Herbal Pharmacopeia.^[5]

Dr. Jody Noe’ is a Licensed Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor, full time academic and clinical faculty at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine. She has been in practice for over 15 years and is a specialist in Integrative Medicine and Integrative Naturopathic Oncology. Dr. Noe’ has been a practicing medical herbalist and a university trained ethnobotanist who specializes in the ethnomedicinal botany of the Cherokee both eastern and western bands. Dr. Noe’s book, Fundamentals of Naturopathic Integrative Oncology will be published this year.

Jody practices traditional Cherokee medicine as taught by her Cherokee elders. This is a practice that encompasses mind, body and spirit. She was accepted as an official apprentice in 1987 by Crosslin F. Smith, high medicine priest of the Keetoowah, Cherokees of the western band of Cherokees in Tahlequah, OK. She was adopted into the Smith family shortly after starting her apprenticeship. This is a unique honor reserved for few.

The traditional Cherokee medicine way uses plants, earth, air, water and fire (heat) along with rituals and prayers to invoke Spirit and Healing.

Dr. Noe’s specialty training in traditional herbal medicine, psychology and spirituality has made her a leader in the field of integrative medicine. Her background as a clinical research scientist and ethnobotanist has added a dimension of scientific knowledge to her traditional training that has made her a leading educator in her field.