Herb & Storytelling Workshops & Events
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HERBAL MEDICINE IN THE HOME ONE-DAY WORKSHOP – WINTER WELLNESS FOR CHALLENGING TIMES
28TH SEPTEMBER 2024 COST £120 – includes materials /medicines which you take home.
10 am – 3 pm St Peter’s Church Hall, Offham nr Lewes BN7 3PX (parking on site).
We often do not realise how much is medicinally useful within our kitchen, garden and around us out on a walk. This one-day workshop is designed to increase your knowledge and confidence in making and using herbal medicine. For much of human history, the knowledge of how to treat things that commonly afflicted household members would be handed down through the generations. While this lineage has been disrupted with the mechanistic medical model, traditional Western Medical Herbalists such as Kym Murden, believe this knowledge is accessible to all.
This one-day workshop aims to support understanding of our body’s natural immunity and how herbal medicine in the home can help prevent, combat and recover from winter infections.
Knowledge of herbal medicine is an important way to put your health and your family’s back in your own hands. I consider part of my role as an experienced medical herbalist is to share practical and safe information so that people can better take care of their immediate health and well-being, in natural and effective ways.
This workshop will cover:
- If weather permits we will take a short walk to identify and gather herbs if available.
- The focus will be on herbal remedies that boost natural immunity, by preventing, treating and recovering from winter infections. We will cover an overview of the immune system and respiratory system.
- Consider remedies that can be found in our kitchen and how to use diet to support health.
- Look at, taste and learn how to blend a medicinal herbal tea mix, which you will make to take home.
- We will learn about the difference between fresh and dried herbs and their usage.
- We will learn the difference between certain herbal medicine applications with demonstrations on how and when to use them,eg poultices, compresses, syrups, and infused oils, and more!
All this will take place in a friendly supportive and experiential workshop.
Lunch – please bring your own.
Teas and coffees and light morning & afternoon refreshments are provided.
You need to bring a pen & paper.
Space limited. Booking essential. Please email me at kym.herbs@gmail.com to book and secure your place
HERB OF THE MONTH
DATES: Autumn 2024: Tues 24th Sept, Weds 23rd Oct, Weds 27th Nov
TIME: 7 pm to 9 pm You can attend as a one-off or do a block booking.
COST: £15 per session or if block booking two or more £10 per session.
Do you want to expand your understanding and usage of herbal medicine for yourself and your household, but find reading all those online blogs and books leaves you a bit lost and without enough confidence as to what to do? Why not think of joining this friendly and interactive evening class? One herb is studied at a time to enable embedded knowledge and a deeper understanding of the plant, not just from the reductive symptomatic/clinical approach. Aspects covered about the particular herb will include its history & folklore/stories, where and how it grows, and its actions on our bodies with some basic medicinal and herbal therapeutics. We will get to identify the plant and how it tastes along with how you can use it effectively at home.
They will take place in the Herbal Clinic in East Way, Lewes, thus while spaces will have to be booked it means we are ensured a friendly, engaged, and supportive evening.
HERB WALK – NATURE CURE Next date to be announced JUNE 2 pm to 4 pm
£10 per person.
A gentle herb walk to explore the herbs growing on chalk downland at Landport. We meet at the Herbalist Garden in East Way on the Nevill.
Booking essential as group limited to 15. Sorry no dogs or small children.
Come and walk with me and let us find the stories of this land, by listening to the birds, looking at the herbs, and being free to ponder. Will we find by their old folk names: Hedge Tapers, Fairy Wands, Carpenter’s weed, a heg-peg or scraw, cow parsnip, or some Sailor’s tobacco? Or perhaps we shall seek the plants out by their scientific Latin names and come to understand some of their current-day medical uses – but definitely stepping aside from the mechanistic ideology into the world of wonder and healing.
These walks are an invitation for us to truly find our place and presence within the landscape. They are suitable for adults who want to reconnect with the land and the natural rhythm of the seasons. By weaving ourselves back into the web of the ordinary we find enhanced well-being and ease with our place within the natural world.
Expect a gentle walk, with some inclines. Dress according to the needs of the weather and your comfort.
Please contact me to book your place.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Please email kym.herbs@gmail.com with the dates you would like to attend and I will send on payment information.
INTRODUCTION TO HERBS IN THE HOME.
next event to be arranged.
A series of evening workshops explaining what is herbal medicine and how to use them effectively in the home. Not sure how or when to use a poultice or tea? Want to start you own herb first aid kit? What is good for treating common ailments and boosting your immune system?
In a friendly and supportive group you will cover basic medicinal herbal actions and gain inspiration and knowledge on how to be empowered in using Nature’s medicine chest to treat common ailments. As a herbalist with over 20 years of clinical experience alongside the insights of all the events of family life I like to encourage people to use remedies that can be easily found in their kitchen or grown in the garden. You will gain a grounded confidence on when and how to use home remedies to optimise your own well-being over the coming change of seasons, as well as appreciate the pivotal role of herbs in human well-being. Price includes information hand-outs, starter kits and samples. Please contact me to book your place on these popular courses as space is limited.
HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES & DOMESTIC EMERGENCIES
Finding & Using the medicine already in your kitchen and garden! Introductory talks with demonstrations to give you the practical knowledge to use applications. You will go home with new skills to use straight away.
Ever wanted to know how to take better care of your immediate health needs by using things commonly found in your kitchen, including the medicinal abilities provided by apples, garlic, cabbage, vinegar, salt, thyme, sage and more. Join us for an exploration of how to make effective remedies from seemingly simple and easily available everyday items. Your health in your own hands! In each session we learn about different aspects of our health, and practical ways to make and use medicine. You will be able to go home with either a simple remedy or be given the materials to make one at home with instructions.
Bookings
To book a place(s) use the booking form below each event. If you need further information, help or wish to pay by different means please contact me for further details, stating which event your are interested in.
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TERMS & CONDITIONS
- BOOKINGS All workshops need to be paid in advance in full, which will secure your place. Payment can be made by cash, cheque or BACS payment. All payments to be referenced with Name and date of course if paid on line.
- CANCELLATIONS If you have to cancel, 80% of your fee will be refunded if we can fill your place, otherwise you will forfeit your fee. If you book and pay and do not attend the course, no refund will be given. In some circumstances it maybe possible to transfer a booking to another course.
- In the unlikely event that a course is cancelled by the organiser you will receive a full refund.