Pre-Symposium Intensive

Pre-Symposium Intensive: Hands-On Reishi Double Extraction Workshop GEN
Bottle up the Mushroom of Immortality! If you have ever wanted to know how to craft your mushroom double extraction, this class is for you. Learn the basic folk method of functional mushroom extraction and a modern (and faster!) alternative.  In addition, we’ll discuss scientific evidence that validates Reishi's traditional use and how it can be incorporated into your clinical practice. Everyone leaves with their own Reishi double extraction. Materials fee required. 
Pre-Symposium Intensive: Phytochemistry Meets Gaia Plant Walk GEN

Phytochemistry can sometimes feel abstract, divorced from our direct experience of plants.  On this walk, we’ll take phytochemistry outdoors, using our senses to discuss phytoconstituents, why plants produce them, and how they provide nutrition and medicine.  While immersed in the local flora, we’ll deconstruct the artificial wall between science-based and energetic or traditional herbalist approaches and reframe them as differing languages describing a single Gaia. 

$50 Limited to 20 people.

Pre-Symposium Intensive: Tracing Roots and Healing Wounds: Africa's Botanical Heritage in North American Herbalism GEN

This intensive explores Africa's botanical legacy and its enduring impact on healing practices on both sides of the Atlantic. We examine Africa before colonization, tracing the origin of different botanical traditions and species accompanying the transatlantic slave trade. You’ll also learn about traditional healing practices, key botanical species, memory gardens and cultural preservation. 

$50 This session is available virtually (live-streamed and recorded). 

Pre-Symposium Intensive: A Critical Look at Herb-Drug Interactions ADV

Are you tired of hearing that every herb you use in your practice is dangerous because of the potential for herb-drug interactions (HDIs)? Are you flabbergasted by studies using a boatload of one herbal extract in In Vitro models and concluding that it causes HDIs? Join Kevin to learn a rational approach to evaluating HDIs. By looking at specific herbs and case studies and comparing them to real-world human data, you’ll learn how to assess what is real and not about potential herb-drug interaction data.