Virtual Symposium Option

Virtual Symposium Registration Now Open!

Can't join us in Black Mountain for the Symposium? No worries! Attend the Virtual Symposium Track, a select group of eight classes that you can view live or as recordings, all conveniently accessible for one year. It's herbal education on your schedule!
 
In addition to the Virtual Symposium Track, you can purchase virtual access and recordings to the Pre-Symposium Intensives on Friday, October 4, Tracing Roots and Healing Wounds: Africa's Botanical Heritage in North American Herbalism with Lyani Powers and A Critical Look at Herb-Drug Interactions with Kevin Spelman, and the Post-Symposium Intensive on Monday, October 7, Medicinal Mushrooms: Updates and Inspiration for Herbalists.
 
By purchasing our virtual options, you'll gain access to live-streamed sessions and recordings that you can revisit for a year, enhancing your learning experience. It's a valuable investment in your herbalism journey.
 
Secure your spot by registering before October 1, 2024, to ensure you can attend the live-streamed classes during the Symposium and access the recordings.

                         

Pricing

Virtual Symposium Track   

Includes eight comprehensive classes. Saturday, October 5 and Sunday, October 6, and recordings of all Virtual Track classes. - $149.00

Pre-Symposium Options – Friday, October 3, 2024, 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Purchase each class separately or get them both for even more savings.
 
 

Tracing Roots and Healing Wounds: Africa's Botanical Heritage in North America with Lyani Powers - $35.00

 

 

 

A Critical Look at Herb-Drug Interactions with Kevin Spelman - $35.00

 

 

 

Purchase Pre-Symposium Bundle

 

 

Post-Symposium Intensive – Monday, October, 7, 2024, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm

Mushroom Medicine: Updates & Inspiration for Herbalists with Christopher Hobbs & Robert Rogers - $75 (6 hour intensive)

Certificate Bundle

Purchase Virtual Symposium Track and Mushroom Medicine to earn your Botanical Medicine in Aging certificate. You can learn more about the certificate track here. - $199

 

Explore the Virtual Track Classes below. 

Ganoderma lucidum: Cultivation, Chemistry & Clinical Use in Cancer

Reishi mushroom or Lingzhi has been used for centuries to address a wide range of health conditions. In this lecture, we'll review organic and traditional cultivation methods, various Ganoderma species and their chemistry, as well as their pharmacological and clinical uses. The application of reishi in age-related health conditions and data on leukocyte changes in cancer patients using reishi will also be covered. 

Why Can't I Sleep?! Strategies for Sneaky Sleep Saboteurs

A good night's sleep is imperative for overall health and vitality, yet many of our clients don't sleep well despite our best efforts, and typical herbal remedies don't always work. Sleep problems can happen to anyone, and they often increase with age. Maria shares some of the easily missed culprits—especially for waking in the middle of the night—and offers tips to sleuth them out, suggesting natural and herbal support strategies.

Presenter: Maria Noël Groves

Spiritual Roots and Ethereal Mushrooms: TCM’s Approach to Spiritual Wellness

 
In Traditional Chinese Medicine, treating the spirit is often considered necessary to address the root cause of a disease, even in the presence of branch symptoms. This class introduces you to the TCM approach to treating the spirit as essential part of botanical protocols using roots and herbs. 
 

Medicinal Mushrooms: The Human Clinical Trials

 
In this class we'll look at the numerous double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials that have been conducted and published about various mushrooms including reishi (Ganoderma spp.), lion's mane (Hericum erinaceus), turkey tail (Trametes versicolor), chaga (Inotus obliquus), shiitake (Lentinula edodes), agarics (Agaricus spp.), amanita (Amanita muscaria) and wood ear (Auricularia auricula-judae) are just some examples that will be explored along with contraindications for their use.

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. 

The Importance of Roots for Human Well-Being

Our roots are who we are, the source of nurturing in our lives, and they affect our everyday decisions. Our roots are our cultures and our futures. If we want to live in a world with clean air, water, earth and nurturing of each other, we need to examine the roots of the land we are on and apply the indigenous wisdoms of connection to our lives. This class explores the social issues that affect our lands and how the roots of the land, indigenous people and plant remedies can support us.
 

Mushrooms and Herbs Working Together

The clinical use of mushrooms is on the rise, but as herbalists we often don’t know the actions of these mushrooms or even how to blend them with our herbal allies.  Xochitl will review five beneficial mushrooms, Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus), Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), Cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris), Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor), and Agarikon (Fomitopsis officinalis), along with herbal allies Usnea (Usnea longissima), Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Schisandra berry (Schisandra chinesis), and Goji

Healthy Aging with the Latest Science on Herbs, Diet and Other Practices

The major challenges of aging, according to this rapidly-expanding science will be discussed to set the stage.
 
A review of the latest science on the link between diet (especially Mediterranean diet), supplementation (for instance with vitamin D, omega fatty acids), and the regular or daily use of herbs like anti-inflammatories (turmeric, ginger, etc.), and immune-supplementation (with medicinal mushrooms) among other herb categories will be presented. 
 

Preserving Our Vital Waters: Kidney Yin and Aging

 
In Traditional Chines Medicine, the Water Element or Kidney acts like a pilot light to ignite and vitalize the body and to tend to our vital waters. As we age, we may experience a drying of tissues, membranes, joints and even a brittleness of spirit and mind. This class explores the medicine of the Five Elements, the season of Winter and the Kidney/Bladder with information about how herbs and foods can be used to nourish and replenish the Water Element.  
 
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