$75, includes $25 materials fee (covers the reishi extract you'll take home)
Pre-Symposium Intensives
Pre-Symposium Intensives, Friday, October 4, 2024
Our 2024 Pre-Symposium Intensives feature five three-hour classes offering in-depth information about topics presented by noted herbal practitioners and researchers. You will find descriptions of the individual Intensives below. Click on the speaker's name to access their bio.
Can't join us in person? Attend both of these Pre-Symposium Intensives Virtually - A Critical Look at Herb-Drug Interactions with Kevin Spelman, and Tracing Roots and Healing Wounds: Africa's Botanical Heritage in North American Herbalism with Lyani Powers When you register for the Virtual option, you can attend them live and have access to the recordings one year.
Note that Pre-Symposium Intensives are priced individualy and not included with your Symposium registration fee. Click on the BUY TICKETS button to purchase your tickets.
Afternoon (1:00pm-4:00pm)
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.
$50 This session is available virtually (live-streamed and recorded).
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).
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.