Building Immunity course
Want practical skills you can use straight away in the kitchen to care for your family this winter?
Building your immunity through simple lifestyle strategies and herbal remedies is an excellent place to start.
Next course May 2025. Contact me to join waitlist
Designed for YOU
Ever feel you’re juggling more plates than a circus act? Wishing you had clarity and confidence around using herbal medicine for everyday sicknesses like colds, flus, and other common upper respiratory infections?
In this 4 week course, you’ll learn
🌿basics of how the immune system works and core concepts for holistic immunity
🌿3 stages of the immune system – prevention, acute illness and recovery/ dealing with back-to-back illnesses.
🌿hands-on experience making your own herbal remedies,
🌿 step-by-step guides and protocols for colds/ flus, and we’ll work through case studies as a group so you can learn how to make decisions in real-world situations
🌿get familiar with 6 all-star immune system herbs
Immunity course – overview
How does it work?
Designed to support how you learn, there are weekly live sessions, pre-recorded video remedy-making demonstrations and written handouts covering herbs and more remedy-making info.
In our live sessions – we want it to be a fully responsive course, so we’ll also invite the course group to tell us how we can best use that time together, including exploring case studies and immunity-based situations you’re up against in your home
*note – whilst we do gently cover autoimmunity and allergies, that’s not the focus of this course (that’s another course entirely really, so feel confident we can talk to these, but we won’t be diving too deep).
What will you learn?
Week 1:
- Foundational Concept: What is the immune system and holistic immunity?
- Foundational Concept: What is Terrain Theory
- Phase 1: Strategies for Prevention
- Featured Herb: Shiitake
Week 2:
- Phase 2: Acute Illness and case study. upper respiratory (head cold, sinus infection, hayfever)
- Featured Herb: Elder (wish bonus Sage recording)
Week 3:
- Phase 2: Acute Illness and case study. cold and flu – congestion, fever and aches and chills)
- Featured Herbs: Echinacea and Olive Leaf
Week 4:
- Phase 3: recurrent illness, convalescence, lingering symptoms, not quite getting better and case study
- Foundational Concept: Lifestyle pillars for Holistic Immunity
- Featured Herb: Astragalus
Key Dates
⭐ Next course May 2025 ⭐
What herbs will we cover?
This is the companion course to the IMMUNITY Remedy Kit, so the herbs we’ll cover are:
- Elderberry
- Astragalus
- Shiitake
- Sage
- Olive leaf
- Echinacea
Course dates:
May 2024 – tbc
Join live for 4 weeks, or use replays.
Can I make this a self-paced course?
Of course!
All the resources will be available for 1 year following the end of the course for students to access. If you haven’t finished by then, it’s easy to download the course materials to study at your own pace.
More questions answered below
A fantastic course to support you to create simple (but powerful) home remedies to help your family! Cat and Heidi are passionate about herbs and supporting everyday people to use them in their homes! Loved it and can’t wait to do more ❤️
Kellie. 2024
I had one of the case studies in real time with us having the flu and could feel a noticeable difference with being able to use the herbal remedies with how quickly we all moved through the symptoms etc. I feel so much more confident to help my family now
Natural mumma 2024
The building immunity course is so invaluable. Cat and Heidi give you a wealth of tangible wisdom you can use immediately to both heal and empower yourself and your family.
Jessie. 2024
Absolutely LOVED Cat and Heidi focusing on only a small group of herbs, allowing me the time to build a comfortable and lovely relationship with each herb.
Participant 2023
Was excepting to enjoy this course but ended up being blown away by the level of Cat and Heidi’s knowledge and experience and their enthusiasm for sharing their love and respect for the beautiful healing herbs they work with. Feeling very blesed and grateful
Gail
I loved this course – interesting, inspring, an abundance of great knowledge shared, very empowering for my journey with herbs and my family’s heatlh. Thank you!
Participant feeback 2023
“Your immune system is your greatest health asset”
~ Dr Jenna Macciochi
About your teachers
The Building Immunity course, and the DIY Immunity Remedy Kit have been co-developed by Heidi Merika and Cat Green.
Heidi (right) is an experienced clinical herbalist with a passion for wild medicinal and nutritional plants.
She’s a popular educator, both in person and online, and she has a new Wildcrafting cookbook coming out in 2024.
Cat (left) is a folk herbalist who loves championing home herbalists and founded Everyday Empowered. She’s passionate about getting herbalism into more hands and homes by making herbal medicine education fun, relatable and deeply practical. She does this through her courses, other events and workshops and by hosting the Sunshine Coast’s biggest herbal gathering of the year – HerbFest.
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I’m so keen! How much does it cost?
We’re so glad you want to nourish your immunity at home with these herbs and simple remedies and strategies.
Bundle – Online course with Immunity Remedy Kit (which is valued at $130): $250
Online course just by itself: $200
Payment Plans are available – just choose PayPal at checkout and select the Pay in 4 option)
When does this course start?
Scheduled to run May 2025 – use contact page to join waitlist
How long does the course go for?
The course runs for four weeks. May 3 until May 24.
You can follow along with us every week – either live or through replays, or you can have the option of self-paced study in your own time. The benefit of following us live is getting feedback and support and being able to ask questions from her and the others in the group.
How much time do I need to spend on the course each week?
Ideally, we recommend:
Allow 15-30minutes to read your PDF
Allow 20 minutes – 2 hours to make a remedy each week (depending on what you choose to make, this could be quick or more in-depth)
1 hour to watch and participate in the zoom calls
With this recommendation, we also know that life is busy, so just honour yourself and your time as needed. You’ve spent money on the course, so take time to connect with your intention and reason for joining us. This might help you prioritise the space for these 6 weeks to dive deeply into learning about these plants. But as always, take time of yourself – you know your own life and capacity best.
I can't make some of the dates or times for the live course - can I still do it?
If you can’t make the live calls you can still do the course as you will still receive the PDF’s, the Kit and the recording of the live calls.
You can also email Cat with questions and Heidi and I can answer, either via email or in the live calls. You will also have access to the Facebook group so you can share your questions and experiences with your other people on your course.
What if I change my mind?
Once you have signed up you can cancel and get a refund anytime before:
- your kit has been shipped out to you.
- the course has started and you’ve recieved course materials such as the group pages, pdfs or videos
After that there’s no refunds but you’ll be able to self-study at your own pace if you’re busier than you realised.
Can I join from Overseas?
Yes
How do I pay? Are there payment plans?
You can pay online via Paypal or a secure payment gateway using my website.
Payment plans are available – just choose PayPal’s “Pay-in-4” option at the checkout.
Do I need to print any resources?
You will receive the PDF’s as digital file. You don’t have to print them unless you prefer to have them as hard copies.
If you choose to buy the course andImmunity Remedy Kit bundle – the recipes in the kit are already printed on cards for you.
Do I need anything not in the kit?
All of the herbs, and bits and pieces you’ll need are in the kit.
But yes, you’ll ned some basic pantry supplies that are very easy to access and most likely already in your cupboard – such as olive oil, honey, lemons etc and some jars to make your remdies in . Old peanut butter jars (or simialr) are good.
Does this course give me CPE points, certification or a qualification?
No this course does not give you any practitioner qualifications.
If you are already a practitioner you can request a certificate for 24 hours of CPE points in herbal medicine education.
Will this Course allow me to create remedies to sell?
Perhaps. This cousre covers many common techniques and remedies however to sell products you might want to research other prepataion techniques or food preservation as well.
Having said that, yes. Many people go on to sell remedies they have made as a result of these courses.
My child loves herbal medicine, will this course suit them?
It depends on the age of your child. If they are over 12 years old and open to talk of energetics then they can participate on their own. If they are under 12 you may want to do the course with your child or assist them where you feel it is needed.
Let's talk
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