Want to stock your natural medicine chest with herbal remedies that will see you through summer with confidence and comfort!?

Cause summer’s long lazy days exploring and hanging with family are often interrupted by regular old mishaps of being alive – scrapes, cuts, itchy bites (so many itchy bites!), sunburn, mild sunstroke and trying to stay cool!

In this essential course, we’ll gather (online) over 3 weeks to create, learn, and laugh together while making gorgeous, effective summer remedies you can trust.

Here’s what we’ll be making:
🌿 Insect protection & herbal first aid.
Learn to use weeds and common garden plants to whip up :

• a natural insect repellent,
• a herbal salve to soothe bites and itches and
• master the art of poultices for instant itchy-bite relief and to help get splinters out.

☀️ After-sun skincare
Create a cooling, healing sunburn vinegar remedy and a refreshing herbal spray to calm sun-kissed skin. Learn more about herbs which are really helpful for the skin and a variety of ways to use them.

💧 Stay cool & hydrated
Mix your own natural herbal electrolyte drink and we’ll also explore a bunch of food-as-medicine recipes.

you’ll get to meet the “refrigerant herbs” that help your body beat the heat, help you deal with heat-induced irritation and frustration, plus get recipes for tasty ways to weave them into your daily meals. talk about YUM!

We’ll also cover the difference between heat stress and heatstroke, and how to stay safe as well as talk hydrating remedies.

Why live medicine-making?
Ever tried making a herbal remedy and thought… Is this right? Should it look like that?

You’re not alone!

While herbal medicine-making becomes second nature with experience, starting out, you can feel pretty uncertain. That’s why we’ll make remedies together, live on Zoom.

Join in hands-on, or simply watch the demos and take notes, either way, you’ll be able to ask questions as we go, troubleshoot on the spot, and leave feeling confident about tackling these common everyday issues with ease!

Dates: Tuesdays October 21 & 28  and Nov 4 (3 week course)
Time: 10am–12pm (AEST)
Replay access is included, so you can watch (or rewatch) anytime.
Cost: $150 (or $130 if you join the waitlist and snag the earlybird price)

As soon as you join,  I’ll send you a full list of herbs and supplies and some ideas for how to source so you can gather what you need. 

I always focus on accessible herbalism, so there’ll be lots of options to work with what you’ve already got (or what you can find at the grocery store or already be in your garden)

Don’t let the sourcing be a barrier. We’ll cover it together and there’s still oodles of value watching demo’s and getting mentally prepared how to do it and I’ll talk about lots of wild weed and kitchen staple hacks as well.

Let’s make your summer remedies together without the overwhelm,  guesswork, and lots of herbal fun along the way!

This is old-school mentoring-style herbalism, where you’ll learn in the comfort of a safe, friendly group and feel your confidence grow!

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Every home used to have someone who cared for the health and well-being of the family. They were the knowledge keepers, the health-makers. We’ve largely outsourced these skills these days, but it doesn’t have to stay that way.

Do you feel called to step back into this vital role, feeling empowered to support your family’s health with simple herbal remedies, free from toxic nasties and lots of side effects?

Everyday Herbalism is the perfect place to start. Our beginners, online herbal medicine course is:

✅ 4 weeks – short enough to fit in, long enough to actually learn

✅ direct access to 2 experienced Australian herbalists in a hands-on mentoring environment

✅ learn herbs and remedies that are immediately useful in your everyday life

✅ all materials included in this value-packed course

We know you’re busy, so we focus on what matters most – you and your family’s health.

We do this by tailoring every course to the people in it, AND we make time to directly answer your questions so you feel confident using these herbs and remedies with your family.

How the course works:

4 weekly live sessions (or self-paced replays),

video demonstrations of how to make some remedies,

an in-depth course workbook.

We teach in relatable, everyday language and use lots of case studies (supplied by the group where possible) so the knowledge you learn is relevant and easy to apply.

Based on our award-winning Herbal Starter Kits, you’ll get to work with some of the most well-loved and effective herbs used by home herbalists.

You might have heard calendula is good for cuts, and chamomile is useful for pinkeye, but how do you actually *use* them!?

In this course you’ll not only find out, but you’ll get hands-on practice making herbal remedies!

👉🏽 Full course details: Everyday Herbalism – Everyday Empowered

Payment Plan available – just choose PayPal ‘Pay in 4’ at Checkout.

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These herbs are a fabulous mix of proactively building the immune system, responding to acute infection and helping you to rebuild your strength fully after an illness.   Course dates + Format

Materials provided: Each week you’ll get your course materials and a live tutorial-style session.

RESIT the course for just $50

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Herbal tastes give us patterns for how herbs might work in our body (based on what constituents are present) and what the best medicine-making technique will be for each herb.

In this deeply experiential course, you’ll build your own relationship with the herbs through direct experience with the 5 major tastes: pungent, bitter, sweet, salty and sour.

Understanding herbal tastes, you’ll be able to:

1. know the general patterns of how these herbs work in our body
2. know what chemical constituents are likely to be present and then we know which preparation methods best suit those constituents
3. build a direct relationship with a plant and
4. take ownership of your knowledge and understanding – you’re relying on your OWN experience, rather than just what someone’s said.

We’ll also have a chance to talk about why different herbal traditions have different tastes, how to understand complexity of tastes in herbs, and different ways to make remedies and why we’d choose one way over another – ie infused oils, vinegars, alcohol tinctures etc

Embodied Herbalism gives you a really grounded starting place so you feel confident to explore and better understand your herbal medicine.

And, in our screen-saturated world, where so much learning takes place with our head, this course will give you the nudge you need to get herbalism out of your head and into your hands and senses.

Dates and Details

The online Embodied Herbalism course will run for 4 weeks, starting Thursday 15 February

The live sessions will start at 11am QLD time, and go for 1.5 to 2 hours. You can definitely access the replay if you can’t make that time.

You’ll have one year to access these resources, so self-paced is a great option and you can download all the resources anytime during the year.

Herbal Tastes Sample Kit

 If you’re joining me online and you don’t have heaps of herbs at home, you might want to grab the Herbal Tastes sample kit (just choose this at checkout).

 It’ll have 2 herbs/ taste that we’ll talk about in the course. Given this is an experiential course, I’d highly recommend it, but it’s not necessary and you can absolutely use what you’ve got or source your own herbs – use contact form if you need help deciding.

With this foundational, embodied framework of herbal tastes to guide you, you’ll become a more confident, capable home herbal medicine-maker.

READ ALL THE COURSE DETAILS ON COURSE PAGE (click here)

SUNSHINE COAST LOCAL, OR IN SEQ BUT HAPPY TO TRAVEL? REGISTER TO JOIN THE In-PERSON COURSE (click here)

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Herbal tastes give us patterns for how herbs might work in our body (based on what constituents are present) and what the best medicine-making technique will be for each herb.

In this deeply experiential course, you’ll build your own relationship with the herbs through direct experience with the 5 major tastes: pungent, bitter, sweet, salty and sour.

Understanding herbal tastes, you’ll be able to:

1. know the general patterns of how these herbs work in our body
2. know what chemical constituents are likely to be present and then we know which preparation methods best suit those constituents
3. build a direct relationship with a plant and
4. take ownership of your knowledge and understanding – you’re relying on your OWN experience, rather than just what someone’s said.

We’ll also have a chance to talk about why different herbal traditions have different tastes, how to understand complexity of tastes in herbs, and different ways to make remedies and why we’d choose one way over another – ie infused oils, vinegars, alcohol tinctures etc

Embodied Herbalism gives you a really grounded starting place so you feel confident to explore and better understand your herbal medicine.

And, in our screen-saturated world, where so much learning takes place with our head, this course will give you the nudge you need to get herbalism out of your head and into your hands and senses.

Dates and Details

The In-person Embodied Herbalism course runs for 4 Saturdays, starting February 17.

The in-person course will be hosted at the delightful Kismet cafe in Yandina.

It is hosted at the delightful Kismet cafe in Yandina.

At the in-person course, everything you need will be supplied – including a comprehensive workbook and all the herbs we’ll taste. All you need is a curious, exploratory attitude, ready to start building your own experience of herbal medicine.

With this foundational, embodied framework of herbal tastes to guide you, you’ll become a more confident, capable home herbal medicine-maker.

READ ALL THE COURSE DETAILS ON COURSE PAGE

(Can’t make the in-person, it’s cool, there’s an online version happening in Feb too! Check it out (click here)

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A 4 week online course, Everyday Herbalism is the companion course the DIY Herbal Starter Kit.

In a group mentoring environment, you’ll:

• Use the DIY Herbal Starter Kit to get hands-on experience making remedies, asking questions as you go
• Learn how to effectively use the remedies in real world situations, tailored to you. Common ailments such as: cuts and scrapes, sore throats and cough, stress and sleep
• Learn the basic concepts and skills of holistic home herbalism
• Build a relationship with 6 foundational herbs and how to use them
• Be guided to take shamanic drum journeys with the plant spirits

Whilst this is a great herbal medicine course for beginners, it’s NOT just for beginners. Fairly experienced/ intermediate-level home herbalists will benefit as well. Particularly if you want to deepen your own relationship with these 6 herbs and want time-tested tips and tricks from a leading Australian herbalist with 20 years experience.

This course is co-taught by Heidi Merika and Cat Green.

Starts Tuesday October 3, 11am, and runs for 4 weeks until October 24. Live, mentoring sessions run for 1.5 hours.

Whilst we love active participation during the lives, we’re geared up to support busy lives with replays, resources and you can definitely take it at your own pace.

Course + DIY Herbal Starter Kit bundle

As a companion course, this course is built around herbs and remedies in the DIY Herbal Starter Kit. We believe the best type of herbal education is a practical, hands-on one and we encourage you to work with the herbs throughout the course. However you can also take it as a stand-alone course.

For more info – head to the Everyday Herbalism course page to read more. We’ve got a full Q&A, more info about what you’ll learn and the teachers on this page.

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Designed for modern people (aka busy, stressed, suffering ill-health and wanting an easier, more natural way to build immunity, vitality and well-being at home).

By the end of the course, you’ll have deep familiarity with 6 key immune system herbs and a foundational understanding of how the immune system works. The herbs are a fabulous  mix of proactively building the immune system, responding to acute infection and helping us rebuild after illness.

The 6 herbs are: Elderberry, Olive Leaf, Astragalus, Echinacea, Shiitake and Sage.

This course is the companion course to the DIY Immunity Remedy Kit which is being launched in Autumn.

Course dates + Format

Starting May 3 and running weekly on Wednesdays until May 24. Live calls at 11am.

Each week you’ll get your course materials and a live tutorial-style session.

The course materials will be both pre-recorded video talking about the herbs and how the immune system works, and a pdf monograph (information pages about each herb).

In our live sessions – we’ll do some live remedy-making demonstrations, answer your questions and we want it to be a fully responsive course, so we’ll also invite the course cohort to tell us how we can best use that time together.  

NOTE – whilst you can book into this Course now, if you buy the bundle, the IMMUNITY Remedy Kit’s won’t be shipped out until April when they launch.

For all the course details – please head to the Immunity Course page.

We’ve got a detailed FAQ there. As always however, if you can’t find the answer you’re looking for, or you’re just not sure if this course is for you, please reach out.

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This online course partners with the Herbal Starter Kit to create lasting change in your life.

With the ease and convenience of the Herbal Starter Kit + the support of having an experienced herbalist in your pocket (or headphones) for 6 weeks, by the end of the course you will be brimming with confidence and hands-on skills to really start taking care of yourself and those you love.

This course is taught by Heidi Merika.

You can join our classes live, starting in October or you can study self-paced through the replays.

More questions and info on the courses page

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