Find Your Herbal Path
Click on the herbal future that sounds most like your goals to see how we can help!
I want to keep my family & my community healthy
Whether you're in a city or the country, you feel passionate about keeping the people you love healthy, no matter what comes.
I want to work with clients professionally
Whether online or in your local area, you want to open a practice so that you can see clients and help them with their health concerns.
I want to start an herbal business
Formulating and creating herbal products, running an herb shop or tea bar, growing herbs for market - you want herbalism to be your life's work.
Don't wait for the cottage in the woods:
You can be The Herbalist wherever you are now!
🌿 Maybe you're pretty new to this, but you know it's the right path. You see so much need for better health options - for yourself and people you care about. You're ready to be part of the solution: for yourself, your family, and even your community.
🌿 Maybe you've learned lots of herbal bits by self-study or workshops, but it feels unorganized in your head. You're ready to build on the knowledge you have so far with a complete & tested system that allows you to practice with confidence!
🌿 Maybe you've tried learning with other online programs but you felt alone and unguided, and you're ready for a school that's got the convenience of online learning paired with the friendly and nurturing community and direct access to your teachers that you need to thrive!
The Family and Community Herbalist programs were designed for you!
When you enroll in our Family + Community Program, you'll get:
🌸 1,150 hours of online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace. Our courses are primarily taught by self-paced video, with audio versions of every video so you can listen anywhere. There are plenty of quick-guides and other text-based lessons to support what you're learning and they're printable if you learn best that way!
🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week with katja & ryn so that you can talk through you questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them!
Can't make it live? No problem - they're all recorded and you can watch them anytime! Plus, you can also ask questions in writing in the discussion thread attached to every lesson - we answer these daily so you never have to wait for support!
🌸 And access to our private Student Community (not on facebook!) where you can chat with other students, as well as with your teachers. Participate in regular Learning Challenges, trade recipes with friends, share herbs in our regular swaps, and more!
There are three ways to jump into this path:
🌿 Dive right into Family + Community!
These two programs were designed to work together. In the Family bundle, you'll see that the herbs are arranged to match up with the courses in the Community bundle. You can work through them at the same time so that you're making the fastest progress.
🌿 Start with the Family Herbalist Program.
You'll learn over 100 of the most important herbs and how to work with them, as well as more than 52 ways to turn them into medicine, products, treats, and more!
You can join the Community Herbalist program at any point.
🌿 Jump straight to the Community Herbalist Program.
Maybe you already know 50-100 herbs and you also know how to make all the different kinds of things - you might not need the Family Herbalist program. It's totally fine to jump directly into the Community Herbalist program! If you change your mind and want to add Family later, it's never too late. Because the programs work together, you can move between them easily!
Build the change you want to see in the world, one client at a time!
🌸 You might be at the beginning of your journey, but you know your destination is working with others in herbal practice.
🌸 Maybe you're already a health practitioner - a nurse, a psychotherapist, a massage therapist, a pharmacist... and you're looking to provide new options to your clients.
🌸 Maybe you've already studied herbalism for a while now with other schools and programs, and you're looking for the next steps in your education.
The Clinical Herbalist program & Live Clinical Mentorship is the most thorough clinical training you can get.
🌼 The Clinical Herbalist program covers all of the course material that you'll need to advance your skills. This includes advanced pathophysiology and complex health issues, as well as all of the clinical skills, legal information, and herb-drug interactions & safe practice considerations.
This coursework trains you to be a skilled, flexible, responsible practitioner.
The antidote for imposter syndrome.
🌼 The Live Clinical Mentorship is where the rubber meets the road: you'll be working with us in our online clinic!
We've built a system to ensure that you go into practice with confidence in your skills - you're never just thrown into a situation without a net!
First, you'll observe us in consultation with clients, so that you can get comfortable with all the parts of the work. Afterwards, we'll talk about each client! What went the way you expected, and what surprised you? What might you have done differently? What questions do you have about the choices we made?
Once you feel ready, it'll be time for you to work with clients yourself!
First you'll work with other students and with us, acting out the client roles. This gives you an opportunity to work through real cases, but in a safe environment where you can "hit pause" at any time if you start to feel stuck.
Then we can work through it with you so that you know what to do next!
This also gives you the chance to work through very complex cases with challenging safety concerns in a safe environment - so that when you're really in practice, you know you're ready for anything.
You can do this as many times as you like until you feel super confident about each step in the process.
Then you're ready to see real live clients - total strangers who are looking for support on their health journeys. You'll be assigned clients each month, and you set your own schedule.
Student clinicians get to keep all clients assigned to them - so you're building your client base as you learn! And we discuss every client in roundtable so that you are always practicing "with a net".
Student clinicians are paid for their work with clients: both because you did the work, but also because this gives us the opportunity to make sure all your business systems are up and running - you'll have your whole website, scheduling, and payment systems set up while you're learning!
We're serious about training: that's because we want you to actually be in practice, to actually build this as a sustainable career, and to actually be out there changing lives! ❤️️
This isn't just a way to spend your time - this is real training for real work!
🌼 If you want to apply for recognition in one of the national professional organizations (either here in the States or in whatever country you're in), we'll help you prepare! Our program meets and exceeds the requirements for professional recognition, and we even have a tool to help you organize all the materials that you'll need to submit with your application and exam!
If this sounds like what you're looking for, here are your next steps:
🌿 Read the program information by clicking the purple buttons below.
Make sure to double check the pre-requisite information: students entering Live Clinical Mentorship need to be confident with all of the material in the Family + Community Herbalist programs, because you'll be using those skills in clinic, along with the new advanced material you'll be learning!
🌿 If you have questions, we have answers! You can book a session to talk about where you are in your studies and where you should start in our program.
Make sure to read the program page before you book a session so that you have all the information about the program and we can jump right into your questions when we meet!
Book a course consultation session here
🌿 If you're coming from a different school, and you'd like to make sure we're a good fit, why not start with the Herb-Drug Interactions & Herb Safety course? That will give you critical skills at a level that's not being taught anywhere else, and you'll get to know our program to make sure you like it!
When you're ready to get the rest of the Clinical Herbalist bundle, email us first so we can deduct the HDI & Herb Safety course from the tuition :-)
Herb-Drug Interactions & Herb Safety
Let's build your dream job, together!
🌿 Maybe you're a skilled herbalist and you're ready to turn your passion into a career.
🌿 Maybe you're still building your herbal skills and you want to start planning the business you're growing into.
🌿 Maybe you've been running a business for a while now, but you need support because nobody learns this stuff in school!
The Herbal Business Program will help you make your dream job real!
Different businesses have different challenges, but we've seen it all and together, we'll get you through it!
Whether you're:
- struggling with GMP compliance
- overwhelmed and dreading doing marketing
- maybe you just hate technology and budgeting
It's all here, laid out step by step!
Here's what you'll get:
🌸 Online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace.
Everything is presented step-by-step, with lots of worksheets and examples to help you through every part of the process.
You can go in the order it's presented and at the end - presto! You have a business!
Or you can hop around to get help with exactly the problem you're having now, whatever is best for you!
🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week, so that you can talk through your questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them, too!
🌸 A special private group in our Student Community (not on facebook!), where you can chat with other Herbal Business students, as well as with your teachers.
Get feedback on your designs, formulas, website, whatever! You can literally post anything you're working on, and we will help you make it better. 🙂
Plus you'll get feedback from other students so that you get lots of perspectives before you go live with anything!
There are regular month-long challenges on specific topics to help you bulldoze your way through blocks, because it's easier if we're cheering each other on and having fun while we work!
🌸 Personalized care: every business is different, so if there's something that you're working on and you don't see a lesson on that, just let us know! We add new material to the course all the time, so just ask whenever you need something!
Your next steps:
🌿 Check out the program details & enroll today:
Click the purple "Herbal Business Program" button below to get more details about the course and to enroll!
🌿 If you have questions, we can help!
Click the "Schedule a Question Session" button below and we can answer your questions and help you choose the right courses to support both your business and any herbal skills you might still need!
🌿 If you're looking for some more in-depth counsel, you can have that too!
Maybe you have a few different ideas, or you have questions about how to get from idea to implementation - and you'd like to have a longer discussion with specific suggestions about how to move forward. We've got one-hour blocks set aside for exactly this, and you can book one here:
Not sure what your end goal is?
You don't have to have a plan to get started - we didn't!
We both had other careers before learning herbalism, and never anticipated running a school. But the plants called us, and we saw the need - and a couple decades later, here we are!
So let's just get started, and see where this winding path leads you!
Start Free
Fun, free courses to help you get started with herbalism and get to know our school community!
Start Small
Short courses that give you important skills you can start using now!
Start at the Beginning
Learn 100+ of the most important herbs and 52+ ways to turn them into medicine!
Start Serious
You don't have to know where you're going to be serious about what you're learning!
Looking for the perfect herb school?
Grab our free courses and learn fun stuff while you get to know our school and community!
Four Keys to Holistic Herbalism
Herbalism works best when it's part of a holistic strategy.
Learn how to choose herbs that are personalized so that your blends work better, and how to build a strategy to support your herbal actions!
Herbal Study Tips
This course is filled with activities and strategies to make it easier to fit learning into your life.
Herbal Business Productivity
The most important thing you can do to ensure the success of your business is get yourself organized so that you can use the time you have effectively. But that's hard!
This course will take you from whatever your situation is now to a streamlined business powerhouse in a month with daily activities and a step-by-step process!
All of the Orientation Courses
Each of our full programs has an orientation course to get you started - and you can have them for free! They're a great way for you to learn more about each program, plus get great resources that will help you reach your herbal goals.
The AHG & International Professional Organization requirements tracker
If you intend to apply for professional recognition as a Registered Herbalist in the US, or with the professional organization in the country you live in, this tool will help you organize all of your requirements so that you always know where you are in the process and you never have to spend time frantically searching for something at the last minute.
All of our courses feature:
🌸 Online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace. Our courses are primarily taught by self-paced video, with audio versions of every video so you can listen anywhere. There are plenty of quick-guides and other text-based lessons to support what you're learning and they're printable if you learn best that way!
🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week with katja & ryn so that you can talk through you questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them!
Can't make it live? No problem - they're all recorded and you can watch them anytime! Plus, you can also ask questions in writing in the discussion thread attached to every lesson - we answer these daily so you never have to wait for support!
🌸 And access to our private Student Community (not on facebook!) where you can chat with other students, as well as with your teachers. Participate in regular Learning Challenges, trade recipes with friends, share herbs in our regular swaps, and more!
Grab a free course now - in fact, get them all if you like 🙂
Short, focused courses that teach you skills you can start using today!
🌱 Maybe you're super busy and you are looking for specific information to tackle an annoying problem right away.
🌱 Maybe you're building your herbal skills bit-by-bit, and your learning style is best when you have short, focused lessons to complete.
🌱 Maybe you're shopping around to find the perfect herb school and you want to see whether our school is a comfy, natural fit for your learning style and herbal goals.
Grab a Mini and get started!
You'll find courses on some of the most important individual herbs, as well as common health concerns like Seasonal Allergies, Colds & Flu, Pain Management, and Better Sleep.
You'll also find larger mini-courses covering issues like Fertility, Detox, and more!
Learn a bite at a time!
Our mini-courses range in size from truly bite-sized, with an hour or two of video content, plus audio & printables -- up to 35 hours of video content with supporting audio & printables.
They range from $10 - $150, so you can find the right course to fit your budget!
All of our courses feature:
🌸 Online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace. Our courses are primarily taught by self-paced video, with audio versions of every video so you can listen anywhere. There are plenty of quick-guides and other text-based lessons to support what you're learning and they're printable if you learn best that way!
🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week with katja & ryn so that you can talk through you questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them!
Can't make it live? No problem - they're all recorded and you can watch them anytime! Plus, you can also ask questions in writing in the discussion thread attached to every lesson - we answer these daily so you never have to wait for support!
🌸 And access to our private Student Community (not on facebook!) where you can chat with other students, as well as with your teachers. Participate in regular Learning Challenges, trade recipes with friends, share herbs in our regular swaps, and more!
Learn the most important herbs, and how to work with them.
🌼 Maybe you've collected a bunch of herb books and gone to some workshops, and you're ready to learn more about how to work effectively with herbs.
🌼 Maybe you're interested in herbalism but frustrated with how hard it is to find reliable information - you're ready to learn from someone you can trust.
🌼 Maybe you're really right at the beginning, which is perfect: start everything off right with the tools and skills you need to succeed!
The Family Herbalist program is the perfect place to start:
You'll learn to work confidently with over 100 of the most important herbs - the herbs that we work with in clinical practice for even the most complex cases!
You'll learn when to choose each herb and over 52 ways to turn them into medicine, products, and treats!
From here, you've got the whole toolkit to care for your own health, your family, even to start working on a product line if you want to start a business!
When you enroll in the Family Herbalist program, you get:
🌸 250 hours of online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace. Our courses are primarily taught by self-paced video, with audio versions of every video so you can listen anywhere. There are plenty of quick-guides and other text-based lessons to support what you're learning and they're printable if you learn best that way!
🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week with katja & ryn so that you can talk through you questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them!
Can't make it live? No problem - they're all recorded and you can watch them anytime! Plus, you can also ask questions in writing in the discussion thread attached to every lesson - we answer these daily so you never have to wait for support!
🌸 And access to our private Student Community (not on facebook!) where you can chat with other students, as well as with your teachers. Participate in regular Learning Challenges, trade recipes with friends, share herbs in our regular swaps, and more!
The herbs themselves - and how to make them into medicines - are at the heart of your practice.
And you'll learn skills you can use right on the first day!
Learn the most important herbs, and how to work with them.
🌿 You don't want to waste time learning stuff that doesn't work: you want effective skills right from the start.
🌿 You love the art, but you want the science, too!
🌿 You're not exactly sure where this is going, but you want it to be REAL, so that whatever you decide to do with your herbal skills, you know it's safe, responsible, and most importantly, that it will really help.
The Family + Community Herbalist program will make you a confident herbalist, ready to help in any situation.
You'll learn to work confidently with nearly 200 of the most important herbs - the herbs that we work with for our own health, in disaster relief situations, and in clinical practice for even the most complex cases!
You'll learn all about the systems of the body: how they work, how they break, and how to fix them up again.
You'll get lots of examples and our specific strategies for supporting all kinds of health issues, with case studies for practice.
Plus capstone assignments to give you experience in applying what you've learned to real-life situations -and we'll go over them with you so that you have all your questions answered are you're certain you're ready!
One of the most common things we hear from our students is:
I wish i had found you first - it would have saved me so much time and money, because i would have learned it right the first time!
It's never too late to get serious about the skills you're developing - but if you are at the beginning, then take their advice and start strong now!
When you enroll in our Family + Community Program, you'll get:
🌸 1,150 hours of online course materials that never expire, so you can work at your own pace. Our courses are primarily taught by self-paced video, with audio versions of every video so you can listen anywhere. There are plenty of quick-guides and other text-based lessons to support what you're learning and they're printable if you learn best that way!
🌸 Multiple live Q&A sessions every week with katja & ryn so that you can talk through you questions live with us! Plus you'll meet other students and get to share experiences with them!
Can't make it live? No problem - they're all recorded and you can watch them anytime! Plus, you can also ask questions in writing in the discussion thread attached to every lesson - we answer these daily so you never have to wait for support!
🌸 And access to our private Student Community (not on facebook!) where you can chat with other students, as well as with your teachers. Participate in regular Learning Challenges, trade recipes with friends, share herbs in our regular swaps, and more!
Two ways to get started:
🌿 Start strong by enrolling in the Family + Community Herbalist program - this bundle gives you the entirety of both programs plus all of the direct support from faculty you want!
🌿If you already have with 50-100 herbs and you're confident in making all the different kinds of medicine, you might feel comfortable skipping directly to the Community Herbalist Program - click that purple button below to learn more and enroll!
Browse The Course Catalogue
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Community Herbalist
BundleThis bundle includes all of the Community Herbalist courses.
$2,500
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Community Herbalist - Orientation & Introduction
Course5.0 average rating (21 reviews)Introduction to your teachers, basic orientation, housekeeping, syllabus, and central resources.
Free
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Energetics & Holistic Practice
Course4.8 average rating (8 reviews)Getting familiar with a set of foundational principles - which influence all levels of our work as herbalists - will make you a more effective and versatile practitioner.
$120
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Basic Phytochemistry
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)Discover the aspects of phytochemistry with the most practical relevance to the work of the herbalist.
$150
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Fundamentals of Formulation
Course5.0 average rating (5 reviews)Herbs are complex agents in their own right, but when combined they can act in excitingly intricate ways. Learn how to build pairs, trios, and teams of herbs to make your remedies more specific and effective!
$150
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Fundamentals of Holistic Nutrition
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Herbalism and nutrition go hand-in-hand: many health issues can only be resolved if changes are made to diet and nutritive status, and herbs have much to offer nutritionally as well as medicinally. Learn how!
$180
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Holistic Help for Better Sleep
Course5.0 average rating (3 reviews)Herbal and holistic strategies so that you can get a good night's sleep.
$25
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Digestive Health
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)You're not what you eat - you are what you digest! Supporting healthy digestion is not only about resolving bellyaches and IBS, but can make a major difference in chronic illness.
$200
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Cardiovascular Health
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)Heart disease is a leading cause of death, but much of it can be prevented with holistic methods! Whether you're trying to manage blood pressure or heal a broken heart, herbs can help.
$200
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Urinary Health
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)Learn how to support your kidneys, soothe an inflamed bladder, fight a UTI, and much more in this study of an essential system. Keep your inner waters flowing clean & clear!
$150
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Respiratory Health
Course5.0 average rating (3 reviews)Herbs can bring quick and lasting relief to respiratory problems. Breathe easy! This course includes an extensive discussion of how to handle respiratory infections - colds, the flu, and coronavirus - with herbs.
$250
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Immune Health
Course4.9 average rating (7 reviews)Defend yourself with herbs! Get beyond echinacea and learn the full complement of herbal actions and nutritional strategies that can build immune resilience, fend off pathogens, or reign in an overactive system.
$350
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Neurological & Emotional Health
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Learn herbs and holistic strategies to support neurological and emotional health.
$350
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Herbal First Aid
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Herbs to relieve pain, prevent infection, and speed healing are just the beginning. We'll cover sturdy bandaging techniques for difficult wounds, herbal interventions for acute issues, & how to build your own first aid kit!
$150
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Integumentary (Skin) Health
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Your skin is your presentation to the world, and it reflects the state of your internal health. Learn to work from the inside out & the outside in, to support healthy skin and resolve nagging problems!
$150
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Musculoskeletal Health
Course5.0 average rating (4 reviews)Holistic care for injuries, structural pain, and chronic issues.
$200
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Reproductive Health
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)Herbs don't check your chromosomes before going to work in your body: there are no "female" or "male" herbs! But there certainly are herbs that can help out with troubles affecting the reproductive systems: learn them here.
$300
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Holistic Health for Children
Course5.0 average rating (1 review)Keep your kids healthy, naturally!
$200
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Supporting Kids Through Puberty
Course5.0 average rating (2 reviews)The teen years are full of ups and downs, but herbs and holistic lifestyle changes can make things go much more smoothly. Learn how!
$150
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AHG Registered Herbalist requirements tracker
Course5.0 average rating (41 reviews)Keep track of everything you need to apply for professional recognition as a Registered Herbalist in the AHG or in an international professional organization.
Free
Scholarships
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