Learn holistic tools for managing pain!

In our culture, ideas about pain management tend to be pretty binary - take the pills or you're stuck with the pain. We disagree. There are many holistic tools that can create a whole spectrum of strategies for managing pain. 

In this course, you’ll learn how to work with herbs and holistic strategies to manage pain - whether it's an acute situation from an injury or a chronic condition.

Holistic strategies can be very successful in managing all types of pain, and can even act as an adjunct to conventional therapies.

This course has over 8 hours of videos, plus printable quick guides, resources, quizzes, and more!

What you'll learn

  • How Pain Works

    Understand the physiology of pain so that you can make good choices about where and how to target your herbal strategies.

  • Herbal Actions for Pain Management

    Learn how to work with herbs to break the pain signal, relax the nerves themselves, and even how to help the nerve cells heal after damage.

  • Choosing the Right Herbs

    Learn which herbs are best for which types of pain, and how to choose the right ones for each individual.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Holistic Pain Management!

    2. Live Q&A sessions twice a week!

    3. How to use this platform

    4. How to use Closed-Captioning

    5. The "What's New" button on your dashboard

    6. How to use the Discussions feature

    7. Meet our Friends!

    8. Chatting in the Community Space

    9. Use of Course Material (Intellectual Property)

    10. Every Body is Different

    11. Action Prompt: Plan Your Herbs!

    12. Course Outline

    1. Why do we have Pain?

    2. Why do we have Pain? [audio]

    3. Physiology of Pain

    4. Physiology of Pain [audio]

    5. The Pain Pathway

    6. The Pain Pathway [audio]

    7. Interrupting the Pain Signal

    8. Interrupting the Pain Signal [audio]

    9. Placebo Effects in Pain Relief and Beyond

    10. Pain and Your Brain

    11. Pain and Your Brain [audio]

    12. The Role of Story

    13. The Role of Story [audio]

    14. Holistic Pain Management

    15. Holistic Pain Management [audio]

    16. Quick Guide: Understanding Pain

    17. Understanding Pain Quiz

    1. Analgesics & Anodynes

    2. Analgesics & Anodynes [audio]

    3. Sedatives, Trophorestoratives, & Relaxants

    4. Sedatives, Trophorestoratives, & Relaxants [audio]

    5. Rubefacients

    6. Rubefacients [audio]

    7. Anti-inflammatories

    8. Anti-inflammatories [audio]

    9. Inflammation that Isn't Obvious - a short tangent

    10. Inflammation that Isn't Obvious [audio]

    11. Quick Guide: Herbal Actions for Pain

    12. Pain Actions Quiz

    1. Materia Medica for Pain Management

    2. 🌿💊 Herb-Drug Interaction notes for Holistic Pain Management

    3. 🌿Herb Safety in Pregnancy🌿

    4. Salicylates: Willow, Alder

    5. Salicylates: Willow, Alder [audio]

    6. Methylsalicylates: Meadowsweet, Wintergreen

    7. Methylsalicylates: Meadowsweet, Wintergreen [audio]

    8. Spicy Analgesics: Kava, Clove, Pepper

    9. Spicy Analgesics: Kava, Clove, Pepper [audio]

    10. The Eclectic "Narcotics": Jamaican Dogwood, Wild Lettuce, California Poppy, Ghost Pipe

    11. The Eclectic "Narcotics" [audio]

    12. Cannabis & CBD

    13. Cannabis & CBD [audio]

    14. Chamomile and the Relaxants

    15. Chamomile & the Relaxants [audio]

    16. Lobelia, Crampbark, and Wild Yam

    17. Lobelia, Crampbark, & Wild Yam [audio]

    18. Solomon's Seal

    19. Solomon's Seal [audio]

    20. Nervous Trophorestoratives: St. J, Damiana, Lion's Mane

    21. Nervous Trophorestoratives [audio]

    22. Prickly Ash & blood movers

    23. Prickly Ash & blood movers [audio]

    24. Sample Formulae

    25. Pain Materia Medica Quiz

    1. Putting It All Together

    2. Putting It All Together [audio]

    3. Want more?

About this course

  • $25.00
  • 69 lessons
  • 8 hours of video content

Neurological & Emotional Health

The material in this course is included in the Neurological & Emotional Health course. If you already have that course, you don't need this one! 

If you enjoy this course and would like the whole Neurological & Emotional Health course, you'll find a coupon code at the end of this course that will deduct the cost of this course from the full Neurological & Emotional Health course so you don't pay for the material twice! :-)

What students are saying

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Learning a lot

Nancy Noble

I am learning a lot about pain management and how to deal with it from a natural herbal standpoint. It is awesome to learn how to deal without the use of a ...

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I am learning a lot about pain management and how to deal with it from a natural herbal standpoint. It is awesome to learn how to deal without the use of a lot of pharmaceuticals.

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Easy to learn!

Deborah Ruxton

This course is great! It is easy to understand and very informative! I am learning so much while watching Katja and Ryn and I don't realize it until I take t...

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This course is great! It is easy to understand and very informative! I am learning so much while watching Katja and Ryn and I don't realize it until I take the quiz!

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So many plant allies!

Luzenia Ingram

In our society pain is part of life. Big pharma is just a band aid with a price tag. This course gives a few of the "known" herbs but so many I had no idea....

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In our society pain is part of life. Big pharma is just a band aid with a price tag. This course gives a few of the "known" herbs but so many I had no idea. Ginger and chamomile who would have thought!? Thank you!

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Extremely welcoming

Bobbi Ciruzzi

The course information is great but also, i feel like this is the very community of people that I want to surround myself with. The pure passion expressed is...

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The course information is great but also, i feel like this is the very community of people that I want to surround myself with. The pure passion expressed is the same passion that resides in my heart!

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Really informative

Kristina Munsey

The knowledge gained to help myself, family and my community in pain management and restoring homeostasis is invaluable. I have already found ways to work w...

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The knowledge gained to help myself, family and my community in pain management and restoring homeostasis is invaluable. I have already found ways to work with common household herbs as well as herbs growing in my yard to support my body in relaxation and pain relief. Thank you for breaking this out into its own course.

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But wait, there's more! 🙂

In addition to the videos, we provide features to accommodate all the different ways people like to learn, so whether you learn best by watching, listening, reading, or doing, you can internalize the information easily!

  • Lifetime access - so you can review the content as many times as you like, forever!

  • Weekly live Q&A sessions with Katja and Ryn - to ask your questions directly, live and in person! (They're even archived, in case you miss one!) This course has 3 months of live Q&A support.

  • Ask questions anytime - we're always just a click away: you can ask any questions in the integrated discussion forum, and we're committed to personally answering your questions, usually within 24 hours

  • Printable PDF materials - if you like to follow the videos along on paper, or keep them handy for a quick reference

  • Downloadable MP3 files - so you can review the content while you commute, workout, garden, ... anytime!

Scholarships & Discounts

You can find complete information about our scholarships and discounts here.

The best herb school online!

Vanessa P.

"I researched different online herbalism courses for about two months and am so glad I found you two. There is so much more than just the material to this course. Because you teach everything in videos, and then with the live Q&A sessions every week, I feel like this is more of an in-person experience than an online course and I love that."

Your Teachers

Two heads are better than one!


Katja & Ryn
Katja & Ryn

Katja & Ryn almost always teach together. They each have particular talents and areas of interest, and their perspectives on certain issues are quite different! Together, they convey a fuller picture of the realities of herbal theory & practice than either one could do alone.

Katja is an herbalist and teacher working to help people rebuild their relationships with their bodies and their own ability to heal. She’s been in practice for nearly 20 years, but it all began with a desire to make her own “fancy tea” at home instead of paying high prices for imported blends at specialty stores. She’s kept that do-it-yourself ethic close to her heart.

Ryn has been a practicing herbalist since 2010. He came to herbalism by way of martial arts, where his first experiences with herbs were focused on getting back into the game and becoming more flexible, adaptable, and resilient. Passing that experience on to others is what keeps him motivated every day.

Together, Katja and Ryn teach everyone from children to elders, as well as pharmacy students from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Northeastern University School of Pharmacy, where they both serve as associate faculty. Ryn and Katja are the authors of Herbal Medicine for Beginners, and the creators of the weekly Holistic Herbalism Podcast.

Zero-Risk Return Policy

Teaching isn't just about conveying information - there's also an aspect of being someone's "cup of tea".

So we want you to take the first 14 days to really decide if you love it or not. If for any reason you feel like this program isn’t right for you - if we're just not your cup of tea - we’ll give you a full refund. You don't even need a reason - just please let us know within 14 days of purchase.