Skin issues can have deep underlying causes

Lucky for us, herbs can make a huge difference in skin conditions. Working from the outside as washes, sprays, steams, lotions, and salves, and working from the inside as teas, tinctures, and herbal foods, our plant partners can help us every day.

And there is a whole concert of holistic strategies that can be woven into our work with herbs to get to the root of the problem!


In this course, you'll learn how to:


🌿Choose the right herbs to help you build healthy, strong skin

🌿Identify the root causes of skin issues and how to resolve them

🌿Support skin issues in tandem with your conventional therapeutics - you don't have to choose one or the other, we can all work together!

🌿Create complete protocols for skin issues, and shift them as things heal and evolve so that you have support through the whole process



This course includes over 17 hours of video instruction, as well as PDF handouts, quizzes and homework assignments, and more - plus weekly Q&A discussions where you can talk directly with Ryn and Katja.


Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to Integumentary Health!

    2. Live Q&A sessions twice a week!

    3. Mountain Rose Herbs + Foster Farms discount codes

    4. How to use this platform

    5. Closed-Captioning on the Way!

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

    7. How to use the Discussions feature

    8. Meet our Friends!

    9. Chatting in the Community Space

    10. Use of Course Material (Intellectual Property)

    11. Herbalism (and health!) is Bioregional

    12. Herbalism (and health!) is Bioregional [audio]

    13. Every Body is Different

    14. Course Outline

    15. Action Prompt: Plan Your Herbs!

    1. Introduction to Integumentary (Skin) Health

    2. Introduction to Integumentary (Skin) Health [audio]

    1. Food & Skin Health

    2. Food & Skin Health [audio]

    3. Hydration & Hygiene

    4. Hydration & Hygiene [audio]

    5. Sun Exposure

    6. Sun Exposure [audio]

    7. Sleep & Your Skin

    8. Sleep & Your Skin [audio]

    9. Setting Expectations

    10. Setting Expectations [audio]

    11. Quick Guide: Building Healthy Skin

    12. Building Healthy Skin Quiz

    1. Understanding Skin Issues Through Energetics

    2. Understanding Skin Issues Through Energetics [audio]

    3. Quick Guide: Skin Energetics

    4. Skin Energetics Quiz

    1. Your Skin is a Two-Way Street!

    2. Absorption & Elimination

    3. Absorption & Elimination [audio]

    4. Quick Guide: Absorption & Elimination

    1. How to Choose the Right Herbs for the Job

    2. Alteratives

    3. Alteratives [audio]

    4. Lymphatics

    5. Lymphatics [audio]

    6. Antiseptics

    7. Antiseptics [audio]

    8. Vulneraries

    9. Vulneraries [audio]

    10. Astringents

    11. Astringents [audio]

    12. Emollients

    13. Emollients [audio]

    14. Rubefacients

    15. Rubefacients [audio]

    16. Nervines

    17. Nervines [audio]

    18. Quick Guide: Herbal Actions for the Skin

    19. Skin Actions Quiz

About this course

  • $150.00
  • 162 lessons
  • 17.5 hours of video content

But wait, there's more! 🙂

In addition to the videos, we provide features to accommodate all the different ways people like to learn, so 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 6 months 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!

Certificate Information

You will receive a certificate for the successful completion of this course. 

This course has 46 credit hours.

This represents the actual time of video instruction and live Q&A, as well as the time allocated for your capstone assignment, quizzes, and other assignments & activities required for completion of the course.


It is reasonable to plan about twice that much time to complete the work: this is because most students like to watch the videos more than once, review their notes, and many students complete more than the required activities. You might also enjoy joining a study group in our Student Community, and you might choose to work on extra activities together as a group to help you internalize all that you've learned. 


Regardless of how long it takes you, there is never any pressure! You have access to this material for life, and in fact, when we add updates and new materials, you receive it all for free, automatically!


If new material is added after you have received your certificate, we are happy to send you a new updated certificate to document the additional time when you complete the new material.

17+ hours of in-depth videos, downloadable quick guides, live Q&A sessions, and more - all for $150!

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 over 25 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.