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Immerse yourself in the healing power of plants.
Holistic Herbal Wellness Courses
taught by Savayda Jarone, Herbal Practitioner
Imagine if your body came with a maintenance manual so you understood how it works and how to keep yourself in optimal health.
Wouldn't it be even better if it were custom written for your unique constitution? And if you could find healing plants that grow in your area so you could make your own tonics and remedies?
That is the premise of Holistic Herbal Wellness -- a series of plant-centred wellness courses through which you'll learn how to take good care of yourself and your community using both ancestral and scientifically proven methods of preventative care, herbal remedies, and holistic self-care rituals.
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What makes Holistic Herbal Wellness different?
~ In-Person & Online ~ 3 Levels ~
More than herbal medicine
Holistic Herbal Wellness covers the essentials of herbal medicine, from foraging to medicine making, and also includes seasonal self-care practices like a spring cleanse, herbal baths, and plan-spirit medicine.
Relationships with Plants
We foster meaningul relationships with plants, approaching them for who they are, not just for what they can give us. It's a respectful approach to learning plant medicne.
Information you can trust
Taught by a herbal practitioner who has been helping clients and students heal with plant medicine for over 20 years. Skip the online guesswork and AI-written misinformation and learn from a reliable source.
Seasonal Wellness
Our bodies and energy levels change with the seasons. From preventing colds in winter to nourishing your sun-drenched skin in summer, you'll learn how to keep yourself healthy and happy year-round.
Have you ever wanted to...?
...learn about your body and how to take care of it in a holistic way?
...identify the plants growing in the wild and learn how to use them as food and medicine?
...learn how to make home remedies safely and effectively, to care for yourself and your family?
My goal in offering Holistic Herbal Wellness is to provide you with experiences and knowledge to increase awareness of yourself and the natural world, both vast sources of wisdom and healing. We will explore, in an experiential way, the value of seasonal attunement, nature’s remedies, mind-body awareness and holistic living in order to create a personal model for health and wellness.
Optimize Your Health & Well-being
Much more than a herbal medicine course, Holistic Herbal Wellness teaches a complete wellness lifestyle, combining both herbal medicine and holistic self-care practices, using the seasons and elements as a guide.
You'll learn how to keep yourself healthy and happy, making your own medicines from wild plants thorughout the seasons.
Just imagine . . .
Finding & identifying local wild plants in forests and fields near you, or cultivating your own medicine garden.
Knowing how your body works, and how to keep your systems healthy and prevent disease.
Making your own herbal remedies to save money, control quality, and be more self-reliant.
Creating a seasonal self-care guide that you can refer to year after year.
Health is Multi-Dimensional
In this holistic course, you'll learn how a herbal lifestyle can improve many areas of your life, not just your physical health.
Increase Vitality
Vitality is the result of good health; herbs restore us to good health. Many herbs improve energy naturally, without stimulants. Adaptogens fortify resilience.
Prevent Disease
Support your inate ability to heal and maintain good health, enhancing your resistance to dis-ease.
Improve system Function
We respond well to “herbal tune-ups”, each system of the body has corresponding herbal tonics that fortify and strengthen it. Choose herbal tonics, foods and activities, in alignment with the seasons, to improve overall function and balanced health.
Uplift your mood
You will feel your best by living in attunement with the seasons, nature, plants and your body’s natural rythms. Being in alignment with your life purpose(s) opens the doors to happiness and fulfillment.
Deepen your connection
with nature
Plant study is a gateway to nature. Each season you'll meet local plants to incorporate into your lifestyle, medicine making and self-care. The herbs we meet are understood and appreciated within the context of their needs, habitat and unique purpose.
Save money
Homemade remedies are not only natural and safe when used correctly, but also much more affordable than store-bought herbal medicines, especially if you grow and forage your own herbs.
I have enjoyed all aspects of every class, workshop, seminar and all of the time we have spent together. You are an amazing facilitator and your thoughtful approach to the information you present does not go unnoticed or unappreciated. Your incorporation of the herb visits, the medicine making, the historical info and the spiritual aspects of the herbs into our journey has been incredibly well balanced and very interesting.
I know that I am blessed to have your guidance and inspiration in my life and I can’t imagine it any other way. Please know that you have touched my life in a profound and everlasting way and I am grateful beyond words.
Valerie
Hi, I'm Savayda
I created this Holistic Herbal Wellness Program because plant study changed my life, like a light switch going on, I was turned on and tuned in to my environment in a much more meaningful way.
I've been enchanted ever since.
We live so close to the plants, they are all around us, yet most people seem disconnected from the natural world. I created this course to facilitate this re-connection and to empower people to live healthier, happier lives by including herbs in their lifestyle.
Just getting started ?
If you're new to Holistic Herbal Wellness, join Level One in-person or online.
Level One: Budding Herbalist
This is a one year program, beginning in September.
Level 1 meets one Saturday per month from 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., except December and August, which are home study months.
2 Locations
Bloom Institute in Halifax OR Blue Forest Shores on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia
PLUS field trips around each location to meet the plants.
Learn more about Level One In Person
Are you a returning student?
Continue your journey through our advanced courses.
There are three levels of Holistic Herbal Wellness, and each level deepens your herbal knowledge as you build your relationship with the plants. You'll meet new plants, be able to choose more specific remedies, and learn new herbal preparations.
Level Two: Blossom
This course follows Level One and is designed to deepen your knowledge and experience with herbs for application in your personal life. Where Level One offers practical, foundational level herbal and health studies, level two delves more in depth into some of the finer aspects of herbalism.
This is a nine month program, beginning in September.
Our group meets one Sunday per month from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.,
from September to June, except December which is a home study month.
2 Locations
Bloom Institute in Halifax OR Blue Forest Shores on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia PLUS field trips around each location to meet the plants.
Learn more about Level Two In Person
Level Three: Fruit
Dive even deeper into the world of plant medicine. This program is intermediate level study and an opportunity to remain in the flow of herbal learning with Savayda and maintain connection with your fellow herbal learners. Online version coming soon.
We will meet one Wednesday evening per month, 6:30-8:30 pm at Bloom.
In the months of long light, we will meet outdoors at one of our city parks.
2 Locations
Bloom Institute in Halifax OR Blue Forest Shores on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia PLUS field trips around each location to meet the plants.
Learn more about Level Three In Person
Sophie Pilipczuk
In this course a connection to a larger community, to the outdoors, and to the magic of plants is fostered throughout the seasons. It helped me realize that the journey to health is cyclical and to get in touch with my own rhythms.
This course is a great intro to herbalism and a true gift to one's Self
Alyssa
Savayda has a wonderfully knowledgeable outlook of the wild things around us and she is an inspiration to follow the woodland trails with. This course drew in an incredible group of plant lovers. We learned and laughed together in the welcoming environment, while capturing a thorough introduction to Ayurvedic and Western medicine, anatomical body systems, meditation, Bach flower remedies, and plant identification/preparation. Collectively learning in accordance to the season.
For the ones who enjoy herb walks, sipping medicinal teas and learning hands on, this course will be sure to reward them.
Colleen
By cultivating this knowledge, and empowering learners, the course helps connect individuals to their health, their inner healer, and moreover, to nature. I think many of my classmates resonated with the feeling one fellow student expressed:
“I don’t want it to end!” In fact, I see this course as extremely valuable on my path, and the experience continues to be relevant long after the classes concluded.
Learn more
Explore the details of each course below.
Learn in Halifax
or at Blue Forest Shores
Level 1 - In Person
Level 2 - In Person
Level 3 - In Person
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