Create a Container for

Your Herbal Practice

Herbalism is a Calling

If your passion for herbs has brought you here and you're ready to serve your community as an herbalist, you may wonder how to turn that passion into practice. 

This is where Crafting Your Herbal Practice comes in!

It's a course designed for herbal practitioners seeking a heart-centered approach and practical skills to bring their vision to life.

Crafting Your Herbal Practice provides essential skills and guidance to align your herbal practice with your goals and values.

The next Crafting Your Herbal Practice begins in January 2026. Registration opens in Fall 2025. Please scroll down to subscribe to our newsletter and receive updates, complimentary articles, and other resources.

Crafting Your Herbal Practice

is for you if you are ready to:

  • Develop self-awareness about the many elements of a therapeutic relationship.

  • Create and hold a sacred, safe space for your client and yourself.

  • Improve your intake skills and create concise case studies.

  • Identify your core values around herb sustainability and conservation and access resources to implement them in your practice.

  • Establish practice policies and procedures to ensure confidentiality

  • Implement safe apothecary practices: record keeping, sustainable sourcing, compounding guidelines, etc. 

  • Generate a working business plan, integrating tax planning, business entities, liability insurance, waivers, and other business practices with your practice vision.

We invite you to join us if you have…

  • Completed a foundation-level herb program that included herbs for specific body systems, basic herbal energetics, herbal actions, and a working knowledge of the uses of at least 100 herbs.

  • Knowledge of the ethical and ecological issues inherent in herbal practice.

  • A basic understanding of the health assessment paradigm you will use to guide your herbal protocols (e.g., Western herbalism, folk medicine, inherited traditions, energetics, TCM, Ayurveda)

  • Completed a basic anatomy and physiology course or similar level of education.

Patricia Kyritsi Howell and Kat Maier, herbal elders with nearly 70 years of combined experience as clinical herbalists, mentors, and teachers, are the primary instructors for the course; other guest instructors will join them.

  • Patricia Kyritsi Howell

    Founder of Botanologos School; Author of Medicinal Plants of Southern Appalachians

  • Kat Maier

    Founder of Sacred Plant Traditions; Author of Energetic Herbalism

We are happy to answer any questions you have! Please send us an email.

If you’d like to speak with us, please send us an email, and we’ll be in touch to arrange a time to chat.