Thank you for visiting our website! You may know that our story, in this form, began in far Northern California in 2003. In the fall of 2022 we moved from our home in the mountains of California to make a new home by the ocean in Tacoma, Washington.

Along with this transition in geography comes a transition in our work. We will continue to offer classes online and in the fall of 2023 we started offering in-person classes in Tacoma, WA. See our latest class line-up below! 

Have any questions about our courses? Are there courses you missed that you’d like to see again? Are you interested in inviting Karyn or Sarah to teach at your school or in your community? Feel free to email us. [email protected]. 

From our family to yours, may you know the presence of the plants in your life.

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Energetic Herbalism Intensive

March 27-30, 2025

in person in Tacoma, WA with Sarah Holmes

Cost: $1,000 – 600 *

Spend four days immersed in the world of energy and plants. We will look at working with energy and the energies of plants for yourself and in your work with other people.  Start, or expand, your understanding of how energy moves and lives in the body, how plants carry their energy and how to work with the energies of person, plant and illness/imbalance.

Class time will be a combination of lecture, discussion, plant meditations and energy exercises. This intensive is suitable for herb students of all levels as well as practitioners who want to deepen their understanding of energetic herbalism. Additional class information is below.

*A note about our sliding scale. We are offering a sliding scale in an effort to be accessible to as many people as we can. If you could not take the class otherwise, then use the sliding scale; that is what it is for. If you cannot afford the lowest price, contact us. If you can afford the highest price, then please pay it, this gives us greater flexibility in offering discounts. Thank you.

Class time will include:

• energetics
• how to work with clients energetically
• connecting with self and the heart
• plant meditations
• energy exercises, including boundaries and deep listening.
• animal medicine
• formulating
• case studies; bring your cases for an energetic perspective

We will gather from 10-5 each day; six hours of instruction and a one hour lunch break. Lunch will not be provided. This course does not include materia medica although, of course, we will be talking about the plants. If you have more questions please email [email protected]. You can download a registration form here.

 

Mentoring Sessions

Get individualized attention with your questions. One hour sessions are available with Karyn Sanders or Sarah Holmes to ask about what is coming up for you in your herbal practice. The intention of these sessions is to provide a mentoring space for practice questions as they come up for you. Call or email for scheduling and pricing. By appointment only. [email protected] or [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you and supporting your work in the world.

 

Remember, you can always catch us on The Herbal Highway Tuesdays at 1pm, PST or anytime online at www.KPFA.org or through your favorite podcast platform.  You can find more details about this on our Radio Page.

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We hope you can join us! 

“Studying with Karyn and Sarah was hands-down one of the most special, most energizing, and most challenging experiences of my life. I completed the full-time program in 2015 and I constantly draw on the wealth of knowledge I gained during that time. Offerings such as materia medica, medicine-making, and gardening are invaluable and unique to this program. Karyn and Sarah are accessible, generous, and energetic instructors who are deeply committed to their students and to the practice of truly holistic energetic herbalism.”               Gina Badger, Graduate of the full-time program, 2015

“Blue Otter is a dream come true- it’s incredible to have the opportunity to be completely immersed in plant medicine through this full time program. The teachers are exceptional, supporting you to learn an extensive understanding of plant medicine and physiology, and a deep understanding of how to work with clients. The herb garden is an incredible resource where you can actually spend time with the plants you learn about, getting an opportunity to learn how to care for them as well. As a student, this class is a safe container to also do work on yourself, so you can become a strong practitioner. I can’t thank these two wonderful folks enough for the incredible support and encouragement they have provided through this program- Karyn and Sarah truly hold this medicine as sacred, and I recommend their school to anyone who is ready to do this work in a deep way. ” 

      Elokin Orton-Cheung, founder of Shooting Star Botanicals