What’s new:

  • The new Self-Paced version of our Fundamentals of Community Herbalism course launches November 26th!

  • Admissions are now open for:

    • Fundamentals of community herbalism: guided study

    • Advanced community herbalism

A SCHOOL WITH A VISION

The Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine offers online and in-person education from our home in Marshall, North Carolina, in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. Terra Sylva exists to meet the growing need for environmentally and socially conscious herbalists able to support their communities as healers, educators, and emissaries of the plants. From basic energetics and botany, to medicine making and human physiology, all the way to herbal formulation and clinical skills, our programs impart the knowledge, skills, and experiences that best support the practicing community herbalist.

  • "One of the most valuable things about my two years at Terra Sylva was simply that the structure kept me in the channel of thinking about plants, making medicine, and most of all learning new things on a daily basis. It really is a portal, and I cherished it for reminding me daily of my investment in the best parts of myself."

    Emma T.

  • "I am closing out year two with a systems level analysis that is so far beyond anything I entered the program with. I am asking questions, seeing patterns and finding solutions that I did not know how to ask, see or find a year ago."

    lily bo

  • "As someone who often feels overwhelmed and helpless by the state of the world, Terra Sylva has taught me tangible ways to be in service to my loved ones, my community, and my extended ecosystems (human and more than human!) while also caring for myself in the process."

    Emily K.

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OUR VISION

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

BIOREGIONAL INTENSIVES

 

EARTH

It begins with connection. Roots deep in the fertile earth, nourishing connection to the land. Knowledge & skills: a strong foundation in the everyday practice of herbcraft, listening to nature, wild harvesting, gardening, and medicine making, grounded in care for life on Earth.

WATER

It’s all about the flows. Learning how energy moves in nature and in the human body and working with those flows. Cultivating intuition, receptivity, and subtle medicine. Also, receiving the streams of influence from herbal traditions, and allowing our work to flow into the world.

FIRE

We emphasize action: learning by doing, gaining experience, and then putting our skills into practice. Igniting passion: for the plants and for the Great Work of healing. Fueling creativity: medicine as art.

AIR

We cultivate a mind in tune with nature, informed by the theory and wisdom of the craft. Book learning, research, adding to our store of knowledge. Being a voice for nature, for holism and for health.