Updated Course Offerings for 2021
Our Community Herbalism Program in an accessible online format, a less demanding online Fundamentals program, and a Bioregional Immersion that adds field classes for those local to our area.
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A SCHOOL WITH A VISION
The Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine is located in Marshall, North Carolina, near Asheville in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
This bioregion is one of the most ecologically diverse in all of North America. Here our students enjoy a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in healthy and dynamic ecologies, and to learn from the most powerful teachers of all, the plants themselves. Intimacy with Nature is a cornerstone of our teaching: through intimate connection, herbalists are able to share not only the incomparable healing powers of plants, but also the healing that comes from human reconnection to Nature.
Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people. Our school evolved 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 beginning botany, to medicine making and human physiology, all the way to herbal formulation and clinical skills, our six-month program imparts the knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary for graduates to begin working as community herbalists.
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Our Vision
We want to heal ourselves and we want to heal the world. The Terra Sylva School sees the radical potential of herbal medicine to do both. Continue reading “Our Vision”
About Our Programs
Terra Sylva’s Community Herbalism programs provide training in Western herbal medicine from a holistic and Vitalist perspective. Continue reading “About Our Programs”
The Setting
The Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine is located in Marshall, North Carolina, a twenty minute drive from Asheville. Continue reading “The Setting”