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East West Herb ONLINE Seminar: April 21 – 28, 2023

For your safety and comfort, this year’s seminar will be completely ONLINE.

The 2023 seminar will teach Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced tracks

“A Planetary Herbal Seminar” with guest teacher herbalists on Western, Ayurvedic & Traditional Chinese Medicine featuring Rosemary Gladstar, Todd Caldecott, and Thomas Avery Garran, PhD. Each bring their expertise and knowledge to our East West Seminar. Our own Michael Tierra brings it all together in his featured class on Five Stagnations.

Printable 2023 seminar details

We are very excited to bring you our 2023 seminar teacher lineup offered to ALL 3 Tracks:

Rosemary Gladstar

Rosemary will be teaching:

Plant Allies for Radiant Well Being:  The Amazing Adaptogens & Tonic Herbs 

The two most well known groups of herbs that help us attain and maintain ‘radiant well being’ are the Adaptogens & Tonics. And for good reason.  These herbs help restore balance, boost energy, restore vitality, and help raise the body’s ability to deal with the stresses of modern life ~ and, as an added bonus, they generally have no harmful side effects.  They are also the prime herbs used for increasing life force and ones quality of life as one’s life during the ’Sageing’, or aging,  years.   In this class Rosemary will share information about her favorite Adaptogens and Tonic herbs and demonstrate some of her favorite recipes using tonics and adaptogens.  Powerpoint included. BIO

Todd Caldecott

Todd will be teaching:

Dravyaguṇa: Pharmacology in Āyurveda

Thomas Avery Garran

Thomas will be teaching:

An overview of the methods used to integrate non-Chinese herbs into the Chinese medical paradigm

We will look at how to employ historical records, botanical relationships, and even chemistry to develop a holistic picture of how a plant can be integrated into our practice using Chinese methods of diagnosis and treatment principles. With this knowledge in hand, Dr. Garran will guide students through the discovery of several plants and walk them through the process of understanding them using the lenses discussed in the beginning of the class. Students will complete the class with a sense of how to apply the process and gain practical knowledge of how to use specific plants in their own practice. BIO

Michael Tierra

Michael will be teaching:

The Five Stagnations
Most health conditions are due one of the five stagnations: Qi, blood, fluids cold, or food. Taking tonic herbs will only make such conditions worse, like adding cars to a traffic jam. Learn the signs, symptoms, and herbal treatments for effectively moving each of the five stagnations and preventing them as well.

FOUNDATION TRACK

This track is for everyone. Watch all the classes, complete the quizzes and receive credit for attending the Foundation Track Seminar, one of three required seminars for our E.W.C.H. Required reading: Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine, Vol. I and The Way of Herbs. Cost: $475

Live-Streaming Classes:

Meet and Greet, Friday, April 21st, 2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT   LIVE

• Saturday, 4/22/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT: Todd Caldecott (3 hours)   LIVE
• Saturday, 4/22/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT: Michael Tierra (3 hours)  LIVE
• Sunday, 4/23/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT: Rosemary Gladstar (3 hours)  LIVE
• Sunday, 4/23/2023, 1:30-4:30pm PDT: Thomas Avery Garran (3 hours)  LIVE
• Tuesday, 4/25/2023, 5-6pm PDT: Q & A with Michael and/or Lesley Tierra  LIVE

On-Demand Classes: (watch these recorded classes)

• Traditional Chinese Medicine Theory with Lesley Tierra (3 hours)
• Traditional Ayurveda Medicine Theory with Manish Chandra (3 hours)
• Five Element Theory with Nancy Angelini (3 hours)
• Differential Diagnosis & Case Studies with Lesley Tierra (6 hours)

On-Demand (recorded classes) Webinars: (5 hours and 42 minutes of viewing time):

• Tongue Diagnosis (1 hour, 30 minutes)
• Pulse Diagnosis (1 hour, 20 minutes)
• Medicine Making (6 videos totaling 20 minutes)
• Herb Walk (2 videos of herb walks with Lesley and Michael, totaling 12 minutes)
• Healing Power of Spices (2 hours, 20 minutes)

INTERMEDIATE TRACK

This track is for students who have previously attended the Foundation Track AND completed through Lesson 24 of the East West Herb Course. Required reading: Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine, Vol. I & II, Planetary Herbology and Healing with the Herbs of Life. Cost: $495

Required after seminar: Four case study Wednesday chats with Susan Kramer.

Live-streaming classes:

Meet and Greet, Friday, April 21st, 2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT   LIVE

• Saturday, 4/22/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT: Todd Caldecott (3 hours)   LIVE
• Saturday, 4/22/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT: Michael Tierra (3 hours)   LIVE
• Sunday, 4/23/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT: Rosemary Gladstar (3 hours)  LIVE
• Sunday, 4/23/2023, 1:30-4:30pm PDT: Thomas Avery Garran (3 hours)  LIVE
• Wednesday, 4/26/2023, 5-6pm PDT: Q & A with Michael and/or Lesley Tierra  LIVE

On-Demand Classes: (watch these recorded classes)

• Specific formulas to know (38+ commonly used ones) with Nancy Angelini (3 hours)
• Materia Medica: Western with Susan Kramer, Chinese with Anne de Courtenay & Ayurvedic with Manish Chandra (9 hours)
• Setting up an herbal practice with Susan Kramer (3 hours)
• Cases: Intake, write up and diagnostic techniques with Susan Kramer (3 hours)

On-demand (recorded) Webinars (8 hours, 40 minutes total):

• Advanced Tongue (1 hour 22 minutes)
• Advanced Pulse Diagnosis (1 hour, 43 minutes)
• Abdominal diagnosis (1 hour)
• Herb Walk: (2 videos with Michael & Lesley Tierra, 12 minutes total)
• Korean Hand Therapy (52 minutes)
• Auricular Therapy (1 hour, 38 minutes)
• Dui Yao (1 hour, 54 minutes)

ADVANCED TRACK LIVE

This track is for students who have completed the Foundation and Intermediate Tracks of the seminar, completed Lessons 1-36 of the East West Herb Course, submitted their 3 cases for Lesson 33 and successfully passed them. Required reading: Chinese Traditional Herbal Medicine, Vol. I & II, Planetary Herbology and Healing with the Herbs of Life. Cost: $795

Live-Streaming Classes: (You MUST attend all LIVE classes from Saturday, 4/22/2023 thru Friday, 4/28/2023)

• Saturday, 4/22/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT: Todd Caldecott (3 hours)   LIVE
• Saturday, 4/22/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT: Michael Tierra (3 hours)   LIVE
• Sunday, 4/23/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT: Rosemary Gladstar (3 hours)  LIVE
• Sunday, 4/23/2023, 1:30-4:30pm PDT: Thomas Avery Garran (3 hours)  LIVE
• Monday, 4/24/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT Welcome, overview and Cases with Lesley Tierra  LIVE
• Monday, 4/24/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT Cases with Holly Hutton  LIVE
• Tuesday, 4/25/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT Cases with Nancy Angelini  LIVE
• Tuesday, 4/25/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT Cases with Miles Coleman  LIVE
• Wednesday, 4/26/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT Cases with Erica Macrum  LIVE
• Wednesday, 4/26/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT Cases with Sheila Devitt  LIVE
• Thursday, 4/27/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT Cases with Susan Kramer  LIVE
• Thursday, 4/27/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT Cases with Nicholas Schnell  LIVE
• Friday, 4/28/2023, 9:30am-12:30pm PDT All about Cases Fast & Furious Lightening Rounds with Lesley Tierra  LIVE
• Friday, 4/28/2023, 1:30pm-4:30pm PDT Planetary Herbology Moving Forward with Michael Tierra LIVE