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PAST School of Natural Medicine International Master Herbalist Diploma & Certificate Courses Immersion held during the last two weeks in late June 2022. Boulder, Colorado.

BRIGITTE MARS AHG: Herbal walks; visit to Rebecca’s Pharmacy and other local source shops: foraging wild foods; preparing wild foods; enzymes; cultured foods. Preparing a meal and drinks; sustainable natural lifestyle skills; herb signatures, plant energetics and identification skills; foraging for wild foods; preparing wild raw and gently cooked foods; color healing chakras, hormones and sexuality, women’s medicine, flower essences and more. Denver Botanical Gardens plant communion observation gifts sacred geometry wisdom understanding. (8 or 10 hour daya)

MARCO LAM LAC: Garden as healer. The ecology of the home garden. Plant medicine. Garden to clinic. Integrating professional ethics with affordable and accessible health care. Herbal Pharmacy tour. Forest as healer. Flower essence testing. Wild crafting ethics. Herbal walk. Chinese Medicine elemental system emotional correlations. Chi Gong energetics. (8 hour days)

BRIGITTE MARS AHG, Herbalist, Author, and University Professor, is a renowned herbalist and nutritional consultant of Natural Health with almost fifty years of experience. She teaches Herbal Medicine at Naropa University, School of Natural Medicine in Boulder, Colorado and The School of Health Mastery in Iceland.

She has taught at Omega Institute, Esalen, Kripalu, Sivananda Yoga Ashram, Arise, Envision and Unify Festivals, and The Mayo Clinic, and blogs for the Huffington Post and Care2. She is also a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.

The author of many books and DVDs, including The Home Reference to Holistic Health and Healing, The Country Almanac of Home Remedies, The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, Beauty by Nature, Addiction Free Naturally, The Sexual Herbal, Healing Herbal Teas, Rawsome!, and co-author of The HempNut Cookbook, Brigitte’s DVDs include Sacred Psychoactive, Herbal Wizardry for Kids of all Ages, Natural Remedies for Childhood Ailments, Overcoming Addictions, and Natural Remedies for Emotional Health.

Brigitte’s latest project is a phone app ‘iPlant’ that helps budding herbalists to identify plants in the wild. Brigitte and her daughter, Sunflower Sparkle Mars, run Herb Camp for Kids in Boulder, Colorado; and her daughter, Rainbeau Mars, is the world famous activist/yogini-actress/ inspirational teacher and international model.

MARCO CHUNG-SHU LAM, LAC  Licensed Acupuncturist in Boulder, Colorado, draws from his Chinese heritage an affinity for both traditional Chinese medicine and the Taoist world view of ancient sages who believed health and peace arise from harmony with the deeper currents of nature.

Marco earned his B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a thesis on the holistic treatment of immune disorders. His education includes graduate Taoist and Buddhist Studies including Qigong and Chinese Medicine in a Taoist Monastery.

Marco taught Shiatsu and whole food nutrition at the Connecting Point Massage School in Telluride, Colorado, studied Chinese Medicine the Tai Hsuan Monastery and the Hawaii College of Traditional Oriental Medicine, and received his Master of Science in Oriental Medicine from the Southwest Acupuncture College, a nationally accredited school.

Marco has a gentle touch with acupuncture and invites clients on the path of Chinese Medicine toward the fullness of health in experience integrated with the living system of herbalism of traditional Chinese herbalism and local medicinal herbs he harvests to create herbal products for the Mandala clinic.

Enjoy the Boulder Creek Festival and Saturday Market on days off. Classes Monday through Friday. Several relaxed experiential 10 hr days gift free Wednesdays to explore Boulder resources. Weekends free to explore the wonders of the Rocky Mountain trails and the magic of Boulder healing, sustainable and consciousness creatives.