Private Classes

with Corinna Wood

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Bring your group to Red Moon Herbs

Groups of all kinds--from college & school groups to adult enrichment programs & Appalachian tours--eagerly come to Red Moon Herbs to get the inside view of the apothecary of this successful herbal business, located within the famous Earthaven Ecovillage intentional community. This is the most economical way for Corinna to work with your group, as it eliminates travel costs (see rates, at bottom). It also allows you to go "straight to the source."

Choose a general tour of Red Moon and/or one or more of the subjects listed in section 3, below. The most popular choices for groups at Red Moon Herbs are Making Your Own Herbal Medicines, Plant Walks, My Favorite Herbs for Women, and Creating a Successful Herbal Business.

Bring Corinna Wood to you

Corinna Wood travels to offer private classes for individuals and groups. From home gardeners wanting to know how to use their weeds, to civic and educational institutions--thousands of people are raving about Corinna's accessible, informative, and inspiring classes. Bring her to your home or group this season!

Course Descriptions

All courses below can be adapted to varying lengths, from an hour to a full weekend. Of course, Corinna can pass on more information in the longer classes. Many of these classes work well with an outdoor portion, or can be entirely indoors as needed.

Wild Plant Walks
Want to learn how to use common wild plants and garden “weeds” as your source of herbal medicines? Corinna will take you by the hand and open your eyes to the food and medicine uses of the plants that surround your home or other location of your choice.Become more self-reliant and naturally healthy by learning how to identify, harvest, and prepare the wild plants at your doorstep as food and medicine.

My Favorite Herbs for Women
Learn about common herbs that support optimum health in every cycle of a woman's life: menstruation, pregnancy & breastfeeding, and menopause. You will get to know plants that help prevent and treat menstrual cramps, osteoporosis, hot flashes, anemia, hormonal mood swings, and more.

Edible Wild Plants
This is not just theoretical knowledge of the plants—we will spend enough time with each plant that you’ll be able to go home and incorporate free, abundant wild plants into your daily life! You’ll see how the lines between food and medicine blur as the wild plants offer nutrients and other compounds that you just can’t get from supermarket vegetables, or from tablets!

Making Your Own Herbal Medicines
Learn the tricks of the trade of how to make your own herbal medicines with maximum potency! You'll learn how to identify, harvest, and prepare the local, abundant wild plants that are our most powerful medicines. We'll cover how to make infusions, tinctures, vinegars, salves, and oils from fresh, local plants.

Using Edible & Medicinal "Weeds"
Some of our most potent herbal allies are frequently overlooked as “weeds”—you’re probably pulling them out of your lawn & garden! You will see wild plants in a whole new light as we explore the gardens of Earthaven, looking between the cultivated rows for the useful plants growing there! You will learn how to identify, harvest and prepare those plants as food and medicine. "Weeds" will never look the same again!

Herbal First Aid, or Creating a Home Herbal Medicine Chest
Learn my favorite herbal medicines to use to treat many common ailments: colds, cuts and wounds, insect bites, upset stomachs, food poisoning, sore muscles, colds, allergic reactions, menstrual cramps, insomnia, sore throats, infections, and more.

Creating a Successful Herbal Business
Learn straight from the source how Red Moon Herbs has defied the odds to build a successful small-scale ethical herbal business over the last 12 years--growing from a small assortment of herbal medicines to a staff of 6 women providing medicines across the country. From spreadsheets and labels to staffing and management, you'll learn the keys to the success of Red Moon Herbs.

Nourishing Traditional Foods
Learn how to support optimum health with hearty foods and time-honored preservation methods, which actually increase the nutrients and digestibility of nuts, grains, vegetables, meats, and milk products. In this hands-on class, you will learn how to bring these techniques into your daily life, including homemade sauerkraut, yogurt, chicken broth, and simple cheeses.

Fertility Awareness for Natural Birth Control or Pregnancy Achievement (4-6 hours)
This is not about counting the number of days from your period until you're "safe"! Come learn why the Rhythm Method doesn't work, and why Fertility Awareness does. This effective and empowering method enables women and couples to accurately determine the woman’s fertile days by observing cervical fluid and waking temperature. Includes an individual follow up session. No additional charge for partners to attend.

Women’s Mysteries
As we honor each cycle of women's lives--menarche, mothering, and menopause--women’s bodies reflect the wisdom and the cycles of the earth and the moon. You will learn "women's mysteries" that all women need to know, empowering yourself and facilitating you to serve other women around health care, fertility management, and sexuality.
Subjects may include one or more of the following:

• The Woman’s Cycle - Menstruation, Ovulation, Fertilization
• Women’s Sacred Moontime
• Vaginal Health & Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Birth Control
• Embracing Our Sexuality as Women

Herbal Medicine for the People: Local Plants, Simple Remedies
Herbal medicine does not need to be about pills and bottles from far away places. Knowing how to use the wild plants around us is our birthright. Our ancestors knew! Through discussing dried herbs, tinctures, vinegars, salves, and oils, you'll learn how and why to incorporate herbs in each of these forms into your daily life.

Standard rates (before travel)

Contact

To arrange for private classes, contact Corinna with our e-mail contact form or call (828) 669-3655.

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