We invite those of you who are ready to begin your herbalism journey but need a more flexible way to fit your studies into your schedule to take advantage of this discounted option.

12 CEUs for Roots of Herbalism + 48 CEUs for The Family Herbalist Program are available to Florida Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists, Dietitians, Nurses & Midwives in the state of Florida through CE Broker for students who successfully complete the course through attendance and submission of assignments. To add CEU credits to your enrollment, click here. An additional $15 educational credit processing fee, per course, will apply.

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Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG)  is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist, and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming AHG (RH) certified. Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures.  “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

She is a leader in the herbal nutraceutical industry and is recognized as a consultant specializing in regulatory issues, formulation and product education. She is a professional registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild RH(AHG), nationally board certified as a holistic nurse (AHN-BC), and is a medical school instructor in botanical pharmacology, and author of many books, including The Natural Medicine Chest . She offers online/on ground CE approved Herbal Certification Programs, and leads www.EcotoursForCures.com to experience healing traditions around areas of the world.  She is on the Peer Review Editorial Board of several journals/organizations, including: Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, Natural Medicine Journal, Natural Standard Database. Dr. Kamhi educates professionals and consumers about how to care for themselves Naturally!
Her passions include sharing her 5 decades of in depth herbal knowledge with individuals that will carry natural healing arts forward into the next millennium.  www.naturalnurse.com   , www.facebook.com/NaturalNurse , https://www.naturalnurse.com/education/natural-nurse-academy/
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In this class, Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHG, AHN-BC, guides you on how to pursue a career path in Natural Health.

In today’s world, there is growing interest in natural foods, herbs, homeopathics, energy medicine, exercise and wellness practices that enhance overall health, and recognize each individual as a unique entity.

Natural Medicine emphasizes the whole person approach. Practitioners must become fluent in a variety of health enhancing techniques, and people are actively seeking knowledgeable individuals.

A Natural Health career offers a wide choice of practices, including Holistic Nursing, Naturopathic Medicine, Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Massage Therapy, Registered Dietician, Herbalist and more!

Let The Natural Nurse share her personal story of how she became involved in Natural Health, as a practitioner, author, University Professor and media personality. She will also explain the many paths that are available in terms of professional training for someone who would like to get involved in this field, and give specific contact information to schools, programs and organizations where you can begin the search to become a recognized Natural Health Care Provider.

Objectives

1. Attendees will list 5 pathways to incorporate a natural focus into their professional pursuits
2. Attendees will evaluate the ROI of following various pathways to certification, licensing and recognition as a leader in natural lifestyles
3. Attendees will be aware of possible pitfalls and legal implications involved with a focus in natural lifestyle professions

Open to all levels from beginner to advanced.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

Objective 1: Participants will evaluate their level of knowledge of FDA and FTC regulations of herbal product manufacturers

Objective 2: Participants will differentiate between traditional sharing and trading, preparation of individualized herbal remedies for clients, and commercial product offerings

Objective 3: Participants will define specific resources where they can access compliance criteria

Open to all levels, from beginner to advanced.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

This class discusses the vast options for nutritional, herbal, homeopathic, massage, and other natural therapies available to help support ear health during the “watch and wait” period many allopathic doctors prescribe when ear infections are suspected. 

Open to all levels, from beginner to advanced.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

In this class, we will peruse healthful recipes and investigate specific actions at the cellular level of several of their active constituents, such as:

• Carvacrol – exhibits antimicrobial activity related to hydrophobicity, the presence of a free hydroxyl group;
• Phenol Moiety, which actively supports pro-apoptotic processes.

Open to all levels, from beginner to advanced.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

Examples of topics covered in this class include:

• Dr. Emoto’s water crystallization;
• herbal crystallization diagnostic patterns;
• Yantras;
• Electronic Diagnostic Patterns.

Open to all levels from beginner to advanced.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

We have a choice of where to get our supplements. For herbalists, the ideal choice is often wildcrafting in your local natural habitat. However, there are times when we may wish to use a commercially available herb or nutraceutical. Join me on January 22, 2023 to learn how to make informed choices about what, when, and where to buy.

What you’ll learn in this class:

• Herb Label Reading—tincture or extract?
• Dried Herb Equivalent?
• Best time to take different kinds of vitamins and minerals;
• Which supplements to take together or separately to support absorption;
• Additives- Mag Stearate, Benzoate?
• Best and worst forms of EACH supplement;
• GMO status of supplements.

Learn the “rules-of-thumb” about the best way to use different kinds of herbs, vitamins, minerals and nutraceuticals. Topics that can be legally discussed with clients in a practice versus a store setting; such as nutrients that are documented to be depleted when using particular pharmaceuticals, and the importance of repletion.

Open to all levels from beginner to advanced.

Please review this link for our school’s tuition and cancellation policies.

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, RH(AHG), The Natural Nurse®, is a wildcrafting intuitive herbalist and is adept at radionics and dowsing. She is a mentor with AHG (American Herbalist Guild), and takes herbalists through the process of becoming a Certified Registered Herbalist RH(AHG). Ellen teaches in conventional educational settings, mainstream medical schools and universities, as well as with master traditional healers from a variety of cultures. “It has been my honor to have studied with indigenous and master herbalists, such as JAMBA of the MAROONS in Jamaica, Michael Moore and Mimi Kemp in Bisbee Arizona, SONIA in Santa Cruz Mexico, Dr. Bernard Jensen, and a vast array of advanced herbalists.”

For each herb, we will provide in-depth materia medica with monograph, ethnobotany, history and photochemistry. Individual Topics include:

• THYME AND SAGE with Maggie O’Halloran 
  Thyme and Sage aren’t just among the most popular culinary herbs today — they also have a long history of use as medicinal herbs and even as spiritual protectors. In this class, we will get to know these two well-known spices for their medicinal benefit and learn recipes to employ their healing powers in our daily lives.
• CAYENNE AND CITRUS with Maggie O’Halloran 
  Cayenne is a popular spice with historical use for skin and cardiovascular support. Not only does it heat up your mouth, but herbalists and alchemists have written books on all of the other benefits of Cayenne. Lemons, limes, oranges all add a refreshing burst of sweet refreshment to our beverages and culinary delights. Let’s take a look at how these can combine to provide a healthful tasty beverage!
• ONION with Emily Ruff 
  Onions are a common staple in our diets, but they add so much more than flavor to dishes. Whether it’s cardiac benefits, immune support, or for use in first aid, onions bring a myriad of medicinal qualities to our lives. In this class, we’ll explore those benefits and learn creative ways to prepare onion for use in your family’s health.
• GINGER with Christina Lynch 
  Ginger, a tropical rhizome rich in similar virtues for keeping pathogens at bay, also brings some spice to our food and our medicine.
• PARSLEY with Emily Ruff 
  Parsley is a popular herb often used in cooking. Parsley is not just a decoration on our plate, but it is an impressive herb that offers numerous health benefits, internally and externally. In this class, we will explore the disease-fighting qualities of parsley, and learn how to prepare culinary, medicinal, and topical applications to harness its power.
• BASIL AND FRIENDS with Maggie O’Halloran 
  Join us as we explore the historical uses of Tulsi or Holy Basil and how you can utilize it in your kitchen. Long revered for its many health benefits, this adaptogen is a culinary star as well. Pesto is a fun way to incorporate the tasty benefits of culinary basil we associate with this versatile sauce as well as the nervous system support of Holy Basil.
• GARLIC with Shay DeGrandis 
  With a storied history of repelling vampires and cooties, Garlic is a kitchen medicine you’ll want to have on hand for first aid situations.
• ROSEMARY with Wilnise Francois 
  Rosemary, the herb of remembrance, has a documented history in scientific literature supporting our memory, focus, and cognitive function. Not only is this tasty herb an ally to our mental prowess, and tasty addition to many culinary recipes, but it also finds favor in topical formulas for skin and hair. In this class, we’ll delight in the sensory aromas that Rosemary gifts while learning recipes to keep our bellies and our bodies happy.

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Your Instructors:

Emily Ruff, Founder, is a community herbalist who has practiced the art and science of plant healing for over a decade. Her studies have taken her around three continents where she has studied under healers of many traditions. Her background in gardening and botany came in childhood while wandering the wilderness and digging in the sandy soils of Florida with her grandfather, a tobacco farmer turned urban gardener, and her father, a botany and astronomy professor. Her journey into herbalism continued through apprenticeships in Guatemala under the tutelage of local healers on the southern coast of Lake Atitlan, in the mountains of Vermont at the feet of Rosemary Gladstar, and in the Central Florida apothecary Leaves & Roots with herbalists Carolyn Whitford and George D’Arcy. Emily’s academic studies include Ethnobotany, Philosophy, and Women’s Studies at the University of Central Florida and Curanderismo with the University of New Mexico. She is a Bach Flower Registered Practitioner.

Emily’s dedication to preserving bioregional medicinal plant traditions and ecosystems led her to become active in the organization United Plant Savers. Inspired by a need for greater connection among her regional community, she founded the Florida Herbal Conference event in 2012, an event that continues to sell out annually. In past years, she served multiple terms as president of the Herb Society of Central Florida and as co-founder of Homegrown Local Food Cooperative. Most recently, in response to the tragic shooting at Pulse Nightclub, Emily founded the Orlando Grief Care Project. From the community relationships cultivated through the national response to this tragedy, Emily formed the Herbal Action Network to continue weaving the web of compassionate herbalism into community engagement. Emily is an instructor in the Herbal Academy Advanced Herbal Training Course. Sharing her time between Florida and Vermont, she currently serves as director of the Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary.

Emily’s classes have been described as “heart-filled,” “enriching,” and “empowering,” creating a bridge between the teachings of our ancestors and the technologies of our modern world. Emily can be found in joy cooking, practicing yoga, writing, photographing flora, creating music with family and friends, and digging her fingers in the dirt. The plants continue to be her greatest teachers.

See Emily’s classes at this link.

Maggie O’Halloran, Executive Director, is an herbalist and educator in Central Florida. She comes from a large family where chaos was the norm. She always found peace outside watching things grow or climbing magnolia trees. She learned in her mother’s kitchen that the things you put in your mouth impact your mind and your body.

In the early 90’s she first found her own inspiration to view health from a holistic perspective while working as a teacher assistant at a mental health hospital for children. From that experience, she decided that there had to be a better way to help kids beyond medicating them to a zombie state with pharmaceuticals. She started college studying education and psychology ultimately received a bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Masters in Educational Leadership.

In 1999 she took her love of plants to Oakland, California where she worked with inner-city elementary students and teachers, learning and teaching about violence prevention and anger management through physical education and body awareness with Playworks. She explored working with food, exercise, breathing, and communication skills. She continued to study plants and their medicine by sharing with friends.

In 2006 she moved to Florida to find a slower pace in life. Though her love of teaching hasn’t waned, she took the opportunity to focus on deepening her plant knowledge in a more intentional way with Emily Ruff and The Florida School of Holistic Living. Since then she has found inspiration from teachers like Rosemary Gladstar and David Winston. She continues her passion for helping people find peace by sharing her knowledge with whomever will listen. She enjoys working with friends, family, and strangers seeking a more holistic way to be healthy.

These days she can be found hiking on trails, tending her garden, creating something good for you in her kitchen, teaching in her community about plant medicine, and learning from her six-year-old herbalist and his friends.

Shay DeGrandis is an artist, community herbalist, writer, death midwife, accidental comedian, and well-meaning but amateur therapist working in the Orlando area. She is a recent graduate of the Florida School of Holistic Living Community Herbalist Program and received her BFA from Florida International University (via New World School of the Arts), her MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and went on the study Art History at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She loves to spend her time in her garden, chatting with the plants.

Christina Lynch is a growing community herbalist who desires to share her knowledge and passions with those around her. She is a first-generation American, with her lineage deriving from Barbados. Taking great desire to reconnect to the earth, continuing the spiritual and physical connections with the earth as her ancestors once did, her intent is to assist others in starting or continuing their journeys in becoming one with themselves.
She is currently the Vice President of Accounting & Finance for The Gabor Agency in Tallahassee, Florida. She has her Master’s degree in Human Resources and Employment Relations from Penn State University, and her bachelor degrees in Accounting, Finance and Human Resource Management from Florida State University. She has 13 years of professional experience in corporate accounting, human resource management, risk management, business plan development and strategic planning. She has also assisted numerous small businesses improve administrative operations, develop and maintain bookkeeping practices, and provide training support through her consulting firm, Trydent Consulting, and the Small Business Development Center. Christina is an avid tea lover, recovering foodie and cultural explorer.

Wilnise Francois is a Haitian-American Licensed Nurse and Herbalist that has worked in the allopathic modality of healing for over a decade. Working alongside physicians and caretakers alike facilitating wellness to those across the life span. Her role as an herbalist expanded with the personal need and integration of herbal medicines from her coveted traditional Haitian practices and studies in Western herbalism. As an herbalist, she is working to revolutionize the cultural affinity of our plant friends through our relationships with the earth and stars. Her aim is to integrate the very love our herbs show us and implement that essence into our daily lives; creating a lifestyle of health and wellness.

CEUs
You will receive the CEUs you applied and paid for upon the satisfactory completion of the class and all assignments. Once the requirements have been met, we will input your CEUs in CE Broker.

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