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Welcome to the

Philo School of

Herbal Energetics


Located on 16 enchanted acres of certified organic land, mixed farmland and redwood forest, The Philo School offers apprenticeships and classes, herbal medicine consults, products and an emphasis on native and naturalized plants as well as drought consciousness.

 We are also a Botanical Sanctuary.  Our medicinal garden has over 200 species of medicinal plants, all on Registered Organic land.  13 acres are undisturbed redwoods.... all of this just 16.3 miles in by road from the Pacific Ocean and only 2 1/2 hours north of San Francisco.

The School offers apprenticeships with Mary Pat Palmer, MA, Registered Herbalist and Matthew Wood, MSc, Registered Herbalists as well as other classes with nationally and internationally known herbalists.  Call us at 707-895-3007 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Mary Pat Palmer (above left with her copper alambic still) teaches The Heart of Herbology, a plant and farm based apprenticeship which uses the extensive gardens to teach about plants from seed to harvest with an emphasis on plant identification and understanding the growing requirements of each plant.  100_0909

The Heart of Herbology meets for seven months, the third weekend of the month (except September) from March through September. Also included are organ systems (e.g. The Digestive System, The Circulatory System), basic Ayurveda, other World Systems, Plant Medicine Making and other topics.  The school has a large library and students use it and other resources to do research.

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Matthew Wood's Advanced Apprenticeship
 
dates are: December 3/4  January 7/8; March 10/11; April 14/15;
May 5/6 and June 2/3

Matthew Wood teaches an Advanced Apprenticeship based on his books which include The Book of Herbal Wisdom.  The core of the class consists of study of the organ systems in order to understand how the body works in a holistic fashion, yet compatible with modern science and also relatively conformable to TCM. Then we will match plants to organ systems and physiological processes.
He will introduce and use a simple system of energetics: the six tissue states.
hot/excitation                 cold/depression            damp/stagnation            dry/atrophy  
             
wind/constriction    damp/relaxation.

This system makes sense of both Greek and nineteenth/early twentieth century.

Western herbalism:  Study includes the neuroendocrine regulation behind the operation of organ systems, and the plant operating on this level. This will allow us to understand basic relationships between organs and systems, and basic constitutional types.

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My article, "The Alchemical Allure of Herbology; Transformation and the Copper Still" has been published in the

Journal of the American Herbalists Guild, Volume 9, #2. Click here:  

Alchemical Allure @ AHG

Check out the YouTube video on making a white rose hydrosol David LaLuzerne of HerbTV made of my demonstration for him.... a DVD about the school is also coming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdPSa3tq_MQ

Holistic Health Perspectives Radio Show on KZYX

on KZYX, 90.7 Philo, 90.5 Ukiah and 88.1 Fort Bragg, CA or KZYX , (kzyx.org) listen to Mary Pat and Karin Uphoff, Registered Herbalists: 
HOLISTIC HEALTH PERSPECTIVES. First and third Tuesdays of the month from 1- 2 PM. 
January 3rd: Twelve Health Tips for 2012 with Mary Pat and Karin
Don't forget to call in with questions for our great guests.


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