Herbal Safety and Tea Formulations - 201

The first part of this class will provide participants with an overview of botanical safety guidelines, including critical thinking, dosage strategies and primary considerations. The second part of the class will introduce the basics of combining herbs to make therapeutically effective and great tasting tea blends. This lecture and demonstration style class will cover the essential elements involved in herbal tea formulating, including herbal actions, properties, proportions, and intuition, as well as special considerations such as an individual's constitution, season, and climate. Each participant will go home with a tea blend of their making.

Price: $63, $58 member

Instructor: Cat Pantaleo

Cat Pantaleo is a holistic health practitioner with over 22 years of experience as a consultant, educator and nature guide. She weaves together her skills as an herbalist, ecopsychologist, nutritionist and practitioner of nonviolent communication. She creates opportunities to cultivate resilience, restoration, deep nourishment and a reconnection to one's authentic, wild self. Cat's work is ultimately guided by nature beings and an impassioned desire to restore respect and reciprocity between humans and the natural world, re-awakening our innate human capacity for caring and cooperation in order to re-establish an Earth-honoring way of being so that all life may flourish.