Natural First Aid - 201

This class introduces the myriad ways in which botanicals and other natural remedies can be utilized safely and effectively for first-aid situations, including burns, sprains/strains, poison ivy and insect bites/stings. Both internal and external applications are covered, including homeopathy and poultices. Students make products to add to their home first-aid kits. Class includes a tour of the medicinal garden at York Street.

Price: $68, $62 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.