FORGE YOUR PATH AS AN HERBALIST & CREATE PLANT MAGIC IN COMMUNITY 🌿 ✨
Intro to Herbalism Classes
live at Grand Street Healing Project, on Lenape Land in Brooklyn
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In 2017 I began my official training as an Herbalist. Today, I am a member of the American Herbalists Guild and the President of the local AHG NYC Chapter. I hold certificates in Trauma-informed Healing from the herbal clinical perspective, and in Bioregional Materia Medica.
My commitment is to be a supportive ally in your wellness journey. Whether you're seeking more energy or rest, our small-batch herbal formulas help invigorate your mind-gut connection.
Plant Medicine is amazing. This is something you can easily dose, splash or add into your favorite beverage or meal.
Consider Nurture to be your sommelier of herbal teas and wonders. You can trust that you're getting incredibly high quality herbs from sustainable farms. In fact, we privilege the quality of ingredients in our small-batch formulas over mass production. Each blends is intentionally selected for freshness and integrity. Enjoy the robust aroma of our teas, blends and elixirs that dance on tongue.
Your health journey is beautiful. And Nurture is here to support it through the power of plant medicine. Let's tap into its wisdom together!
Wellness is a birthright.
Now - more than ever - it is important to feel empowered in your body. Plants offer abundant healing properties that help you feel this connection.
Discover the beautiful world of herbalism and cultivate a relationship with medicinal plants!
Whether you're new to herbalism or looking to deepen your knowledge, you'll learn the foundations of holistic healing, plant identification, and how to create your own natural remedies.
We’ll focus deeply on the mind-gut connection, tuning into areas around digestion, adaptogenic support, stress and the nervous system, sleep, skincare + beauty and reproductive health.
The healing wisdom of plants is with us. And it feels good!
learn to create plant remedies
Grow with hands-on lessons & coaching
create a sustainable change for life
Choose Your Classes
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU!
GATHER AND GROW IN COMMUNITY
This course is perfect for the curious beginner, the self-taught herbalist, or anyone seeking natural ways to support wellness for themselves and their loved ones.
If you feel called to plants, now is the time to answer! Connect with herbal community and deepen your knowledge.
Gain confidence to start your journey as an herbalist.
What You'll Experience in the Classes
This interactive course fosters a truly holistic and dynamic approach to wellness. You'll learn about herbalism by activating all of the senses, with expert guest teachers in the healing arts.
You can take classes as a one-off or join for a few with special packages!
Throughout the next few month, you'll ...
🌿 Gain experience about how to formulate tea blends, make tinctures, botanical skincare products, herbal syrups and botanical mocktails
🌿 Enjoy sustainable foraging and ethical wildcrafting techniques with a guided medicinal plant walk in Brooklyn
🌿 Work directly with fresh medicinal plants from a local organic herb farm - Sawmill Herb Farm - run by a female-founder.
🌿 Connect to a higher vibrational energy with ancestral herbalism and astro-herbalism
🌿 Make yummy nourishing recipes like a turmeric lavender hummus
🌿 Activate your creativity with eco art therapy
🌿 Flow through sound healing and breathwork, as we weave in herbs for the nervous system
🌿 Receive dozens of guidebook resources, reading materials, and videos.
🌿 At the end of the course, you’ll earn an Intro to Herbalism Certificate that honors your work!
MEET YOUR LEAD INSTRUCTOR
Laura Rubin: Clinical Herbalist, Flower Essences Practitioner, and Herbal Educator
Laura is a compassionate certified Clinical Herbalist and Flower Esssences practitioner dedicated to helping people thrive by tuning into the mind-gut connection. Her practice is rooted in Western Folk Herbalism, weaving in Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Wise Woman traditions.
After years of battling Crohn’s Disease and extreme burnout from a high-pressure marketing career, she found healing through herbalism.
Herbalism shined this beautiful light. It's truly every people's medicine, from the beginning of time!
Grateful for her many plant allies and mentors, she studied at the California School of Herbal Studies and learned from renowned herbalists around the world like 7Song, Thomas Easley, David Hoffman, Liz Nieves, Brian Bowman, Jenn Bredesen, Christa Sinadinos and more. She has also sat with elders, learning indigienous plant medicine in the Amazon rainforest.
Since 2018, Laura has shared her expertise on herbalism and gut health with national and global audiences, runs workshops across the U.S., and supports dozens of clients through 1:1 private sessions. She is also President of the New York City American Herbalists Guild.
Here's a taste of what's to come
Sample Course Curriculum
Week 1 - Foundations of Herbalism
April 23rd
Class Intros + connections. Ground into the foundations of herbalism with ancestral herbalism, traditional healing systems including Western Folk Herbalism, TCM and Ayurveda. Learn the Doctrine of Signatures and start your personal course project.
Week 2 - Hands-on learning with Herbs
April 30th
Experiment with fresh CSA herbs from the female-founded Sawmill Herb farm!
Learn about herbal energetics, intro to medicine making, herbs and our body systems.
Week 3 - Romance the Plants + Eco Art Therapy
May 7th
Activate your connection to herbal allies, enjoy a guided eco art therapy activity, co-lead by Juanita Viera, Licensed Creative Art Therapist.
Week 4 - Urban Medicinal Plant Walk
May 10th or 11th
Learn how to identify healing plants in NYC's very own parks! We'll practice a plant meditation so you can tune into the abundant messages that they have to share, then ask for consent and leave offerings to the plants before potentially harvesting them.
This class will be on a weekend date and skip Wednesday.
Week 5 - Gut Health and the Microbiome
May 21st
Unlock the top herbs for gut health and the microbiome: healing digestive disorders like IBS, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, and Diverticulitis. Learn with fresh herbs from the CSA.
Week 5 - Soothing the Nervous System
May 28th
An integrated class where you'll enjoy breathwork and sound healing with a guest teacher! We'll weave in herbs for stress, anxiety, depression, mood enhancers and euphoric plants.
Week 6 - Skincare and Beauty from Within
June 4th
Explore beauty from within as we review herbs for skincare, eczema, psoriasis and other skin-related issues. You'll get to work with fresh herbs from the CSA and learn recipes for botanical bath salts and herbal oils.
Week 7 - Sensuality, Fertility, Reproductive Health, Flower Essences
June 11th
Dive into herbalism and how it can support women’s reproductive health and fertility, co-lead by an incredible Acupuncturist and TCM practitioner.
Activate your heart center with herbal aphrodisiacs and flower essences!
Week 8 - Class Celebration
June 18th
Class celebration and presentations. Live recipe demo for herbal syrups and mocktails.
*subject to change
Curious to connect? Send a message to Laura!