Deepen Your Herbal Skills
2025 Advanced Health Concerns Series
A Module of the Full Advanced Series and Part of the Intensive Herbalist Training Program Taught by
Clinical Herbalist Maria Noël Groves
with Guest Instructors
Live Streaming Tuesday Nights in Spring & Autumn 2025
Classes Live Stream in Late May/early June and September through November for 12 x 3-hour core classes total (plus at least 7 optional bonus classes)
Most classes run 6-9 pm Eastern Time
All classes will be ALSO recorded and available on-demand with no deadline to watch/access.
Expand personal and clinical herbal skills with advanced health topics. Better understand complex health concerns and body systems including herbal and natural support options.
*PREREQUISITES REQUIRED! See below ~
This is *not* the FULL Advanced course but a component of it, with the plan to cover other advanced topics (such as clinical and assessment skills) in future year live stream modules to make the content more approachable, affordable, and manageable for students. Students can opt in or out of various modules depending on their interest. If you're eager for (almost) everything now, you can register for the on-demand online FULL Advanced course. For students who register for the FULL On-Demand Advanced Series between November 2024 and June 2024, they will also receive full access to the Advanced Health Concerns Live Stream Series.
Advanced Health Concerns Series Overview
36 core class (plus at least 21 hours optional/bonus class) hours of core live streamed webinars!
All classes will also be recorded and available for replay with no deadline to watch.
Hundreds of pages of class notes and full color slides.
Class Topics & Teachers
Taught by Maria Noël Groves unless specified ~
12 Core Live Streamed (& Recorded) Classes
• Art of Formulation & Protocol Tips
• Herb-Drug Interactions
• Advanced Gut Repair
• Menopause
• Thyroid
• COVID Considerations
• Nervous System, PTSD & Trauma Support for Herbalists with Amy Branum
• Herbal Cancer Care with Ember Peters
• Fatigue Differentials with Thomas Easley
• Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Overview & Herbal Approaches with Mel Kasting
• Death and Dying Workshop for Herbalists with Suchil Coffman-Guerra
• Lyme Disease & Coinfections with Debbie Mercier
• And a few more topics and one more guest teacher to be announced
PLUS BONUS CLASSES! Optional but included with your registration - series students will also be able to DROP IN on *select* live streamed topics in Maria's Home Herbalist and Beyond series (happening in March/April and July/August) on Stress/Endocrine Health, Relaxation, Digestion Basics, Blood Sugar Balance, Repro Basics, Pain Management, and Autoimmune Disease. Recordings will also be available on demand.
What Does Advanced Health Concerns *Series* Registration Include?
Module Students Will Receive Exclusive Access to
•Access to 12 core classes and at least 7 optional bonus classes (approximately 3 hours each) - all live streamed in 2025 and recorded with no deadline to watch/access.
•Lengthy class notes (for Maria's classes) and full color slides (for all classes)
•Homework assignments with personalized feedback to deepen your learning (optional to do but required for a certificate of completion)
•One year student membership to the American Herbalists Guild ($60-70 value) (AHG membership includes various discounts, hundreds of free webinars and conference recordings, and other benefits)
•2025 student discounts for Foster Farm Botanicals, Mountain Rose Herbs, Back in Thyme Wellness & Herbs, Societe Healing Teas & Apothecary, Alchemy & Herbs Shop, The Herbal Scoop, Climbing Vines Herbary, Terra Basics, Chelsea Green Publishing, Misty Meadow Herbal Center & Botanical Sanctuary and others. (Discounts are subject to changes.)
•Access to an online Wintergreen Botanicals student Facebook community
•Certificate upon completion (submitting all homework, watching all core class content, reading all core notes)
Classes are affordably priced and include lifetime access to all course materials. Nearly everything is recorded.
There is no deadline to access materials, complete homework, and get your certificate.
*Pre-requisites Required
These series are for intermediate and advanced students only.
The course assumes you already have training in the body systems, materia medica, and remedy techniques covered in the Home Herbalist Series and the Beyond the Home Herbalist Series or similar program. (These pre-reqs are very similar to the content of Maria's book Body into Balance.) If you did not take these programs from Maria, please review the Home Herbalist topics and/or email support@wintergreenbotanicals.com to ensure you have covered these topics.
It is possible to do all three of Maria's live streamed series in 2025 (Home Herbalist in Spring, Beyond the Home Herbalist Series in Summer, and the Advanced Health Concerns Series, it would be a very rigorous course load.
There are NO REFUNDS on course registrations, and we want you to be sure you're ready to jump to this level. If you have NOT already taken Maria's Home Herbalist and Beyond Series, PLEASE MESSAGE US at wintergreenbotanicals.offce@gmail.com with your education/herbal background and questions to help ensure you're ready before you register for the advanced series/module..
Registration
Live Stream Advanced Health Concerns Module
Health Concerns Module COST: $1,200 - register here
OR *BUNDLE IT With the FULL Advanced On-Demand Series! $2000 - details/register here
- limited time! *If you register for the FULL Advanced Series (details here) for $2000, you will receive not only access to the Advanced Health Concerns module but also MANY additional topics, classes, and guest teacher materials recorded classes. This offer is only available for registrations from November 2024 through June 2025.
Course registrations are nonrefundable.
Please read Class Policies and FAQs as well as my article on Becoming an Herbalist
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Making Herbalism More Accessible
Customize-able payment plans available by request with no extra fee (email our team at support@wintergreenbotanicals.com with the best schedule of payments - $ amount and due dates - that works for you). It's preferred that all of the course price (or at least half) is paid before the live series or online access begins. To request and set up your payment plan, please fill out this form.
Limited partial and full scholarships available by request to BIPOC students, folks with financial need, and other traditionally marginalized groups. Please fill out this form if you're interested in a series scholarship.