Wise River Herbals

Wise River Herbals is celebrating 2008 as the
'Year of Gardening for Health, Cultivating Wellness'
at D Acres of New Hampshire!

Unless otherwise noted, classes and events are held at D Acres Organic Farm, 218 Streeter Woods Road, Dorchester, NH 03266.  D Acres members receive a 25% discount on Wise River Herbals classes!  

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Upcoming Classes & Events...

New Moon Reiki Share

The FIRST Sunday of every month,  1:30pm  FREE
Are you curious about Reiki energy healing, and want to give it a try?  Are you a Reiki practitioner looking to share your gifts with others?  Join our circle of Reiki practitioners and community members to welcome this relaxing, restorative energy into your life!  No prior experience with or knowledge of Reiki is necessary.

Introduction to Herbalism: Plant Guided Ways to Wellness

This class presents a way for you to take some simple steps toward holistically living a balanced, healthy life with the help of medicinal plants.  In three sessions, you will meet herbs that help to support, nourish, and balance the systems of the body, discover herbal home remedies for your family’s common imbalances (from a splinter to the flu!), and practice hands-on herbal medicine making techniques.  An optional plant walk will introduce you to edible and medicinal plants of the New Hampshire fields and forests.  Register for one session, or enroll in all three!

I. Herbs for Health: Tonic Herbs to Nourish and Balance the Body
Saturday, March 29th, 2008  1pm-4pm  $25

II. Herbs for Family Wellness: Herbal First Aid and Home Health Care
Saturday, April 19,2008   1pm-4pm   $25

III. Herbal Medicine Making: Hands-On Herbal Remedy How-To
Saturday, May 24, 2008   1pm-4pm   $25

Medicinal Plant Walk with Sarah Hall: Sunday, May 11, 1-3pm FREE! 

Herbs for Women
Saturday, June 21, 2008  1pm-4pm   $25

In today’s world, women are faced with many stresses, physical, mental, and emotional, that are familiar to our grandmothers, and many that are not.  Luckily, the healing traditions of our grandmothers are still with us and are applicable today!  Discover how medicinal herbs can strengthen and support us in our daily lives, and how many can be used as helpful healing agents for a variety of women’s health concerns while sampling wonderful and delicious herbal preparations!

Cultivating Wellness Conference
September 13 & 14, 2008

A celebration of Land Stewardship and Community Wellbeing
in the White Mountains of New Hampshire!  Featuring educational classes, hands-on workshops, field and forest plant walks, and healing sessions with New England holistic practitioners and wellness experts...topics include:

Herbal Medicine ~ Organic Food ~ Energy Healing ~ Yoga
Nutrition ~ Spirituality ~ Massage Therapy ~ Wild Edibles 

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Sorry you missed us!

The following workshops have already taken place...a huge THANKS to all who attended!  Workshops are listed here to let you know what we've been up to.  If you would like to see one of these classes offered again, please Contact Wise River!

Plant Spirit Medicine: Cultivating Wellness Through Communication with the Green Nations
Monday, April 14, 2008 7:00pm
with the White Mountain Dowsers, Starr King Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 101 Fairgrounds Road, Plymouth, NH

In a time of global political instability, corporate control of our medical system, and a societal disconnect from all our relations, there remains a thread connecting us to the ways of the ancestors.  Plant Spirit Medicine is a tradition not only of healing, but also of connecting to the greater whole, that reaches back to the beginnings of human evolution.  For generations, herbalists have connected to medicinal plants on a spiritual level in order to facilitate healing.  Herbal medicine is the medicine of the people; we all have the ability to be our own healers!  Through the ancient art of plant communication, speaking and listening with the heart, we can reveal to ourselves a great green world that welcomes us with open leaves!

*please note: Dowsing School will be held prior to this lecture from 6:00 to 7:00pm!  Please join us if you can!  Beginners certainly welcome.

Wellness Breakfast                                                                                        Sunday, January 6th, 2008                                                                                8:45am: Free Yoga Class with Darcie Shedd                                            10am-1pm: Farm Feast Breakfast Suggested Donation $10 for the all you can eat local farm breakfast!                                                                                                1:30pm: FREE New Moon Reiki Share

Medicinal Herb Preservation

August 4th, 2007

9-12am ($24)

Learn to preserve herbs by dehydration, and preparing medicinal oils and tinctures. 

The Medicine Garden

July 28th, 2007

11am-1pm ($24)

Discover the medicinal herb treasures you can grow in your own New Hampshire garden!  Basic cultivation practices and uses of medicinal herbs will be covered in this outdoor workshop.

Northern Forest Medicinal Plant Walk

June 17th, 2007

11am-1pm    FREE

Learn to identify medicinal plants provided to us by the northern forest!