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Welcome to Green Woman Herbals
& The Gaia School
REGISTRATION FOR THE 2008-9 APPRENTICESHIPS NOW OPEN
New!
Advanced Course now offered for former apprentices!
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Offering courses and workshops in Shamanic and Medicinal Herbalism,
Plant Spirit Medicine, Earth Education, Earth-centered Spirituality, Chakra & Energy Healing, and Shamanic journeying with plant devas and earth spirits.
Courses in Brattleboro, VT and Boston, MA are beginning this fall. Sage recently returned to the mainland from Hawaii where she spent two years studying ethnobotany, anthropology, Hawaiian herbal healing, spiritual ecology, and plant medicine of the rainforest. Currently Sage will be teaching herbal healing apprenticeships and workshops in New England.
The next 9 month 2008 Green Witch Apprenticeships will begin in November of 2008 in Brattleboro, VT and in Boston, MA. To register for the fall apprenticeship, send in a completed registration form to the address provided, or contact us for more information. If you are interested in other classes being offered, or private consultations, please email us your questions.
The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education founded by Sage Maurer in Boston, Massachusettes, has offered a variety of courses and workshops in earth magic and healing over the years in Vermont, Massachusetts, and Hawaii, since 2001. We offer 9 month long apprenticeships in magical and medicinal herbalism, plant spirit medicine, shamanism, energy bodywork & chakra healing, spiritual ecology, and journeying with plant devas and earth spirits. We also offer monthly moon-lodges, meeting at The Green Woman each full moon. Course listings are continually updated, so check out what's new!
The Green Woman is a collective space for herbal education, healing therapies, earth magic, and women's circles that opened in Brattleboro, Vermont in 2003. Contact us for Women's Moon-Lodge Circles, Apprenticeships and Workshops through The Gaia School of Healing & Earth Education, Herbal Consultations, Massage & Bodywork, and Plant Spirit Medicine.
If you are interested in what we offer at The Green Woman, contact us at thegaiaschool@hotmail.com or leave a phone message for Sage at (617)-838-8094. We are now offering private instruction for serious students interested in studying herbal healing and plants spirit medicine. Please contact Sage for more information.
"As herbalists we seek nature's power, the medicine Earth Mother has placed in our hands since the beginning. This is our most ancient medicine. The plants teach us to understand our own bodies as living breathing beings, transforming and changing every moment. Moving with the stars, the seasons, with the rise and fall of the sun and moon, the turning of the earth and the flow of tides. The plants come into our rivers of blood and fluid, sending their energy and power to every cell. Their chemicals dance with ours, soothing our nerves, calming the mind, awakening movement. For every need, there is a plant who can help us. Clear our thoughts, relieve an aching muscle, an upset stomach, a tight heart, open us up to life again.
Nature holds all of the treasures we seek. The drink of enlightenment, our awakening, our nourishment. The teachings of the Earth Mother are what is needed. There is one healer of our bodies and minds. Only one. She is the source of all, the one we go to when we die, the one we spring from when we are birthed into a new life. She is who holds us at night in dream, she is in every tree, each drop of rain, in the winds, in the soil under our feet. In the budding flower, the wet forests, the song of frogs, the quiet moon.
It is her that we seek. One earth, one body, many manifestations of Her. It is her that we find within us, her voice, her wisdom in our minds, her love in our hands. It is her power that we call from deep within us. To grow as the plants, to transform our own bodies, heal and die as nature does. To listen and speak as the trees do, in constant silent communication. It is her harmony and balance that we re-learn in our own lives. Her changing pace from dormancy to ripening, returning to the source, and beginning again. This is our natural rhythm, our internal dance.
Earth Mother, bless me to be present today, to the magic of life as it is unfolding, perfectly, and with immeasurable beauty. May all awake to your presence within and around them."
- Sage L. Maurer, 2007
The Plant Medicine Sutra
by Robert Schrei
"Thus I have heard. That night the bodhisattva awoke and found herself surrounded by vines, branches, flowers, roots, sap, essence of the plant world, and the wildness of nature, all supplicating her for a teaching... The bodhisattva spoke: It is you, not I who needs to speak; it is you, it is your voice that is needed to awaken the self-centered human species to the vast web of live and love and awareness that is the intimate birthright of us all. Your sap, your juices, your fibers, your chemistry. We ask that all of you speak through and to our species, blood and bone, in a language that is unmistakable, unfettered by the intellect we have come to value so highly.
Speak to us of our interconnectedness, teach us how to hold each other in love, teach us how to experience our own primal essence, true nature, teach us how to know the essence of each sentient being, trees, grasses, rocks, mountains, stars, clouds, aminals, insects, spirits, other realms of existence. We have lost our connection and wander here and there without center, unaware of the web that you sustain...
Teach us how to enter the stream, the stream of vows, the stream of wishes, the stream of the hearts and minds of our ancestors... We bow before you and ask your blessings."
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