Welcome,
This project and site was created by and for those on a sincere quest to reconnect, heal, and thrive though these fast changing times. Here you will find access to 3 distinctly different educational & experiential opportunities:
1. Our 3 year Integrative Herbalism Apprenticeship Program and it's community sharing forum - The Hedgerow Hub. Students in this program apply via requesting an application by emailing us at hollowreedholistic@gmail.com There will be a link for more information on this program further on below.
2. The opportunity to learn the unique "Heart - Space" meditation method known as Jyoti in depth. This is a monthly membership for students embarking on gaining the necessary experience and background education to practice guiding others via the Jyoti Method. You will find a link further below with more info on Jyoti and how to register.
For those who are only wishing to sign up to experience a free Jyoti session via group live events then please email us to register at hollowreedholistic@gmail.com
3. For those inspired to learn herbalism and natural healing in a more casual way you can become a monthly subscriber for only $7 CAN per month. Our focus ranges from natural health, nutrition and herbalism / botanical therapy, to learning about wild-harvesting foods and medicines, making effective home remedies, and many other topics related to healing and thriving through these times.
This option involves signing up as a virtual member of our online learning community ~ The Hedgerow Hub This includes access to our blogs, invites to monthly live teachings, and access to dozens of previously recorded meetings as well as selected articles, and videos in our ever evolving Wisdom Vault.
All of these learning and experiential opportunities will include teachings from the Founder of The Hollow Reed School founder Chad Cornell. Chad has been practicing and teaching herbalism / botanical therapy and natural healing for over 20 years.
If you would like to see Chad's bio check out the website www.hollowreedholistic.ca for more info.
The Intention Of This Project
Our school and online community are designed to strengthen our connection both inwardly and outwardly with the earth, our healing traditions and with our true nature and potential as human beings. There are many reasons people come to us to learn. Some are seeking to further hone their practical knowledge as it relates to self care and supporting others. For others, the goal is to find ways that deepen their relationship to essential wild foods and natural medicines.
Others are following a deeper calling to become herbalists, botanical therapists, knowledge carriers, and ambassadors to the gifts of nature we call plants and fungi. As well as other modalities of natural healing and ways that generate vitality well being.
It seems more and more of us are wakign up to the simple reality that without plants humans would have no healthy air to breath, food to eat, medicines, or historically even any clothes or shelter. Not surprisingly, they also provide us with research backed medicine and healing on so many other levels as well. As more and more people are seeking natural methods to heal and thrive we need plenty more well educated and passionate herbalists / botanical & holistic therapists in the field.
The Hollow Reed School
Our school is located in central Canada on the La Salle River, in the Province of Manitoba. We are located on an old Christian monastery ruins heritage site, surrounded by medicinal plants, First Nations sweat lodges, and a Buddhist peace pagoda. This is where we see our clients, teach, gather, and offer the highest professional quality natural remedies to our local community, as well as ship them across Canada. If you want to learn more about our online store and consultation options please check out www.hollowreedholistic.ca
Learn The Jyoti Method
Meditation is often called the "supreme of all medicines" and modern research showing it to be just that. To learn more about the unique Jyoti Meditation Method, or sign up to be involved in the on-going teachings, please click the link below
The Hedgerow Hub - Online Membership Forum
Our inclusive online community forum is designed for those that would enjoy participating in a collective tribe of inspired spirits, focused on building community knowledge, sharing, and caring for our sacred planet and each other.
Our members gain access to live on-line events, blog, school podcasts, and our Wisdom Vault - a carefully selected and growing archive of related podcasts, video links, art, informative articles, and more.
This option is especially perfect if you are longing to study and learn herbalism but are not yet ready or able to commit to a deeper dive into full Herbalist Apprenticeship Training at this moment.
Lastly, besides supporting this amazing hub through your very low monthly donation of $7 CAN ... all members also receive a 5% discount when purchasing herbs, mushrooms extracts, books, merch, oils and other such blessings either in person or from our on-line natural medicine apothecary. You can cancel anytime!
Integrative Herbalism Apprenticeship Program
We are all completely and totally unique in our calling, the challenges we face, and the gifts we carry. However, there are foundational sciences and strongholds of deep rooted traditional wisdom that we can consider essential to effectively practicing the healing arts.
This is not just another online herbal course. You will be spending quality learning time live with an herbal instructor, Chad Cornell, that has been practicing herbalism successfully for over 2 decades now. Topics range from medicinal plants to fantastic fungi, from chakras and shamanism, Ayurveda, holistic anatomy, TCM nutrition, and emerging modern research regarding human health and herbalism. We focus on how to make remedies, create formulas, and to safely and respectfully harvest from the wild, understanding that the body is a garden, and the garden is a living body.
The world needs more well trained herbalists, and we want our students to grasp the true essence of plant medicine, and how to practically apply natural healing modalities in our lives and the lives of others with confidence, professionalism and authenticity.
A Living Tradition
Integrative Master Herbalist Chad Cornell has created a genuine and highly unique planetary herbalism apprenticeship program. This 3 year apprenticeship program is designed for you to go at your own speed and emphasizes the importance of the student / teacher relationship as the foundation of the living tradition of herbalism. Studying Herbalism is not just about information. It's a journey of deep relationship with the innate intelligence of nature, our planet, cosmos, and ourselves. It's learning timeless methods of non-linear ways of knowing and being that are endangered in our time.
To read some student comments on the program and to learn more about program details please click below.
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