The Inaugural MidAmerica Herbal Symposium will be held June 6-8, 2008, in Winona, MN, at St. Mary’s University. There are annual gatherings in the Northwest, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast United States. Wonderfully, this year the Midwest joins in the tradition, as it intends to continue each year, featuring all the wonderful herbalists you have come to enjoy at other gatherings.
This year’s Symposium is hosting some spectacular workshops for the beginner to the advanced individual interested in herbal medicine and herbal lore. You can enjoy a peaceful stroll through the woods on an educational herb walk. You can choose and attend classes on various study of herbal medicine. Workshops include: herbal first-aid, herbs and cancer, aromatherapy, body assessment, traditional medicines, herbal medicine making, pregnancy, depression issues, animal medicine, chronic fatigue, type II diabetes, and the list goes on. Seven intensive workshops are being offered additionally. These gifted teachers/authors will be honoring our symposium with book signing on Friday evening and Saturday evening we are going to relax and enjoy an evening of dance.
Among the many wonderful herbalists presenting intensive workshops will be Susun Weed, who will remind us that menopause is far more than modern medicine makes it out to be. Join Susun S. Weed, author of the award winning New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way, as she exposes the myths behind orthodox and alternative ideas about menopause and shares the Wise Woman view: menopause as metamorphosis. She’ll reveal the hidden benefits of hot flashes and sleepless nights, dry vaginal tissues, and mood swings. She’ll show you how easy nourishing herbal infusions make it for you so you’ll be strong boned, hale hearted, juicy, and vital.
Your extraordinary weekend of herbal lore and herbal medicine will cost $230.00. This will include all classes, herb walks and various other activities. Theie is an early bird discount of $30.00, bringing the total to $200.00, if registered in full by April 1st.
Meals will be available for the weekend. Local farmers are supplying us with some very scrupulous foods. A meal ticket can be purchased at a cost of $65.00. This includes seven meals from Friday’s lunch to Sunday lunch. A continental breakfast will be available Friday morning for a fee of $5.00.
Lodging will be in the college dorms with linens and bedding available. Fees are $33.00 per night, 3 nights at $65.00, and 4 nights at $85.00. One and two person rooms are available. These are local hotels if you rather stay off campus.
For more information and to register, visit http://bgfloristnherbals.com/
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative. Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world.
Learn more at www.susunweed.com or contact the Wise Woman Center at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498.
