Need to Know
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Who is this course for?Everyone -
Course length (start & watch when you want)1 hours of video content -
ExtrasLifetime access · Certificate of completion
Meet your course instructor
Seraphina Capranos | Herbalist, Classical Homeopath
Seraphina’s European grandparents first introduced her to the healing power of natural medicine. While seasonally gathering herbs in rural Ontario, Canada they lovingly taught her about the traditional wisdom of herbs and plant lore. After suffering an injury to her spine as a teenager, Seraphina was declared by the conventional medical system to lead a life of suffering in chronic pain. Determined to heal herself, she returned to her roots and began a professional study of natural medicine at Emerson College of Herbology leading her to study with renowned herbalist Susun S. Weed at The Wise Woman Center in NY and then healers in the desert of New Mexico. She attended the University of Toronto while working with an inspiring MD who practiced homeopathy, revealing to her the brilliance of this unique and deep system of medicine. The combination and expertise of her two passions of herbal medicine and homeopathic medicine make Seraphina a gifted holistic practitioner. She brings the balance of university education in science and the magic of what wildlands and mystics have taught her to each of her classes and clients. She lives on Salt Spring Island where’s she’s had a clinical practice since 2005. She teaches herbal medicine, homeopathy & earth-based magic internationally. As an educator, she is passionate about offering empowering, heart-centered classes that are rooted in spirit. She gives thanks to all her teachers, namely Michael Vertolli (Emerson College 1998) Susun Weed, Aviva Romm, Murray Feldman, Susan Gimbel, Laurie Dack, Lianne South, Louis Klein, and the old authors of homeopathic texts from the 1800s, and the women who kept recipes alive in the stillroom books.
Course description
Discover how to plant & gather your herbs in alignment with the seasonal & astrological shifts with Seraphina Capranos, Herbalist & Homeopath. Create nourishing plant partnerships and learn to communicate with gratitude to the plants that take care of all of us.
In this class, Seraphina covers:
How to foster a deep relationship with plants.
The Gaelic wheel of the year in connection to growing and harvesting herbs.
The best times to harvest flowers, stems, leaves, and roots, berries, bark, and more.
How to work with the sun and moon cycles when growing and gathering plants.
Harvesting plants is a timeless tradition that connects us to the cycles and seasons of nature. Such a simple practice. allows for the profound opportunity to feed our families, make medicine, and preserve for the future through seed-saving and recipe keeping. These are practices our ancestors not only knew, but had woven into daily life. Gathering plants from our gardens and the wild spaces surrounding means we must learn their life cycle. At the heart of harvesting for food and medicine is relationship. That is, building a reciprocal relationship with the land. I believe that our role as human beings is to steward the land we call home.
