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I've got some water, a knife, and a backpack.... I'm goin' in.....………
Normally students study the readings, ponder and reply in detail to the questions, and begin to implement and report on the assignments/practices, for around 4 or more weeks’ time, and then send the lesson doc back with the answers, reports and any questions for us inserted in the appropriate places. We always send the lesson doc back with comments on the student sharings and replies to any student questions. We may also ask for further student sharings or efforts. The point isn't to complete each lesson and move on, so much as making sure we go deep enough in our understandings, and have initiated their implementation. Students progress at their own rate of speed. Once satisfactorily completing their chosen Path, they can then choose to sign up for an advanced or other Course Path. There is a suggested donation for each course, as spelled out in the application form. It’s also recommended that students come to the Animá Sanctuary at some point for a Student Retreat or Student Resident Internship, though it is certainly not a requirement. Students wishing for a more demanding and potentially rewarding commitment can apply for potentially long-term apprenticeships at the beginning of or at any time during their Studentship. More information on all of the five Animá student paths and an application is available on the Animá Studentship page. Details on the two Medicine Woman courses are included below.
For Women Only Basic & Advanced Courses Taught By Kiva Rose
There is an emphasis on self-knowledge, service, common sense, personal ethics, sustainable medicine and healing as wholeness. The focus is always on helping the individual to understand and experience every element of learning for themselves, in order to bodily integrate the knowledge rather than being dependent on a system or even memorized facts. The approach is practical and down to earth, keeping to the grass roots foundation of folk medicine and herbwifery. This course is suitable for either beginners or more advanced herbalists who have a desire to fully immerse themselves in the world of healing, herbs and this evolving tradition. It provides a similar foundation in the Medicine Woman Tradition as the Core Path and does not require any other course as a prerequesite. The course can be expected to last for at least a year, and each lesson requires a minimum of a month’s work. The course is still under development and changes and additions will occur to the table of contents as it evolves.
Some Learning Objectives:
• A holistic understanding of healing – of self, others, and earth. • An intimate relationship with the living earth, the healing plants and our selves. A personal knowledge and understanding of the vital force, the anima, that animates all livings things and how it effects healing and wholeness in the body. • Recognition and affirmation of our existing healing abilities, propensities and potentials, and their further expansion, refinement and development. And the development of personal criteria for its honorable application in these times of global struggle, tragedy, transformation, growth and enlightenment. • Learning to develop new abilities, along with the necessary skills and techniques. • A practical and thorough knowledge of healing through herbs, nutrition and lifestyle. • An understanding of herbal energetics, constitutions and plant properties as taught by the Medicine Woman Tradition. • The fundamentals of using the Anima Medicine Wheel as a model for life, healing, energetics, the plants and personal growth. • An understanding of our calling, finding our individual most meaningful purpose, seeing clearly the path of greatest service and living our dream.
Course Table of Contents: The Medicine Woman’s Ways: Fundamentals of the Tradition & Practice • Lesson 2: The Medicine Woman’s Seeds: Origins & Understandings • Lesson 3: Flowers from Stones: Healing & the Life Energy of Anima • Lesson 4: The Creed: Principles, Commitments & Pitfalls of the Medicine Woman • Lesson 5: The Winding Path: The Becoming of a Medicine Woman • Lesson 6: The Flowering: A Return to the Wisdom of Roots, Leaves & Flowers • Lesson 7: Walking the Borderlands: A Medicine Woman’s Role in Society • Lesson 8: Coming Home: Healing as Wholeness
The Medicine Woman’s Wheel: A Hands On Approach to Traditional Western Herbalism • Lesson 9: Nourishing the Life Energy • Lesson 10: The Medicine Wheel: A Dynamic Tool for Healing • Lesson 11: Discovering the Temperatures and Tastes of Herbs • Lesson 12: Primary Properties and Actions of Medicinal Plants • Lesson 13: Body Elements, Organs and Balances • Lesson 14: Basic Body Types & Constitutions • Lesson 15: Practical Diagnostics • Lesson 16: Charting Energetics on the Medicine Wheel
The Medicine Woman’s Roots: Healing from the Ground Up • Lesson 17: Earth, Body & Blossom: An Ecology of Wholeness • Lesson 18: From Dirt & Rain: Real Food, Real Medicine, Real Life • Lesson 19: Weeds & Wild Things: Accessible Herbalism • Lesson 20: In the Pantry: Healing Through Nourishment • Lesson 21: From the Hearth: Food As Medicine • Lesson 22: At the Kitchen Table: Making Medicine With What’s Available • Lesson 23: The Healing Roots of Home: A Journey into Bioregional Herbalism • Lesson 24: Tending the Wild Garden: Gratitude, Sustainability & Giving Back
The Medicine Woman’s Mano & Metate: Tools, Recipes & Techniques • Lesson 25: The Digging Stick: A Medicine Woman’s Guide to Harvesting Wild Plants • Lesson 26: From Grandmother’s Hands: Simpling & Folk Traditions • Lesson 27: Into the Soup Pot: Herbal Synergy & Formulae • Lesson 28: Bitter Brews & Bone Broths: Recipes and Instructions for Medicine Making
29: The Medicine Woman’s Allies: Dooryard Herbs, Common Weeds & Wild Plants
30: The Medicine Woman’s Remedies: Simple Treatments & Gentle Therapeutics
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For Women Only Basic & Advanced Courses Taught By Kiva Rose
“I tell my apprentices that there is no right way to become a Medicine Woman, that we each have our own path to walk. But I also point out the guideposts, the cairns that mark both important landmarks and dangerous pitfalls along the way. I give them my personal knowledge as well as the collective Animá wisdom, not to hem them in or hold them back but to let them loose. It is, after all, easier to navigate the sea once you have learned to sail.” - from The Medicine Woman's Path by Kiva Rose The Medicine Woman Core Path serves as an intimate and often personal exploration of the Animá Medicine Woman Tradition. Students will be given an in-depth overview of the philosophy and spirit of the path while also being provided the skills to practice and personally manifest the Medicine Woman. Tools to embody purpose, honor, clarity, discernment, authenticity, wholeness and a fierce commitment to serve the whole through healing, mediation and example. Learn to walk the Animá Medicine Wheel as a way of moving with integrity, purpose and consciousness, assisted by ancient knowings and new insights. Lessons will be taught through story, instruction, question and assignment, allowing for individual ways of learning by each student and multifaceted representation of each subject. Set apart by its intense focus on the Medicine Woman Tradition, the student can expect to be challenged by the introspection, honesty and exploration required by the course. This is a foundational but advanced training for the aspiring Medicine Woman, a practice and way of life that demands ever expanding awareness, insistent focus, unwavering dedication and an innate need to serve the whole.
The Basic Course Lessons: The Medicine Woman Lesson 1: Medicine Woman Principles & Commitments Lesson 2: The Medicine Woman’s Way: The Meaning & The Path Lesson 3: The Medicine Woman’s Calling: Awakening to Our Passion & Purpose Lesson 4: The Medicine Woman’s Pitfalls: Handicaps, Obstructions & Easy Ways Out Lesson 5: The Medicine Woman’s Nature: Instinct, Wildness and Authentic Being
The Medicine Ways Lesson 6: The Medicine Woman’s Guide: Animá & Earth Lesson 7: The Medicine Woman’s Home: Sense of Place Lesson 8: The Medicine Woman’s Connection: Presence, Balance & Grounding Lesson 9: The Medicine Woman's Power: Awareness, Focus & Self-Knowledge Lesson 10: The Medicine Woman’s Magic: Co-Creating Our Reality & World Lesson 11: The Medicine Woman’s Potential: Intuition, Empathy & Extra-Sensory Lesson 12: The Medicine Woman’s Training: Apprenticeship and Studying Lesson 13: The Medicine Woman’s Arrow: Courage & Honor
The Medicine Bag Lesson 14: The Medicine Woman’s Rattle: An Introduction to Tools & Methods Lesson 15: The Medicine Woman’s Wheel: An Earthen & Personal Cartography Lesson 16: The Medicine Woman's Helpers: Plant & Animal Totems
The Medicine Lesson 17: The Medicine Woman’s Method: Healing as Wholeness Lesson 18: The Medicine Woman’s Pouch: Herbal Allies Lesson 19: The Medicine Woman’s Pantry: Healing Through Food
The Medicine Lodge Lesson 20: The Medicine Woman's Context: Society & Culture Lesson 21: The Medicine Woman’s Hearth: Home and Sacred Space Lesson 22: The Medicine Woman’s Promise: Commitments
The Advanced Course Lessons The Medicine Ways Lesson 1: The Medicine Woman’s Journey: Vision Quests and Rites of Passage Lesson 2: The Medicine Woman’s Senses: Primal Sensation & Sensuality Lesson 3: The Medicine Woman’s Body: Wild Being, Self Acceptance, and Wholistic Sexuality Lesson 4: The Medicine Woman’s Moon: Blood Rituals Lesson 5: The Medicine Woman’s Mirror: Adornment, Self-Love & Beauty Lesson 6: The Medicine Woman’s Dance: Prayer and Devotion Through Sacred Movement Lesson 7: The Medicine Woman’s Rage: Anger, Vengeance & Fierceness Lesson 8: The Medicine Woman’s Cave: Death, Grief and Release Lesson 9: The Medicine Woman’s Bliss: Deep Play Lesson 10: The Medicine Woman’s Walk: Pilgrimages and Places of Power
The Medicine Bag Lesson 11: The Medicine Woman’s Fire: Working with the Elements Lesson 12: The Medicine Woman’s Hands: Creativity and the Essential Self Lesson 13: The Medicine Woman’s Drum: Rhythm & Healing Lesson 14: The Medicine Woman’s Tale: Stories as Medicine and Metaphor Lesson 15: The Medicine Woman’s Dream: Vision, Power Dreams and Manifestation Lesson 16: The Medicine Woman’s Circle: Earth-Centered Ritual and Ceremony
The Medicine Lesson 17: The Medicine Woman’s Mano and Metate: Advanced Medicine Making Lesson 18: The Medicine Woman’s Wings: Trance, Flight and Plant Allies
The Medicine Lodge Lesson 19: The Medicine Woman’s Clan: Sisterhood and the Bond Between Us Lesson 20: The Medicine Woman’s Village: Forming community and forging connection Lesson 21: The Medicine Woman’s Heart: Relationships & Love . . |
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The Medicine Woman Herbal course is designed to provide the student with not only the practical how-to of getting acquainted with traditional botanical medicine, human wellness and the herbs themselves, but also with the knowledge, impetus and support to cultivate intimacy with the plants, self, others and the whole. 
