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🌿How to Be a Home Herbalist ✨SOLD OUT✨
🗓 Feb-Sept 🌿How to Be a Home Herbalist ✨SOLD OUT✨
🗓 Feb-Sept 2026 | 📍 Artemis House | 💻 Online + In-Person How to be a Home Herbalist is a comprehensive and inspiring introduction to herbal medicine, carefully designed to guide you on a transformative journey with plants. This blended course brings together decades of herbal wisdom, combining self-paced online reading with in-person practical workshops at the Artemis House clinic and herb garden in the Cotswolds. Whether you are brand new to herbs or ready to take further what you already know, you’ll gain the confidence, skills and understanding to work with plants safely, intuitively and effectively. 🌿The Practicing Home Herbalist 
🗓 Starts March 2026 | 📍 Artemis House New for 2026 The Practicing Home Herbalist is a hands-on series of workshops looking at the wonderful and fascinating world of herbal medicine. We’ll be diving into each system of the body, exploring how to support and treat these systems using herbs, diet, lifestyle changes and using real-life case studies to bring the learning to life. Together, we’ll look at both preventative strategies and natural treatments for common ailments – combining practical herbal knowledge with holistic approaches to health and healing. We will spend lots of time in the garden, picking herbs and making them into a variety of different preparations – and we’ll have lots of fun along the way! 🌿Day Courses
🗓 May / June / November 2026 | 📍 Artemis House Come to Artemis House for the day to find out more about how you can use herbs to support your health. Drawing from both Western herbal medicine and Ayurvedic wisdom, these course will explore the use of herbs, offering you practical tools and natural remedies to build resilience and restore balance. Take the opportunity to walk around the spiral herb garden, visit the dispensary and enjoy a delicious plant based lunch. More information on the website, or via link in bio
Over the last couple of posts I have talked about Over the last couple of posts I have talked about rtucharya, the adaptations we make to keep ourselves in balance through the changing seasons. I now want to share some useful ideas on how we can adapt our lifestyle to the winter climate while kapha is dominant. Eat a light diet with hot foods and regular meals and try to avoid heavy, oily foods and red meats. Avoid overeating, especially at night, don’t eat when you’re not hungry and try not to snack between meals. It’s best to avoid cold foods and drinks altogether. Increase pungent, bitter and astringent foods in your diet and reduce sweet, sour and salty foods such as cakes, potato crisps, vinegar, chips, yeast, cheese, yoghurt, chocolate, and refined sugars and flours. Add warming spices to your cooking such as cinnamon, pepper, long pepper, cardamom and chilli. Drink plenty of warming teas especially freshly grated ginger root and lime juice, celery seed, cinnamon, cardamom, chai, peppermint and thyme. Sweeten with honey if you wish as it is used as a vehicle for herbs to reduce kapha. Expectorant herbs with honey as their vehicle are ideal for clearing excess kapha from the system. My favourite Western herbs are elecampane and thyme, and there are two really useful Ayurvedic formulae that can be mixed with honey, sitopoladi and trikatu. You can also do inhalations of stimulating and decongesting essential oils such as peppermint, cinnamon, clove, eucalyptus and lemon grass, or do nasya – nasal administration of oils including eucalyptus and vacha oil. Let me know how you feel after trying these changes!
Yesterday I talked about rtucharya, the Ayurvedic Yesterday I talked about rtucharya, the Ayurvedic word that means living in rhythm with the changing seasons. It’s about adapting our lifestyle to the climate, our environment, our time of life and the demands of our daily routine. It is when we don’t adjust our diet, habits and pace of life to reflect these seasonal shifts, that maintaining balance and health can become more challenging. Over time, being out of sync with our environment may lower our resilience and make us more susceptible to imbalances or health problems. Like everything else in the universe, the seasons have unique energetic qualities, including hot/cold, wet/dry, heavy/light. As we go through the year, we may notice the different qualities or attributes each season has and how they profoundly affect us. The qualities of the seasons interact with the qualities of the doshas (vata, pitta and kapha) and so different seasons may present challenges for some and benefits for others. This is why some of us dislike the chill and feel like hibernating dormice, while others love the cold and crisp of the winter and feel energised. Kapha accumulates when qualities similar to it (heavy, wet and slow) are prevalent in cold, damp, winter weather, these qualities help us to be quiet and still. Kapha rules the respiratory tract and an excess of similar qualities can increase kapha tendencies to be heavy, inactive and congested. We are all aware of how the cold and damp of winter can make us more prone to catarrh, coughs and colds! If you are out of balance and want to reduce kapha, make sure to take plenty of exercise - specifically vigorous activity which will reduce heaviness. Be open minded and try new things as kapha is resistant to change. If your sleep is excessive and you are always tired, try to set a schedule to get up well before 8am, 6am is preferable, and don’t sleep in the day time! A few simple changes in our diet and lifestyle can have a huge impact on the way we feel, helping to prevent and reverse a whole range of health problems. This is the incredible body of wisdom that is Ayurveda, helping us to stay in balance so that we feel well in mind and body.
I took this video of the herb garden the other mor I took this video of the herb garden the other morning and was struck by its calm stillness compared to the bustle and energy it has in full summer. The New Year often inspires us to make changes to our daily lives, sometimes with challenging resolutions and promises to ourselves to take more exercise, eat better and so on. But we need to remember that we are still in winter, a season that invites us to slow down and conserve energy until the warmth of spring returns - to hibernate really! Ṛtucharya is an Ayurvedic word that means living in rhythm with the changing seasons. It’s about adapting our lifestyle to the climate, the cold, our environment, our time of life and the demands of our daily routine. Over the next couple of posts I’m going to share a little more about adapting our lives to these seasonal rhythms, telling you more about the doshas and their seasons and giving you some ideas of how to support yourself with adaptations to your lifestyle and diet, as well as some useful herbs for you to try. I hope you find this information useful - let me know if there’s anything specific you’d like me to cover! #ayurveda #rtucharya #seasonalhealth
Herbs for Mental and Emotional Resilience 🗓 14th M Herbs for Mental and Emotional Resilience 🗓 14th May 2026 | ⏰ 10am – 4pm |📍 Artemis House Join us at Artemis House for a nurturing and insightful one-day workshop dedicated to exploring herbal support for mental and emotional wellbeing. Drawing from both Western herbal medicine and Ayurvedic wisdom, this course will explore the deep interconnection between mind, body and spirit, offering you practical tools and natural remedies to build resilience and restore balance. Potions and Petals 🗓 16th June 2026 | ⏰ 10am – 4pm | 📍 Artemis House Come and join Anne for a day of discovery as you uncover the untapped healing potential of your own garden. You don’t need to start a medicinal garden from scratch – your garden is already filled with plants and flowers that can be used to support your health. To find out how to open up your garden pharmacy, join us here at Artemis House to investigate the healing uses of commonly grown garden plants. Sage and Snow 🗓 5th November 2026 | ⏰ 10am – 4pm |📍 Artemis House A seasonal workshop for strength, stillness and self-care. As the days grow shorter and the air turns crisp, winter invites us to slow down, rest and turn inward. Sage and Snow is a seasonal herbal medicine course designed to help you meet these colder months with resilience, warmth and vitality. More information can be found on the website, or via the link in bio ⬆️
Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation Year 🗓 Februar Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation Year 🗓 February – October 2026 | 📍 Artemis House | 💻 Blended Online + In-Person Is 2026 the year you study Ayurveda? If so this course is for you! We’d like to invite you to come and explore Ayurveda’s core principles and learn how to care for your unique constitution using this wonderful tradition that’s supported wellbeing for thousands of years. Through self-paced online readings and in-person workshops in the Cotswolds, you’ll discover Ayurvedic and Western herbs, food and lifestyle practices, as well as practical tools to support balance, vitality and emotional wellbeing. All our courses are in small, friendly groups and the workshops include a delicious plant based lunch. Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Further Year 🗓 February – October 2026 | 📍 Artemis House | 💻 Blended Online + In-Person Ready to go deeper into Ayurveda? This course is the natural next step if you’ve completed the Foundation Year, or if you already have a solid grounding in Ayurvedic principles from other courses. We’d like to invite you to deepen your understanding and expand your knowledge of Ayurveda, looking at Ayurvedic anatomy and physiology, how to live a sattvic life, detoxification and the use of both Ayurvedic and Western herbs in the Ayurvedic tradition. You’ll move through monthly, self-paced online readings alongside in-person workshops at Artemis House, weaving ancient wisdom into everyday life. Ayurvedic Continuing Study Workshops 🗓 March – November 2026 | 📍 Artemis House These workshops are open to any of my students who have studied Ayurveda with me for more than two years – and many of you have been on this journey with me for much longer! These are in-person workshops only, with no additional online content, although some topics may be supported with handouts. Each session is themed around one topic; women’s health, the sacred and spiritual aspects of Ayurveda, the treatment of children, mental and emotional wellbeing and rasayana chikita, and you can book as many of them as you would like to attend. More info on these courses is available on the website or via the link in bio ⬆️
Curious about Ayurveda? Begin your journey with th Curious about Ayurveda? Begin your journey with the Ayurvedic Apprenticeship Foundation Year and book before 1st December for the Early Bird price of £1,095. 
Monthly online text based lessons (Feb - Sept) + four immersive workshops here at Artemis House, all designed to help you understand your unique constitution, deepen your connection with herbs and live a healthier and more vibrant life.
 Accessible on all devices, for learning wherever you are. Downloadable lessons for you to keep forever. You can either buy the course online, or contact us to be sent an invoice for BACS payment. #AyurvedaWisdom #AyurvedicLearning #YogaLifestyle #HerbalEducation #MindBodyBalance
How to be a Home Herbalist - Early Bird Offer Ends How to be a Home Herbalist - Early Bird Offer Ends Monday 1st December! 🗓 February – September 2026 📍 Artemis House 💻 Blended Online + In-Person 💷 £1,095 Early Bird 
If you’ve been thinking about joining How to be a Home Herbalist, now’s the moment to take action. This is one of our longer courses, which blends eight text-based online modules (released monthly Feb-Sept) with three hands-on practical workshops here in the working herb garden at Artemis House in the Cotswolds - the perfect place to bring your learning to life. Across the modules we take a look at the information you need to use herbs to support your health: 
🌱 How to identify, grow, collect and store herbs to create your own preparations
🌱 How to make your own tinctures, salves, glycerites and more 🌱The systems of the body and herbs that support each system 🌱Common ailments & practical treatments
 During the workshops you’ll get to practice making herbal preparations in person, as well as spending time in our beautiful herb garden, an incredible living classroom through all seasons. To find out more send us a message, or go to the courses and workshops section of the website in the link above. We can’t wait to see you next year!
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