Western Herbal Therapeutics
February 9th – September 14th 2025
1/26/24 – 9/8/24
120 Hour Hybird Training Program
Live Zoom Weekly 2.5 hour classes & 3 In-Person Botanical Field Trips
Learn how to support your health care with herbal therapies. Stay healthy in an unhealthy world!
We’re once again offering an intensive and experiential training to deepen your skills and knowledge as an herbalist with Clinical Herbalist and educator Feather Jones.
Start a new adventure that has been calling you, empower yourself with your own healthcare.
This western herbal therapeutics program provides herbal therapeutics and monographs, constitutional organ system energetics, the stories of the plants as well as hands on instructions for medicine making. Outdoor work includes learning the plants on the hillside, canyon, mountain and desert, mindful and sustainable wild harvesting techniques, and many opportunities to develop one’s own extensive herbal pharmacy. Two field trips throughout the year are included in the program.
Course Overview:
- 120 hour hybrid program
- 65 classroom hours, total, Sundays from 9:00 – 11:30
- Two In-person Botanical Field Trips, 55 hours total
- Herb walks, wild harvesting and medicine making instructions
- Sedona, Arizona Field Trip, June 15 – 19, 2025
- Rocky Mountain Botanical Field Trip, June 28 – July 1, 2025
- Several tuition options available
Enhance Your Herbal Knowledge With:
- Plant Identification ~ Get to know the bioregional plants of the deserts, riparians, canyons and mountains.
- Mindful Harvesting Practices ~ Gain an understanding of sustainable wild harvesting techniques for each plant we gather, ‘tending the wild garden’.
- Materia Medica ~ The stories of the plants: Discover how ancient cultures used them for foods and medicines, folk remedies, pharmacognosy, the science of botanical medicine, clinical practices and common everyday uses.
- Herbal Therapeutics ~ How to apply herbal medicines in specific indications, using formulas and simples.
- Constitutional Medicine ~ An introduction to the foundation of herbal medicine.
- Organ System Imbalances ~ Learn herbal actions for each system, when to tone, when to strengthen, when to stimulate or sedate and when to nourish.
- Herbal Medicine Making ~ Spend time in the kitchen making remedies: salves, tinctures, tisanes, herbal treats and respiratory syrups.
- Herbal Energetics ~ Discover your innate connection to the plants themselves through flower essences and intuitive practice.
Wild Harvesting Botanical Field Trips
Rocky Mountain Botanical, Colorado
June 28 – July 1, 2025
Camping in Lyons (north of Boulder) at a private permaculture farm. This 4 day camping trip that begins at 8:00 am on the 28th includes daily caravans to different plant zone communities on the front range of the Rockies with hands on instruction on mindful wildcrating and opportunities to develop an extended herbal pharmacy. Selected monographs included.
Classes with Feather Jones
Registered Herbalist, AHG
Feather is a Certified Clinical Herbalist in Western Herbalism who integrates herbal remedies, holistic nutrition, flower essences and stress reduction guidance. Her 40 year career in teaching herbal medicine and clinical practice, coupled with a background in Native American (Mandan) tribal teachings, provides her clients and students with a synergistic approach to health and healing.
Presently she is a Botanical Field Guide for the Sonoran University of Health Sciences. As well, Feather was twice past president for the American Herbalists Guild and is currently on the Admissions Review Advisory Committee.
An international lecturer, teacher and author, she is a strong animal rights activist and voice for the wild plants. Feather’s love of the land has kept her close to the earth, she is an avid hiker and spends most of her free time exploring off trail to hidden ruins, magical side canyons and red rock overlooks of Sedona.
February 25th – September 8th 2025
120 Hour Hybrid Training Program
Students must attend all classes to receive a Certificate of Completion.
How the hours are broken down
65 classroom hours, 2.5 hour classes every Sunday mornings from 9:00 – 11:30, with occasional weeks off for holidays.
Sedona Arizona High Desert Botanical Field Trip~ 24 hours
Rocky Mountain Botanical Field Trip~ 24 hours
Tuition Options
| Tuition Options | Price | |
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| Full Tuition (A Savings of $280) |
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| Full Year | $2800 | Pay Now |
| Half Year Tuition (A Savings of $230) |
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| Half 1 | $1430 | Pay Now |
| Half 2 | $1430 | Pay Now |
| Quarterly Tuition (A Savings of $180) |
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| Q1 | $730 | Pay Now |
| Q2 | $730 | Pay Now |
| Q3 | $730 | Pay Now |
| Q4 | $730 | Pay Now |
| *Field Trips Are Included In The Yearly Course Curriculum But May Be Purchased Separately | ||
| Field Trip #1, Sedona, Arizona | $600 | |
| Field Trip #2, Rocky Mountain Botanical Field Trip, Colorado | $600 |
Course Level 2 Field Trips 2026 Dates are to be determined
| Tuition Options | Price | |
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| Field Trip #1, Chiracahua Mountains, Cave Creek Field Trip, Arizona 2026 | $300 | |
| Field Trip #2, Durango, Colorado Southern Rockies Field Trip, Colorado 2026 | $300 |
Several Tuition Options Available
| Full Tuition 11 Classes Full Year, $1500
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| Half Year Tuition Half 1 $775
Half 2, Due May 10th |
| Quarterly Tuition Q1 $400
Q2, Due March 10th Q3, Due May 10th Q4, Due July 10th |
| *Field Trips Are Included In The Yearly Course Curriculum But May Be Purchased Separately |
| Field Trip #1, Boyce Thompson Southwest Arboretum Field Trip, Arizona April 20-21, 2024 $300
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| Field Trip #2, Rocky Mountain Botanical Field Trip, Colorado June 25-28, 2024 $500
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| Field Trip #3, White Mountains Root & Berry Field Trip September 9-10, 2024 $200
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Course Level 2 Field Trips are Also Available
| Field Trip #1, Chiracahua Mountains Field Trip, Arizona October 17-18, 2023 $250
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| Field Trip #2, Durango, Colorado Southern Rockies Field Trip, Colorado September 19-21, 2024 $250
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