Wildcrafting Plant Spirits Energy Medicine
Course Overview

York Community College offers the Wildcrafting Plant Spirits Energy Medicine course, an immersive program designed to deepen students’ connection to Plant Spirit Medicines and Tree Energies. This course prepares students to tap into the healing properties of plants and trees, using their natural environment as a source of energy medicine. By exploring journaling, meditation, and identification techniques, students learn how to heighten their awareness and become grounded practitioners of energy medicine.
Course Overview:
Students will learn to engage with Plant, Tree, and Nature Energies through a series of hands-on activities, including:
- Making smudges, room clearing sprays, Florida Waters, essences, and segueros for the Chakras and the Five Elements.
- Collecting local plants and trees during nature walks through the Wooded Pathways and Fields surrounding York Community College campuses.
- Developing both physical and intuitive senses to connect more deeply with the environment.
- Understanding how nature and the physical body interact to create healing and release psychosomatic blockages.
This course serves as an excellent complement to herbal healing or holistic nutrition training. Students can also pair this course with Floral Essence Acuchi Jin Shin for a more comprehensive approach to Energy Medicines.
Learning Objectives:
- Connect with Plant and Tree Spirits: Learn how cultures have adapted Plant Spirit Medicines over millennia to improve well-being.
- Sensory Activation: Develop physical and intuitive senses to stay present and grounded, fostering a deeper connection to nature.
- Create Natural Remedies: Gain practical skills in making traditional remedies such as smudges and essences from locally gathered plants.
- Explore Holistic Healing: Understand how communication with plants can release emotional, mental, and physical blockages that lead to illness.
Benefits of the Course:
- Learn to incorporate the rhythm of Plant Spirits into your holistic healing practices.
- Discover how the natural world can aid in emotional, mental, and spiritual balance.
- Enhance your holistic toolkit with energy medicine techniques rooted in nature.
Course Fees:
- Cost: $525 (includes manuals and supplies)
This course is part of the PTIB Approved Certified Holistic Health & Shiatsu Practitioner (CHHSP) Diploma Program and offers credit toward the Energy Medicine component of the diploma. It is an ideal addition for those pursuing a career in herbal medicine, holistic nutrition, or energy work.
This program does not require approval by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Regulatory Unit (PTIRU) of the Ministry of Post Secondary Education and Future Skills. As such, the registrar did not review this program.