Events & Courses
Upcoming events
Medicinal forest gardening for your health and the planet: Learn about growing and using trees and shrubs that heal
A one day practical course all about healing trees and shrubs led by Anne Stobart, medical herbalist and permaculture design specialist in medicinal forest gardening. During the course there will be a focus on using perennial and woody plants suited to garden sites or woodland growing. Anne will provide the inside story on her experience in transforming a redundant conifer plantation into a thriving medicinal forest garden. She will discuss practical details of harvesting and the health-promoting recipes that can be made from a range of tree and shrub species.
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Natural Healthcare For Children
This 1 day workshop teaches you natural healthcare for your child and how to make simple natural and herbal remedies for common ailments in children. We will discuss a number of conditions from recurring chest infections, digestive disorders and viruses. You will be introduced to herbs for these conditions and easy to make...
Grow Your Own Medicinal Herb Garden
This 1 day practical course with Ross Hennessy covers all you need to know to grow your own medicinal garden. Here at Ivywood we grow 250 species of medicinal plants to produce medicines for our own clinical practice and our herb nursery. During this course we will focus on a number of plants that are most useful to any household that wishes to have herbal alternatives right in their backyard for common ailments...
Herbalist Practical Herb Growing And Medicine Making Course for Clinical Practice
This 2 day course is for herbal medicine practitioners/ students wishing to gain more in depth knowledge of growing and harvesting specific plants for making medicines for their clinical practice. The days are practical with hands on learning. Participants will learn how to make a range of herbal preparations specific to medical conditions...
Building Immunity For Better health
This much requested 1 day course covers everything you or your family needs to know to support immunity at different stages of life from childhood to older age. We will cover herbal medicine and nutritional approaches to a range of common health conditions from general bacterial infections to viruses...
Menopause: A Dance With The Female Hormones: Preparation For Before, During & After
This 2 day course on for preparation for before, during and after menopause is a collaboration between Marina & Herbalist, Nutritional Therapist and Naturopath Colleen Kennedy from Herbal Healthcare in Westport. Join Colleen & Marina for an in-depth 2 day course to discover all your need to know to bring you through a healthier and happier menopause...
Making Herbal Remedies
This 2 day course is a practical hands on course for the anyone wishing to learn the specifics of making natural remedies for everyday illnesses. Each participant will be making and cooking up their own herbal medicines for a range of conditions from respiratory issues to digestive complaints. This is an in-depth course also covering nutrition and over 25 medicinal plants that can be easily grown or wild harvested...
The Natural Way For Pregnancy Care
This 1 day course teaches you about nutrition throughout the different stages of pregnancy, supplementation, and herbal remedies for a range of simple health issues that arise in pregnancy from chronic constipation to stretch marks! We will look at traditional Ayurvedic and Chinese Medicine approaches to pregnancy care as well as modern natural options...
Joints on Fire: Arthritic and Rheumatic Conditions Uncovered
This 2 day course is a collaboration between Marina & Herbalist, Nutritional Therapist and Naturopath Colleen Kennedy from Herbal Healthcare in Westport. Join Colleen & Marina for an in-depth 2 day course to discover all your need to know about conditions from gout to rheumatoid arthritis.
The prevalence of arthritic issues in Ireland is extremely high and is now effecting people as young as in their 30’s! Our modern diet and lifestyle along with an individual’s constitution are all contributing factors...
Herbal & Natural Skincare
On this 2 day hands on practical course your will learn how to care for and nourish your skin from the inside and out using nutrition and your own herbal homemade beauty products. This course will teach you about the needs of your skin at every stage of life and how to care for it naturally. We will be learning about herbs that are beneficial to the skin and lymphatic system, and how to use them in variety of skincare products...
The Natural Way For Afterbirth Care
We are passionate about supporting women afterbirth! This course teaches you about your nutritional, emotional and physical needs in the 4th trimester. We will cover how to support yourself and your changing body afterbirth with herbal medicine and nutrition. Nutrition for breastfeeding, herbal remedies to manage breastfeeding issues and common ailments seen in babies are all part of this informative course for women wishing to take a natural approach to afterbirth care...
Cleansers for the home
This 1 day course is for anyone wishing to make their own natural cleaning products for their home from common kitchen ingredients, herbal plants, and essential oils. This is a hands-on practical course where participants will be making up a range of cleaning products from surface cleaners to liquid soaps...
Plant Invocation & Attunement Days
For this unique series of plant days, we welcome you deeper into the heart of Ivywood’s magic to explore some of our more beguiling plant allies: Aconite, Mandrake, Henbane, Yarrow, Black Cohosh, Tulsi, Motherwort, Belladonna, Datura, Mugwort, Agrimony, Bay Laurel, Rue. Over the day we will enter communion with one of these mesmerising plants by attuning ourselves with the free flow of energy that is at all times open to us but has often been severed...
GACP - Good Agricultural and collection practices
This 1 day certificate course is aimed at the organic farmer or wildcrafter who wishes to grow/harvest medicinal crops and sell them for processing into Herbal medicines. GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) standards must be implemented for the processing of medicinal plants and GACP is an excellent set of guidelines used during the growing,harvesting and transportation of these plants. GACP insures full trace-ability back to the seed source for each medicinal product...
GUT Health: The Key To Bringing Balance
This 2 day course is a collaboration between Marina & Herbalist, Nutritional Therapist and Naturopath Colleen Kennedy from Herbal Healthcare in Westport. Join Colleen & Marina for an in-depth 2 days to learn how to heal your gut and how this is fundamental to bringing balance to your health. Maintaining gut health is key to helping so many conditions from digestive issues to our mental health. Most of us have experienced digestive discomfort at some stage in our lives...