Herbal Medicine Courses
These courses empower people to work with their own intuition and enable them to easily determine properties of trees and plants.
For those deeply interested in the NZ Native Bush and Wild Plants - practitioners included.
These Herbal Courses are unique courses based on local wild plants and NZ native trees, traditional knowledge and Amy’s 25+ years of experience in the field. Her experience includes both teaching herbal medicine and formulating extensive wild plant preparations, nature education and other healing modalities in Canada, Holland, Costa Rica and NZ. Environmental education and indigenous teachings are core aspects of her approach. She is the founder of Plant Rhythms, which includes ranges of NZ local wild herbs and Native medicinal tree products for our health and wellbeing.
The Apprenticeship covers and is not limited to:
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Herbal Medicine Making
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Herbal Cooking & Wild Plant Nutrition, Recipes
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Materia Medica: looking at chemical constituents of plants
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Modalities of Healing
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Shamanic Journeying
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Principles of Homeopathy & Herbalism
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Wildcrafting & Identification
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Herbal Essences: Intro & Advanced
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Development of Intuitive Trust & Nature Awareness
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Women's Health
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Wise Woman Perspectives
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Women's Cycles
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Working with the Frequencies of Wild Plants/Native Trees
Location: Piha, West Coast of Auckland
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Upcoming courses:
Please refer to the information above.
Courses vary in duration according to location. To secure your spot, please pay the course deposit.
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NORTH ISLAND February 19th - 23rd 2021 Herbal Intensive Herbal Training Certificate. 5 day Immersive Course
Registration Deposit: NZ $300*
Registration Deposit: NZ $300*
Registration Deposit: NZ $300*
Registration Deposit: NZ $300*
The journey, and the process, varies. Plants, by their very nature remind us of Our being state of perfection.
Further Course Information:
2021 Shamanic Herbal Intensive Course - North Island
Held at Waitakere Ranges, West coast of Auckland
Wilderness Rituals
Integration of the Sacred Feminine
February 19th - 23rd 2021
5 day Herbal Intensive
For those interested in further Herbal study we will hold a course with a focus on Hands on Health and Healing and Women’s Herbal Health Cellular Medicine PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS in November.
A fully Immersive Herbal program which will provide you with key tools for life in making your own herbal medicines of all kinds, and much more, including working with the Frequencies and Energetics of Wild and Native plants, Shamanic journeying and Scientific and wholistic aspects. Includes Women’s traditional herbal healing practices. Anyone is eligible to apply. Herbal Training Certificate.
Reconnection Rebuilding Rebirthing
Opening to active creation with Athena crafting a paper and plant immersion with visionary artist Ekarasa Doblanovic.
Being an embodiment of the Earth and a woman who has walked this earth in their knowing with love & clarity.
Practical work with the Goddess essences of the Sacred springs of the Aude region & Montserrat, of France & Spain. We will do Moxa, Clay, Water release rituals, Cataplasm with plants (full leaves).
This is a 5 day and night live-in program.
February 19th - 23rd 2021, 10 am – 5pm, Waitakere Ranges.
Daily wild plant soups & salads are prepared.
Course materials, syllabus etc included.
Total cost: $1,500*
2021 Shamanic Herbal Intensive Course - North Island
Held at Piha, West coast of Auckland
March 2021
6 day Herbal Intensive
A fully Immersive Herbal program which will provide you with fundamental life skills and tools for making your own herbal medicines of all kinds. We will cover much, including working with the Frequencies/Energetics of Native plants, Wild plants, ferns and club mosses etc. We will be doing Shamanic journey work and cover Scientific and wholistic aspects. Women’s traditional herbal healing practices. Anyone is eligible to apply. Those who have completed the Herbal Intensive in March will be given first priority.
Herbal Training Diploma.
This is a 6 day and night live-in program.
March 2021, 10 am – 5pm, Waitakere Ranges.
Daily wild plant soups & salads are prepared.
Course materials, syllabus etc included.
Total cost: $1,800*
Training in Herbal Medicine 2020-2021
Online Herbalism Course. Plant rhythms; Wise woman tradition, Good ethos and foundational herbal medicine knowledge.
Includes course materials, conference calls, plant medicines, syllabus, plant videos to be sent out, may be booked and paid for one Course at a time.
This 8 week program is focused on developing your personal connection with Self and with Plants. Comprehensive course which simply requires presence of being.
This course will strengthen your intuition, will open you to a different state of communication, and provide a good basis for the understanding and ability to make plant medicine.
Herbal Training dates are:
Thursday evenings on skype from
November 19th to December 10th 2020
and then again from February 4th to 25th 2021.
Cost per course: $635
Hands on Health and Healing
Women’s Herbal Health Cellular Medicine
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
August 6th -9th 2021
Open to all
Location: Piha
Course Cost: $1200
Discounted for returning students
HERBAL DIPLOMA IN BIOFIELD THERAPIES available
On the completion of two courses and a thesis to be handed in and presented during the second course.
Case Studies. Perfect for students who have completed the intensive / apprenticeship and online course.
30 case studies to be completed and handed in. Feedback discussions and Foundations going forward with patients.
Future Course Information:
Wilderness rituals
the Sacred Feminine
Mother
Mother Mary & Black Madonna
Piha West coast of Auckland
Dates TBA
Wilderness rituals
the Sacred Feminine
Maiden
Aphrodite & Durga
Goddess focus
Piha West coast of Auckland
Dates TBA
Wilderness rituals
the Sacred Feminine
Wise Crone
Kuan Yin & Hecate
Goddess Focus
Piha West coast of Auckland
Dates TBA
* Full course payment must be in before the course begins. Thank you.
Cancellation Policy
All course deposits are non-refundable. In the event you are unable to attend a course, you may transfer your course deposit to a future course.
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Personal Experiences
"I still think doing your course was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. Putting me in touch with my soul again and the oneness with everything around us."
J., South Island.
"Tena koe Amy
I am happy to provide a course write up from my experiences at the apprenticeship course I attended in 2014. My experience started through pain and suffering I had just had a bad week with tooth ache and "tanked up" on antibiotics from the dentist, which were actually making me feel like......
My life excelled into another world through the Intervention of the spirit and my Tupuna as they directed me to Paihia I questioned why I would want to go to Paihia that particular day, but hearing the quiet voice saying "go to Paihia!" It was to so strong.... I followed through.
Amy you were right there in the doorway of the Paihia hall Our brief conversation and consult not only healed me but opened a pathway to learn and experience the apprenticship course I learnt so much from the course Particularly this, that pain was in fact my allie.
Being able to learn in a beautiful environment with sweet and beautiful people helped me gain confidence and appreciation of the taonga that papatuanuke provides for us all Communicating and connecting with the plants and trees was amazing, learning of their healing abilities and experiencing the group dynamics was fun I continue to make the tinctures and creams
If I could do this course again I would"
Nga mihi
Bella, Northland
"I decided to do Amy McCombs Plant Rhythms Apprenticeship after completing my Naturopathic Degree and it was the best investment I made for myself at the time. I felt that Amy’s course brought me back to my own intuition when working with plants and people and gave me valuable wisdom on how to work on an intuitive level that honors nature and brings a sense of harmony when working with plants.
Amy’s plant knowledge and wisdom when it comes to helping people is inspiring, It helped me to develop my knowledge of wild foods, using plants in my daily life, cooking with wild foods, and learning more about the native species which was an area that i was keen to develop, it was empowering, although I had already practiced some herbal medicine, I felt that Amy’s course made it a wonderful practice that really honored the earth, bringing ritual and ceremony to our work.
I feel that this course has been an important part of my journey on both a personal and professional level. I left my course at Plant Rhythms with not only more wisdom but an incredible sense of sisterhood with all the wonderful people that I met during my time. I would recommend this course to anyone that truly wants to learn about mother earth with a true medicine women”.
LOVE and Gratitude ALWAYS
Fleur, Auckland