Education
2024 Update…
Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine
Rebecca teaches at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine both of their annual programs. Registration for both programs is open for 2024 and is almost full and includes an array of teachers and topics.
If you are ready to begin your herbal journey, then join us!
Veterans Healing Farm
Rebecca is the Director of Plant Medicine at the Veterans Healing Farm in Fletcher, NC, and will be teaching many intro-level herbal workshops at the farm this year. If you would like to volunteer or if you or someone you know is a veteran, please be in touch. The magic of this beautiful farm is abundant and available to everyone!
Akashic Records Education
Rebecca offers classes on accessing the Akashic Records in partnership with Sonya Strange. We have both been mentoring with Deborah Hellman since 2020 and are honored to carry on the tools and teachings passed on to us by this wise elder to share with you. Learning to intentionally open your Akashic Records is a true gift and is accessible to anyone.
Upcoming Events
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Asheville Herb Fest
April 26-28
WNC Ag Center
aurum apotheca will be vending at the regions largest plant + herbal product sale. In its 4th decade, if you’re a plant person, this is NOT to be missed!
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Medicines from the Earth Symposium
May 17-19
Blue Ridge Assembly
aurum apotheca will be vending alongside the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in the Exhibit Hall of the Blue Ridge Assembly. Come see us!
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Wild Herb Weekend
July 26-28
Valle Crucis, NC
We’ll be set up distilling + vending at this sweet little intimate plant conference. You will find many interesting sessions, hands-on workshops and plant walks to participate in!
Additional Herbalism + Distilling Classes
Aromatic Distillation Workshop
August 24, 2024 from 10 am - 5 pm
This distillation workshop is open to anyone interested in learning more about the aromatic distillation of plants and will be held in the aurum apotheca studio in Asheville, NC.
Registration will be through the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and will open soon, so stay tuned, space is limited.
Cordials + Elixirs Workshop
October 13, 2024 from 10 am - 5 pm
More info TBA.
Registration will be through the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and will open soon, so stay tuned, space is also limited.
Distillation + Aromatherapy
Rebecca will be teaching distillation and aromatherapy in the Twin Star School of Herbal + Energetic Studies Foundations of Herbalism Level 1 Training. Registration for this 175-hour certification program is open and includes a stellar lineup of Asheville area herbal instructors.
Mentorship
Rebecca has a private mentorship collective forming for 2024.
This learning circle is the precursor to an annual program that will launch sometime in the future. Each year’s mentorship collective contributes to this emerging body of work. We spend the year connecting with our ancestral lineages, sowing seeds, planting the medicine, tending, loving, harvesting, making, and sharing the plant medicine.
This year we will gather on Tuesdays, beginning in May, in the gardens of the Veterans Healing Farm where Rebecca is the steward of both the plant medicine and cut flower gardens. The medicines we craft will be distributed to our Veteran community and their caregivers and a couple of local shelters as well.
Prerequisites for this mentorship are to have graduated from another herbal school or been an active volunteer on the 2023 VHF Herb Squad. Contact Rebecca to join this group.
We will do a sliding-scale donation model for payment.
*Rebecca is available for private mentorships so feel free to reach out if you’d like to get in the field or the lab with her this year.
Retreats + Events
The now annual Peace, Love, and Yoga Retreat at Green Bell Bed and Barn happens in early March each year in Georgia right when their flowers are bursting.
Capturing the energy and essence of such a special weekend via the plants and alchemy of aromatic magic is a true gift.
If that interests you, join us!
Tune back into this page for updated information on a menu of classes Rebecca is available to teach.
Herbal Medicine is an Art and a Craft
Are you curious about how else to use those plants in your garden?
Are the plants talking to you?
Or are you ready to engage more deeply with the rhythms of nature and plant craft and would like more insight from a professional with 20+ years of experience about how to weave it all together?
The owner and creator of aurum apotheca, Rebecca, would love to help guide you on your plant journey. It is her firm belief that the sharing of knowledge is what builds community and empowers you to create your own rhythms of care guided by the wisdom of the plants.
Schedule a meeting below to get started.