Study Herbs, Ayurveda & Wellness in Santa Cruz
Upcoming Events & Workshops
Summer Skincare: Making Sunscreens, Floral Waters, Cooling Serums, and More!
Learn to protect and renew your skin this summer as you create your own sunscreens, cooling serums, and floral waters. You will combine organic oils, butters, herbs, and zinc oxide to make an amazing sunscreen. You will create fragrant, soothing floral waters that can be spritzed on to cool you down after a hot day. For those summer days when you’ve had a bit too much sun, you will learn about Jackie’s favorite after-sun serum to rehydrate and replenish your skin. You will go home with your three natural products, perfect for your summer skin care, and the skills and knowledge to continue making them for many summers to come!
All materials and supplies are provided in class.
May 9th, 2-5 pm
Cabrillo College Campus
$75
Handcrafted Herbalism
Making herbal products is not only simple and affordable, but most importantly it’s fun! This dynamic hands-on course will provide you with the necessary skills to become confident in traditional herbal practices. Your time in class will be divided into discussion and herbal creation.
As you dive into the art of herbalism you will learn extraction methods to make a wide variety of herbal remedies such as decoctions, infusions, tinctures, salves, lotions, herbal oils, ghee, syrups, and throat sprays. During your first class, you will start the hands-on lab with tinctures and herbal oils. The slow extraction process will take place over the course of the 21 days between classes as you monitor your herbal remedies. When you return the following month you will strain our herbal remedies and convert the tinctures and herbal oils into syrups, throat sprays, salves and lotions.
You will have products to take home, formulation worksheets, and the knowledge necessary to expand on your own. Discussion topics will include formulation, dosages, and healing properties of herbs. This class is geared towards all levels, no prior experience is necessary. The goal is to help you learn how to select good quality herbs and produce high quality herbal products for common health ailments to improve your wellness, and for friends and family as well!
Class size is limited, so register early!
Cabrillo College Campus
$207
Ayurveda - What It Is and How It Can Help You
Have you wondered what the best diet and lifestyle is for your unique mind and body type? Ayurveda (Ayur = life, Veda = science or knowledge) is a personalized approach to health, and a functional life science. It can help you discover how to improve digestion, eat the right foods, get better sleep, and feel more energetic throughout the day by focusing on the diet and lifestyle that is optimal for you. One size doesn’t fit all!
Learn the foundations of Ayurveda, discover your unique mind-body type that you were born with, and understand how to remove root causes or triggers that contribute to you not feeling your best.
This class is geared towards all skill levels, no prior experience is needed. You will go home with the knowledge and skill to make dietary and lifestyle choices that will benefit your unique mind-body type and overall quality of life!
Aug. 2nd, 3-5 pm
Cabrillo College Campus
$68