In Person Learning Opportunity

Tibetan Medicines in a Thangka Illustrating the Blue Beryl Treatise

I'm very excited to be offering a limited number of spaces on a two day course called 'Introduction to Tibetan Medicine for Herbal Practitioners'.

This can be considered a stand alone course to help inform your current herbal practice, or it can be taken as a prerequisite for my future three year 'Apprenticeship Programme'. (Please see the note at the end of this announcement for a bit more outline information on this).

Things you need to know:

The two day introductory course will be ideal for you if you're drawn to deepening your connection with energetic herbalism, holism and a more intuitive way of working alongside your existing strong base of clinically sound herbal practice. It will also resonate with you if you're a herbal practitioner with a background or interest in eastern spiritual teachings (but this is not essential).

The course (or the future apprenticeship programme) will not lead to an accredited herbal qualification. This is one of the reasons why I would like candidates to be already qualified or in the process of becoming qualified as medical herbalists. Having learnt more about how to combine Tibetan medicine with Western Herbal medicine, course participants will be able to safely use their new herbal knowledge straight away in their practices to help their patients.

Dates:

The two day course is being offered on two different date options as follows:

Weekend Option: 27th and 28th September 2025

Mid Week Option: 1st and 2nd October 2025

Location:

The course is based in Somerset at my premises in Queen Camel. Attendance is person only. There's no online option.

Course Content:

Here's an outline of what will be covered:

Day One:

The three humours - the influence of the elements in health and disease according to Tibetan Medicine

Understanding the nature and qualities of the elements of Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Space.

The three humours and their influence on the body in health and illness according to Tibetan Medicine.

The influence of the following on the humours and how we can help our patients to balance this:

Environment

Lifestyle

Diet

Time of Day

Seasonal Influences

Habitual Thought Patterns

Specific Meditative Antidotes to balance each humour

Day Two:

The tastes and potencies of herbs and their elemental makeup

The elemental makeup of the following tastes and how these influence the humoural balance:

Bitter

Sweet

Sour

Astringent

Hot

Salty

Learning how to recognise the different tastes and discussing the main tastes common herbs from within our materia medica.

Understanding the influence of the tastes (and the elements which make them up) on the three humours. Learning how potencies and qualities also affect the therapeutic action of a herb, (it’s more than just ‘taste’).

Examples of herbal topical or simple ingested treatments to help with balancing the humours. We'll learn about how to make and apply one of these for each humoural excess.

Timings:

Teaching, will take place each day 10-4.00pm with an hour for lunch. Please bring your own packed lunch or you can pre-order from the on-site café. Herb tea and fruit provided all day.

Investment:

The course will cost £280.00 to include all course materials and herb teas/fruit.

Application Requirements:

You should be a medical herbalist in practice or a herbal student working towards that. You may also be a therapist qualified in another related health discipline where you're interacting with patients.

Application Process:

If learning this knowledge fires you up and you'd like to learn more and be able to integrate it into your herbal practice, please send me a message through the contact page on here telling me a bit about yourself and why you feel that you'd like to do this two day course. Please outline your previous experience with herbs and herbal medicine, whether you're in practice or currently studying and anything else that will help me to see where you're coming from. If you have a strong preference for having a spot on the weekend option or would need to attend mid week, please mention this too.

I may email you asking for a bit more information or I may ask you to join me on Zoom for a short informal chat so that we can find out a bit more about each other and make sure that we will be a good fit.

I'll notify successful applicants by email and, on the place being accepted, I'll send an invoice for the course fee which will need to be settled in order to confirm the spot.

Places are really limited so not everyone who applies will get a place this year, but I do hope to be able to offer this course again if there's unfulfilled demand.

Cancellation Policy

If, having accepted your place and paid for it, you have to cancel your place through circumstances beyond your control, you'll be able to choose to attend another future two day course that I offer instead.

Some Outline Information About the Future Three Year Apprenticeship Programme:

This will be launched next year and will be centred around combining Western Herbal Medicine and Tibetan Medicine in clinical practice. I'm envisaging that students will attend for four two day in person sessions each year with some online learning sessions in between. Dates, costs and syllabus are still to be confirmed. Places will be very limited.

Other Courses In the Future:

If you're someone who's passionate about herbs and would love to learn about Tibetan Medicine but you aren't a medical herbalist or a herbal student, please know that I'm thinking of you as well. I'm planning to create a similar two day course aimed at those who want to look after their own and their family's health I just can't do it quite yet. Do let me know if this is something that you are interested in.

One Last Thing:

Please remember, these are in person teaching opportunities. There won't be an online option available.

Any Questions?

If you have any other questions, please send me a message and I'll do my best to answer. I want everyone who applies to feel confident that they know what they're getting and that the course is right for them.

I look forward to hearing from you and being able to share this precious and wonderful therapeutic knowledge.

Lucy xx