Islanders! Join our Ethnobotany Intensive on Hawaii’s Big Island – Feb. 13-25, 2013

by Botanical Dimensions on 01/31/2013

ISLANDERS! JOIN OUR ETHNOBOTANY INTENSIVE in HAWAII – Feb. 13-25, 2013.

We have a few spaces open in our unique course. If you live on the Big Island or have a place to stay with friends near Kona, you may join us every day for all activities, instruction and some meals — for a discounted rate of $1700. This is a 12-day intensive that studies all kinds of plants, their uses, and how we humans understand and engage with nature. We will share marvelous field trips and have dynamic discussions about healing, belief and shamanism. You will learn to see your island in a deeper way, making it even more beautiful in your eyes. Please consider joining Kathleen Harrison and Momi Subiono for a life-enhancing learning experience. (Discount rate does not include lodging, breakfast or dinner. Lunches and all field trip transportation will be provided. $500 of your fee is a contribution to Botanical Dimensions, so tax-deductible.) The course begins soon, so do email right away to inquire: info@botanicaldimensions.org — or call 707-874-1531.

Psychedelic Science 2013 – Register now for this excellent conference

by Botanical Dimensions on 12/24/2012

This 5-day event will include dozens of presentations on current research with various psychedelics. Among those are contemporary versions of the traditional visionary medicines used in shamanic healing: ayahuasca, psilocybin mushrooms, iboga root, and others. Highly respected research is ongoing at several American, Canadian, European and Brazilian institutions, and will be represented at this scientific conference. Workshops before and after the conference will focus on specific aspects of this work. On Monday, April 22, Kathleen Harrison of Botanical Dimensions will present on the historical overview of the ayahuasca story.

JOIN OUR ETHNOBOTANY INTENSIVE in HAWAII – Feb. 13-25, 2013

by Botanical Dimensions on 12/10/2012

LITTLE PLANET, BIG ISLAND:

Botanical Dimensions is sponsoring a travel intensive! This course is taught in a botanically-rich place, with lots of living cultural examples to learn from. To be led by ethnobotanist Kathleen Harrison, from Feb. 13-25, 2013. We will all stay together in a sweet, tropical B&B on the South Kona Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.

We are accepting applications now, and if you make your deposit by Dec. 20, you’ll get a $100 discount, so the full cost will be $2,600. (Fee covers lodging, meals, on-island transportation, field trips, and wonderful instruction. After Dec. 20, the full cost is $2,700.) The first $500 deposit is a tax-deductible contribution to Botanical Dimensions, to help support its renowned Hawaiian forest-garden reserve.

Southwest view of the forest-garden, Hawaii

 

We will spend two days up on that private reserve, on the slopes of Mauna Loa. We’ll learn some botany, phyto-chemistry, and to identify plant families. We will discuss the principles of healing, gather plants and make herbal medicines, visit the live volcano Kilauea, eat amazing local foods, have rich discussions. Hawaiian teacher Momi Subiono will teach us some of the Hawaiian ways of approaching sacred nature. Kat will couch our experiences in the global history of the plant-human relationship, revealing how our ancestors tended the wilderness, and how the story of agriculture that has brought us to this complex moment. She will describe and illustrate shamanic healing knowledge from the Amazon, Mexico and Polynesia. Learn to integrate awareness of plant communication and ritual into your daily life. Expect botany, mycology (study of fungi), history, poetry, storytelling, ritual, music and transformation. Plus, we’ll have a great time and you’ll make new plant-loving friends. How can you resist?

This is an interactive course that is open to anyone who is seriously interested in the beautiful, essential web of natural connections.  Email info@botanicaldimensions.org to request an application via email, and make a deposit right here through the DONATE button on this website. Limited to 14 participants. Act soon!

 

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