Rumination is a response to prolonged stress and/or trauma where we experience repeated involuntary and intruding thoughts about past experiences, and in recent years this definition has been broadened to include the same form of circulating thoughts about what may happen in the future. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a significant […]

Right and Left Brain Hemisphere Processing The popular view of the left and right brain is that the left brain is the realm of logic, language and the ‘rational’ mind, whereas the right brain is the realm of emotion and creativity; that we are either left or right brain people; good at one thing or […]

By Amy Hiller (Healing Diets Student) What are toxins and how are we exposed to them? The term “toxin” is thrown around a lot these days without a great deal of thought for what a toxin actually is. While the word is generally used to describe any substance which is harmful to the body, the […]

By Rachel Rudy, Quantum Botanicals Student Cardamom insisted I write this. And those of you who have had a scent irrevocably weave itself into your life will understand what I mean by this. Such is the way with some plants, finding their way to you. I hadn’t even seen cardamom before I knew I needed […]

by Helen Wainwright (Herbal Medicine online course student) Spiritual and Philosophical values of the Native American Tribes For many years, the Native American tribes peacefully wandered the vast and often challenging expanse of the America’s. This was a formidable landscape but one which they were adept at dealing with having migrated down from Asia, to […]

By Bonny Casel, Founder and Director of School of Natural Medicine UK Many of us rush through their daily routine and at the end of the day it is often difficult to remember what it is that we have done, and so our life goes by with a handful of high and low moments, the […]

Student Work I loved this illustration of the digestive system submitted by one of our Healing Diets students. Here she shares the journey of digestion along with all of the organs of digestion in a simple reference. A wonderful example of mind mapping information for gestalt learning.

by Bonny Casel, Founder and Director of School of Natural Medicine UK Over the course of the last few hundred years, medicine has changed significantly from its early roots, emerging with a focus on treating symptoms and diseases with drug protocols and/or surgery, with little reference to the context within which health conditions exist. This […]

by Dawn McGeorge, Herbal Medicine Complete student Walking barefoot in direct contact with the earth has long held a place of beauty in my heart. As a child it was always a battle to get shoes on to my feet and I resisted whenever possible, drawn by an intrinsic connection to the earth and to […]

Healing Diets student, Amy Hiller, wrote a superb article on Bathing for Mind and Body Wellness for one of her free assignments, which I have shared below. There is a free assignment for each lesson in the Healing Diets course, which is provided as a creative and skills building opportunity for students to produce something […]

It is a great pleasure to share some of the beautiful botanical illustrations that we commissioned from school graduate, Elena Ageyeva for the Herbal Medicine online course Materia Medica. Elena’s work on her assignments was exceptional and when she submitted some of her botanical illustrations I knew she was the artist that I’ve long been […]