We’re honored and grateful that almost 2000 participants joined us online for the 15th Annual IHS. This includes over a hundred complimentary enrollments for past and present IHS teachers, sponsors, and guests – as well as full scholarships for 430 participants. More individuals have been able to access teachings than ever before! At the same time, we’ve deeply missed getting to gather with you in person – which is why we’re very excited to share that the 16th International Herb Symposium will be a hybrid event — taking place both online and in person at Wheaton College campus in Norton, MA, on June 9-11, 2023!

 

Make sure to sign up to the veterinary track to support the VBMA speakers, and to receive 42 hours of CE granted by IVAS. There are some amazing teachers at this conference...check them out here:

 

https://www.internationalherbsymposium.com/16th-ihs-teachers/

 

The full IHS schedule is below. You can also view it HERE.

 

THURSDAY

6:00 – 10:00 - Registration for Pre-Conference Intensives and early arrivals. Note that dinner will not be available on campus. Be sure to have a good meal before arriving.

 

7:30 -  Film Viewing — Early arrivals are invited to Join us for a special showing of an amazing film chosen from the IHS Film Festival.

 

 

 

FRIDAY

7:30 – 8:30 - Breakfast

 

7:30 – 12:00 - Registration

 

9:00 – 12:00 - Pre-Conference Intensives

• Medicinal Mushroom Extractions and Formulations, Tradd Cotter
• Modulation of the Animal Microbiome with Diet and Herbs, Rona Sherebrin (Vet Track)
• Master Plants Uses as Physical Spiritual, Social Beverages, Rocio Alarcon G.
• Incense, Resin, Mucilage and Oil-bearing Trees of the Neotropics, Jonathon Miller Weisberger
• The Herbal Stories of Life and Death and Everything In Between, Anya Tyutyunik

 

9:00 – 12:00 - Special Herb Walk with Betzy Bancroft: Biodiversity of the Edges

 

12:00 – 1:00 - Lunch

 

1:00 – 2:00 - Opening Ceremony

 

2:30 – 4:00 - Workshop Session

• Hemp Product Marketing: Complexities and Best Practices, Asa Waldstein
• Cultivating a Useful At-Risk Medicinal: Yerba Mansa (Anemopsis californica), Benjamin Zappin
• Treating Late-Stage Lyme Disease: Western Herbs and Chinese Medicine, Brendan Kelly
• A Case Review: Polycystic Kidney & Chronic Kidney Failure, Chanchal Cabrera
• Medicinal Mushrooms: the Essential Guide, Christopher Hobbs
• Biodiversity and conservation of Rare, Endangered and Threatened medicinal plants of Western Ghats Of India, Dr. Raviraja Shetty G
• Seasonal Rhythms: Five Elements Lifestyle Medicine, Jiling Lin
• Generalities of Reading the Body, Margi Flint
• Rituals of Hope in Ancient Greece, Maria Christodoulou
• Nine Favorite Herbs from the National Geographic Herbal, Mimi Prunella Hernandez
• “The Medicinal Magic of Functional Mushrooms for Pets”, Rob Silver (Vet Track)
• How to Grow Your Own Herbs and Make Products, Ruby Daniels

 

2:30 – 4:00 - Plant Walks

• Midsummer Medicines, Jim Mcdonald
• A Walk With the Healing Spirits of the Plants, Andrea and Matthias Reisen

 

2:30 – 6:00 - Intensives

• Landing the Leap from Herbalism Student to Practitioner, 7Song
• Plant Allies for Emotional Resilience – Tending to the Garden of Grief, Emily Ruff
• Beneficial Herbal Medicines at an Integrated Free Clinic, Erika Galentin MNIMH, RH (AHG)

 

4:30 – 6:00 - Workshop Session

• Soul Healing with Sacred Oils, Cathy Skipper
• Puerto Rican Food as Medicine, Brandon Ruiz
• Herbal Treatments for Neonatal Conditions, Cynthia Lankenau (Vet Track)
• An Herbalist in a White Coat: Effective Herbal Remedies for Common Complaints in a Low Income Primary Care Clinic, Ingrid Bauer
• Plant Family Patterns: The Key to See, Marc Williams
• Holistic Herbal Practice, Matthew Wood
• Intestinal Gardening, Mindy Green
• The Plants Don’t Lie – Our teachers, our Truth, our Connection to Mother Earth, Nathan Wright
• The World of Aloe, Olatokunboh Obasi
• Kvatrna Baba- the Fierce Deity of Rest, Rachel Budde
• Botanically Speaking, Steven Yeager
• A Deep Dive Into Cannabis & Pain Relief, Tammi Sweet
• Enhancing Bioavailability of Plants through Spagyric Preparation, Warren Kistenbroker

 

4:30 – 6:00 - Plant Walk

Discovering our Wild Plants ~ Edible and Medicinal A Wild Weedy and Wonderful Common Plants.

Edible and Medicinal Uses of our Common Wild, Weedy and Wonderful Plants, Rosemary Gladstar

 

6:00 – 7:30 - Dinner

 

7:30 – 9:00 - Evening Program

• Emcee of Gathering – Amikaeyla Gaston
• Ethnobotany, Conservation and the Search for Rainforest Healing, Mark J. Plotkin

 

 

 

SATURDAY

7:00 – 8:00 - Early Morning Activities

 

7:30 – 8:30 - Breakfast

 

7:30 – 12:00 - Registration

 

9:00 – 10:30 Workshop Session

• The Dirty Dozen – Knowing Your Roots, Andrea and Matthias Reisen
• Wild Woman Body Care, Anya Tyutynik
• The Digestive System Connected to the Nervous System, Betzy Bancroft
• Kava (Piper methysticum) Trade Update, Bill Chioffi
• Herbal Accessibility and Culturally-Relevant Herbalism, Brandon Ruiz
• Understanding COVID and long-haul COVID, Brendan Kelly
• Yerba Mansa, Myth and the Dark Goddess, Cathy Skipper
• Magical Mushroom Medicine, Christopher Hobbs
• Other Ways to Take Herbs: Let’s Make it Tasty, Constance DiNatale & Jamie Moran (Vet Track)
• Brain Pain, the Challenge of Migraines. The Herbal/Nutritional Treatment of a Chronic Neuro-vascular Disorder, David Winston
• Ex-situ conservation and education towards conservation of endangered medicinal plants, Dr. Raviraja Shetty G
• Drop-pulse testing, Margi Flint
• Edible and Medicinal Mushroom Identification, Tradd Cotter

 

 

9:00 – 10:30 - Plant Walk

Ethnobotany Plant Walk, Rebecca Beyer

 

9:00 – 12:30 - Intensives

• GMP Manufacturing & Marketing Compliance Workshop, Asa Waldstein & Steven Yeager
• Best Propagation & Growing Practices for your Favorite Medicinal Botanicals, Edward J Fletcher
• Calming the World: The Ethnobotany of Ritual, Kat Harrison & Rachel Budde

 

11:00 – 12:30 - Workshop Session

• The Copal incense aura cleanse, and making of soho manë resinous incense log of the Siekopai indigenous people of the upper Amazon, Jonathon Miller Weisberger
• Deep Medicine and Inflammation–How Health is Tied to the Human Condition, Kat Maier
• The Botanical Path to Radiant Skin, Mindy Green
• Indigenous Herbal Teas of the Great Lakes, Nathan Wright
• Elemental Poetry, Olatokunboh Obasi
• Meet the Plant: The Amazing Universe of Cannabis for Pets, Rob Silver (Vet Track)
• Strengthening your Immune System & Herbal Alternatives to Antibiotics, Robin Rose Bennett
• Plant Allies for Radiant Well Being ~ The Amazing Adaptogens & Tonic Herbs, Rosemary Gladstar
• Herbs of Appalachian Mountains, Ruby Daniels
• Enhancing the Edibility of Northeast Landscapes with Native Species, Russ Cohen
• Distillation of Honey Spirits – Fermentation & Distillation Techniques, Warren Kistenbroker

 

11:00 – 12:30 - Plant Walks

• Temperate Woody Ethnobotany, Marc Williams
• Myths to Magic Plant Walk to Ancient Greece, Maria Christodoulou

 

12:30 – 2:00 - Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:30 - Workshop Session

• Inclusive Male Reproductive System, 7Song
• Leveling Up: The transformative power of perimenopause, Camille Freeman
• Microdosing and Topical Medicinal Applications of Amanita muscaria (“Muhomor”), Irene Dubin
• Herbal Wellness From Field to Function, Jane Hawley Stevens
• Herbs and Neurological Wellness for Aging Brain, MS, ALS, and Parkinson’s, Michael Friedman ND
• Botanical Sanctuary Dreamer, Mimi Prunella Hernandez
• Sacred baths using aromatic and sweet plants., Rocio Alarcon G.
• Integration of Herbal Medicine into Veterinary Practice, Rona Sherebrin (Vet Track)
• Propagating Native Edible Plants from Seed, and Adding Them to Landscapes – a ‘Hands-on’ Session, Russ Cohen
• Passion for botanicals – Striving for an organic world., Saad Admani
• Herbal Therapeutics for Fatty Liver Disease, Sajah Popham
• Please! Can I Go The F$CK To Sleep?!!!, Tammi Sweet
• Connecting to our Roots: Rekindling our Healing Relationship with the Plants, Taylor Rae Tate

 

2:00 – 5:30 - Plant Walk

The Wonders of Wayside Weeds, Jim Mcdonald

 

2:00 – 5:30 - Intensives

• Integrative Pharmacology: Mental Health, Benjamin Zappin & Ingrid Bauer
• Twenty-Two Basic Herbs; an Herbalist’s Toolbox, Matthew Wood

 

4:00 – 7:00 -Special Playshop

 

4:00 – 5:30- Plant Walks

• Shinrin Yoku – A Forest Bathing Walk, Chanchal Cabrera
• Writing from the Roots: Journaling Practices for Herbalists, Jiling Lin

 

4:00 – 6:00 - Workshop Session

• Sustainable organic Natural Soul Perfumery workshop, Gabriel Mojay
• Aphrodisiac Herbs for Sensual and Sexual Empowerment, Kimberly Gallagher

 

4:00 – 6:00 - Play Thyme

 

4:00 - Herbal Products Contest

 

4:20 – 5:20 - Lessons from the First Golden Era of the Cannabis Pharmacy, 1830-1937, Don E. Wirtshafter, J.D.

 

5:30 – 7:30 - Dinner

 

7:30 – 9:30 - Another Magical Evening featuring

• Emcee of Gathering – Amikaeyla Gaston
• The History of the International Herb Symposium, Rosemary Gladstar

 

9:30 – 11:30 - Dance the Night Away at the Herbalists Ball

 

 

 

SUNDAY

7:00 – 8:00 - Morning Activities

 

7:00 – 8:30 - Breakfast

 

9:00 – 10:30 - Workshop Session

• Reflections-40 Years of Farming, 30 Years of Growing Medicinal Herbs, and Still Looking to the Future of Small Scale Growing, Andrea and Matthias Reisen
• The Herbs and The War, Anya Tyutyunik
• Marketing Claims & Strategies: Pitfalls to Avoid, Asa Waldstein
• Supporting Communication Between Herbalists and Allied Health Professionals, Benjamin Zappin & Ingrid Bauer
• Caribbean Herbal Medicine, Brandon Ruiz
• Understanding the Roots Causes of Cancer: Chinese Medicine and Western Herbs, Brendan Kelly
• Ethical Promotion: Sharing your work without selling your soul, Camille Freeman
• Healing Trauma with High desert plants, Cathy Skipper
• The Medicine of Thuja and Pawpaw, Chanchal Cabrera
• The Age of Anxiety, Herbs, and Food-Medicine, Christopher Hobbs
• A Dive into Distillation with a Focus on Using Hydrosols in Animals, Constance DiNatale & Jamie Moran (Vet Track)
• The Celestial Garden- Astrology in the Garden Today, Jane Hawley Stevens
• Seeing the Horizon and Looking Back, Margi Flint
• Indus Valley Rose Sustainability Project (IVRSP): Ethically Reviving Roses of the Indus Valley!, Saad Admani

 

9:00 – 10:30 - Plant Walks

• “You Say Tomato and I Say Tomato” – Let’s Call the Whole Thing a Herb Walk! ~ with Professor Pigtail and the Botanical Bard, A.K.A. Autumn Summers (US) and Gabriel Mojay (UK), Gabriel Mojay
• Wild Edibles Walk, Russ Cohen

 

9:00 – 12:30 - Intensives

• The Ten Tastes – The Energetics of Herbs, David Winston
• The precarious Nature of Ayahuasca and an introduction to my book Rainforest Medicine: Preserving Indigenous Science and Biological Diversity in the Upper Amazon (published by North Atlantic Books 2013), Jonathon Miller Weisberger
• Emerging Botanical and Mycological Therapeutics for Veterinary Patients, Rob Silver (Vet Track)

 

11:00 – 12:30 - Workshop Session

• Functional Fungi and Fun Food Formulas, Bill Chioffi
• Preservation, Propagation and promotion of cultivation of medicinal plants: Participatory approach, Dr. Raviraja Shetty G
• Pharmaco-energetics and Phyto-prevention: Keys to our Herbal Future, Gabriel Mojay
• Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy and Integration in Group Settings, Irene Dubin
• BIPOC Tea Talks, Jiling Lin
• heartfelt herbcraft, jim mcdonald
• Mugworts Around the World: The Genus Artemisia and her many roles, Kat Harrison
• Energetic Herbalism: Understanding the Elements of Plants and Humans for Health, Kat Maier
• Practical Tips for Integrating Herbs into Your Family’s Diet, Kimberly Gallagher
• Ancient Plants of Celebration and Joy, Maria Christodoulou
• The Speech of Nature, Matthew Wood
• Herbs in Clinical Practice, Childhood Trauma, Autism, Hematological Disorders, COPD, Hyperthyroidism, Arrhythmia, Congestive Heart Failure, Michael Friedman ND
• Midwest Mushroom Medicines, Nathan Wright
• Top 10 Herbs (Singles and Formulas) for Integrative Veterinarians, Rona Sherebrin (Vet Track)

 

11:00 – 12:30 - Plant Walk

Plant Walk around Wheaton College, 7Song

 

12:00 – 1:30 - Lunch

 

1:30 – 3:00 - Workshop Session

• An Ancient Syndrome (Gu) to treat recalcitrant Chronic disease, Cynthia Lankenau (Vet Track)
• Indigenous Wisdom: The Way to Wellness, Olatokunboh Obasi
• Faronika the Fish: The Liminal Realms. Plants for states of being., Rachel Budde
• Hildegard von Bingen’s Herbs, Rebecca Beyer
• Everything is Medicine – Herbal Medicine in Your Kitchen and Spice Rack, Robin Rose Bennett
• Spiritual Co-Evolution Between Hummingbirds, Plants, and People, Rocio Alarcon G.
• A Cup of Calm ~ Herbal Allies for Emotional Well Being, Rosemary Gladstar
• Herbs that were Important to Enslaved African Americans, Ruby Daniels
• Mars, Systemic Inflammation, Burnout and Immunity, Sajah Popham
• The Weight of Stigma, Taylor Rae Tate
• Down the Rabbit Hole: Medicinal Mushrooms and the Future of Fungi, Tradd Cotter
• Magic Mushrooms – Extraction Methods and Micro-dosing, Warren Kistenbroker

 

1:30 – 3:00 - Plant Walks

• Biodiversity of the Edges, Betzy Bancroft
• Botanically Speaking (Plant Walk), Steven Yeager

 

3:30 – 4:30 - Closing Ceremonies