osadha natural health, llc

In person & distance classes for individuals or groups

Classes, Plant/Mushroom Walks & More

Class Notification List

Please contact me if you’d like to receive the once monthly “upcoming classes & plant o’ the month” email. Be sure to add marija@osadha.com, as one of your contacts so that the notice don’t land in spam/junk mail.

Backyard Botanical Survey

Want to know what’s growing on your land? Contact me for a leisurely stroll to identify medicinal plants and learn what they do, what parts are used, and how to prepare them, along with history and lore.

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1-on-1 Courses of Study

I take on a limited number of individual students for a learning experience tailored to your interests.

In person or distance via Zoom/Skype.
Once weekly to once monthly or something in between
$50 per hour
There is homework for maximizing your learning. We go over it, but it’s not “graded”.

Past students have…

Gone into clinical practice
Created herbal products for marketing
Incorporated herbs into their “main” profession (eg. body work, energy work, etc)
Used what they’ve learned to support the health of themselves, family, friends, pets

Please contact me for more info or to start planning your personalized timing and plan.

Ideas on topics

Basic concepts in herbalism
Materia Medica (meaning, plants/mushrooms/essential oils & their medicinal uses)
Plant/mushroom walks – Identification in the field, uses, folklore, science
Harvesting, processing, & medicine making
Diagnostics – Traditional approaches, constitutional evaluation, reading labs
Formulating
Herbal energetics – Hot, cold, damp, dry, consolidating, dispersing, etc
Clinical case studies – For those who already have 2+ years experience w/ herbalism
Reading & interpreting herbal scientific research
Herb-drug interactions
Herbal safety
Aromatic medicine
Natural perfumery
Interested in something not listed here? Let me know : )

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Upcoming Classes & Workshops

Please note that if you cancel your registration for a class, workshop, or plant/mushroom walk 2 weeks or more prior to the scheduled event, you will receive a 90% refund. If you cancel within 2 weeks prior to the event, your registration is non-refundable. I do sometimes offer another event if enough people can’t make it but that is up to my discretion.

Medicinal Mushroom Online Classes

Live Zoom classes, Wednesday evenings 7-8pm Mountain Time

$19.25 per class

June 14th – Mushrooms for heart health

July 12th – Mushrooms for liver health

August 16th – Mushrooms for gut health

September 13th – Mushrooms for immune imbalances

October 11th – Mushrooms for brain health

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New Classes & Workshops for fall, winter, & spring will be posted on September 18th!

Mushroom identification

Edible and medicinal plant foraging

Rocky Mountain poisonous plants & mushrooms

Medicinal mushrooms

Kitchen witchery

In the mean time, individual, personalized classes are available. Please see the top of this page for more info.

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Gut Inflammation, Hormone Imbalance, & Mood

Take a deep dive into understanding how what happens in the gut happens elsewhere in the body & learn ways to heal

We’ve been reading and hearing a lot about inflammation. It’s a big deal. Inflammation is an immune system-mediated process that can damage tissues and alter normal functioning. Inflammation normally serves a protective role; for instance, against an infection. But under the influence of diet, lifestyle, environmental exposure, genetics, a “confused” immune response, and other influences inflammation can become chronic. One place where inflammation commonly arises is the gut. The resulting inflammatory mediators produced in response to triggers don’t just stay localized. They can cause problems throughout the body and can even influence mood, thyroid function, and sex hormone regulation.

Join us in a workshop targeting at putting the fire out. We’ll get into:

What inflammation is and what it does at the cellular level
How inflammation in the gut can impact our emotional state & influence our hormonal regulation
Simple nutritional and lifestyle hacks to promote gut health
Supportive herbs, mushrooms, and supplements

Participants will be able to pick up a complementary custom gut-care tea blend in either Albuquerue or Durango. (Sorry, we do not ship.)

Class Date: Saturday February 10, 2024
Class Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: $42
Location: Live Online (Class link will be emailed to all registered students the week before class.)
Registration is required. Please go here to sign up.

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Recorded Classes

Recording link will be sent within 24 hours of payment, unless purchased on weekend or holiday, then it will be sent on the next business day.

Herb-Drug Interactions

RECORDING of live, interactive Zoom class. $30

On average, in any given month nearly half of the US population uses at least 1 prescription drug (CDC). Approximately 76% of the adult population in the US used at least 1 herbal supplement in 2017 (Choi & Song, 2021). It is difficult to wade through the available information regarding herb-drug interactions for multiple reasons that include bias (folks publishing information on this are often not trained in botanical medicine or phytochemistry), sensationalism (fear-mongering newspaper headlines and clickbait), the growing ingredient complexity of supplements, and polypharmacy (the use of multiple medications concurrently that greatly increases the rate of adverse drug reactions).

This class takes a critical, evidence-base approach at looking at herb-drug interactions. The focus will be on individual herbs, and will include data from critically evaluated case studies, clinical studies, and practitioner experience. The most likely categories of herbs to interact with medications will be highlighted, as will well-documented interactions. The class is appropriate for multiple types of healthcare provider as well as for folks who take herbs and want to know more about the topic of interactions.

Medicinal Plants of the West

Recordings of live, interactive Zoom classes. $15.50 per class.

Plant ID, medicinal uses, folklore, and science. Attend 1 or all or however many you’d like. Many of the plants are also found elsewhere in North and Central America.

California Poppy & Pine

Sagebrush & Wild Rose

Barberry & Juniper

Elder & Oregon Grape

Insomnia: An herbalist’s approach

Class recording available. $17.50. (When you click “buy now”, scroll to the gray button for secure debit or cc payment)

Insomnia is an epidemic that significantly impacts the health and quality of life of many millions of people. Sleep meds often lose effect over time or can become addictive. They can help get one through a period of sleeplessness but, for many folks, aren’t a long term fix. Part of the problem is cultural. Here in the west, many of us go through the day at 110 mph then try to come to a screeching stop at night, hoping to be able to simply turn our switch to “off” and fall asleep. And it can be hard to change that pattern what with jobs, family responsabilities, and such. Join us to learn some simple approaches to improve your odds of a restful night of sleep.