Upcoming Classes & Workshops Spring and Summer 2008 The Boston School of Herbal Studies is offering monthly Medicinal Plant Walks throughout the spring, summer and early fall. Please join us as we identify medicinal plants at various stages of growth.We also continue to offer our monthly Herbal Clinic and Shamanic Plant Journeying classes. Here is what we have coming up in the next few months. To Register for our workshops, please send check to: The Boston School of Herbal Studies 12 Pelham Terrace Arlington, MA 02476 We also accept credit card payments. For further information call 781.646.6319.   Medicinal Plant Walks Sundays 1-3 p.m. Adults:$15, Children: Free April 27 May 25 June 15 July 6 August 10 September 7 Rock Meadow, Belmont, MA Madelon Hope, M.Ed., LMHC Learn to identify healing plants in our area. Medicinal plants are everywhere in our backyards, along the streets we walk, and in open spaces all around us. We will look at plants ranging from the familiar: dandelion and plantain, to the less well known: motherwort, burdock, Solomon's seal, ground ivy and elder. You will learn which parts of the plants are used medicinally and how they nourish us and support health. Directions to Rock Meadow From Rt. 2, get off at the Rt. 60 exit (Arlington & Belmont Centers). Turn onto Rt. 60 (Pleasant St.) headed toward Belmont Center. Continue until you come to the third traffic light at Concord Ave. Turn right on Concord Ave. and go up and down a large hill. At the bottom of the hill, bear left at the Colony gas station and turn left onto Mill St. You will go less than a quarter of a mile and will see an unmarked road on the right. Turn onto the road and park in a small parking lot by the entrance to Rock Meadow.     Monthly Herbal Clinic Sundays from 10:00-3:00 p.m. 12 Pelham Terrace, Arlington, MA $45 each session for herbal students, sliding scale for clients June 1, July 9, August 20, September 24, October 22, Tommy Priester and Madelon Hope This is an opportunity for beginning and intermediate students to learn basic consultation skills. Students will observe and take part in the intake process and learn about herbal compounding and formulation. We will also discuss facial diagnosis and pulse taking. The Clinic will offer herbal services to people in the community who seek affordable, alternative health care.     Shamanic Plant Journeying Mondays 6:00-9:00 p.m. $35 August 18, September 15, October 20, 22 Mt. Auburn St., Watertown, MA Tommy Priester, Clinical Herbalist This is an evening of drumming and guided meditation to deepen our connections to a particular medicinal plant and to earth energies. Participants will experience how the physical and spiritual energies of a plant affect all levels of being. We will meet the actual physical plant, experience the tincture and open to the energies of the flower essence. Through this process, we will make contact with plant wisdom for our own personal healing and the healing of the earth. These workshops are for beginning and intermediate herbalists as well as for those who want to learn more about shamanic journeying.