Herbal Courses

Take your time to be in present awareness
of the trees and plants around you.

Herbal Courses and Workshops at Ceratonia

Practical herbal medicine- identification, harvesting and learning to make your own lotions and remedies to keep you and your family and the environment strong and healthy.

Dates for your diary for all herbal classes taking place in 2023

4th March, 31st March
20th May, 30th June,
14th October, 11th November & 9th December

Classes cost €55 including delicious lunch and preparations to take home
email dmbalance@gmail.com for more information and to book your place

Spending the day with a wonderful Herb

This year at Ceratonia herbal classes will mainly focus on spending the day with one herb learning about growing, harvest times, medicine making, therapeutics, folklore, spending time with the plant and making some preparations.
Taking a mind body spirit approach.

For all plant lovers who want to develop their understanding of the healing qualities of Herbs.
We will spend our time with one herb, working with different techniques including a tea tasting, connecting with the growing plant and discovering the different ways a plant can provide medicine and support.

Gaining a deeper knowledge of the plants around us by working with all our senses.

When you take time to be with a plant some form of journey takes place, an expansion of our consciousness. When you bring your awareness to your actual process if it be tasting a herb or being with the growing plant, something is happening between you and the plant.

Best way to connect with a plant: It is important to take a moment. Notice your breath, mindful of your physical and emotional being. Connect with the ground beneath your feet, energetically cleanse and Let go of thoughts that take you away from the process.
Trust in the Peace that is always within you.

Sometimes the vibration is so strong that it doesn’t matter where you are at, the plant gets your attention!

This journey helps us to make connections to what we already know and deepens our knowledge and understanding of the plant and ourselves.

Spending the day with a wonderful Herb

Saturday 20th May we will spend the day with Helichrysum

Looking at both Helichrysum italicum (Curry plant\Immortelle)
and the wild Helichrysum stoechas (Everlasting)

Class investment €55 including delicious lunch
and preparation to take home

Saturday 20th May 10h00-16h30
email dmbalance@gmail.com to book your place

4th February a herbal morning and a mushroom afternoon- Come and learn how to prepare your own mushroom tinctures and also to learn about the truly wonderful health benefits that mushrooms can offer us. We will discuss the medicinal properties of fungi and create a mushroom tincture.
We will also go on a forage and see what we can find.
email dmbalance@gmail.com for more information

A walk through the herbalist's garden.

Learn more about the medicines of the trees, plants and foods that are growing in Ceratonia.

Herbal walks with Daisy can be booked throughout the year. One to one or small groups can be organised.
There is always plenty to learn, whatever time of year it is.

Ceratonia is very excited to say we are continuing the Journey of learning more about Astrology with the fabulous astrologer Shelagh Carter.
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Welcome to The Astro Club
Experiential Astrology - Astro Club
This second series of Experiential Astrology workshops is designed to be a deeper exploration of the language and philosophy of Astrology.
Dates for your diary 18th February, 18th March,
27th May, 8th July, 30th September
21st October & 25th November

11h00-16h00

Cost for the day €40

Bring your own lunch.

In session one, Saturday 18th February, we will focus on the construction of a Birth Chart or Horoscope and you will need to bring the following materials :-

Fine line biros/ gel pens in black; red; blue and green
Medium felt tip pens in red; green; yellow; blue and orange
A 30cm ruler

Keeping these materials together for Astrology use only is recommended as it helps to create a ritual/ sacred space around Horoscope creation.

Areas to be explored in future workshops -

The Angles of the Chart - These four points are what anchor the individual into her personal reality and, as Howard Sasportas puts it so beautifully in his book The Twelve Houses - “….a person’s reality springs outward from his or her inner landscape of thoughts, feelings, expectations and beliefs”. The Angles of the Chart form the cross of matter that connects us to our little portion of the cosmos. They form the basis for the divisions in time and space that make up the 12 houses of the chart and describe our personal life experiences.

Aspects - (based on the division of the 360 deg circle of the zodiac) between natal planets - are the energies involved harmonious or is there a conflict between them? Degrees of aspects - how close is close enough? Patterns of aspects - T-Square, Grand Trine, Yod, etc.

Transits - a moving planet coming into aspect with a natal planet or with one of the Chart’s Angles . A planet moving through a particular house will reveal the type of experience that is coming into focus and where you are likely to meet the energy of the planet involved.

Transpersonal/Outer planets - Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are, as we know, slow moving planets whose effects are mostly generational. However, when any of the transpersonals makes a close aspect to a personal planet ( Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus or Mars) then some kind of integration is required. It is as though certain individuals are required to express something on behalf of the collective. By transit these planets indicate opportunities for personal growth and may be quite stressful.

Chart interpretation - Looking for Patterns. Each ingredient of a Birth Chart - planets, signs, houses, aspects, must be seen as part of a whole and in this session we will explore ways of synthesising the component parts in order to gain a sense of the overall meaning. Usually any major theme in the chart will be repeated in different ways. Intuition plays a big part in Chart interpretation and the Astrologer needs to trust their instincts over any ‘rules’. The most vital ingredient in any interpretation is, of course, the client or owner of the chart.

Shelagh first became fascinated by Astrology after having her Birth Chart interpreted over 40 years ago. She was fortunate enough to study with some of the greatest Astrologers of our age. She set up an Astrological Consultancy called Signs of Life and deepened her understanding through hundreds of clients and charts. At the same time she underwent seven years of therapy as part of her training as a counsellor.

Shelagh truly believes that Astrology provides us with one of the best ways to connect with our inner selves and help to make sense of our lives and our place in the cosmos.

Daisy the herbalist is in total agreement of this and working with astrological charts in the herbal clinic has been an excellent rescource.

For more information please email dmbalance@gmail.com

For all enquires and to enrol on any of the courses email
dmbalance@gmail.com

Exciting to announce Herbfest Portugal
29th, 30th April & 1st May

Daisy will be there teaching a few classes and joining in the herbal festivities!

Online course: Life Cycles Moon Cycles
Starts again in 2023

In English and Portuguese.

Daisy's class on Menstruation, supporting PMS & early reproductive years
June 17th 2023

Go to www.quinta-do-rajo.pt for more information