Anima Lifeways & Herbal courses are an opportunity to learn vital concepts and skills from home, whether your calling is becoming the most empowered and effective herbalist, teacher, activist, author or artist that you can be... or you’re simply seeking the fullest aware experiencing of precious finite life.

All of these courses connect to, are useful to, and build upon each other, which is why we no longer separate them into separate fields of study. Subjects like “Deepening Presence” and “Increasing Awareness” are as valuable to the herbalist or other healer as they are to the teacher or shamanic practitioner, and From The Ground Up: Foundations of Western Herbalism courses can help empower everyone – not just herbalists – to take responsibility for their and their families’ own basic health care.

Each Course Features 4 or More Lessons Comprised Of:

• Essays and other writings, charts and additional study materials where appropriate

• Extensive self exploratory and topical questions for you to consider and answer

• Assignments and Practices, to facilitate your immediately applying or utilizing every new insight, skill and tool in your work and life... and for you to then record and share the results

You have the option of paying for your entire course at the onset, or paying for each lesson in a given course prior to it being sent you.

Students are encouraged to email their course docs – once you’ve completed your answers, engaged or fulfilled their assignments and reported on them – in order to receive a single detailed response from Kiva Rose or Jesse Wolf with personal feedback and clarifications, suggestions and counsel.

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What Your Courses Can Do For You

Anima Lifeways and Herbal Courses can greatly assist you to:

• Participate wholly and consciously in the present moment, consciously expanding and deepening our sensory and whole-body awareness, being open to both the bliss and pain of existence, the excruciating and the ecstatic.

• Exercise discernment and personal responsibility (the ability-to-respond) at all times, with the visceral and intellectual understanding that every moment is a decisive moment, and that everything we do matters.

• Act with an integrity rooted in that knowledge that all things are interconnected, and that every action in some way affects the larger world.

• Assist you in healing yourself and our world – with the knowledge that health is integrity, balance, and wholeness of being and expression... and understanding that healing is the process of helping to make whole.

• Empower you as well as equip you in your chosen path and practice, whether as a healer or teacher, artist, or activist... or simply as someone making every aspect of their daily existence into the practice of maximally aware, meaningful and effective living.

• To walk each step with the perceptivity of a medicine woman or shaman and the curiosity and delight of a child, the profound immediacy of someone facing a mortal disease along with the empathy and compassion of a healer, the concern and determination of an activist with the intense awareness and forthright responsiveness of a home defender, the devotion of a gardener or parent as well as the beauteous intent of a creator and artist, with the focus and passion of a person greatly in love... awakened and enlivened, purposeful and proactive.

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Lifeways & Herbal Course

Requirements & Costs

As a student we will require:

• Your intention, attention, openness, willingness to hear and focus

• A strong commitment to complete the course readings and assignments, and to actually put to use what you learn in your daily life and practice

• A sliding scale payment in advance of each lesson, of from $75 to $150 (determined by you according to both your ability and determination to give back)

• Completion of specific prerequisites before enrolling in certain courses, as noted in the descriptions

To Apply, download, fill-out & return the:

Home Study Courses Application

You’re also welcome to apply ahead of time for any of the following courses that are still in development. You will be put on a waiting list, and the number of students applying for each will help determine which get completed and released first. If you are waiting for one of the following, consider taking the already available Practitioner’s Journey course first. Programs in progress include:

The Anima Medicine Wheel: A Dynamic Energetics Tool For Understanding Self & Others

The Anima Medicine Wheel is a distinct, practical, nature-inspired and experience-tested model for understanding ourselves, our clients or students, and anyone we interact with... an impressively powerful system for all practitioners and seekers of a full and more effective life.

The Burden Basket: Emptying, Evaluating & Choosing The Burdens We Bear

Rather than compiling endless amounts of new ideas and obligations to our metaphoric basket, it’s tremendously useful to first set aside – at least for a time – every burden that we carry. Once we have been emotionally as well as conceptually emptied of them, we consciously and purposefully choose which ideas, visions, relationships, commitments and roles we want to bear.

Rewilding: Reclaiming & ReCreating Wild Self, Culture & Place

Wild means self-willed and true to one’s nature. To ReWild is to be freed and enlivened, meeting our natural needs and answering a wilder calling, connecting to and learning from the natural world, doing what it takes to become a native again, resisting habit and control, assuming responsibility instead of being a victim, and acting out of a sense of authority that can come only from within.

Grassroots Activism: Practical Instruction & Ethos For the Activist

A course that teaches the necessity for, ethics of, and means for personal activism, taught by a veteran of the front lines... an insightful aid whether working with established groups, organizing around new issues, or powerfully working alone. We are each meant to be influential co-creators of our world, and that means acting in our own ways to oppose injustice, defend freedom, champion wildness and diversity, and promote what we believe to be the potential betterment of the people and planet we are part of.

Thank you for your interest, and any commitment to yourself and this work.

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