Events
Embodying Elements: Women's Wellness Series
Midwest Women's Herbal. Online │ March 4, 2023
Learn classical elemental associations with each of the Five Elements of East Asian Medicine, along with lifestyle medicine for supporting seasonal wellness. Experience creative movement, drawing, and journaling exercises to embody and empower your personal intuitive relationship with the Elements in and around you. Get 10% off with discount-code JILING10
Equinox Ecstatic Dance
The Pharm. Ventura, CA │ Mar. 17, 2023
Dance your way into spring! In this family-friendly community event, we leave our shoes, cellphones, and conversations at the door as we welcome ecstatic freeform self-expression in a safe container. We will begin with an opening circle and warm-up, expand into freeform movement with a Five Elements (五行) inspired DJ set, then conclude with a closing circle. Free your body. Free your mind. Connect with yourself and your community to celebrate life! (Learn more about ecstatic dance here. This is a substance-free open movement event with NO prior dance experience necessary, welcome to ALL ages and abilities.)
Nourishing Life: Embodying the 5 Phases of Chinese Medicine
Esalen Institute. Big Sur, CA │ April 3 - 7, 2023
Embody the Five Phases (五行) through yoga asana, intuitive movement, creative expression, and nature connection. Personalize your Nourishing Life (yang sheng 養生) practices, adapt to changing seasonal rhythms, and come home to the wild beauty of your inner radiance.
Seasonal Rhythms: Five Elements Lifestyle Medicine
Wintergreen Botanicals. Online │ May 18, 2023
How do we gracefully adapt to changing seasonal rhythms? Explore lifestyle medicine to support thriving health throughout the wheel of the year with the Five Phases (五行) of Chinese medicine and their correlating seasons, flavors, and body systems. Learn practices to rest, move, connect, nourish, and create through the seasons. Develop perspectives to optimize seasonal rhythms with kitchen herbs, foundational recipes, nature connection, creative expression, and elemental movements.
International Herb Symposium
Norton, MA │ June 9 - 11, 2023
Come together to honor plants with respect & reciprocity. Create local & global communities dedicated to healing and caretaking the Earth and all beings. Jiling will be sharing “Seasonal Rhythms: Five Elements Lifestyle Medicine,” “Writing from the Roots: Journaling Practices for Herbalists,” and “BIPOC Tea Talks.”
Free Herbalism Project
Mountain Rose Herbs. Eugene, OR │ June 18, 2023
Celebrate plants with world-class entertainment and botanical expertise!
Nourishing Life: Embodying the 5 Phases of Chinese Medicine
Omega Institute. Rhinebeck, NY │ Sept. 11 - 15, 2023
Embody the Five Phases (五行) through yoga asana, intuitive movement, creative expression, and nature connection. Personalize your Nourishing Life (yang sheng 養生) practices, adapt to changing seasonal rhythms, and come home to the wild beauty of your inner radiance. Registration opens soon!
The Five Elements of Yoga & Chinese Medicine
Esalen Institute. Big Sur, CA │ Oct. 9 - 13, 2023
Reconnect with the Five Elements within and around you through yoga, nature, art, and ritual. Presence the beauty of your inner and outer wilderness, resourcing abundant wild, creative, infinite potential to fully thrive. Registration opens soon!
Elemental Creativity: Movement, Meditation & Drawing
Green Gulch. Sausalito, CA │ Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2023
Connect with the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine within and around you through embodied movement, meditation, and drawing. Deepen your understanding of the principles of mindfulness and apply them, through the lens of the Elements, to channel your creativity.
Ongoing Classes
Herbal Apprenticeship
Artemisia Academy │ Online
A 150-hour hands-on hybrid program. Learn the basics of herbalism & holistic healing in 5 modules: herbs for the body, medicine-making for beginners, holistic nutrition, intro to case studies, and intro to plant ID.
Community Herbalist Program
Artemisia Academy │ Online
A 300-hour hands-on hybrid program to prepare intermediate herbalists for community clinical work with 6 modules: acute pathologies & protocols, advanced medicine-making, five flavors of phytochemistry, intro to clinic, California plant families, and Jepson-manual plant ID.
WildYoga Teacher Training
Balanced Rock Foundation │ Online & in-person
WildYoga's unique combination of Yoga Alliance approved 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training & spiritual ecology will invigorate your yoga practice through powerful tools for living in alignment with nature. Get $200 off with discount-code: jilingwildyoga
