When allergy season hits, it can feel like your body is fighting an endless battle. In this class, we’ll uncover how your immune system reacts to allergens and how you can use herbs to support your body’s natural defenses. Learn how specific herbs can calm inflammation, reduce symptoms, and restore balance during allergy season. With hands-on herbal projects and actionable tips on diet and lifestyle, you’ll leave ready to take on the season with herbal remedies to ease your symptoms naturally.
Instructor: Holly Hawthorn
Clinical Herbalist- Cascadia Rooted Wellness LLC
After working a number of years in public health, both within the states and abroad, Holly landed in Southern Oregon. She has had a medical massage practice here for 15+years, in which she also sees her clinical herbalism clients and teaches herbalism for several teaching faculties.
Holly’s herbal journey began with Rosemary Gladstar and Sage Mountain in Vermont, a field studies program through the Hawthorn Institute, and with other herbal elders and mentors. Later, she dove deeper with a 3-year clinical training through the Vermont Center of Integrated Herbalism. That program emphasized the contemporary scientific approaches to herbal medicine, that of a trauma-informed practice, addressing social justice, community access, and the significance of the connection between people and place.
Holly loves to share her passion for the beautiful mountains of Southern Oregon, using herbalism as a bridge for her community to root into space, building a relationship with each other and with their medicine, their bodies, and ultimately nature itself. When not in practice, Holly can often be found wandering deep in the woods, tending to her bees and garden, making art, or just relaxing with a book in hand, sipping a cup of tea.