Linda Bates is a fourth-generation Master Herbalist and Medicine Woman.

"plants that heal and how to use them, medicine from the garden and from the wild, plant alchemy, body alchemy, magic, love and wisdom from the earth" - are all her domain.

From a long line of women healers and of Romani Gypsy origins via England, now calling calling Australia home, she embodies the traditional wisdom of natural home-keeping and natural health-care for the family. The vital knowledge of medicine from the earth is being kept by the very few and Linda is certainly one of these.

As well as lecturing at Nature Care and the Australasian College of Natural Therapies, Linda is regularly invited to speak at Findhorn in Scotland and many other locations around the world. Linda has been teaching Herbal Medicine at its purest form. Fraging for wild herb in your environment; making tinctures and lineaments from fresh organic, wild herbs; Potency and correct dosage; and above all honouring the amazing power of herbs to support the body in its healing process.

Most Herbalists and Naturopaths today receive their herbs directly from the manufacturer, dry & in sealed pre-packaged boxes. They simply dispense a product often without cultivating a connection with the herbs themselves.

Linda believes that "A herbalist needs to take herbs and grow herbs and learn to love herbs. To familiarise all levels of your awareness with the vibrations and potential of the plants. To study herbal medicine is often only a feeding of the mind with information. It is the whole body which works with healing and so the whole body must be taught in appropriate ways what the plants are for. Grow them, feel them, smell them, nurture them, love them, thank them, pick them, eat them, drink them, thank them again."

"I am a traditional, wholistic herbalist. That is, I believe our bodies are self healing and that I am a therapist professionally trained to prescribe and dispense the plant medicines (as powerful tincture mixes) needed for the healing process; to interrupt the state of deficiency, imbalance or dis-ease and restore harmony and function."

For more about Linda's work & to find out about upcoming workshops & classes visit:

http://lindabatesherbalmedicine.com

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