Press Release
Apprenticeships
Spring 2009
Woodstock, NY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
A Variety of Apprenticeship Opportunities with Herbalist Susun Weed Allow Most to Be Able to Access this Once in a Lifetime Chance
The Wise Woman Center in Woodstock, NY, is home to a great variety of plant life. It is also home to Susun Weed, world renowned herbalist and author and a spokesperson for the Wise Woman Tradition. Here she teaches people who come from far places to apprentice or just take a one-day class on plants, health and women’s empowerment!
Long-time teacher of empowering our health choices by harvesting plants local to us, Susun also prefers to teach us to take charge of our health by preparing our own remedies and wild foods.
Each year she offers a variety way to apprentice with her. She has been a long sought after teacher, with women and men coming from around the world to make use of this once in a lifetime opportunity.
Wise Woman Apprentices can take advantage of Susun’s live-out program, coming approximately once a month from spring through fall. There is an Initiation, moonlodge ceremony, classes with Susun, personal time with Susun, and a Graduation ceremony. Wise Woman apprentices pay only $1300 total, and have a few work trade options available to those who need it. The 2009 program runs April 18 through November 1.
Simple Herbal Apprentices live at the Wise Woman Center for at least two weeks. They can start any Tuesday from April through October. The cost of $550 per week includes food and housing, all happenings at the center during their stay, and much more. There is some work trade available.
Shamanic Herbal Apprentices stay at least six weeks and have the opportunity to go much deeper, both in their herbal training as well as in their personal exploration and challenging. The cost again is $550 per week. Even more work trade is offered for this program, some even expected as it offers a chance to deepen their studies. The start dates for 2009 are April 14, May 19. June 23, August 11, and September 8.
To register for any of these apprenticeships visit http://www.susunweed.com/Weed_Wise_Apprentice.htm or contact the Wise Woman Center at PO Box 64,Woodstock, NY 12498; 845-246-8081 on Wednesdays only from 11am to 4pm Eastern time.
To register send your name, age, address, phone number, color photo, letter about yourself and application fee of $100. You must do this even if you are applying for scholarship or work-exchange positions. When Susun approves your application, she will send you a letter of acceptance, including travel directions, and list of things to bring.
Vibrant, passionate, and involved, Susun Weed has garnered an international reputation for her groundbreaking lectures, teachings, and writings on health and nutrition. She challenges conventional medical approaches with humor, insight, and her vast encyclopedic knowledge of herbal medicine. Unabashedly pro-woman, her animated and enthusiastic lectures are engaging and often profoundly provocative. Susun is one of America's best-known authorities on herbal medicine and natural approaches to women's health. Her four best-selling books are recommended by expert herbalists and well-known physicians and are used and cherished by millions of women around the world.
Learn more at www.herbshealing.com or contact the Wise Woman Center at PO Box 64, Woodstock, NY 12498; 845-246-8081, Wednesdays, 11am-4pm Eastern time.
