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Start or Expand Your Plant Medicine Journey As A Certified Herbal Wild Crafter!

Get ready to learn…

  • 30 Hawaiian medicinal plants every Herbalist should know.
  • Traditional Gathering Protocols to increase your awareness and connection to the land and its inhabitants.
  • Medicine and poultice recipes that relieve pain, heal cuts, wounds, and more!
  • Herbal secrets to boost your immune system, lower inflammation, & support healing.
  • And TONS MORE!

David’s Earth Medicine Institute classes are a wonderful balance of intellectual information, practice working with plants, field study and group discussion.   It has been very good to learn this information combined with awareness of the special sacredness and potency of these herbs.  I have a deeper understanding of how to use them for self-healing, and also a wider sense of the cultural context and history. ~ Amara Karuna


Come learn from David Bruce Leonard!

David is an Herbalist, Acupuncturist, Author,  and Teacher.

He has studied traditional medicines with healers in Asia, North and South America, and Hawai’i. With a Master’s Degree in traditional Chinese medicine, he has a working knowledge of more than 400 traditional Hawaiian, Chinese, and Western plants. A deep ecologist and Hawaiian plant specialist, he has been a student of Hawaiian medicine under Kahu Kawika Ka’alakea, Kaipo Kaneakua and Na Kupuna ‘O Hawai’i since 1992.

Author of “Medicine at Your Feet: Healing Plants of the Hawaiian Kingdom” & “Wild Wisdom: Listening to Heart of Nature”, David is an expert on the medicinal plants of the tropics. He studies, lectures and teaches on cross-cultural uses of plant medicines, environmental concerns, traditional plant gathering practices, and pragmatic approaches to health care. He is known for his off-beat sense of humor. He is often seen in Hawaiian rain forests wearing his favorite trash bag as a raincoat.


This a 100-hour course!

You’ll join live for 5 weekends.

Dates are: Sept: 2/3, 23/24, Oct 14/15, Nov 4/5, 25, 26

This will be held at the Hawaiian Sanctuary (13-3194 Pahoa-Kalapana Rd Pāhoa, HI 96778).

Accommodations available upon request. Call 800-309-8010.


 

The Wildcrafter Certification course has opened my eyes to so many healing plants that I never even knew existed. After learning of their healing properties I now have an appreciation for the “weeds” that are growing in my yard. I am grateful to have learned from David. He shares his vast knowledge freely and clearly. I look forward to learning more. Mahalo David! ~ Holly Engelmann


If you have been thinking of joining the world of Plant Medicine Teachers, come learn from one of the BEST!

Early Bird Special!

(expires August 25th)


Payment Plan #1

Pay in Full

SAVE $100

    $1100


Payment Plan #2

Make 3-Payments

SAVE $50

    $384/3-mo


Get Certified Doing What You Love!

More of what students have to say:

David’s teaching is rather unusual, in that while presenting an amazing amount of ethnobotanical information of medicinal plants and their uses in our lives; we are ‘cross culturally introduced and restored to relationship with the living world and the true joy of our humanity. This guy knows his stuff and delivers “the goods” ~ Francis Kane

 

David is a very special teacher. Always in tune and real with his students. His classes are never boring and always interactive, creative, and hands on. The subjects of discussion are taught in a very wholesome way, tying in all sources– from Chinese to Hawaiian medicine– with respect and diligence to the source of his knowledge. After having gone to traditional schools for 16 years this is profoundly the BEST class I’ve ever taken. ~ Jennifer Ruggles

 

Being part of Earth Medicine Institute and absorbing our teachers knowledge has been AMAZING. It’s like opening a book with many books inside. I believe our nature as human beings is experiential. At EMI, we experience the plants, the wisdom they want to share and feel their medicine. Our consciousness is opening more and so the connection with Mother Earth. I’ll never see “weeds” the same way ever again! ~ Maria Arroyo

 

 

It was truly an honor to study with David. His class was completely wonderful. I am so grateful to have him as my mentor and I look forward to many collaborations in the future! Mahalo for your wisdom. ~ Deanna Rose, Indigo Herbals


This course doesn’t come around often!

If you’re ready to create a deeper understanding of the nature around you, register for this incredible class!

We hope to see you there!

Questions?

Call or Text: 808-937-4218

Email: earthmedicine@protonmail.com