Living Medicine Courses

Self Care 1: Basics (18 October 2025)
2025-10-18 13:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Art & Spirituality, 6-8 Alexander Drive, EH11 2RH, Edinburgh, Art & Spirituality, 6-8 Alexander Drive, Edinburgh, EH11 2RH, United Kingdom
This is the first of 5 sessions in Living Medicine’s Self Care with Foods & Herbs course which teaches safe kitchen pharmacy for digestive problems, sleep, anxiety, fatigue, skin and first aid, coughs, colds and allergies. As it covers the Basics of Self Care, we recommend if possible you take this workshop before any of the other sessions.
During this 3-hour workshop:
You’ll assess your own health and diet to enable small simple changes that could dramatically improve your wellbeing.
You’ll learn how to tweak your diet to balance blood sugar levels and maintain consistent energy through the day instead of highs and lows.
You’ll learn how to identify two families of useful plants in the garden.
You’ll understand how plants work to support the body and mind to maintain health and wellbeing.
You’ll learn how meal timing affects our Circadian rhythm, make and taste a quick, delicious, all-nourishing breakfast and learn how each individual ingredient supports our health and wellbeing.
You’ll receive a comprehensive handout of the principles and therapeutics of food and plants as medicine, tea-making and breakfast remedies.

Self Care 2: Coughs, Colds & Allergies (15 November 2025)
2025-11-15 13:00 - 2026-11-15 16:00
This is the second part of the five part Living Medicine Self Care with Food and Herbs Course. We recommend that you always start with Self Care 1: Basics.
During this 3-hour workshop:
You’ll learn simple, effective ways to treat every day ailments with common garden plants and kitchen ingredients.
You’ll assess your own health and diet so you can begin to to make small simple changes in your lifestyle, that could dramatically improve your wellbeing
You’ll learn how to tweak your diet to help balance your sugar levels so you maintain consistent energy throughout the day, instead of the highs and lows so many experience as part of daily life.
You’ll learn how to identify herbs and useful plants in your garden
You’ll leave the workshop with a clear understanding of how plants work to support health and well-being and treat common respiratory problems
You’ll receive a comprehensive handout of the principles and therapeutics of food and plants to support immunity and treat coughs, colds and allergies

Self Care 3: Digestive Ailments (17 January 2025)
2026-01-17 13:00 - 16:00
This is the third part of the five part Living Medicine Self Care with Food and Herbs Course. We recommend that you always start with Self Care 1: Basics.
During this 3-hour workshop:
You’ll learn simple, effective ways to treat every day digestive ailments with common garden plants and kitchen ingredients.
You’ll assess your own health and diet to enable small simple changes in your digestive and overall functions that could dramatically improve your wellbeing.
You’ll learn how to tweak your diet to help balance blood sugar levels for consistent energy through the day, instead of highs and lows.
You’ll learn how to identify herbs and useful plants in your garden.
You’ll leave the workshop with a clear understanding of how plants work to support the body and mind to maintain digestion, health and wellbeing.
You’ll receive a comprehensive handout of the principles and therapeutics of food and plants as medicine in digestive problems, along with recipes for a delicious basic pulse/grain dish and several digestive remedies.

Self Care 4: Sleep, Anxiety & Fatigue (28 February 2026)
2026-02-28 13:00 - 16:00
This is the fourth part of the five part Living Medicine Self Care with Food and Herbs Course. We recommend that you always start with Self Care 1: Basics.
Come and learn about how to use plants and foods to boost mood, energy and sleep! We’ll learn about how plants work on the body/mind and identify the important bean plant family in the garden. Together we’ll make a super-easy and delicious pulse/grain dish that is infinitely variable. We will make remedies including a sleep hot chocolate and discover how to use essential oils and other key ingredients to support mood and reduce anxiety.
You’ll receive a comprehensive handout of the principles and therapeutics of food and plants as medicine, tea-making and breakfast remedies.

Self Care 5: Skin & First Aid (21 March 2026)
2026-03-21 13:00 - 16:00
This is the final part of the five part Living Medicine Self Care with Food and Herbs Course. We recommend that you always start with Self Care 1: Basics.
Create your own food & herb know how kit for first aid and skin problems. Together we will make remedies including an infused oil, ointment and cream, learning how to apply essential oils. In the garden, we will identify and nibble the tissue healing daisy plant family.
You’ll receive a comprehensive handout of the principles and therapeutics of food and plants as medicine
