Fire Cider Workshop: Boost Your Immunity!
Nov
19
10:00 AM10:00

Fire Cider Workshop: Boost Your Immunity!

Learn how to make a classic immune boosting tonic

with Lauren Morse

Fire cider is a long-used folk remedy to ward off illness during the winter's cold and flu months. Making this tonic at home is an easy and affordable way to add an immune boost for you and your family. The basic fire cider blend contains apple cider vinegar with herbs chosen for their antibacterial and antiviral properties: ginger, garlic, onion, cayenne pepper, and horseradish. From this base there are many options to customize for flavor and action.

Class Info:

  • Learn about the herbal ingredients of this remedy

  • Sample different fire cider blends

  • Prepare their own custom fire cider to take home

  • All materials provided

  • We'll be chopping vegetables and herbs, so come ready to dive in!

About Lauren

Lauren recently graduated from the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine as a Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. She has a background in farming and urban homesteading and loves everything DIY: growing and preserving food, fermentation, raising chickens and goats, and making homemade body products. For several years, she managed and taught classes at the Portland Homestead Supply in Sellwood. She has sensitive skin, and making balms and lotions at home allows her to make affordable, quality products without irritating additives. Lauren loves teaching others how easy (and fun) it can be to make products at home!


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10
1:00 PM13:00
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Join us and learn to use Chinese tea as medicine! :)

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(Originally designed for Chinese medicine students, but now open to the public)

This class is designed to teach the basic witnessing skills of a traditional medicine person.

The skills covered in this class are:

  • Chinese Pulse Diagnosis

    • Discerning the direction of the mind and body through feeling the pulse.

  • Constitutional Assessment

    • Discerning the body and personality tendency of the individual

  • Chinese Tea Medicine

    • Pouring Chinese tea to assist the person’s body and mind

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Nov
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1:00 PM13:00
Tea

Chinese Tea As Medicine Class

Join us and learn to use Chinese tea as medicine! :)

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This class will focus on the various methods to influence the Qi quality of tea as a process of ceremony and embodiment.

While picking the right tea for the occasion is important, so too is the awareness one carries into the experience of serving. This class will explore the skill of finding the parts of ourselves that are truly medicinal. We will learn to uncover these virtuous states of being and then channel them into the service of tea.

All are welcome to join! =)

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3:00 PM15:00
Tea

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(Originally designed for Chinese medicine students, but now open to the public)

This class is designed to teach the basic witnessing skills of a traditional medicine person.

The skills covered in this class are:

  • Chinese Pulse Diagnosis

    • Discerning the direction of the mind and body through feeling the pulse.

  • Constitutional Assessment

    • Discerning the body and personality tendency of the individual

  • Chinese Tea Medicine

    • Pouring Chinese tea to assist the person’s body and mind

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1:00 PM13:00
Tea

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(Originally designed for Chinese medicine students, but now open to the public)

This class is designed to teach the basic witnessing skills of a traditional medicine person.

The skills covered in this class are:

  • Chinese Pulse Diagnosis

    • Discerning the direction of the mind and body through feeling the pulse.

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  • Chinese Tea Medicine

    • Pouring Chinese tea to assist the person’s body and mind

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