Shamanic Herbalism Online Course
Shamanic Herbalism is a course that bridges the herbalism worlds. Besides learning about herbs, their properties and gifts; we learn and cocreate directly with the plant spirits themselves.
The plants are our teachers and guides.
It is a flower pathway of plant teachings, soul blossoming and learning to experience the language of flowers.
Knowledge is learned. Wisdom is experienced.
In all the herbalism courses out there, there is nothing like this. It has all the normal stuff – herb preparations, materia medicas, herbal information etc, but what is most profound is experiencing each of the plant spirits not only in my body but throughout my whole life while we are working with them. It is magical! Over the time, you really come to trust the communications you receive with the herbs, and moving through each of their teachings has been transformative and empowering in every way. The teachers in this journey are actually the flowers, lovingly held and transmitted by Heidi.
Shamanic Herbalism (Level 1 Flower Codes Training) covers:
– plant communication with plenty of practice
– developing relationships with plants
– shamanic journey practices, techniques and guides
– sustainable herbalism
– aligning with nature by embodying the cycles within it
– elementals, devas, fairies,
– ancestral work basics, its importance, significance and ancestral groundwork
– wisdom teachings of specific flowers, herbs and plants
– Embodied flower teachings of the first four flower codes along with 10 healing herbs to support them.
– Materia Medica creation
– Sacred birthwork and its importance in Sacred Earthwork
– the power of Birth imprints
– birth trauma and recovery
– soul midwifery skills
– wholistic and empowered healing and its importance
– practical herb preparations – tinctures, flower essences, oils, etc
– various shamanic practices for inner work
– rattle making, drum birthing (optional)
– awakening through flowers and how to support others to do the same.
– supportive group work
The Shamanic Herbalism course forms Level 1 of the Flower Codes Training
and contains three pathways (48 weeks total)
Next intake enrolling now.
Pathway One next group starts July 20, 2026;
Pathway Two starts May 18, 2026 (12 weeks)
Pathway 3: 2026 tba (24 weeks).
Join the next group round. Pathway 1 starts Feb 23 2026, includes online sharing space and zoom sharing circles.
or START NOW on my own. Immediate access to Pathway 1. If you choose this option, you’ll self study for Pathway 1 and join a group round for Pathway 2 & 3
Shamanic Herbalism Programme:
Includes Pathway 1, Pathway 2 & Pathway 3
Shamanic Herbalism Pathway One: Foundations
11 weeks
Pathway One contains the groundwork and preparation needed in order to commence the flower activation pathway. This introduction lays the foundations, providing the roots from which we can grow onwards and upwards.
It covers the basics of nature connection, plant communication and shamanic journeying practices, along with cyclical wisdom for aligning with nature, and experiential work with the elements.
These modules are prerequisites for the other pathways.
- Week 1. Creating Sacred Space – The Vessel. Groundwork, space setting, preparation. The Four Elements. Herbs as Medicine.
- Week 2. Connecting with Nature: Deepening your journey. The principles of nature connection, an introduction to communicating with nature spirits and plants.
- Week 3. Introduction to Shamanic Journeying. Shamanic journey basics. Meet your animal and guide.
- Week 4 -7 Elementals. Experience with the Elements. The foundations of life. A week spent learning directly from Air, Earth, Fire and Water.
- Weeks 8, 9 & 10. Wisdom of the Cycles: Aligning with Nature – an experiential journey looking at how natures cycles affect us and how to engage that within us – the sun, the moon, the seasons, the menstrual cycle.
- Make your own Shamanic Rattle. (Materials extra $20 + pp)
Practicals:
Course work is arranged over 11 weeks.
First week is available immediately on enrolment (or for groups, on start date) and new material will be made available each week.
Each module takes around 2-3 hours to complete.
Course work includes a combination of written material, videos and audio exercises. While written material is downloadable, videos are not.
Access to Pathway 1 material is for one year. (The idea is to learn, play, engage and experience, not to have information sitting there waiting for some other day!).
Recognition of prior learning: if you have former experience in any of these modules and would like to skip any, email me with an outline of your experience for each of the modules you would like to skip. wildflowerangel@gmail.com
Thank you so much for a heartfelt, inspiring course in shamanic herbalism, filled with much knowledge, deep sacred earth wisdom, meditations, a beautiful mix and balance between audio/video/text, supportive teachers with beautiful souls and sacred space for reflections and personal soulwork. Every module opened up new insight and portals between the physical world and spiritworld, the veil between the worlds became thinner and made it easier to connect with the spirits, the green world and Mother Earth Gaia and deepened my nature connection. Heidi was so supportive and quick in her responses, if I had any questions about the course before I signed up and during the whole course with comments on my work. I am so grateful that I signed up, I feel rich in new wisdom and insight and can’t wait to used this gift in my every day life and in my work as a therapist.” LR, Norway.
“This course has given me the tools to understand myself and nature deeply. It feels effortless and nurturing to understand how everything is connected through all the practices. I feel grounded, inspired and excited to be on this path that will continue to unfold into more knowledge and insights. I have learnt that the essence of who I am is within my intuition and allowing my heart to follow the whispers of nature. Thank you Heidi for this beautiful work. I would recommend this to anyone who feels the calling in climbing the stairways to heaven ~ to understand oneself.” Patricia, Australia.
Shamanic Herbalism Pathway Two: Sacred Birth
Birthing our soul into the world
In Pathway One we laid the groundwork and created space for the real work! Pathway Two is our Sacred Birth Portal.
Here we immerse ourselves in the sacred herbs that guide us to birth a truer version of ourselves into the world. We’ll be looking at who we are, why we came, our soul and birth imprints, and how to transform and engage them.
We’ll be working in depth with our own birth imprints, what patterns we are playing out over and over again, and how to shift and empower yourself within that. Through shamanic journeys, plant activation and communication, and birth journal work we’ll be diving deep!
The last two weeks we’ll focus on the nurturing phase, how to nurture our creations – whether that is our new self, a new project or a new baby; and the need for gentle stimulation and loving care.
As part of this pathway there is the option to Birth a medicine drum in a two day face to face workshop. This is a sacred process in which we use the crafting of the drum as a potent way to discover and rewire your birth imprinting. What we embody while crafting the drum stays within the drum as its medicine, its power. We come out with a drum not just of great personal relevance, but one that will beat to the tune of your own sacred heart beat. This is optional, not necessary.
Prerequisites for Pathway 2
You’ll need to have completed Modules 1, 2 & 3 of Pathway 1 before commencing Pathway 2. And ideally, Wisdom of the Cycles too.
RPL’s are always available, see note within Pathway 1 information for how to get these.
Programme for Pathway 2:
- Week 1 & 2: Plant Activation – Feverfew. The beginning of our plant activation pathway. This is the first flower code in activating a Sacred Earth (all work begins within!) Starting a Materia Medica, plant spirit communication, plant activation.
- Week 3: Ancestral work, an introduction. Ancestral guardians and their role.
- Week 4. Womb as Gaia. Our sacred creative vessel and its role. Elementals, Devas and Faeries and the role they play. Birth journal work commences.
- Week 5. Birth Work. Plant Spirit Immersion with Starflower begins. Understanding our birth imprints and how to engage them for creation. Exploring our Birth Imprints.
- Week 6. Cervix: Gateway between Earth and the Stars. Soul purpose remembering. Why we came. Core Medicine & Dosage – getting to the Essence of plants. Birth Journal Work.
- Week 7. Galactic Language of Plants. Star Imprints. Astrology in Herbalism. Birthwork continues.
- Week 8. Birthing ourselves into the world. Plant immersion continues. Finding our personal Sacred Birth Formula.
- Week 9. Birthing a Medicine Drum (optional extra) or integration/catch up.
- Week 10. Blossom Immersion: the Power of Gentle Incarnation
- Week 11. Forty Day Vision: Nurturing our sprouts of creation. Support and nurture through partner work. Mothering others and receiving support in tandem.
- Week 12. One follow up zoom sharing circle after 40 days (date tba)
Practical information
Pathway 2 includes weekly zoom sharing circles (optional) with Steph Banks, the Pathway 2 facilitator.
There is also an online space for connecting and sharing your insights and journeys with the group, to ask questions and receive guidance and advice. Sharing is an important part of the process.
Schedule in 3-4 hours a week in your diary for this work.
Course work includes a combination of written material, videos and audio exercises, journal work. While written material is downloadable, videos are not.
Access to Pathway 2 material is six months. Extensions are available for a monthly membership fee.
Pathway 2 Mentor: Steph Banks
“I have always found nurture in nature and love bringing the Flower Codes and their essence into all areas of my work. Whether it is to support with homeschool learning journeys or deepening our understanding of our Sacred Birth Stories and Imprints, there is a Flower Code essence that can assist us in making meaningful connections. Since hearing the call from the wild to seek and remember how to work with plant allies my life and ways of teaching have and continue to flourish every day. I am truly grateful to Heidi for her wisdom and the space she holds and am looking forward to assisting to facilitate Pathway 2 with you.”
Steph is an inspiring early childhood teacher who has been immersed in the ‘Art of Teaching’ for over 14 years. Steph’s passion is to nurture and ignite a love of learning and to assist children and adults alike to embrace how interconnected we all are. Steph facilitates ways to embrace connection to all that we are here to learn and experience using the wisdoms and guidance of our ‘Sacred Birth Story’ and ‘Birth imprints.’ Steph is a certified Flower Code practitioner and has a bachelor’s degree in early childhood and primary education and has taught in mainstream schools for many years. She currently mentors homeschool families and provides insightful ways to identify and support learning styles and strategies using birth imprints and the flower code essences.
Textbook for Pathway 2:
“Shamanic Herbalism Pathway 2 is an incredibly rich and transformative journey. Heidi’s excellent guidance, experiential wisdom and grounded practices facilitate the subtle yet powerful support of the plants to assist those who dare to take the plunge deep into the portal of self-discovery. There is no way to complete this course without feeling a grounded, heart-centred shift in how one relates to themselves and the world around them. Personally, I unlocked a new level of understanding of myself and of the energetics of the plants we worked with. I felt myself grow and bud and blossom through the vehicle of this course. There were so many expansive practices in this well-held course and I could do it over and over again and be guaranteed to uncover new layers. I am so grateful to the other women who went along on this journey and for all their support and insight gained through their sharing and listening – and to the plants for the same thing! I will never look at a flower the same way again!” Claire, Australia, 2021
“I found this course and working with Heidi to be deeply healing on many levels. Firstly it allowed me to move through the trauma and shock of the birth of my daughter in a gentle and powerful way. It opened me to the medicine of my own birth and allowed me to discover new ways of being that nurture me. It opened me to my love of plants and herbs and began what I hope will be a life long journey of learning from them. Highly recommend.” Sheridan, WA.
More testimonials here
Shamanic Herbalism Pathway 3:
Sovereignty, Divine Union and Introduction to the Healing Herbs.
24 weeks
In this pathway, we journey in depth with the fourth flower code of sovereignty, Divine Union and creative power – the wisdom we carry in our womb that is mirrored in our cycles. While the search has been on for the Lost Grail for hundreds of years, this wisdom has never been lost, just forgotten. We carry it in our own body, the womb – the sacred vessel or chalice that carries the wisdom of the feminine cycle.
In pathway 3 we take a deeper look into cyclical wisdom by adding another layer onto the wheel, with an extra focus on embodying the yin aspects. To support us on this deep healing of the feminine, we journey with 9 of the healing herb codes around the wheel of the year.
Within each herb there is:
- Plant communication and communion
- Physical immersion with the plant
- Materia Medica creation
- Medicine making – a variety of basic herbal preparations
- Inner work with the medicine and teachings that each herb offers, using shamanic processes.
- Partner work
Prerequisites for Pathway 3:
Pathway 2: Sacred Birth (see above)
Wisdom of the Cycles (part of Pathway 1)
Pathway 3 Programme
(a brief outline, more information available on completion of Pathway 2)
In this pathway, we journey in depth with the fourth flower code. We take a deeper look into cyclical wisdom by adding another layer and embodying the yin aspects of the wheel. We journey with 9 of the healing herb codes around the wheel.
With each herb in this pathway, there is:
Practice with plant communication and communion;
Physical immersion with the plant
Materia Medica creation
Medicine making – a variety of basic herbal preparations
Inner work with the medicine and teachings that each herb offers, using shamanic processes.
Partner work
Week 1: The 4th Flower Code of Sovereignty and Creative Power
Week 2: The Cycle of Creation: The Holy Grail.
Week 3: Reclaiming the Feminine: Rest and the Dark Lady.
Weeks 4 – 21:
Mugwort: Vision and Weaving
Dandelion: Root cause
Calendula: Divine Masculine
Blue Lily: Union
Chamomile: Return to centre/source
Yarrow: Integration. Embodiment
Sage: the Wise one
Rosemary: Divine Feminine
Comfrey: Death and Resurrection.
Week 22: The Rainbow Bridge and Iris.
Week 23: The Gateway of the Red Rose.
On completion, the option to purchase your own Flower Codes starter practitioner kit will be available. Once you have worked deeply with the medicine of each herb, you will be well primed to recognise and know when someone else could benefit from these subtle yet potent blends of essences, spagyrics and homeopathics. There is also a practitioner directory.
Practical information:
Pathway 3 includes fortnightly zoom sharing circles (optional) with Heidi
There is also an online space for connecting and sharing your insights and journeys with the group, to ask questions, receive guidance and support and to get to know the group.
Schedule in 3-4 hours a week in your diary for this work.
Pathway 3 also includes partner work with other participants and a final assignment.
Course work includes a combination of written material, videos and audio exercises, journal work. While written material is downloadable, videos are not.
Access to Pathway 3 material is for duration of the course and a few months extra. Extensions are available for a monthly membership fee.
I have come to see Heidi as one of my teachers in this life. Through this course and other short courses I have completed with Heidi, I have felt a deepening in embodiment and soul truth that is truly magical. Heidi’s way of supporting each of us to go within and seek the answers within ourselves is empowering and very needed. We are learning to trust our innate ability to do this sacred work and I can say that I feel much more grounded in who I am and my sacred work in this world. Mikala, 2020
Heidi Wedd has a long background in herbs, homeopathy and midwifery and focuses on the direct experience of listening to plants for their magic. Over the last 25 years, she’s held herbal alchemy courses, plant wisdom and nature connection circles, a homeopathic butterfly proving, and deep pregnancy journey circles. In all of these, the focus has been on the embodied wisdom aspect of direct, inner knowing using a variety of shamanic deepening practices and plant spirit communication. She is passionate about changing the world from the roots up, by encouraging deeper connection with nature, the earth and shifting our interaction with it to a more co-creative one. She is author of Wild Flower Walker: A Pilgrimage to Nature on the Bibbulmun Track and The Flower Codes: Plant Spirit Teachings for your Soul to Blossom.
For me it’s not enough to know a being – plant or person – at face value. I want to know the inner workings, to see at a soul level what makes us who we are. It’s from this that the Shamanic Herbalism course has been born. It is a journey of knowing plants at a deeper level – through relationship. But more than that – by working with the teachings that come from the plants themselves.⠀
⠀A plants medicine is so much deeper than the sum of its constituents. Every plant has a teaching that we can activate within us.
Testimonials
“For anyone searching for a deeper connection with self and with nature, this course has truly enriched my life. Heidi is one of the most tuned in, graceful sages I’ve ever known and her deep connection with plants and incredible empathic teachings combine to make this one of the greatest gifts I’ve ever given myself. Tahl, 2020
“I wanted to thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, teaching, listening and responding to us all in these past months. You are an amazing teacher with a magic spark! Your teachings will bring forth change into this world by connecting and igniting humans “inner lights”. I learned so much. A whole new world has opened. Thank you Heidi, really.” Nina, Italy, 2020
“Thank you again, Heidi, for another magical, soulfilled course! So much new insight and so much deep healing. This course was even more soul-shaking, in a good way, than pathway 1. It really opened up some deep, long forgotten doorways into my essence that I had locked away. So much shadow-work; pain, hurt, sorrow, trauma transforming into light and a new creative inspiration and life force. You’re are such a humble and authentic soul, that it is easy to take in what you teach, believe it and feel it. Never any pressure. But time, space, respect and a heartfelt open-ness to our differences, opinions and healing-pace. You are in safe hands when working with Heidi. She listens and guides you softly but steady. And are interested in your opinions. This module is hard work. It is deep. It hurts. It burns. It exhausted me. But it was necessary, so deeply needed. To release old pain, heal old wounds and come out of it with beautiful wisdom and childlike magic, lighter in heart, soul and mind. In this moment feeling a deep inner feeling of freedom and the powerful breath of life in my veins! Thank you♥
“This course has beautifully changed the way I see myself, plants and nature as a whole. It is very much for you if you are interested in Herbalism and are also looking to push aside the curtain of beliefs and information one is taught and step into a space of the unknown where you relearn from wise spirits within you and plant divas about each plant in its fullest. Heidi is an amazing teacher and guide and one of the most knowledgeable people i know. She gives you the tools and courage to learn for yourself and find the sage within you. Her deep plant wisdom, connection to the earth and trust in her students flows throughout the course, making you always feel held and heard. Following my Intuition and deciding to join the journey with Heidi has felt like a returning home to myself and the sprouting of a new seed.” Charlotte C.
More testimonials here
To enrol:
2. Pathway 2 only (12 weeks)
Au $550*
Returning students only
Further information via the Flower Codes Training
Enquiries and enrolments: Heidi: wildflowerangel@gmail.com
What is shamanism?
Shamanism is one of the oldest practices in the world. It is thought to have originated in Siberia, from where it spread across the globe and integrated into most areas.
The shamanic worldview is animistic in that it sees that there is a spirit in all things. Knowing this, it attempts to live in harmony with all beings, the earth and other realms.
Shamans were mediators between the worlds. They were the people in the community that would journey to other realms to bring back guidance and healing. What they learned in the other worlds was always integrated back into the physical world and community. In doing this, they could heal, guide and share wisdom.
Around the globe, shamans traditionally, would go into trance states to journey through the worlds. The way this was done varied by location – fasting, initiations, ecstatic practices like dance or music, or hallucinogens.
In this day and age we have continued to evolve, and with the spreading of spiritual practices, it is a lot easier for most people to journey without the use of hallucinogenic substances. Ecstatic dance, drum journeys, and deep meditations are all more commonly practiced, widespread and relatively easy to access and learn.
While journeying to other realms doesn’t make you a shaman, it is a practice that can teach you much, and we can all begin to journey on the shaman’s path….. the path of seeing the spirit within all things…. plants, trees, animals, objects. And not just seeing them, but connecting with them, listening and learning from them. Interacting and developing relationships with them.
This course will have a strong focus on connecting with the spirit of the plants we are working with. On listening, learning, integrating and putting into practice the lessons we learn from them. This is the shaman’s way, the shaman’s path.
What are Plant Spirits?
Plant spirits are the vibrational signature or soul of the plant. Much like we humans have our own unique vibration and soul, so do plants. When we sit in stillness and tune into plant spirit we may come to learn about their personality, how they wish to be used, what actions and benefits they hold, where they may work for us, as humans, within our body, mind, emotions and spirit. The spirit of a plant gives a deep and true indication of what a plant has to offer for our evolution and that of the planet. When you meet a plant spirit, the feeling is usually felt profoundly and with a knowing. Not all plants wish to communicate quickly, so patience is required and developing a relationship with the plant is beneficial to communicating effectively. How a plant spirit presents itself will be unique to you and your developed intuitive senses, mostly trust that you are receiving the information correctly.
