Program Overview

Instructors: Robert Rogers & Laurie Szott Rogers

Earth Spirit Start Date: Online- Summer of 2025

Herbology: Embracing Regional Botanical Wisdom –

Start Date: Summer 2025 – Online only
Instructor: Robert Rogers

Join our comprehensive pre-recorded online Herbology course, which includes Audio lectures and Zoom video sessions led by master herbalist Robert Rogers.

Robert will discuss various local plants’ medicinal, healing, folkloric, and spiritual applications. Discover herbs, their components, and energetics while relating the information to body systems such as the heart, kidneys, and liver.

As a dedicated learner, lecturer, and writer, Robert will share his extensive knowledge of botany and clinical herbalism, which he has accumulated over 50 years, along with his passion for local flora. He will discuss the remarkable plants native to Western Canada and explore their healing properties.

To complement the course, students must obtain a series of books on regional plants and body systems from Rogers’ School of Herbal Medicine, specifically designed for this program to enhance their studies. https://selfhealdistributing.com/product/rogers-school-of-herbal-medicine-bundle-volumes-one-fifteen/ Learners may also create “condition cards” for each plant they study.

Are you looking for hands-on experience? You can sign up for in-person plant walks to improve your practical skills in identifying plants and mushrooms and making medicine.

To learn more  go to: https://www.northernstarcourses.com/earth-spirit-medicine-landing/

Books by Robert Rogers

Wildcrafting, Plant Walks, and Medicine Making – 14 Hours, Camrose
Starts: TBA

Instructor: Robert Rogers
Learn to identify, harvest, and wildcraft plant materials. Dress appropriately for walking in nature. Prepare tinctures, salves, and other herbal remedies.

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https://northernstarcourses.com/product/wild-crafting-plant-walks-and-medicine-making

Plant Walks 3 different walks, 3 hours each.
In Camrose- Date- TBA
Michael please Link to our selfheal site- Plant walks. It will go through our self heal website.

Instructor: Robert Rogers
Discover different local plants and mushrooms and their healing uses in different locations in Camrose. Rain or shine. Dress for an outdoor experience

Sacred Circle

Date: TBA 3.5 hours
Instructor: Laurie Szott-Rogers

Discover how to create a safe and supportive environment for sharing, whether on a personal level or with groups and clients. Engage in an egalitarian circle where power is shared, allowing everyone to speak and be heard. Cultivate the superpower of gentle listening.

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Journaling

Date: TBA 3.5 hours
Cost– TBA
Instructor: Laurie Szott-Rogers

Write to enhance your self-awareness. This age-old practice allows you to articulate and record your emotions and perceptions. Journaling can serve as a heartfelt letter to yourself and a way to uncover your truth.

Click Here to Enrol- https://northernstarcourses.com/product/journalling/

The Practical Potions, Aromatherapy Apprentice Ship Adventure** * The On-line Introduction to Aromatherapy

Practical Potions: Introductory Apprentice Ship Adventure

To learn more, go to our Practical Potions Program Page. https://www.northernstarcourses.com/

Launching in Spring 2025
Study at your own home and create your timetable. Students must block off at least 77 hours to complete this information and project-rich course.
Instructor: Robert Rogers and Laurie Szott-Rogers

Infuse your home with essential oils’ powerful purifying benefits while avoiding harsh chemicals. Work with essential oils to boost your creativity. Create simple potions such as toothpaste, foot rubs, and room blends. You will discover the properties of essential oils and enhance your expertise to produce what you require. It is recommended that you have a genuine desire to learn and be ready to dedicate time and attention to your studies.

You will take a comprehensive 70-hour college course, which includes detailed write-ups, videos, exercises, and an online journal to support your journey. Completing the entire course will result in certification in introductory aromatherapy.

Practical Potions, Advanced, Apprentice Ship Adventure

Instructors: Robert Rogers & Laurie Szott Rogers
Launching in Spring 2025, our certified, self-study, fully online diploma program.
–Mike-  Link to Practical Potions Advanced Course on northernstarcourses

Elevate your aromatherapy journey with our Advanced Aromatic Adventure! Building on our Introductory Certificate, this online Apprentice Ship Diploma Program guides you through the botanical and intuitive qualities of over 70 essential oils. Learn to select the ideal oil, craft synergistic blends, and create professional-level formulas for hair, skin, and beauty.

This 77-hour, college-equivalent course includes comprehensive write-ups, videos, exercises, and a detailed journal to support your progress. You can also connect with like-minded enthusiasts in our exclusive Facebook group. Many graduates even turn their creations into an extra source of income! Aromatherapy Courses—both Introductory and Advanced. For further information, please visit our Practical Potions Program.

Learn about the properties and uses of over 90 essential oils and over 45 carrier oils. Go to the following link to learn about part 1 of this 2-part program. http://northernstarcourses.com/practical-potions/

Try before you buy- Take the “Free Cruise“- https://www.northernstarcourses.com/lesson/a-start-your-aromatic-adventure/ It will be available in the spring of 2025.

Subtle Elixirs for Deep Yearnings- Flower Essences

45 hours- Online
Start Date: TBA
Instructor: Robert Rogers and Laurie Szott-Rogers

Most of us suffer from the pain caused when our deepest longings remain unheard. Our bodies and emotions may repeatedly manifest illness until the true message of our distress or yearning is understood and addressed. Dr. Bach, an English physician from the 1920s, developed flower therapy to help his patients with recurring health issues. He felt the root cause of their suffering was not listening to their more profound “dis-ease”, and not living their true purpose. Dr. Bach revealed flower essences that shed light on the emotional and soul issues not addressed in conventional settings. He developed these vibrational elixirs to open stuck patterns and unheard emotional and spiritual centers.

What You Will Learn:

• A new way to view and address client issues.
• The properties and use of English, Healing Herb essences, some of the Californian Flower Essence Societies, flower remedies, the Canadian Prairie Deva and Mushroom essences.
• Interview skills to understand what is causing discomfort and “disease” in yourself and your clients.
• How your yearnings and pain are messages indicating which flowers may benefit you.
• How flower essences fill in gaps other healing practices do not address.

Develop Skills-
Assignments focus on personal growth, including experiencing the flower essences, interviewing class partners, writing up your insights and transformations, working with clients, and sharing your journey and insights through a class presentation.

Course Details–
Flower Essences is an online, self-learning experience.
To learn more, go to this link: https://www.northernstarcourses.com/earth-spirit-medicine-landing/

Here is what some former students say about flower essences–

“Flower essences are the closest I have ever come to being able to wield true magick. I can’t imagine what it would have been like to go through a whole life without the gifts and insights of this deeply powerful kind of spirit medicine. My experiences have illuminated me, and I believe I can only encourage light in the most elegant, graceful way possible by sharing this gift.”  Jenn L

“I believe emotions, thoughts, feelings, are the foundation of our dis-ease, which can manifest as illness. Flower Essences can bring awareness to the roots of those states so we can work through them and grow. By changing our perceptions of our past experiences, we have the potential to bring about profound changes and growth.”    Christine R.

“By taking the purest, highest vibration of a positive quality, anything lesser must surface and be released. In this way, the deepest healing occurs through an alchemical transformation process. The lead in our lives, thoughts, hearts, and ourselves is transfigured into gold- our true essence.” Connie S.

Student Thesis & Projects: 49 Hours; Student Completes on own time.

*Note- Becoming an herbalist is a lifetime commitment. You will receive some theoretical training at this college, but to certify with organizations, you will need to meet their requirements for both theoretical and practical work.