Plant Spirit Medicine

Awaken the medicine, magic & mystery of the plants

through Sacred ceremony & ritual

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Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitator

Certificate Program

IICT Certified

Waitlist Registration for our next 13 Moon program – Commencing ~ New Moon ~ 17th February 2026 are now open (Southern Hemisphere)

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A Soul journey into the heart of creation, remembering your Sacred relationship with the Earth, the plants and yourself. Reawakening the power of the cycles and your ancient wise woman roots

A 13 Moon journey through the wheel of the year, journeying with 7 initiatory plants through 7 cycles embodying the living wisdom of the elements and plant spirits through shamanic practices, plant dietas, ceremony, ritual and crafting.

Initiating you in to your own medicine path within Shamanic practice and plant spirit medicine. Giving you the confidence and skills to share this healing modality with your communities through 1:1 consultations and workshops.

This apprenticeship is for all nature lovers, green witches, herbalist and plant priestesses that hear the call of the plants and the whispers of your ancestors.

Are you ready to soften into your feminine receptivity, to allow the plant spirits to guide you into your deep intuitive listening and body wisdom. Bringing you into Sacred communion with the plants, to receive their generous gifts of healing.

This deeply transformational journey of self discovery will re-weave Sacred ceremony and ritual back into your daily life, awakening you to the magic and mystery of the Divine natural world. Calling in your personal plant allies, helping spirits and deepening your relationship with the Earth throughout the apprenticeship. Returning to right relationship and sacred balance, this is the healing gift of the plant spirits, they are waiting to connect with you.

Can you hear the drum beat call of your Soul?

Each plant will guide you into your inner realms, awakening your understanding of your energetic, archetypal patterning and elemental balance within you. This is the doorway to the language of the plants and understanding their gifts of harmony and healing. The plants within this apprenticeship will become your guides and allies as you journey into an ever evolving and deepening of relationship with them.

This healing container will hold and support you to:

Initiate into your path as a Medicine Woman, reclaiming your soul’s purpose in service to life & the Earth

Deepen your communion with nature, cultivating intimate, living relationships with the land, the elements, & the Plant Spirits as conscious allies

Embody the ancient wisdom of the Earth, awakening the elemental gateways of your body, aligning with cyclical rhythms for balance and harmony.

Journey with the plants each cycle, receiving their transformative healing gifts as guides for both personal healing and sacred service.

Awaken your intuitive body wisdom — learning to listen, feel, and trust the subtle currents of life-force moving through you.

Integrate shamanic healing tools ~ journeywork, cord-cutting, power retrieval, elemental ritual, & sacred ceremony into your own life and future sessions.

Explore the chakra system and Traditional 5 Element Medicine, understanding how body, spirit, plants, and Earth weave as one living system.

Reawaken your feminine wisdom, deepening receptivity, intuition, and inner authority as your natural way of knowing.

Enliven your sacred relationship with yourself and all of life, returning to the web of interconnection that nourishes and guides you.

Develop practical healing tools for Plant Spirit Medicine sessions, empowering you to hold safe, grounded & transformative spaces for others.

Step into feminine leadership, cultivating presence, integrity, and confidence as a facilitator of sacred healing.

Receive sacred business foundations for Plant Spirit Medicine facilitators, to bring your soul work into the world with clarity, alignment & abundance.

You will be guided & supported throughout your 13 Moon – Seasonal – Elemental apprenticeship, with:

∇  A rich portfolio of written guidebooks, video, and audio materials to support your learning within each cycle

∇  Ceremonies, shamanic journey, plant rituals & crafting to deepen your relationship with the seasons, cycles, elements and plants throughout our journey

  Live Zoom calls facilitated by Rachel Deering, holder of over 25 years experience immersed in herbal medicine, plant spirit medicine and the feminine healing arts. Held fortnightly on Satrudays 8am Perth time, commencing from Saturday 21st February 2026, throughout your apprenticeship (90 minute duration)

 Membership to a private facilitated online FB Apprenticeship Circle.

∇  Small intimate healing container with a maximum of 12 participants., held with the dedicated support and guidance of your experienced facilitator. Ensuring a safe and nurturing space for you to dive into the depths of your own healing experience and build the confidence and skills to begin working with this healing modality.  Creating a space for authentic expression & community connection

Following this year-long apprenticeship, you’ll be supported in our Level II – 6 month mentorship program, where we refine practical healing tools, begin offering 1:1 sessions, and receive guidance infeminine leadership, space-holding, and conscious business foundations.

Certification through WiseRoots Sacred Medicine School, which is internationally recognised with IICT accreditation. This allows you to step forward with confidence, offering your work in the world as a certified practitioner. 

Continued community support beyond your certification

Testimonials

My experience through the path of the Plant Medicine Apprenticeship has been deeply profound. What called me to this work became clearer the further I journeyed into the embodiment of the practice and my relationship with the plants. Their holding of my beingness was something I had never felt in the way I experienced it here. I am so grateful that I followed the inner ping to say yes.

Rachel has an incredible way of invitation, observation, and encouragement that truly mentors you into taking your most authentic path with the plants and into tapping the wisdom you already carry. Through these devoted journeys, I felt a deepening of my own sovereignty with each turning of the cycles and seasons, and more than that, a profound reconnection to my body.

As much as I was unravelling, I was also — in the same breath — reconnecting with a feminine innateness that words don’t quite hold. And through it all were the plants — the most ancient of allies — speaking, holding, and guiding me home.

I felt nothing but love and compassion from the women in the circle and felt deeply honoured and held by Rachel. This apprenticeship is carried with such intention, grace, and a deep sense of safety — far beyond what I could have anticipated. There is real magic here, and I hope you get the chance to dip your toes in and feel it for yourself.

— Kaleena Killick

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As a herbalist and naturopath, I felt a clear call to deepen my relationship with the plants beyond clinical knowledge and protocols. What I found within the Plant Spirit Medicine Apprenticeship was a remembering — a return to the living intelligence of the plants themselves.

This journey softened and expanded the way I work. The plants became teachers and allies rather than tools, and my practice gained a depth, reverence, and embodied wisdom that I hadn’t realised was missing. Rachel holds this work with such integrity, humility, and devotion — honouring both the science and the spirit of the plants.

Through this apprenticeship, my relationship with the natural world became more relational, intuitive, and alive. It has profoundly enriched not only my personal path, but the way I show up with clients and in service. This work feels essential for any practitioner who feels called to truly walk with the plants.

Jen – QLD

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I had always dreamed of studying naturopathy and herbalism. I tried a few times over the years, but something never quite landed — it felt disconnected from what my soul was actually yearning for. Then I found Rachel. I absolutely adore her, the language she uses to talk about the plants and the journey of connection she has created with the plants.

It wasn’t just information — it was relationship. She opened a whole new world for me, one where the plants, the Earth, and my own body were in conversation with one another.

This apprenticeship gave me what I had always been searching for: a way to truly connect, listen, and build relationship with the plants and the land. It felt like coming home to something ancient and familiar. This is what my soul had been calling for all along.

Jess – Brisbane

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Wow! Just love Rachel’s deep healing work. Rachel is a very powerful healer and working with her always sparks ancient wisdom in my soul. After every session I feel different – something has always shifted, moved and healed. This lady creates space in you whole energy field – space that clears old wounds and shadows so your true power, love, light and who you really are can step in.

Jo

 

Meet your initiatory plant allies for each seasonal cycle

Sacred plant apprenticeship through 7 gateways of initiation guided by 7 plant allies, you will also call in your personal plant allies along this journey

Are you ready to journey through the 7 veils guided by your plant allies?

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Cycle 1

Elder is a Sacred Celtic tree, embodying the ancient wisdom of the elder or old crone aspect of the triple goddess.

As guardian to the entrance of the underworld, she introduces us to the 3 worlds of Shamanic practice, guiding us into the lower world, walking us across the threshold of initiation, to meet with our ancestors, animal spirits and plant allies for the journey ahead.

She gifts the capacity to enter the darkness, embodying your true cyclical nature of life – death – rebirth, embodying the wisdom of the cycles within. Connect with the season of late summer, the energies of Earth Element and Root Chakra.

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Cycle 2

Journey into the season of autumn, the energies of the metal element and throat chakra, with the guidance of Echinacea

Echinacea opens our throat chakra, connecting us with our soul purpose, Divine will, inviting us into the exploration of the healing vibration of sound.

Now is the time to clear past contracts or vows of silence, to release your voice, share your song, express all the things your soul has to say, so the world can hear what you came here to share.

Let the sharing of your voice be your medicine. The days of persecution, the witch hunts that your soul remembers are over, it is safe to share your wisdom, your magic, your medicine. Call all those pieces back home.

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Cycle 3

Rose is the key to the Sacred portal of our womb, she embodies the element of water and energies of Venus.

Her Sacred feminine medicine is the doorway to reweaving and remembering the archetypal aspects of the feminine and the ancient wisdom of your ancestral lineages.

She will guide you into the power centre of your womb, journeying through the elemental gateways within, awakening their Sacred gifts. She will gently guide you into deeper trust of your feminine intuition, power & wisdom. Connect with the Water element, Sacral chakra, your womb medicine wheel and phases of the Moon, reclaim your feminine power and wisdom
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Cycle 4

Dandelion embodies the 3 celestial bodies of the sun, moon and stars.

Dandelion is the doorway to the energy of spring, the elements of wood & fire and your Solar plexus power centre.

Dandelion will guide you into the subtle realms of your energetic being. Learn to scan the energy system, to clear heavy or intrusive energy, cut cords of attachment, work with fire ceremony and power retrieval, to restore healthy boundaries, personal power and recipricol energy exchange within relationships.

She will  stoke your inner fires, unleash your creative birthing power and step into your Soul purpose, power and light, allowing your true gifts to be seen by the world.

 

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Cycle 5

Hawthorn, sacred medicine of the heart, is a wild and enchanted tree under the protection of the fairy realm.

She is the doorway to the secret chambers of your heart, releasing any blocked energy, healing your inner child and deepest recesses of your hidden heart. She will  open your heart to radiate with passion and love. Calling in the healing balm of Divine Mother to anoint your entire being with self-love, reigniting your deepest prayer of devotion for life. Hawthorn will reweave the Sacred balance of your inner masculine and feminine energies within, unifying your power and love through heart – womb union.

Journey within the season of summer, the elemental energies of air and fire and the heart chakra.

 

 

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Cycle 6

Mugwort will guide you into your lunar consciousness, thinning the veil between the worlds, awakening your innate feminine intuition and visionary dreaming of your 3rd eye chakra.

This Sacred women’s herb will be the gateway of communion with our guides, allies and ancestors, re-awakening your inner wise woman and activating your ancient feminine wisdom and power.

Explore the Her-story of woman, activating the witch wound, inviting mugwort to transform the threads of old conditioning and reweave your magical wise woman powers back into the fabric of your being. This is a woman’s journey of reclamation.

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Cycle 7

St John’s wort is the bringer of light and calls in all lost soul fragments, reweaving you back to wholeness.

He is the doorway of ascension into the celestial realms of the upper world, he completes our 7 gateways, initiating you on your medicine path as healer. You become the living embodiment of the tree of life, as above, so below, a divine channel connected with the primordial Shakti power of the earth and Divine love light of the heavens. Expanding your entire being into Divine union.

Learn aura cleansing, repair & restoration, Soul retrieval and psychic protection with this ancient plant ally.

Meet your intiatory plant allies for each cycle

Cycle 1

Elder is a Sacred Celtic tree, embodying the ancient wisdom of the elder or old crone aspect of the triple goddess. As guardian to the entrance of the underworld, she will walk you through this magical portal to meet with our ancestors, animal spirits and plant allies for the journey ahead.

Cycle 2

Echinacea is the doorway to your throat chakra, releasing any fear of judgement or need for approval, liberating your truth, authenticity and capacity to express your creative power and magic into the world. She will initiate you into your Sacred sexual power

Cycle 3

Rose embodies the element of water and energies of Venus, this sacred feminine medicine is the doorway to reweaving and remembering the archetypal aspects of the feminine and ancient wisdom of your ancestral lineages within the Sacred portal of your womb

Cycle 4

Dandelion is the doorway to your Solar plexus power centre, the wood and fire element. Connecting with your inner warrior to reclaim your personal power, cutting cords of attachment to restore healthy boundaries and relationships, allowing your gifts to shine out into the world

Cycle 5

Hawthorn, sacred medicine of the heart, is the doorway to the secret chambers of your heart, releasing any blocked energy and opening your heart to radiate with passion and love. Reweaving the Sacred balance of your inner masculine and feminine energies within.

Cycle 6

Mugwort will guide you into your lunar consciousness, thinning the veil between the worlds, awakening your innate feminine intuition and visionary dreaming. Mugwort will transform the threads of old conditioning rooted in the witch wounds, to reclaim your magical wise woman powers

Cycle 7

St John’s wort is the bringer of light and calls in all lost soul fragments, reweaving you back to wholeness. He is the doorway of ascension into the celestial realms of Divine union. He completes our 7 gateways, initiating you on your medicine woman path.

Activate your inner Medicine Woman to walk the path of feminine & earth based wisdom. Call in your personal plant allies throughout this sacred apprenticeship.

This rich and deep journey guided by the plants will be a powerful portal of inner transformation and healing. Returning your roots into the heart of creation, awakening your ever evolving relationship with the Earth, elements and the plants.

The Sacred medicine of relationship with the Divine natural world is the healing balm calling the world back into balance and harmony. Remembering we are not seperate, we are deeply interwoven and interwined within the great web of life. This is the medicine of the Soul.

Can you hear the drum beat call of your Soul?

    This apprenticeship is for you if:

      ∇ You feel the quiet (or not so quiet) call back to the Earth — a longing to root deeply, slow down, and remember an ancient way of belonging.

      ∇ You hear the whisper of the plants in your body… an intuitive knowing in your bones that they hold wisdom meant for you.

      ∇ You desire an embodied, intuitive, Earth-based healing path — alive, cyclical, relational, and rooted in reverence for nature.

      ∇ You are ready to heal yourself, your lineage, and your relationships, laying to rest old narratives of disempowerment.

      ∇ You long to reclaim your roots, honour your ancestral wisdom, and remember your soul’s purpose.

      ∇ You are called to commune with the Plant family as kin — learning directly from them as teachers and healers.

      ∇ You wish to understand your body, cycles, and wellbeing through intuitive wisdom rather than outsourcing your healing.

      ∇ You yearn to live in harmony with inner and outer seasons, honouring your womb, wild body, and natural rhythms.

      ∇ You seek Earth-rooted community — a sacred circle where learning is embodied, relational, and held with care.

      ∇ You are ready to step into your sacred vocation and offer this beautiful healing modality into the world.

        If your heart is stirring as you read this…
        if something within you recognises this path…
        you already know.

        We cannot wait to welcome you into this sacred immersion.

        If you feel ready, you’re invited to sign up below or book a discovery call to explore whether this journey is aligned for you.

        Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitator Certificate Program

        Become a Certified Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitator

        Once you have graduated from Level I & II Plant Spirit Medicine Programs, you will:

        ~ Receive a Certificate from WiseRoots Sacred Medicine School

        ~ Be eligible to join the IICT and obtain insurance for your Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitation of 1:1 client healing sessions, workshops, circles & retreats

        Our Plant Spirit Medicine Training is fully certified and listed as an officially recognised modality with IICT, one of the foremost complimentary therapy organisations across the globe. Training with a Platinum Training Provider means that your certification is recognised worldwide and you can access competitively priced insurance to cover your work.

        The magic & medicine of the plants will come alive on this journey, bringing you into deep relationship with yourself, your inner wisdom and power and ALL life. The plants are alive and conscious and waiting for you to connect with them.

        This is a powerful portal of healing and transformation.

        I want to acknowledge the lineage of teachers who have walked this path before us and thank the ones I have worked with personally for generously sharing their wisdom and for being part of the inspiration of this Sacred apprenticeship. Know that this training program is held within a deep lineage ancient teachings and blessed by the plant beings.

        Are you ready to

        Return – Remember – Renew

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        Frequently Asked Questions

        Will I receive a certificate with this training?

        You will receive a Certificate of Completion from WiseRoots Sacred Medicine School which then allows you to enrol in our Level II Plant Spirit Medcine 6 month mentorship circle, this space is to support you in developing your skills as a practitioner. Once Level II is complete you become a Certified Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitator with IICT and able to purchase insurance to cover your work with clients in 1:1 healing sessions, circles, workshops and retreats.

        I do not have any prior herbal knowledge or training, is this course appropriate for me?

        Yes, this course is perfect for you. You do not need to have any previous experience with Shamanic practice, herbalism or plant spirit medicine. This sacred apprenticeship will be a transformative journey of self-discovery, diving into your inner realms for your healing process. You will learn to come into deep relationship and intuitive connection with the plants. Through this initiation with the plant spirits you will embody the cyclical wisdom of the elements, the medicine of the plants and plant your roots deep into the belly of mother earth. You will then learn how to offer this medicine in client healing sessions and share plant spirit medicine with your communities through circles, workshops and retreats, if you are called to work with this healing modality as part of your sacred vocation.

        I already have a herbal or naturopathic degree, will this course be of any benefit for me?

        Yes, absolutely. Your formal degree trainings gives you accreditation for clinical practice, however can leave you feeling as if something is missing, a sense of disconnection. It is the medicine of relationship and connection with the plants that is necessary for you to have an embodied experience of their medicine, a lived experience that you can infuse into your daily rituals and rhythms, to share passionately with your clients.

        This grassroots, feminine, shamanic approach of connecting with the spirit of the plants, will awaken your intuitive capacity and feeling sense to connect with the healing qualities of the plants, getting to know them as old friends.

        You will understand the energetic map of the body and the elemental qualities of the plants to restore balance, gifting a multidimensional approach to your healing practice. This holistic healing medicine is for the emotional and spirtitual body.

        This is embodied elemental herbalism rooted within traditional Shamanic practice, it will awaken the medicine of relationship and wisdom of the plants alive within you. Can you hear the call?

        What is the cost of this course and what is your refund policy?

        Your 12 month seasonal journey through 7 gateways with 7 initiatory plants is  $4800AUD

        We have payment plans available at monthly payments of $400 for 12 months.

        Level II Plant Spirit Medicine Mentorship Circle is $1200 – this is required for you to receive certification as a Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitator with IICT.

        When you commit to the full access or payment plan option of this course, there are no refunds available. You may be able to transfer to the next available course under extenuating circumstances and this is at the discretion of the team at WiseRoots Sacred Medicine School.

        A full refund policy will be emailed to you on sign up.

        Is this course completely online? Are there any live components?

        Yes, the course is fully online.

        With an online portal to access your pre-recorded videos, comprehensive pdf workbooks, rituals, journeys and practices to guide your initiatory cycle with each of the plants throughout our 12 month journey. 

        Live component consisting of fortnightly 90 minute Zoom calls which are all recorded for you to watch if you cannot attend the live event. These are posted in your private FB group for you to access at your leisure.

        Our daily facilitated private FB community is a space for live connection and engagement with the sealed container of Plant Spirit Medicine  participants.

        There will be optional in-person workshops and retreats offered in Perth and around Australia throughout the year – these are fully optional and not an essential component of the training. They offer a great opportunity to experience the medicine through in person trainings

        How long I can access the course materials?

        All of your course material is fully downloadable, I encourage you to download your materials and save in a Plant Spirit Medicine folder for your safe keeping and ease of access. You will have access to your online portal for 12 months and will be emailed 1 month prior to portal closure to remind you to download your course materials.

        The FB group will remain open for you to go back over the content posted throughout our 12 month training

        Are you based in Australia?

        WiseRoots Sacred Medicine School is based in Western Australia, in Perth.
        While our roots are here, our community and teachings are woven across the globe.


        Is this apprenticeship open to women worldwide?

        ✨ All are welcome ✨

        This apprenticeship is a seasonal journey guided by the turning of the Wheel of the Year.

        To honour the natural rhythms of the Earth in all lands, the training is offered for both the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, allowing each participant to walk in harmony with their local seasons and cycles.

        The apprenticeship opens twice each year:
        February for the Southern Hemisphere
        August for the Northern Hemisphere


        What plants will we journey with?

        Our initiatory plant allies throughout the apprenticeship are:

        Elder
        Echinacea
        Rose
        Dandelion
        Hawthorn
        Mugwort
        St John’s Wort

        These sacred plants and trees grow across many climates around the world and are common allies in both the British Isles and Australia.

        Alongside journeying with these initiatory plants, you will also be guided to connect deeply with your local plant allies — the plants that live and grow around you.

        This brings the medicine into direct relationship with your own land, allowing the teachings to be embodied and alive within your unique environment.


        Is the Plant Spirit Medicine Training certified?

        Yes.

        The Plant Spirit Medicine Facilitator Apprenticeship is fully certified and officially recognised with IICT (International Institute for Complementary Therapists) — one of the foremost complementary therapy organisations globally.

        WiseRoots Sacred Medicine School is a Platinum Training Provider, meaning:

        • Your certification is recognised worldwide
        • You can access competitively priced practitioner insurance
        • You may offer Plant Spirit Medicine professionally within your sacred vocation


        Do you have connections to the UK and Europe?

        Yes.

        Rachel is originally from the United Kingdom, where these initiatory plants are native to the British Isles and deeply woven into ancestral Earth wisdom traditions.

        She returns to the UK annually to offer sacred pilgrimages, land-based ceremonies, and plant spirit connection journeys, bridging the wisdom of the ancient lands with the living Earth here in Australia and beyond.