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Darren has been teaching classes on various holistic health topics for over 10 years. He offers engaging and educational classes and tours for groups, individuals, schools. Contact Darren to arrange a customized class.

Darren currently teaches at Five Branches University, University of California at Santa Cruz Holistic Health Program, UCSC Farm and Garden, Common Ground Garden Education Center, and the American School of Herbalism. See below for a listing of upcoming classes

Darren offers the following customized classes:

Natural Food Store Tours- Individuals experiencing the “omnivore's dilemma” will find Darren's shopping tours helpful. In 1-1/2 hours, you will learn to recognize the healthy and not so healthy foods carried in local natural food stores.

Interactive Landscape/Garden Tours- This tour focuses on your landscape, teaching how to prepare and use the medicines already growing there. Customized prescriptions for adding herbs important to your family's health needs can also be arranged.

Herbal Medicine Classes- For individuals or small groups wishing to learn herbal medicine for their family/community or for medical practitioners wanting to incorporate herbal medicine into their practices. Topics include herbal medicine making, local medicinal plants, the treatment of selected disharmonies with herbs, nutrition, and lifestyle.

Upcoming Classes:

New weekly classes will be offered soon, please check back. Or for timely updates, sign up for my newsletter which will have information about classes and will include special offers. I also welcome your suggestions for future class topics of which I am available to teach for you, your organization or a group of friends wanting to learn.

Roots of Wellness Class Series

Come join us for great classes in a great location. Classes will be held in our new teaching space in the Seabright area of Santa Cruz, a working herbal pharmacy that has over 400 different bulk herbs, tinctures, essential oils, and a holistic health library with over 500 titles, surrounded in a large organic herb/food garden. All classes held here will be limited to 12 participants or less so be sure to sign up early as they are expected to fill.

Case based Herbal/Holistic Health Education ♦ Mondays or Tuesdays, January 9th or 10th - March 26th or 27th

Would you like to learn how to support yourself/friends/family/community with holistic health tools? Do you already have some training or experience in holistic health but don’t quite know how to integrate it into useful patient interactions. This class will use real people as a springboard for learning about herbal medicine, nutrition, lifestyle adjustments, and other holistic health tools. There will be one or two patients for each four hour class session. A group interview will be conducted to discover how to best support the patient’s health goals. A treatment plan will be researched, discussed and created for the patient including herbal formulas, nutritional recommendations, and lifestyle interventions.

Classes will be conducted in a working herbal pharmacy/classroom that has over 400 different bulk herbs, tinctures, essential oils, a holistic health library with over 500 titles, internet access surrounded in a large organic herb/food garden. This will be a very interactive and hands on course that will get you critically thinking on how to care for others with natural medicines.

This is a 10 week series on either a Monday or a Tuesday. Mondays will start on January 9th at 9am until 1pm (4-hour class). Series ends on March 26th. Tuition is $400.
Tuesdsays will start on January 10th at 9am until noon (3-hour class). Series ends on March 27th. Tuition is $300Tuition due by January 5th or before to reserve your spot.
Please note: Space is limited to 6 students For more information and to see if you qualify for this learning opportunity call Darren at (831) 334-5177 or email at rootsofwellness (at) gmail.com Space is limited to pre-registration is strongly suggested.

REGISTRATION INFO

Due to the small class sizes pre-registration is necessary to confirm a seat in the class. Sign up for any 2 classes and receive 1/2 off your 3rd class(of equal or lesser value). Upon registration you will receive directions, parking info, etc. Please do your best to ride share, walk or bike to classes as parking is limited.

Payment Options:

1. Credit card is accepted by phone, please call 831.334.5177
2. Mail a check to Darren Huckle: 343 Frederick St., Santa Cruz, CA 95062. Please include your email address in the mailing and you will receive a confirmation email upon receipt of your check.
3. Hold your space with a credit card # (over phone) and then pay in cash or check on the class date.

Refunds: No refunds will be given for cancellations or no shows the day of class and the week before. 50% refund for cancellations over 1 week before class date. 75% refund for cancellations over 2 weeks before class date. True emergencies will receive full refund. Full refunds will be given if class is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

The American School of Herbalism & Roots of Wellness present

Our 20th Annual Herbal Camping Trip to the East Side of Big Sur

Starting noon Saturday, April 7th till 2pm Sunday April 8th

Come explore the plants of the forest, meadow, riparian and chapparal environments in this stunning area of California. There will be 5-7 experienced herbalists/chinese medicine practitioners/herbal product manufacturers touring you through this botanically rich area, discussing the use, harvest, and identification of California's medicinal herbs. Teachers include Ben Zappin L.Ac., Darren Huckle L.Ac., Ingrid Bauer and potentially Christopher Hobbs L.Ac., Brian Weissbuch L.Ac., Bill Schoenbart L.Ac., etc

Tuition- Includes camp-out gourmet dinner and breakfast emphasizing wild/medicinal $150 for full time students, $175 for general public, $200 for Acupuncturists (10 CEU's pending approval). Space is limited, call or email to put down deposit and for more details. Participants should be comfortable sleeping outdoors and be able to comfortably walk 2-5 miles throughout a day.

Approximate location is 1 hour west of King City nestled against the Coast Range

Golden Shield Qi Gong

Classes in Santa Cruz and Marin / San Rafael ♦ Ongoing

Golden Shield Qi Gong is a rapid and effective system of physical, energetic, emotional empowerment. If you want to learn how to radically strengthen yourself come and get a feel for what this amazing system of self cultivation is all about.Jin Gui Golden Shield Qi Gong is a dynamic system of self-cultivation unlike most qi gong taught in the US. Based on a martial tradition, Golden Shield was once used by martial artists to generate high levels of vitality and internal power. This martial or yang style qi gong is now taught as a medical system with the intention of promoting health and longevity.

Golden Shield Qi Gong is a progressive system that has defined training levels and objectives. Students train at home 3-5 times a week and have a very clear sense of what their home training entails. Within a few months students have palpable and objective measures of how their qi has strengthened.

If you are interested in human potential this is definitely a training to look into.

Please feel free to come and visit a class. Please call or email me so I know you are coming. Go to http://goldenshieldqigong.com for more info.