Learn Botanics Herbal Medicine Clinic & Workshops

19/08/2025

Menopause Health & Herbal Medicine Making: A practical day course 🌿

Exploring the natural changes that occur in the body during perimenopause and menopause through a herbalist lens. Together, we’ll explore common — yet often challenging — symptoms such as heightened anxiety, hot flushes, irregular bleeding, and more ⚖️

This course offers a fresh, holistic approach to understanding and managing menopause. You’ll learn how medicinal herbs can help regulate hormones, relieve stress, and restore your sense of vitality 🔥

Through both instructor-led discussions and hands-on medicine-making, you’ll gain practical tools to take control of your health and wellbeing during this powerful life transition 💪

We'll be focusing on some key seasonal plant allies, including Hawthorn, Mugwort, Rose, and more... if you think you know these plants. Think again 😊

What to expect:

♡ Guidance on menopause and hormonal health from a hormone health specialist

♡ DIY herbal tips to ease symptoms to reduce stress, increase sleep quality, and feel more in balance in your body

♡ Plant ID, foraging, and hands-on herbal remedy making — take home what you create

♡ An opportunity to reconnect with nature, your body’s rhythms

♡ Celebrate the coming of autumn and the abundance of hedgerow plants that support inner transitions

♡ Chance to connect with others on a similar path, feel seen, feel heard

♡ Leave with new knowledge, a renewed connection to nature, and a toolkit of herbal preparations to support your journey through menopause

📌 Liliput Farm
Wick BS30 5RU

📅 Saturday 13th September 10 - 3pm

🎟 Spaces limited. Book now lilliputfarm.com
Link in bio ✨️

24/07/2025

** Unfortunately this event has been cancelled **

Meet Your Host for ‘Wild Medicine: Build Your Own Herbal Medicine Chest’

Claire Goulding is a Medical Herbalist, Facilitator, and Aromatherapist with over 15 years of clinical experience. She works one-to-one with clients from her Bristol-based clinic and internationally via Napiers Online Clinic.

With a deep-rooted passion for nature connection, Claire draws on her Forest School training and years of community engagement to bring a grounded and sensory experiential approach to her work.

Claire specialises in hormonal health and is a passionate advocate of menstrual cycle awareness—an integral part of both her clinical practice and teaching.

Claire leads workshops and courses across Bristol, the South West, and Europe under her practice, Learn Botanics Herbal Medicine Clinic & Workshops. She holds a First-Class Honours BSc in Clinical Herbalism.

When she’s not teaching or seeing clients, you’ll find Claire singing in her choir, dancing, or stuffing pockets full of herbs out in nature.

👉 [Follow the link below for full course details and to book your place.]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16ZtxxeoAV/

04/07/2025

Learning herbs under the Portuguese sun anyone?

WILD MEDICINE: BUILD YOUR OWN MEDICINE CHEST

A comprehensive beginner’s home herbalism course designed to equip you with practical skills and confidence to use herbs around you to treat common ailments.

This full 3 day course of medicine making, foraging, campfire, wood fire pizzas, theory in the classroom and MUCH MORE...

🌸 What You’ll Learn:
✔️ Natural support for sleep, anxiety, gut health, skin and more
✔️ Build a strong immune system with herbs and lifestyle changes
✔️ How to create herbal remedies chest for you and loved ones

📅 6-9 October 2025
📍 Mira D’Ouro Sertã, Portugal - accommodation included
🎟 Limited spots available – RSVP today!
🇬🇧 Please note this course will be lead in English
££ Early bird prices from just €290

Full course itinerary here: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGp9IRwrzg/nKIllQI9WycY5bH5d3lTFQ/edit

** Unfortunately this event has been cancelled **

Meet Your Host for ‘Wild Medicine: Build Your Own Herbal Medicine Chest’

Claire Goulding is a Medical Herbalist, Facilitator, and Aromatherapist with over 15 years of clinical experience. She works one-to-one with clients from her Bristol-based clinic and internationally via Napiers Online Clinic.

With a deep-rooted passion for nature connection, Claire draws on her Forest School training and years of community engagement to bring a grounded and sensory experiential approach to her work.

Claire specialises in hormonal health and is a passionate advocate of menstrual cycle awareness—an integral part of both her clinical practice and teaching.

Claire leads workshops and courses across Bristol, the South West, and Europe under her practice, Learn Botanics Herbal Medicine Clinic & Workshops. She holds a First-Class Honours BSc in Clinical Herbalism.

When she’s not teaching or seeing clients, you’ll find Claire singing in her choir, dancing, or stuffing pockets full of herbs out in nature.

👉 [Follow the link below for full course details and to book your place.]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/16ZtxxeoAV/

30/06/2025

Landing from an incredible few days with with such respect and care, tredding lightly as we could with all of the living beings
The land is brimming with life, from the many frogs hopping about, hedgerows are brimming with pollinators, the lake home to beavers.

Here's a few captured pics of a impromptu pine harvest for pain relieving balms and a few of a herb immersion workshop I shared.

Huge thanks and gratitude to Tasha of the who weaved all of us together at the Emerging Earth Gathering, the embers have been ignited and there's more to come.

I feel deeply humbled and inspired by the souls I've met, the nourishing food we shared, the songs we sang, the laughter and tears that came, the poems shared, the breath that slowed, the heart tending that was witnessed with kindness.

We witnessed the pain and suffering we know is present in our world, navigating strength, hope, and connection with some incredible souls with compassion, curiosity, and deep reciprocity to the land. There's much more to come, but for now, I'm deep listening.
Thank you x

19/06/2025

Take the unique opportunity to feel deepely rejuvenated, refreshed and full of knowledge. A sensory journey into better health.

Sounds good, right? Cast your eyes on this incredible event 27th and 28th September based at the organic herb farm Be Aromatic.

Tell your friends. Portugal, here we come.

https://www.bearomatic.com/women-health/

07/06/2025

There's lot of noise out there, do you find your self doom scrolling feeling more confused than ever?

Get clarity. Get savvy.

Join us for Herbs for Peri and Menopause next Saturday 14th 10-4pm 💥

An interactive, informal 1 day course designed to deliver clear, useful, and practical ways to implement using herbs for better health, naturally 😊

What to expect:

🌿 Hands-on medicine making
🌿 Tea blending + tasting
🌿 Plant ID + foraging
🌿 Take away handmade products
🌿 Handouts + recipe guides
🌿 Teachings from Red School
🌿 Introduction to key hormonal health herbs Inc. Red Clover, Lemon Balm, Passionflower, + more...

Let's not forget that this IS the original medicine, not the alternative.

Delivered by hormonal health specialist Medical Herbalist Claire Goulding, offering clinical expertise and years of teaching

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27/05/2025

☀️ 🌿 SUMMER UPCOMING EVENTS 🌿 ☀️

There are a few more up my sleeve, but here's what the next few months look like.

First off, HERBS FOR PERI + MENOPAUSE HEALTH Saturday 14th June 10 - 4pm

Then off to the stunning grounds of + nr Frome as part of the EMERGING EARTH FESTIVAL. I'll be offering a "pop up clinic" + leading a few herbal tea tasting workshops throughout the wkd.

August means a visit to one of the best UK festivals around: . Back by popular demand with the wondrous crew with the one and only doing our HERBS FOR MENSTRUAL HEALTH workshop, twice!

First part of September marks another beautiful day deep diving into HERBS FOR PERI + MENOPAUSE HEALTH , a truely special farm.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME 🌈

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30/04/2025

To celebrate the coming of Beltane, excited to share this 3 month herbal medicine package.

Offer available at this price for one week, valid until the 8th May.

All in-person consultations will be held at the National Centre of Integrated Medicine . It is a very special spot just outside of Bristol.

Any questions please either drop a SPRING in the messages or send me a DM.

Claire x

22/04/2025

Why do I lead short courses and workshops?

This is how I first got interested in herbalism. I came with many questions about my own health. I got inspiration. I got support. I felt seen. I got some answers. They shaped where I am today.

I love sharing this ancient knowledge. We have always worked with plants since the beginning! This work honours that lineage.

The workshops are designed to be applied practically afterwards. With all the information you need to start or deepen your herbal learning.

I have a few exciting new course offerings coming up this summer and autumn. Herbs for Menstrual Health is back by popular demand, 2 spots left this Sunday 27th April, 10-4pm

15/04/2025

"Endometriosis requires a multidisciplinary and holistic approach... I support women exploring nature therapies to help manage their condition, this can be beneficial and empower women to take control of their symptoms"

Jo Kitt is NHS Clinical Nurse Specialist in Endometriosis and Pelvic Pain based at Newport Hospital, Wales.

Let's welcome integrated healthcare with open minds. Let's welcome old traditions and new clinical findings.
Let's welcome change.

11/04/2025

It was an absolute pleasure to represent the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH)
at Jekka Herb Days last week 🌿

There were an incredible 125 of you (give or take a few) that joined my walk around the herbaretum on each of the days 🤗

Apart from making me feel like the herbal pied piper, it was wonderful to see so much interest healing plants and how to use them 💓

Thanks for having me and , and of course, everyone who joined the walk! 🙏

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04/03/2025

Hi folks.

A little bit about me...

On paper, I'm a herbalist, facilitator, and massage therapist. I've followed a very unlinear career path but collected enough certificates to wallpaper a room, so a friend tells me. I love learning. If I think about it, all the studies I've done have been heart-led. I struggle to motivate myself to do things unless I feel passionate about it.

I manage endometriosis, was finally diagnosed in 2021, but had even been dealing with debilitating symptoms since my late 20s. Holding down an FT job for an employer has proved challenging as there is ALWAYS an element of unpredictability to this condition, however hard I try. I still need to block out 2 days every month to literally, where feasible possible: to just rest. If you think that sounds difficult. It is.

Over the years, I've had to take an enormous amount of sick leave, mostly unpaid due to this chronic condition. I am not sharing to win your sympathy vote. It's just the reality of 10s of 1000s of people managing chronic health.

A decade later, I've got a pretty comprehensive toolkit of things that hugely helped minimise symptoms. A non-negotiable for me is my tens machine, my pain tincture mix and a lot of dark chocolate on hand. Yes, herbs have and continue to make a big impact. As does following a diet that doesnt cause inflammation (I still eat the wrong foods occasionally and sometimes pay the price with more pms/pain).

BUT the thing for me that's been the biggesy game changer is taking rest. This means taking responsibility for implementing that rest when I need it. If that sounds difficult, it is. I don't always succeed, and I make mistakes.

Training with the as Menstruality Mentor has deepened this ongoing work, practicing menstrual cycle awareness, and greatly underpins how I work with my clients.

In short. I do what I do because I'm passionate about being part of the growing and necessary conversation around hormone health. I specialise in the female reproductive system. In reality, I work with a wide range of people from all walks of life. I love what I do.