Judy Lieblein Classes
Matthew Wood Classes
Judy Lieblein is a shamanic/clinical herbalist and energy medicine practitioner in practice for over 28 years. She teaches herbal energetics, elemental theory, and plant spirit medicine.
Judy maintains a general private practice with client of all ages. Her specialties are in plant spirit medicine, trauma, grief, transformational processes, kundalini, and spiritual emergence. She owns Sacred Rose Herbals, an organic herbal product line
Her work is focused on cultivating health and well-being, personal empowerment, and independence with the blessing of the plants, ancestors, and the elements.
Judy has worked in the fields of Energy Medicine, Sustainable Agriculture, Native Plant Restoration, Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Social Permaculture and Spiritual Emergence.
Sunday, January 12, 2025
This will be an introduction to the classes Matthew will be teaching in March at The Inner Vision Institute. First we will visit the immune system based on a peak at Matthew’s next book, “Gift of the Bat People”. Bats have a modified immune system which allows viruses to thrive in them, from whence they emanate out into plants, animals, and humans. Viruses push the evolutionary needle by offering new genetic materials for all species to work with. This happens below the level of consciousness, usually, and is referred to as Bat Medicine in the Indian medicine of Matthew’s region.
We will then touch on topics from The pineal gland class discussing how the pineal gland is our connection between spirit above, and earth below. Evidence indicates that it is being “clouded up” and “calcified” by aging, group-think, and environmental toxins. We will touch on remedies for protection of this valuable gland, that will be explored in a March plant journeying class where we will learn to tune into these plants, discover new ones, and perhaps increase our sensitivity to our own pineal.
Finally we will touch on topics coming up in Matthew’s Mother Nature’s System of Medicine: Shamanic Medicine and Herbalism class, where he outlines a comprehensive system of medicine which was arrived at through years of experience and dreamtime (which helped to put it all together). A class for herbalists, healers, shamanic practitioners and students, and the curious.
We will also touch on Matthew’s herbs for aging class in March—a condition that surpasses all science and mysticism.
The Immune System
Saturday & Sunday , March 8–9, 2025
This class covers the material in Matthew’s upcoming book (2026), “Gift of the Bat People”; viruses, immunity, evolution, covid, and the vaccine. First, why can we confidently proclaim that viruses do exist, when they have never been sequenced out in one genetic piece. (Hint: they don’t exist separately from a host). Next we learn to appreciate that bats have shoved ten immune mechanisms overboard so that they can harbor viruses without harm to either. From bats these microbes “emanate out” into the biosphere, creating viral diseases in plants, animals, and humans. This provides a vast molecular junkyard of useful scraps that help us face evolutionary challenges—every epidemic is a challenge. So bats and viruses push the evolutionary needle.
Next we will discuss the four different “layers” of the immune system, although biomedicine only thinks of two of them. Even single cells have a protection system called “molecular chaperones,” which protect protein mutations in the cell from hot and cold, damp and dry, too much oxygen, not enough, and other environment factors. Second and third are the innate and adaptive immune systems, which confront microbes, toxins, and mutated cells, to protect the organism. We will study some of the major patterns: Th1 (innate dominance), Th2 (adaptive dominance), Th3 (drug addiction) in their excess and deficiency presentations. The fourth layer of the immune system is the thermoregulatory system, which opens and closes the skin and peripheral circulation to combat hot and cold, damp and dry. So this, with the molecular chaperones protects against hot and cold, etc., justifies the traditional medicine of grannie healers and old time physicians (feed a fever, starve a cold, open the skin, warm the center, etc.) A node to the assistant systems, skin, mucosa, liver, lymphatics, colon, lungs, kidneys, heart.
This covers our first day and a half of class. Sunday afternoon we discuss how Covid 19 attacks the body and undermines the immune system and how vaccines attack in a different way, with even more destruction to the immune response. Throughout we will describe the healing herbs associated with molecular chaperones, Th1, 2, and 3, covid, the vax and whatever else we can use to help the skin. Handout.
The Pineal Gland
Thursday, March 13, 2025
In this day and age of spiritual challenge, we need to keep our pineal gland—the seat of the crown chakra and the connection to the heavens above and the earth below—open so that we can absorb and reflect spiritual values. Evidence indicates that it is being “clouded up” and “calcified” by aging, group-think, and environmental toxins. The pineal is currently and will even more in the immediate future be subject to many stresses. Calcification of the gland correlates with rigidification of thought. This class is especially good for those who have taken the workshop on the immune system.
Plant Journeying with Herbs for the Pineal Gland
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
We will tune into herbs known or believed to act on the pineal—so far we are thinking of teasel, mullein leaf, and white pine. Open to suggestions. This also gives us a chance to the “feel our pineal gland” or “crown chakra” at work. The crown channels a golden cord from the mysterious spirit above, through our feet, down into the earth. We need to keep this open in this time of spiritual challenge. Or skip the class and use the oldest technique in the book, taught by Dr. Christopher: walk on the bare earth to bring down the creative energies from the head and ground them through our feet. Or don’t skip the class because we all want to learn from the plants and the experience of the group.
Mother Nature’s System of Medicine
Shamanic Medicine and Herbalism
Saturday & Sunday, March 22–23, 2025
Mother Nature’s healing system operates by life’s laws, contrasting manmade science. True healers align with her wisdom, using natural plant medicines and principles of detoxification, vital force, and intuitive faculties like instinct, imagination, and dreamtime awareness. These ancient tools of shamanic healers and renaissance Wisdom of Nature practitioners form a comprehensive, holistic system.
This class explores three primal laws of natural healing:
- Law of Similars & Contraries: Like treats like; balance opposites (e.g., hot to cold).
- Law of Cure Direction: Healing flows from vital to less vital, inside to outside, top to bottom.
- Law of Healing Crisis: Reliving trauma to release it.
Four principles guide this system:
- Wisdom of Nature: “As above, so below” reveals harmony between humans and their environment, tracing roots to archetypes and holistic traditions like astrology and Chinese organ systems.
- Vital Force: Nature is alive, and its energy is perceived through subtle signs, integrating shamanic, Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Western diagnostic approaches.
- Detoxification: Toxins exit via elimination channels (skin, lungs, kidneys, colon), following shamanic purification practices like limpias and sweat lodges.
- Commitment: Healing requires belief and dedication from both healer and patient, addressing spiritual vision, discipline, and even addiction with natural remedies like yerba santa and rabbit tobacco.
When we have internalized these basic lessons, we may be able to receive the “inner medical license,” assuring us that we are a “true physician” practicing according to the Laws and Wisdom of Nature.
Seven Herbs for Graceful and Healthy Aging
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Opps! I’m getting older, and as I do, I become aware of the effect of aging on the pieces and parts. Some of the changes are just cosmetic, but the healthier our hair and skin, the healthier in general. If you aren’t an elder you may need these herbs for yourself, clients, friends, or relatives. Brain: (1) Lion’s Mane, (2) Gotu Kola. Hair: (1) Yucca Root, (2) Burdock Root. Skin: (1) Gotu Kola, (2) Helichrysum (Rabbit Tobacco). Circulation: (1) Helichrysum, (2) Gotu Kola. Hormones: (1) Burdock Root, (2) Helichrysum. Joint: (1) Solomon’s Seal, (2) Gotu Kola. Bone: Calcium phosphate/calcium fluoride. As we age we need to make sure we are developing our spiritual life, for both the present and the great transition. Helichrysum and Solomon’s seal. Handout supplied.
Judy Lieblein is a shamanic/clinical herbalist and energy medicine practitioner in practice for over 28 years. She teaches herbal energetics, elemental theory, and plant spirit medicine.
Judy maintains a general private practice with client of all ages. Her specialties are in plant spirit medicine, trauma, grief, transformational processes, kundalini, and spiritual emergence. She owns Sacred Rose Herbals, an organic herbal product line
Her work is focused on cultivating health and well-being, personal empowerment, and independence with the blessing of the plants, ancestors, and the elements.
Judy has worked in the fields of Energy Medicine, Sustainable Agriculture, Native Plant Restoration, Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Social Permaculture and Spiritual Emergence.
About the Teacher
Matthew Wood
Matthew has been a practicing herbalist since 1982, and is a renowned inspirational lecturer and author of several books including The Book of Herbal Wisdom and The Earthwise Herbal.
While he believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage.
He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems.He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and has earned his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).
About the Teachers
Judy Lieblein
Judy Lieblein is a shamanic/clinical herbalist and energy medicine practitioner in practice for over 28 years. She teaches herbal energetics, elemental theory, and plant spirit medicine.
Judy maintains a general private practice with client of all ages. Her specialties are in plant spirit medicine, trauma, grief, transformational processes, kundalini, and spiritual emergence. She owns Sacred Rose Herbals, an organic herbal product line
Her work is focused on cultivating health and well-being, personal empowerment, and independence with the blessing of the plants, ancestors, and the elements.
Judy has worked in the fields of Energy Medicine, Sustainable Agriculture, Native Plant Restoration, Animal Rescue & Rehabilitation, Social Permaculture and Spiritual Emergence.
Matthew Wood
Matthew has been a practicing herbalist since 1982, and is a renowned inspirational lecturer and author of several books including The Book of Herbal Wisdom and The Earthwise Herbal.
While he believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage.
He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems.He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and has earned his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).