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This coming month at Beads N Botanicals, lots going on. Check the Facebook events page for additions to the schedule and more information. NOV2 Energy Art Readings with Debra Joy Tomorrow 1 PM · NOV2 Five Ways:Crystals, Herbs, Aura, Oils and De-Stress Nov 2 - Dec 7 Five Crystals for Protection NOV3 Psychic and Tarot Readings with Anita Fri 1 PM NOV8 Tarot, Psychic and Numerology Readings with Dawn Wed 12 PM · NOV9 Five Ways:Crystals, Herbs, Aura, Oils and De-Stress Nov 2 - Dec 7   Five Herbs for Winter Wellness NOV11 Get Your Bling On: Jewelry Class Sat 11 AM NOV16 Energy Art Readings with Debra Joy Thu 1 PM NOV16 Five Ways:Crystals, Herbs, Aura, Oils & De-Stress Nov 2 - Dec 7 Five Ways to Clear Your Aura NOV18 Psychic and Health Fair in Urbana, Central IL Sat 10 AM NOV22 Tarot, Psychic and Numerology Readings with Dawn Wed 12 PM NOV30 Five Ways:...

The Five Ways Series gives you information to choose what works best for you. Each workshop offers the opportunity to build your skills and knowledge base in each of the subjects covered, in a simple and playful format each Thursday evening. Cost $15 per class, OR $50 prepaid for the series of five. Optional Kits available for purchase (at a reduced price for attendees) at most sessions.  PLEASE NOTE: NO class on Thursday, Nov 23, Thanksgiving. Pre-register and pre-pay in-person at the shop, or PM the Beads N Botanicals Facebook page and we will invoice you through PayPal. Five crystals for protection: Nov 2, 6:15pm Five Herbs for Winter Wellness: Nov 9, 6:15pm Five Ways to Clear Your Aura: Nov 16, 6:15pm Five Essential Oils For Winter: Nov 30, 6:15pm Five Ways to De-stress: Dec 7, 6:15pm Five Ways Thursday Night Series

Keeping Healthy with Kitchen Herbs: Herbs a la Simon & Garfunkle: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme Keeping healthy with kitchen herbs means thinking of ways to use your kitchen spice shelf as a medicinal resource. If you do little cooking, or if your spices are more than a year old, you'll need to get a fresh supply. Good quality spices make for tastier foods as well as more effective medicine. (Please note: if you have a serious medical condition, please consult a medical practitioner.) Sometimes the simplest of kitchen spices that we take for granted are among the most useful medicinally. Of the following four herbs, three of them contain very strong essential oils that can really aid in fighting off illness. Parsley, while not as strong as its other companions, nonetheless is a very useful herb. Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, a member of the Umbelliferae family, acts as a diuretic, expectorant, emmenogogue, carminative and, according to some, may even be an aprodisiac...

Numen: The Nature of Plants A film by Terrence Youk & Ann Armbrecht Even the trailer for this documentary film shows beautiful cinematography. Thinking about arranging for a screening of the film at Beads N Botanicals.  Numen: The Healing Power of Plants

Keeping healthy with kitchen herbs means thinking of ways to use your kitchen spice shelf as a medicinal resource. If you do little cooking, or if your spices are more than a year old, you'll need to get a fresh supply. Good quality spices make for tastier foods as well as more effective medicine. (Please note: if you have a serious medical condition, please consult a medical practitioner.) Sometimes the simplest of kitchen spices that we take for granted are among the most useful medicinally. Of the following four herbs, three of them contain very strong essential oils that can really aid in fighting off illness. Parsley, while not as strong as its other companions, nonetheless is a very useful herb. Parsley, Petroselinum crispum, a member of the Umbelliferae family, acts as a diuretic, expectorant, emmenogogue, carminative and, according to some, may even be an aprodisiac. (So in a restaurant, eat parsley, rather than throwing it out.) Medicinally, parsley has several uses. Firs...

Herbal Medicine Chest Course Medicinal Herbalist Catherine Novak (and owner of Beads N Botanicals) teaches this course. She says, “Over the years, I’ve discovered that each individual herb has so much to teach us about healing and our relationship to nature. Just when I make the mistake of thinking I know almost everything about an herb’s properties, I learn of another through direct life experience or knowledge shared with me by herbalists whom I respect.” This course will cover somewhere between 25 and 5 0 herbs altogether. However, you should be very pleased with yourself if you develop a working knowledge of considerably less. The Herbal Medicine Chest covers holistic approaches to “medicine,” a traditional Chinese medicine view of “medicine,” and a Native American perspective on “medicine.” You will learn how to use herbs safely and responsibly; methods of preparing herbs; suggested herbs to keep on hand for everyday use; how to make herbal oil infusions and salv...

  Herbal Medicine Chest Course Medicinal Herbalist Catherine Novak (and owner of Beads N Botanicals) teaches this course. She says, “Over the years, I’ve discovered that each individual herb has so much to teach us about healing and our relationship to nature. Just when I make the mistake of thinking I know almost everything about an herb’s properties, I learn of another through direct life experience or knowledge shared with me by herbalists whom I respect.” This course will cover somewhere between 25 and 50 herbs altogether. However, you should be very pleased with yourself if you develop a working knowledge of considerably less. The Herbal Medicine Chest covers holistic approaches to “medicine,” a traditional Chinese medicine view of “medicine,” and a Native American perspective on “medicine.” You will learn how to use herbs safely and responsibly; methods of preparing herbs; suggested herbs to keep on hand for everyday use; how to make herbal oil infusions and...