7 Month Herbal Certification Program with Linda Patterson - March 13th, 2010 through September 18th, 2010.  This course was created to introduce you to the many properties, preparations and uses of herbs. To provide the information necessary to enhance the health and function of each body system, and help us to adapt to our ever-changing environments.  This in-depth training will provide you with the understanding needed to work with herbs in a way that is both safe and effective.  This course also supplies you with the information necessary to bring these tools of healing into your life on a daily basis.  Each day of class covers a different body system, the herbs specific to that system, and a tea tasting of the herbs discussed.  There is also great emphasis placed on consultations, strategies for treatment and troubleshooting. This practical course covers: Body systems, Plant identification, Harvesting, lip balms, Salves, Bath salts, Body powders, Double decoctions, Liniments, Decoctions, Tisanes, Lotions, Aromatherapy, Essential oils, Tinctures, Glycerides, Infused oils, Syrups, Blending essential oils, Poultices, Teas, Flower essences, Consultations, Legalities, Herbariums, Herbal vinegars, Steams, 1st Aid kits, Herbs for children, Pet care, Compresses, Aphrodisiacs, Capsules, etc...   Class dates:  Saturdays, 3/13, 4/10, 5/22, 6/26, 7/24, 8/28 and  9/18.  10 am. - 5 pm.     Register now!   $750.00 and $50.00 materials fee.  Save $25.00 by paying in full in advance! Payment arrangements available upon request.  Teacher: Linda Patterson

Palmistry Certification - 3 Days with Linda Patterson - Sundays, March 14th, April 11th and May 16th, 2010 .  10am. - 5pm.  Come explore the ancient art of palmistry!  Learn how to unlock the secrets and the mysteries held within each of our hands.  Be pleasantly surprised by the information available through this simple yet reliable tool that has been used for thousands of years.  Palmistry is a science.  It takes no psychic capabilities to be able to read palms.  There is no experience necessary to take this workshop.  Our palms are a direct reflection of who we are, learning palmistry gives us the ability to do a character analysis without knowing the person that you are reading.  This course offers all of the information that you'll need to be a successful palmist.  The information covered included|; Rules of palmistry, comparing past and present, hand shapes, how to print a palm, fingers, mounds, flexibility, spaces, major and minor lines, reading between the lines, common oddities, do's and don'ts, putting it all together, how to do a reading, what to expect, commonly asked questions, etc...Class fee:  $150.00 and $15.00 materials fee.  Please register now. Intuitive Tarot Workshop - 3 Classes with Amie Webster.  Mondays, April 19th, 26th and May 3rd.  6pm. - 8pm.  Forget the books and free your intuition!  Come learn the mystery of tarot in 3 simple classes.  You will be able to read the cards almost immediately as you learn to trust your intuition.  We will learn intuitive tarot spreads and learn to connect with your deck. Gain confidence in your self to give tarot readings to others.  Learn how tarot fits into our lives today.  We will also be looking at the importance of choosing a deck that is right for you. Class fee $75.00.  You should also have an approved tarot deck to work with in and out of class.  Please call regarding tarot deck recommendations.

Magickal Candlemaking with Michelle Kurker - Friday, March 12th, 2010.  6:30 - 8:30pm.  An oldy but goodie rides again!  Learn to create magickal purpose candles to be used as a focus for meditation, spellwork and affirmations.  What do you want to manifest into your world?  Peace? Love? Wealth? Knowledge?  It's nice to buy a candle on the fly but it's even more meaningful and more powerful to make them yourself.  We will be making candles this evening and everyone will leave with a votive to take home.  Class Fee: $25.00 Tea Blending 101 with Michelle Kurker - Friday, April 16th, 2010.  6:30 - 8:30pm.  Tired of making herbal blends that just don't taste very good?  Perplexed on how to formulate your herbal concoctions for efficiency and make them palatable?  Then this class is for you.  Come, bring a notebook and a tea mug and lets make some blends.  Class Fee: $20.00  Spirit Drawings with Rita Straus Berkowitz - April 24th, 2010.  Berkowitz has impressed large audiences throughout the world by drawing portraits of loved ones from the higher side of life. She is the author of Empowering Your Life with Angels and co-author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Communicating with Spirits. Rita has both studied and taught at the Arthur Findley College in Essex England, as well as lectured and demonstrated in colleges, New Age Centers and Spiritualist Churches in the United States and Canada. She is an accomplished artist who has shown her paintings and drawings throughout New England and New York. Rita is an Ordained Minister in the Spiritualist Church and pastor of the First Spiritualist Church of Quincy, located at 40 West St., Quincy, MA. (617) 770-2246. She is also a Certified Medium and has completed a Master of Science in Psychological Counseling. Rita offers private sittings, classes and has trained many professional mediums. She is featured in OfSpirit.com and BestMediums.com, HayHouse.com and is a guest medium on “Angels in Waiting” Los Angeles, CA, as well as numerous other radio and television appearances. A spirit portrait is truly tangible evidence of survival.  $100.00 reading/sitting fee.  Autographed copies of Rita's books will be available for sale.

Aromatherapy 2 Certification Program with Linda Patterson - Sundays, May 2nd, June 6th, July 11th and August 15th,  2010.  This course was designed for those who want to further their knowedge of essential oils, and bring insight to those desiring tools for channeling information.  The educational goal is to expose people to different methods of selecting essential oils.  It begins with divine intervention and using our intuitions, as well as, pendulums as tools for dowsing.  From there our journey takes us to kinesiology where we will learn to communicate directly with the body.  In doing so we are able to select the oils best suited for each condition.  Finally our journey is completed with the chemistry of essential oils.  By delving into the chemical makeup of these complex oils and using their constituents to determine our selections, we ingrain their properties into our repetoire of knowledge.  These methods of blending are guided by body, mind and spirit.  They are synergistic and balance our knowledge as aromatherapists.  This course also covers reflexology as a mode of transporting the oils into the body.  Learning the reflexes allows us to promote healing from the inside out and gives us one of the greatest tools of absorption for essential oils.  This course covers: 20 essential oils, pendulums as a tool of divination, reflexology, blending by intuition, kinesiology/muscle testing, chemistry, 4 different methods of blending.  CEU's available for all courses offered.   Class Fee: $400.00 and $50.00 Materials Fee.  Save $20.00 by paying in full in advance!

2010 Aromatherapy Certification Program with Linda Patterson -  TBA.  This Course covers:  50 essential oils and their medicinal and therapeutic properties, Quality of essential oils, Methods of application, The olfactory system, Body systems, Chemistry, Common ailments, stress relief, aphrodisiacs, pheromones, natural cosmetics and consultations. The educational goals for this certification program are to instill a strong foundation in the art of blending essential oils as well as to educate ones sense of smell, enabling clear distiction between the myriadof oil lines and their varying levels of quality. This course meets all standards set forth by N.A.H.A.  Ceu's available.  All materials are included for in class projects.   Register now!  Class dates  TBA.  $400.00 class fee and $50.00 materials fee.  Save $20.00 by paying in full in advance!  Already completed this course but need a refresher?  Come on back for half off plus the materials fee!  Payment arrangements are available upon request.  Teacher: Linda Patterson

The Art of Creating Homemade Mead with Desirée Cohen. - TBA, 6:30 - 8:30. Learn the ancient art of creating honey-based libations. This demonstration will include all the steps to successfully brew your own mead. We will discuss the differences between mead and wine, the do's and don'ts, shortcuts, and helpful hints to create powerful potions. There will be sampling and recipes provided.  Class Fee: $35.00 and $15.00 material fee for 21 page handout and Meade and Wine samples.  This is a 21+ class! Aurastar 2000 - May 1st, 2010.  The most advanced biofeedback imaging system.  Energy Technology for the Next Millennium!  Biofeedback information is provided on forty-four organs and glands in various formats, allowing the practitioner, together with the client, to comprehend their present energy status on different levels: as a full body energy picture, in a graph analysis format and with a chakra activity report.  The Aurastar 2000 provides an individual with a complete overview of their physical, emotional and mental energy which allows the practitioner to deal with the body and mind through an integrated science of lifestyle counselling.  Each session is 40 minutes long and the fee is TBA.  Please bring a cassette tape as this is too much information to remember! Reiki 1 Certification - TBA Class size is limited as to provide personal attention to our students.  Reiki 1 Attunement and class fee is $150.00  Reiki 2 attunement and certification TBA. Class fee $250.00!  Reiki 3 attunement and certification coming soon.  Teacher: Sheree Henry, Usui Reiki Master Teacher

EVENTS: SEMA Pagan Meet & Greet! - TBA, 11 am - 2 pm.  Come make new friends! Catch up with old friends! See who's out there!  The Sandwich Village Herb Shop and The Black Spot Cafe are hoping to see you out and about the morning of the 20th connecting and creating community here in S.E. MA and the Cape. The Black Spot Cafe of Hyannis has generously allowed us to host this event at their space.  More info about the Black Spot Cafe can be found here.  http://www.theblackspotcafe.com as well as on myspace. They have a ton of fabulous things going on, a great menu and most importantly on a Sunday morning...coffee! :) So, if you are looking to put together a group, seeking a group, just want to shoot the shyte with a group of like minded folks come on by. If you connect with someone fabulous and want to stay later...it's all good, there's no need to be gone by 2pm. We'd like to see this meet and greet become a true networking event connecting people and creating pagan community rather than a business networking/promoting event.  Pass it on...  Need more info? Call us at the shop...  508-833-1933    Click to join SEMAPaganNetwork   FREEBIES: Free Reiki Clinic - The free reiki clinic at The Sandwich Village Herb Shop is always held on the last Saturday of each month from 11:00 am.- 1:00 pm.  Reiki, an ancient Tibetan art, channels healing energies throughout the body.  It is a hands on healing technique which helps reduce stress, and relax the mind, body and spirit.  There are no contraindications, therefore reiki is a safe treatment for everyone.  Both practitioners, as well as those seeking healing, are welcome to attend and recieve a free reiki treatment.  This is a great chance to practice for new practitioners as well.  Hope to see you there. Free Tarot Study Group - Meets monthly - April 16th, 6:30 - 8:30 pm!  Please call to hold your space.  This is not a tarot class.  This is a practice group for people who have some working knowledge of the tarot and would like to practice readings on new people to hone their skills.

Free Herb Study Group - Meets monthly - TBA Please call to hold your space.  Topic/Herb for this class will be ????  More info coming... Free Meditation Group - TBA beginning October 1st!  This group will meet every other Friday evening to begin our weekend in a relaxed peaceful state of being.  We will have a different "theme" at each meeting.  This is not a training class as there will be no formal instruction, however, it is our belief that practice makes attempted perfection when it comes to meditation.  All you can do is the best that you can.  :)  Please call ahead to register as space is limited.  Please feel free to bring any cushions or whatever you feel is necessary to make yourself comfortable for our hour+ gathering.  This group has no set fee, however, donations are gratefully accepted.