Creating an
Herbal Toolkit
for
End of Life Care
Five week program begins in Spring 2026
Rooted in Care:
Herbal Practices for Honoring Life’s Final Passage
You give so much.
You hold space in the quiet hours, listen through the tears, sit beside bedsides, and show up for hard moments every single day.
Whether you're a hospice nurse, a death doula, or caring for someone you love... the weight of caregiving can be invisible.
You might feel tired. Disconnected. Like you’ve lost your footing.
But traditional medical approaches often leave you feeling like something's missing - a deeper way to honor this sacred transition while caring for your own well-being.
Or maybe you've found your way here because you’re curious and wondering if there's a more rooted, intentional way to support someone at the end of life.
A way to show up fully without burning out.
A way to weave the plant allies you love into a deep, sacred service to your family and community.
That's where herbal allies come in. For thousands of years, plants have supported humans through life's most profound transitions, offering gentle comfort when modern medicine reaches its limits.
What if caregiving didn't have to feel so depleted or disconnected?
What if it could be a sacred practice where your presence is medicine, and the plants are your allies?
This course was created for people like you: the givers.
Inside, you’ll learn how to use simple herbal allies to bring comfort, connection, and dignity to the dying process - and to your own nervous system.
Discover how chamomile can ease restless nights, how rose can open the heart during grief, how a simple aromatic bouquet can transform a sterile room into sacred space... and much more.
You’ll gain practical tools and nourishing rituals to step into caregiving - in personal or professional settings - with greater confidence, resilience, and grace.
Whether you're a seasoned hospice worker or just beginning to explore end-of-life work, this isn't just another course - it's an invitation to transform how you show up in end-of-life care, for others and yourself.
Herbal Wisdom for Compassionate End-of-Life Care
Join our 5-week online course to discover holistic tools and herbal remedies that provide comfort and care during life's final journey.
End-of-life care is a sacred responsibility—and one that can be deeply enriched with the gentle support of herbs.
In this 5-week online course, you’ll learn how to create a personalized herbal toolkit designed to soothe physical discomfort, calm emotional turbulence, and bring comfort to those at the threshold between life and death.
Whether you’re a death doula, caregiver, hospice worker, or loved one, this course offers the guidance, grounding, and herbal knowledge you need to show up with compassion and confidence.
Rooted in Care:
Herbal Practices for Honoring Life’s Final Passage
Gain the confidence and skills to support loved ones and clients during end-of-life transitions using time-honored herbal traditions.
Join a nurturing, expert-led community where you’ll learn to select herbal remedies to ease discomfort and foster peace during life’s most profound moments.
For caregivers, doulas, herbalists, nurses, Hospice volunteers, and family members seeking natural tools to bring comfort and connection at the end of life.
Discover the Power of Herbs to Comfort, Calm, and Bless the Journey Home for Family, Friends, and Community
This five part course explores the history of using herbs for death and dying. Students establish a foundational knowledge of how to utilize teas, essential oils, simple nourishing foods and tonics, and flower essences at the end of life, experience assessment tools to employ to navigate how, when and where to offer herbal remedies to patients and their family, and empower students to build a personalized holistic tool kit to support their work in these settings.
Gain practical tools and foundations integrating hospice work and death doula practice with food, aromatics, and plant allies.
- Enjoy weekly live online classes providing a comprehensive introduction to herbalism, nutrition, aromatics, flower essences, ceremony, and nature at end of life
- Grow with classmates via weekly breakout sessions and an interactive virtual community
- Download handouts, workbooks, videos, e-books, and audio lessons to support your journey long after your course completes
- Share your creations in our final live session with a show-and-tell and Q&A session
Our Spring 2026 Cohort will meet weekly online for five weeks, 7:00-8:30 pm ET
Live sessions are recorded for replay.
Tuition is $325 for the full series
Sign up by the Early Bird Deadline to save $50 off tuition - join for just $275
What our Graduates are saying
"I would highly recommend this course for anyone who has cared for a loved one at any level during end of life, or for anyone working with hospice care. You will gain the skills and resources to go through the transition with more confidence and make it an individual experience suited to your own needs and wishes"
"I truly enjoyed the energy and positivity of this course, especially in context of an event when people are hurting and time that is thought of as so very sad. I loved finding more ways to bring together the beauty and celebration of life and living into the center of the transition, for the person dying and their loved ones.
"This course gave me the confidence I needed to declare myself a hobby herbalist, and helped me to understand how my life experience has already prepared me to move towards the work of death care and herbal support. I feel prepared to hold space for the sacred passage of those that are close to me and within my greater community"
Learn to Comfort, Soothe, and Honor Life’s Sacred Passage with the Gentle Support of Herbs
🌱 What You’ll Learn
- How to select and apply herbal remedies for common end-of-life symptoms: restlessness, anxiety, nausea, pain, and more
- Ways to create sacred space and grounded presence with botanicals - through aromatics, nutritional preparations, flower essences, teas, tinctures and more
- Herbal allies for grief and transition - for both the dying, the bereaved, and caregivers
- Practical, hands-on preparation of herbal formulas and care bundles
- The benefits of a dozen key herbs and foods for emotional support and nourishment, including nourishing tonics, aromatics, nervines and adaptogens
- Where to source high-quality herbs and reputable resources for continued studies
- Strategies for holistic self care for the Doula and caregiver
- How to assess patient and family needs for integrating nutritional and herbal support
- Why a holistic approach integrating herbs and food can support body, mind, and spirit
- How to find herbal tools within reach, no matter the end-of-life environment
- Simple rituals to bring spiritual care into end-of-life settings
- Recipes and preparation methods including herbal teas, nourishing snacks, soups, aromatic remedies, elixirs
- A plethora of resources for sourcing herbal remedies and further study
🧭 Course Format & Schedule
- Spring 2026 Cohort: meeting weekly on Wednesdays 7-8:30pm ET
- 5 weekly live sessions (with recordings available)
- Supportive community space for sharing and reflection
- Printable resources and remedy recipes for your own toolkit
- Video lessons and bonus materials to deepen your relationship with healing plants
- Tuition for the five week series is $325 / Save $50 when you register by the early bird deadline - Join for only $275
- 12 Continuing Education Units available to licensed massage therapists, registered nurses, midwives, respiratory therapists, and dietitians in Florida and complementary states
If you feel called to provide holistic, heart-centered care during life’s closing moments — this program is for you.
Meet your teachers...
Emily Ruff
Emily Ruff is a community herbalist who has practiced the art and science of plant healing for 25 years, and has integrated herbs into hospice settings for over 15 years. Her studies have taken her around three continents where she has studied under healers of many traditions, including an apprenticeship under renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar. She is a death doula, a Hospice volunteer, and has worked in ceremony and ritual at end-of-life with family, friends, and community.
Shay DeGrandis
Shay DeGrandis is a community herbalist, kitchen medicine maker, plant walker, ancestor talker, celebrant and animist. Her practice focuses on guiding clients through stress, anxiety, and heartbreak to assist in alleviating various physical and emotional manifestations through nutritional and herbal support, mindfulness, creativity, ancestral tending and grief care. Her previous training as a story-teller, death doula, home funeral guide and celebrant informs her work as an herbalist.
Marie Frohlich
Marie Frohlich is a certified holistic health coach and herbalist. She has been a champion for vitality and balance in the workplace AND at home for over 20 years – specializing in self-care and reducing stress, she uses a holistic and experiential approach to engage and inspire through individual and group coaching, workshops and organizational retreats. She is Vitality Champion with the Coaching Center of Vermont and Principal of TaprootHerbals.com.
Lora Krall
As a nurse herbalist, Lora Krall incorporates her 35 year career in healthcare with a lifetime study of nature, blending the best of both worlds into her work as an herbalist. She has taught at various conferences in the Midwest and has most recently been published in Rosemary Gladstar’s book, Fire Cider: 101 Zesty Recipes. She is a teaching assistant for The Science and Art of Herbalism course.
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- gentle herbal care for sacred transitions.