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I took the Sylvotherapy Practitioner Certification Course. For an introductory course it was a good value at 70% off but I have several caveats. This is an introduction only and as such I was bothered by the last module focusing on how to advertise and start up a business. You could quite literally be incapable of identifying any tree species in your area before setting up a business. I feel it would have been much more efficient to focus on the role a guide takes and how to facilitate sessions with a diverse population of clients, what being trauma informed means, practicalities of running courses in the woods, off trail, on trail, on public land, on private property, etc, the importance of first aid training, the importance of indigenous local to you tree and forest lore, safe foraging protocols...I could go on. Give us fully cited readings and a bibliography of books to read early on in the course. A lot of the info is from books over 20 years old and/or problematic books that have been challenged both scientifically and by Indigenous communities. The last module really should have laid out the areas that people needed to address as continuing education before they started selling their services. There's a valid reason why without the educational credentials you can't touch the term "therapist" where I live and this will not qualify you to use it. Still with my own background as an educator, with art therapy trainingm and as a wildcrafter with over 30 years experience I did get ideas about transforming my outdoor forest school experiences into things I can share multi-generationally as well as with people in hospice which is what I wanted to be able to do.
I find it frustrating when things are referenced but not described. An example would be the meridians. If it is important enough to include, then there should be more information. The exhaustive list of meridians without any diagrams renders it useless. Are we supposed to memorize all of the names, but not know where they are? If someone hasn't done a lot of study already, several of the references don't mean anything. The course should be fully self-contained, which means I don't have to consult other resources to understand what is presented.
One of my most favorite units that I taught in my junior English classes was Transcendentalism. I love Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, even so much that in preparation for teaching the unit, I rented a cabin in the woods for a week in the summer while I created my classroom lessons. Now that I am retired, this course has brought me back in touch with Nature and has provided more in-depth information about the science of sylvotherapy.
This course has been such a valuable journey for me. It helped me understand the human body in a much deeper way—not only through the philosophy of Chinese Medicine, which I was already familiar with, but also by giving me the chance to dive into it on a whole new level.
Through the spirit of Touch for Health and kinesiology, I’ve discovered tools and perspectives that I know will stay with me. The Wheel of Emotions and Brain Gym really stood out for me, as well as The PACE Method, the muscle tests, the acupressure correction techniques, reflex points, and neuro-lymphatic points. These are incredible tools that I can apply right away, giving me not only better diagnostic insight but also more effective therapeutic results.
The kinesiology session examples were also extremely helpful—they brought the techniques to life and showed me exactly how to integrate them in practice. I feel truly grateful for such a thorough and well-structured course, and I’m excited to bring all these methods into my work. Eleni Asteriadi
I look forward to finding more to learn my chosen area of focus which are the application of Ayurvedic principles in the areas of Mental Health & Stress Management
Further, I do intend to contine this work with recognition and focus on Chakras
