Heal with Western Herbal Medicine
We offer a 745 hour career-oriented curriculum that gives you the opportunity to experience every aspect of plant medicine from seed to sale. Any of our Western Herbalism programs will enhance your connection with nature and plants from an intuitive, spiritual and energetic interpretation, as well as from the phytochemical science-focused view. You’ll learn to make herbal medicinal remedies in class, while studying the theories supporting the curative formulations.
Become an Herbalist
Our graduates are serving as herbal remedy producers, guides for plant exploration hikes, teachers of herbal agriculture, chefs, herbal consultants to private clients and more. You will learn to write herbal research literature, speak publicly about the benefits of herbs, create herbal products for retail, and provide one-on-one wellness coaching. Our Western Herbalism classes are all offered on our main SWIHA campus in Tempe, Arizona.
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How Our Herbalism Program Ensures Your Success
Southwest Institute of Healing Arts is an award-winning, nationally accredited college focused on supporting our conscious community as they become pioneers of modern, holistic wellness modalities. We offer lifetime entrepreneurial support to students and graduates and build business development courses in to our diploma and degree programs tailored uniquely to holistic entrepreneurship.
Our Western Herbalism program is one of the most comprehensive in the United States, focused on native flora and sustainable wild crafting practices. SWIHA is a member of the American Herbalists Guild, an association of herbal practitioners which uplifts clinical herbalism as a viable profession rooted in ethics, competency, diversity, and freedom of practice.
Born a plant lover, Shannon spent her childhood mashing up twigs and berries to make “potions”—a fitting start to a life shaped by herbalism. With years of hands-on experience in wildcrafting, formulation and running an apothecary, Shannon now directs the very herbal program she graduated from. Doing what she loves the most- teaching about plants and mentoring budding herbalists. With nearly 15 years of study, Shannon believes plants are more than medicine—they’re our teachers, helping us reconnect with the Earth. Her goal as the director is to inspire future herbalists to walk this path with integrity, as stewards of the Earth, integrating the wisdom of this ancient art in a way that heals not only people, but the planet.
NOTE: Certificates of Excellence are areas of concentration designed to take as CEU’s or to be taken within a diploma or degree program; they will not prepare you for gainful employment if taken independently. Only vocational programs of 600 hours or more are eligible for Federal Financial Aid.