Blazing Star Herbal School

Blazing Star Herbal School We offer a unique perspective on herbalism, weaving social and political aspects of health and healing through the study of medicinal herbs and food practices.

Blazing Star Herbal School offers unique and exciting programs in herbal studies to give both the student and professional an opportunity to delve deeper into the art and science of herbalism. Blazing Star Herbal School is dedicated to teaching traditional herbal medicine in a way that supports a more sustainable future for all members of the green world and shows respect for the integrity of natu

re. We inspire students to find their own healing path by creating a personal relationship with the plant world. The school also serves as a local and national resource for education and networking.

Join us for a festive weekend of creative play, a celebration of the luminous blue world of cyanotype, and a radiant gat...
05/26/2026

Join us for a festive weekend of creative play, a celebration of the luminous blue world of cyanotype, and a radiant gathering of art-making, experimentation, and botanical wonder.

This is not simply a workshop. It is a creative retreat, a printmaking feast, and a joyful deep dive into one of photography’s oldest and most magical processes

Across two full days we will transform paper, cloth, found objects, and gathered botanicals into radiant Prussian blue prints using summer light, water, and imagination. Expect an experience full of curiosity, abundance, experimentation, and creative immersion.

Throughout the weekend we’ll work with botanical printing, layered compositions, cloth, lace, transparencies, toning techniques, unexpected color shifts, large collaborative prints, and playful experimental processes that push cyanotype beyond the traditional print.

Bring your favorite leaves, feathers, letters, heirlooms, scraps, poems, negatives, pressed flowers, and mysterious little things. The more curious your collection, the more magical the results.

Throughout the weekend our world will become a temporary blue one— part laboratory, part garden, part print studio, part summer festival. There will be drying prints hanging everywhere, stained fingertips, conversations about light and memory, and the deep satisfaction of making things slowly by hand.

Whether you are brand new to cyanotype or already in love with the process, this extravaganza is designed to nourish experimentation, deepen technique, and rekindle creative wonder.
Come ready to make a glorious mess.
Come ready to gather light.
Come ready to leave with an armful of blue treasures.


A Summer Cyanotype Extravaganza: Summer Light, Blue Alchemy & Botanical PrintsJoin us for a festive weekend of creative ...
05/26/2026

A Summer Cyanotype Extravaganza:
Summer Light, Blue Alchemy & Botanical Prints

Join us for a festive weekend of creative play, a celebration of the luminous blue world of cyanotype, a luminous gathering of art-making, experimentation, and botanical play.

This is not simply a workshop. It is a creative retreat, a printmaking feast, and a fun deep dive into one of photography’s oldest and most magical processes.

Across two full days we will transform paper, cloth, and found objects, and gathered botanicals into radiant Prussian blue prints using sunlight, water, and imagination. Expect an atmosphere of curiosity, abundance, and creative immersion.

We will explore:

Botanical printing and layered compositions
Cloth, lace, transparencies, and experimental surfaces
Toning techniques and unexpected color shifts
Large collaborative prints and playful improvisation
Experimental techniques

Bring your favorite leaves, feathers, letters, heirlooms, scraps, poems, negatives, pressed flowers, and mysterious little things. The more curious your collection, the more magical the results.

Throughout the weekend the studio will become a temporary blue world — part laboratory, part garden, part print studio, part summer festival.

There will be drying prints hanging everywhere, stained fingertips, conversations about light and memory, and the deep satisfaction of making things slowly by hand.

Whether you are brand new to cyanotype or already in love with the process, this extravaganza is designed to nourish experimentation, deepen technique, and rekindle creative wonder.

Come ready to make a glorious mess.
Come ready to gather light.
Come ready to leave with an armful of blue treasures.

https://www.tonyalemosarts.com/on-the-road/creativity-retreat-in-the-garden-botanical-cyanotype

Lately I’ve been developing the phrase “shrine thinking” to describe a way of working that has slowly emerged through my...
05/15/2026

Lately I’ve been developing the phrase “shrine thinking” to describe a way of working that has slowly emerged through my practice.
Not shrine as object.
Not shrine as religion.
But shrine as a mode of attention.
This new essay, Shrine Thinking: A Field Note Toward a Future Theory, reflects on grids, archives, apothecaries, botanical fragments, feminist revisioning, and the question of how we might learn to “breathe differently within inherited structures.”
A meditation on attention, relation, ecology, and the overlooked

Read more in my latest substack post- 🔗 in bio and story

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In preparation for my class at  tomorrow “walking as devotion: an herbalist practice of attentive presence” a new substa...
05/08/2026

In preparation for my class at tomorrow “walking as devotion: an herbalist practice of attentive presence” a new substack post. Hope you’ll join me and all the other wonderful presenters at the symposium Sat in Montague!
I will also be repping all the new can’t wait to spice up my Spring wardrobe!!

Link in bio

Mary Fraser, basket maker extraordinaire is a graduate of Blazing Star. Please consider donating to this fund she has se...
04/28/2026

Mary Fraser, basket maker extraordinaire is a graduate of Blazing Star.

Please consider donating to this fund she has set up, as a parent I cannot imagine anything worse than loosing a child

I am starting an infant and toddler casket community fund!
My pricing for infant and child caskets starts at $0.0. This is not because they’re cheap to make, it’s so that families who have to go through the pain of losing a child don’t have to also fork over large funds in order to have a meaningful and comforting burial ceremony. Here is a note from Michelle Acciavatti, Pregnancy Loss Guide and Founder of Vermont Forest Cemetery:
“Having to bury a baby is an almost unimaginable thing, but for parents facing that reality the option of a beautiful basket made by hand can help them feel like their baby will be given to earth in a loving and peaceful way. When I work with families who have lost a baby I do not charge for my services. Your donation makes it possible for me to provide Mary’s baskets to grieving families in a sustainable way”.

Please consider donating to the fund - email me through the website to do so. ❤️❤️❤️ forest.cemetery

Last chance to join BotanicWise program "The Tonic Way: An invitation to remember" featuring Guido Mase. It starts on th...
04/15/2026

Last chance to join BotanicWise program "The Tonic Way: An invitation to remember" featuring Guido Mase. It starts on thursday!

In The Tonic Way: An Invitation to Remember, Guido sheds fresh light on tonic herbs—plants that support our well-being every day. Rooted in both ancient wisdom and cutting-edge science, this series invites us to see the world differently: as a dynamic conversation between people, plants, and place.

Here, tonic herbalism shifts from fixing symptoms to fostering harmony, evolving from control to meaningful participation. Tonic thinking shifts the entire arc of care—Aligning herbal choices with rhythms, patterns, and long-term vitality.

Guided by Guido’s expertise, you’ll learn how to integrate tonic herbs into your clinical practice, community work, and personal life in a way that feels more grounded in ecological belonging.
I have said this before ,Guido's herbal teachings stand alone! You may remember his 2013 book "The Wild Medicine Solution" which I have used in all my appreticeships since then.

Step into the herbal encounter, where plants and people connect through the Gift Cycle. Here, we’ll explore resonance—it lives in the natural world, arising when patterns of flow are braided together—breath…leaf…pulse…root…people…plants. It orients us. It guides us toward healing all...

Friends and kin in the PA area,This one is for you! I cannot recommend Brigid's Way (Jen Frey's) work enough! This appre...
04/14/2026

Friends and kin in the PA area,

This one is for you! I cannot recommend Brigid's Way (Jen Frey's) work enough! This apprenticeship is one of a kind!

HEARTransformation 2026 is a combination of live online classes and ceremonies as well as three in-person weekends.

Where our Hearts and the wisdom of Nature combine to create True Healing The Plants are ready and wanting to bring us back to our Sacred role as part of Nature. As we go on this journey with them, we discover who we truly are and realize that we are supported and loved more than…

04/14/2026
03/27/2026
I cannot recommend this course enough! If you have ever taken a class with Guido Mase you know how approachable his appr...
03/27/2026

I cannot recommend this course enough! If you have ever taken a class with Guido Mase you know how approachable his approach to herbalism is!

His approach is in total alignment with "Art that Breathes" and I will be presenting a guest teacher session

https://botanicwise.com/shop/programs/courses/the-tonic-way-an-invitation-to-remember-with-guido-mase/ref/64/

If you need a preview I am linking a free talk w/ Guido in the comments!

BotanicWise has a way of bringing amazing people, ideas and plants together

Step into the herbal encounter, where plants and people connect through the Gift Cycle. Here, we’ll explore resonance—it lives in the natural world, arising when patterns of flow are braided together—breath…leaf…pulse…root…people…plants. It orients us. It guides us toward healing all...

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Monday 10am - 2pm
Tuesday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm

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