The College of Plant Spirit Medicine is part of Blue Deer Seminary, a seminary dedicated to the training of spiritual healers. The College and the Seminary make their home at the Blue Deer Center. While operating their own programs and offerings, they find the Blue Deer Center a perfect location to call home.

What is Plant Spirit Medicine?
Humans and plants have lived together for countless generations. We are family. Our plant relatives are generous and helpful, offering us food and medicine. Like us, plants have spirit, and their spirit can nurture and heal us. Plant Spirit Medicine brings us into balance and harmony. It is the shaman’s way with plants. A millennial practice known to all peoples, it was rediscovered in the West by Eliot Cowan, and has proved just as effective in today’s world as in times past.

Plant Spirit Medicine Practitioner Training Course
The Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner training course is designed to teach the lay person how to use plant spirits for healing.

The course consists of six one-week teaching sessions spread over approximately a year and a half, with practice and home study between sessions.

In this course, students will learn:
• Chinese Five Element Theory
• Pulse Taking
• Household Shamanism
• Making a direct relationship with the plants
• Clinical work, both in the course and upon completing the course.

This course is taught by Eliot Cowan and the Blue Deer Seminary’s College of Plant Spirit Medicine. The Seminary is a facility of the Temple of Sacred Fire Healing, a church founded on principles of spiritual healing. Graduates of the course will be eligible for legal recognition as lay spiritual healers of the Temple. They will also be eligible for membership in the Plant Spirit Medicine Professional Association.

For a more detailed description of the course content or other information about the course, including a complete listing of all the PSM courses taught in various locations, please contact the College of Plant Spirit Medicine at psminfo@bluedeer.org. You can also call the College of Plant Spirit Medicine at 845 586 3225 ext. 2.

How do I find a PSM practitioner to treat me?
There are Plant Spirit Medicine practitioners in the United States and abroad. For information about practitioners in your area, please e-mail us at psminfo@bluedeer.org.

Contact Information
For information about Plant Spirit Medicine, including:
• Finding a PSM practitioner near you
• the Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner training course
• Post-graduate courses in PSM
• the Clinical Supervisor’s program
• the Teacher Training program
• Contacting Eliot Cowan and other members of the PSM faculty
• Contacting the College of Plant Spirit Medicine

Please email us at psminfo@bluedeer.org or call us at 845-586-3225 ext 2. In addition, please see the Plant Spirit Medicine website and the PSM calendar at www.plantspiritmedicine.org.