Shantree Kacera, PhD & Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera
Enter a sacred relationship with the living intelligence of plants to restore balance, coherence, and emotional ease throughout your body and nervous system.
Drawing on eco-somatic practices, plant communication, and ancient Ayurvedic wisdom, learn how to receive and integrate plant life force for deep renewal and vitality.
What if nature holds the key to your healing — not as a belief, but as a natural, lived, embodied experience?
Many of us already know that plants are sacred. We honor them. Respect them. Learn about them...
Yet, many of us haven’t been taught how to sense, receive, and work with plant intelligence directly through our body in a way that helps us restore and regulate our health without consumption.
With the guidance of herbal elder and Ayurvedic physician Shantree Kacera, PhD, and Métis elder and eco-somatic guide Lorenna Kacera-Bousquet, you’ll embark on an illuminating 7-module journey that introduces a radically different approach to plant medicine and energetic herbalism centered on sacred reciprocity.
Their approach is not an intellectual study of herbalism, or a cheat sheet of ingredients needed for herbal remedies...
... but a living, breathing embodied conversation with the natural world around you that trains your body to remember a vital relationship with your environment that has been largely forgotten.
According to Shantree and Lorenna, most of modern life, we’ve been taught to treat the natural world as something separate from us — a backdrop, a resource, or a remedy when something goes wrong.
Yet, even meditating, healthy habits, or years of spiritual growth don’t always bridge the gap between insight and embodied wellbeing.
That’s because reverence alone doesn’t restore vitality, and Shantree and Lorenna teachings remind us that the body needs relationship, perception, and co-regulation.
Attuning to plant intelligence through eco-somatic practices, breath, and gentle movement allows the mind to relax its grip and offer a forgotten approach to soul nourishment.
They believe this gently encourages the nervous system out of rigidity and into fluidity — the state through which living systems naturally communicate.
This work doesn’t treat plants as substances to consume, but as conscious allies who communicate through sensation, rhythm, breath, and subtle awareness for health, vitality, and sustained wellbeing.
Through this relational field, the body remembers how to regulate, restore, and receive nourishment without force, but through intentional relationship with the intelligence that has surrounded us since we arrived on this planet.
Shantree and Lorenna believe that as you remember this innate partnership with nature, your nervous system softens and stabilizes, you begin to feel supported by life again rather than pushed by it...
... and vitality becomes something you sense and participate in, not just something you constantly have to chase.
During this course, you’ll gradually reawaken your capacity to perceive life force and feel this intelligence moving through plants, guiding you to trust the quiet signals of your own body.
You’ll explore the experience of sacred reciprocity with plant intelligence, and discover the Universal Imperatives — Differentiation, Subjectivity, and Communion — as ethical foundations for all regenerative relationships to guide how we relate to plants and the living world without extraction or harm.
Together, Shantree and Lorenna bring more than a century of lived experience weaving ancient plant energetics, regenerative ecology, eco-somatic practices, and consciousness-based healing to help you sense and embody plant life force, rather than simply learn about it.
This refreshed version of energetic herbalism introduces practices that explore ancestral technologies of animist wisdom, bioweaving awareness and eco-spiritual rituals rooted in Indigenous wisdom.
Shantree and Lorenna will guide you through movement and breath-based inquiry, helping you discover how posture, attention, and receptivity shape energetic flow.
If you’ve been feeling ungrounded, burned out, overstimulated, or disconnected from your intuition, and longing for something that feels both sacred and tangible...
Embodied communion with plants helps you experience a deeper, more ancient way of existence that is calm, coherent, and deeply fulfilling.
You’ll sense how life force flows through your tissues, your breath, and your awareness — and how plants naturally entrain that flow toward balance — allowing what once felt abstract to become something you feel in your bones.
Trees, herbs, and living foods become teachers rather than tools, and their rhythms, resilience, and adaptability begin to mirror back to you what your own system needs to heal and regenerate.
As this relationship deepens, many people report a profound sense of belonging — not only to nature, but to themselves. The quiet loneliness that often accompanies modern spiritual life begins to dissolve.
Rather than striving for peak experiences, you’ll discover the power of subtle, steady communion where sustainable healing takes root.
Over time, you’ll begin to notice how this work reshapes how you eat, how you rest, how you listen, and how you relate to the world around you.
Life becomes less about doing and more about being in right relationship with the life around you.
During this nourishing course, you’ll:
- Uncover how to perceive plants as living, intelligent allies rather than passive remedies
- Experience eco-somatic practices that calm the nervous system and restore vitality
- Sense life force directly through breath, bioweaving, movement, and embodied awareness
- Observe how plants serve as mirrors and mentors for regeneration
- Build respectful, reciprocal relationships with trees and plant allies
- Discover how to regulate your inner ecosystem through rhythm and subtle listening
- Cultivate intuitive knowing through the body rather than the mind
- Deepen your connection to nourishment through all 5 senses
- Integrate plant communion into daily life without effort or strain
- Live in greater coherence, reverence, and relationship with the living Earth
This course is especially powerful for those who feel called to herbalism, energy work, or Earth-based healing, but want a path that is ethical, embodied, and deeply alive.
It is also a sanctuary for anyone longing to slow down, reconnect, and remember what it feels like to be truly nourished.
By the end of this course, you won’t just understand plant intelligence — you will have a felt relationship with it that will continue to support you long after the course has ended.
What You’ll Discover in These 7 Modules
In this 7-module 8-week transformational course, Shantree and Lorenna will guide you through the skills and competencies you’ll need to restore your body’s natural state of balance, vitality, and emotional ease through energetic herbalism.
Join the Livestream — or Stream Later to Watch at Your Convenience
You’ll connect with Shantree and Lorenna and experience their teachings through livestreaming video via any connected device. This connection is easy to use and will enhance the impact of Shantree and Lorenna’s transmissions. Can’t make it live? After each class, you can stream the video and audio recordings to enjoy anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Course Sessions are on 2026-03-05 9:00:00 am.
This course will feature LIVE teachings, interactive sessions, experiential practices, and Q&A with Shantree and Lorenna. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to revive an ancient and sacred relationship with plant intelligence that boosts vitality and internal balance.
Module 1: Experience a Renewed Sense of Belonging by Awakening Your Perception Through Plant Consciousness (2026-03-05 9:00:00 am)
In this foundational module, Shantree and Lorenna establish the perceptual and somatic groundwork for energetic herbalism.
Rather than approaching plants as passive remedies, you’ll be guided to recognize them as living, intelligent beings within a shared field of awareness.
Through eco-somatic practices, breath, and subtle movement, the nervous system is gently encouraged out of rigidity and into fluidity — the state through which living systems naturally communicate.
As the body softens and stabilizes, you’ll begin sensing vitality as relational rather than internal or isolated.
This session emphasizes coherence, presence, and grounded awareness as prerequisites for subtle perception.
Many participants report shifts in energy, mood, and a renewed sense of belonging within the web of life, laying the groundwork for all future plant-human dialogue.
During this session, you’ll:
- Learn the foundational principles of perceiving plant intelligence
- Engage in primordial wave movement and elemental breathwork to restore fluidity
- Understand how grounding the body enhances subtle sensory awareness
- Develop nervous system coherence as a basis for perception
- Recognize how rigidity stores unprocessed experience
- Cultivate a porous, resilient organism capable of sensing living systems
Module 2: Restore Vitality & Discernment by Sensing Life Force as Living Exchange (2026-03-12 9:00:00 am)
Building upon perceptual awareness, this module explores vitality as a circulating exchange between humans and the plant world.
Shantree and Lorenna show you how life force can be experienced not as an abstract concept, but rather as a felt presence moving through breath, tissues, and awareness.
Through guided movement and breath-based inquiry, you’ll discover how posture, attention, and receptivity shape energetic flow.
Plants are engaged as active participants within the human bioenergetic field, supporting regulation, renewal, and nourishment.
This session restores trust in felt knowing as a primary mode of perception, and supports a deep sense of being held by life itself.
During this session, you’ll:
- Experience life force as a direct, embodied sensation
- Practice felt awareness meditation and primordial movement to sense energetic flow
- Learn how plants and humans exchange vitality through presence
- Increase sensitivity to warmth, pulsing, and internal currents
- Strengthen intuition through body-based knowing
- Cultivate trust, receptivity, and energetic coherence
Module 3: Experience Sacred Reciprocity With Plant Allies and Tree Medicine to Cultivate Coherence (2026-03-19 9:00:00 am)
This module invites you to explore conscious relationships with specific plant allies, emphasizing trees as stabilizing teachers of coherence, rhythm, and resilience.
You’ll learn how to approach plants with humility and presence — allowing dialogue to emerge through sensing, observation, and listening rather than extraction.
Through guided attunement, journaling, and movement, Shantree and Lorenna will demonstrate how plant patterns are recognized as mirrors for the human nervous system and inner landscape.
Sacred reciprocity and the Universal Imperatives of differentiation, subjectivity, and communion are introduced as ethical foundations for all regenerative relationships.
This session marks a shift from observation to participation, cultivating discernment, trust, and intimacy with the living world.
During this session, you’ll:
- Learn how to establish reciprocal and respectful relationships with plants
- Engage in expanded primordial wave movement and guided plant attunement
- Develop two-way communication with plants through sensing and listening
- Recognize mirrored patterns between plant structure and self
- Use journaling to track subtle perception and insight
- Understand sacred reciprocity as the basis of healing relationships
Module 4: Build Confidence in Your Body’s Wisdom Through Bioweaving and Energetic Integration (2026-03-26 9:00:00 am)
This session deepens relational practice through bioweaving — the conscious integration of breath, movement, sensory awareness, nourishment, and plant presence.
Vitality is reframed as a self-regulating process that emerges through rhythm, coherence, and responsiveness rather than force or control.
You’ll refine your ability to sense how energy circulates through tissues, and how living foods, light, rhythm, and plant dialogue influence vitality.
Shantree and Lorenna place their emphasis on experiential discernment — teaching you how to feel what genuinely nourishes rather than relying on external rules.
This module supports confidence in the body’s wisdom, and strengthens ongoing communication with plant allies.
During this session, you’ll:
- Understand vitality as an integrated energetic process
- Practice wave motion and felt-sense plant connection exercises
- Sense the energetic qualities of living foods through all five senses
- Strengthen resilience through rhythm and sensory engagement
- Learn to self-regulate energy through relational awareness
- Deepen trust in the body’s innate intelligence
Module 5: Deepen Trust in Subtle Listening Through Sacred Plant Communion (2026-04-09 9:00:00 am)
This module emphasizes depth over novelty, guiding you into sustained, intimate relationships with plants through consistency and presence.
Rather than seeking dramatic experiences, you’ll uncover how subtle communication unfolds through sensation, timing, mood, and energetic response.
Shantree and Lorenna will guide you to explore how imagination supports true knowing, and how to distinguish embodied perception from mental projection.
Plants are experienced as companions and stabilizers that support clarity, vitality, and heart connection…
… restoring awe and reverence as perceptual capacities, while expanding your awareness beyond the personal into a larger, living cosmos.
During this session, you’ll:
- Cultivate long-term, consistent relationships with plants
- Engage in awe-based practices and guided communion exercises
- Learn to recognize subtle forms of plant communication
- Strengthen trust in embodied and intuitive perception
- Understand imagination as a gateway to deeper intelligence
- Reawaken reverence as a mode of perception
Module 6: Regenerate Your Inner Ecology Through Plant-Inspired Embodiment (2026-04-16 9:00:00 am)
This module reframes the inner world as a dynamic ecosystem shaped by rhythm, nourishment, and relationship.
Shantree and Lorenna will share how to sense patterns of vitality, depletion, and congestion with the same attentiveness used to perceive landscapes and plant communities.
Through ecosomatic tracking, breathwork, and plant-inspired movement, plants serve as mirrors and mentors for regeneration.
Slowing down, adjusting tempo, and honoring natural cycles emerge as powerful regulatory tools. Inner and outer landscapes are woven together, dissolving the illusion of separation and restoring a lived sense of co-creation with nature.
During this session, you’ll:
- Learn to perceive the body as a living, responsive ecosystem
- Practice lunar breath wave motion and inner landscape tracking
- Identify patterns of depletion and imbalance
- Support nervous system regulation through rhythm and pacing
- Cultivate resilience through plant-inspired movement
- Experience regeneration as a relational process
Module 7: Integrate Plant Intelligence as a Living Way of Life (2026-04-23 9:00:00 am)
This final module supports long-term integration, guiding you to live in and through ongoing relationships with plant intelligence beyond the course.
Practices are personalized into adaptive regenerative protocols that reflect individual rhythms, environments, and allies.
Through reflection, gratitude, and simple ritual, Shantree and Lorenna will demonstrate how to embody nature’s intelligence as a way of life, rather than just a set of techniques.
The course concludes by honoring the living field, marking a transition from structured learning into lived reciprocity.
This module affirms, at a cellular level, that nature’s intelligence pulses through us — shaping how we move, listen, and relate.
During this session, you’ll:
- Integrate practices into daily life with flexibility and ease
- Engage in sacred pause practices and a closing ritual
- Create a personalized regenerative protocol
- Maintain long-term relationships with plant allies
- Practice gratitude as energetic nourishment
- Embody reciprocity as a lived experience
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
When you register by 2026-03-02 11:59:00 pm , you’ll receive special bonus offerings designed to complement Shantree ’s transformative 7-module course — and deepen your understanding and practice even further.
Deep Immunity: Bioweaving Resilience Through the Power of Plant Medicine
Energetic Plant Medicine Guide From Shantree Kacera, PhD
What does it mean to be truly resilient? Beyond the common idea of immunity as a fortress that fights off invaders lies a deeper truth — immunity is not rigid, it is supple. It is a living web, woven through our relationship with plants, the seasons, our bodies, and the Earth itself. Through stories, practices, and timeless wisdom, Shantree shares how the art of energetic plant medicine and the rhythms of Ayurveda awaken a form of resilience that is steady, radiant, and alive.
Plus... you’ll receive these bonuses too!
The Elemental Breath Process
Audio Teaching From Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera
The Elemental Breath Process is a guided, eco-somatic breathing practice that harmonizes your energy with the living intelligence of the natural elements. Rooted in ancient wisdom and modern somatic awareness, it supports deep nervous-system regulation, vitality, and inner balance. This process helps clear stagnant energy, awaken embodied presence, and strengthen your connection to plant medicine traditions. Offered as a special bonus, it enhances your journey through Energetic Herbalism with experiential tools for renewal, resilience, and health.
Tree Wisdom: Pathways of Living Intelligence
Nature Guide PDF by Shantree Kacera, PhD
Experience an immersive exploration into the regenerative power of trees and the lessons they offer for navigating the human experience. This book excerpt serves as a guide to slowing down, reconnecting with nature, and embracing the timeless wisdom of trees. Trees stand as symbols of endurance, growth, and adaptability, offering essential teachings on how to regenerate, not just as individuals, but as part of a larger ecological and spiritual web.
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Energetic Herbalism offers some of the most transformational online teachings available, within a thriving global community of learning and practice.
Join fellow students and practitioners to support and inspire each other as you integrate the teachings and practices Shantree Kacera, PhD & Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera will share in this powerful program.
You’ll join an international community on the leading edge of manifesting a world grounded in the principles of cooperation, harmony, and reverence for all of life.
Here’s What You’ll Receive
Seven 90-Minute Class Sessions With Shantree Kacera and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera
Experience a unique opportunity to be mentored by and learn from author, herbalist, diplomat of Ayurvedic medicine Shantree Kacera, co-founder of The Living Centre and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings, co-founder of The Living Centre — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a livestreaming video option and will guide you to establish an ancient and healing relationship with plant intelligence. Course sessions are on 2026-03-05 9:00:00 am.
Seven Video Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the video will be available for you to stream in a high-quality format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can watch anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Audio Recordings of Class Sessions
After each class, the audio will be available for you to stream. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere at your convenience.
Seven Transcripts of Class Sessions
You’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Seven 30-Minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions
With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the Zoom call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help you further integrate the weekly lessons. Practice sessions are not recorded for playback; if you’re unable to attend the live sessions, the online community group allows you to connect with each other and find alternative times to interact.
Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.
Online Community
Our exclusive online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about your course materials and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.
An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Online Course, Energetic Herbalism
We feel honored that Shantree Kacera and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera have chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online course. This is a unique opportunity to interact directly with an author, herbalist, diplomat of Ayurvedic medicine, and co-founder of The Living Centre Shantree Kacera and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera, founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings, co-founder of The Living Centre whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.
If you’re serious about reconnecting with the ancient healing of energetic herbalism, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones, and our world to take this one-of-a-kind program.
If you’re ready to take the next step in your own evolution, click the register button below to reserve your space now.
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About Shantree Kacera, PhD
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Shantree Kacera, PhD, is a Diplomate of Ayurvedic Medicine, herbal elder and elemental herbalist, eco-nutrition specialist, regenerative medicine practitioner, and author of numerous books and courses.
In his private practice and customized retreats in Canada and Costa Rica, he draws on 50 years of experience to weave Ayurveda, energetic herbalism, life-force nourishment, constitutional medicine, and regenerative living into deeply personalized wellness journeys.
Guided by careful listening and Earth-based wisdom, he supports each person in navigating physical, emotional, and spiritual transformation, fostering a return to balance, vitality, and a more conscious, fulfilling life.
About Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera
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Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera is a Métis Elder, Earth ceremonialist, and founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings, where she guides people into deep, living connection with the Earth, its plant allies, and the elemental forces. For over 45 years, Lorenna has helped seekers awaken their life force through ceremony, movement, sound, breath, and sacred ritual—offering a path to embody vitality, presence, and regenerative wisdom.
As co-director of The Living Centre, a 50-acre eco-spiritual sanctuary near London, Ontario, Lorenna creates spaces where people step out of disconnection and into the natural intelligence of plants, land, body, and elemental energies. She also leads immersive retreats in the lush jungles of Costa Rica, where participants experience the potency of plant consciousness and the elements firsthand, igniting profound inner transformation.
A certified Permaculture educator, Deeptime practitioner, and long-time facilitator of the Work That Reconnects, Lorenna blends somatic practices with Earth-centered cosmology to awaken the body’s intelligence and attune participants to the subtle energies of plants, land, and the elements. Her approach is experiential, direct, and deeply enlivening—an invitation to reconnect with your innate life force and the wisdom that flows through all living beings.
Drawing from her Métis and Lakota heritage, Lorenna offers private sessions, retreats, and ceremonial experiences that cultivate regenerative living. Through her guidance, participants step into their full vitality, rediscover the intelligence of plants and elemental forces, and align with the sacred rhythms that sustain life
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