Leading Grassroots Healthcare Expert
David Crow, LAc
Be guided through the 4 levels of Prana Vata — body sensations, nerve current, the flow of nature within, and your body’s surrender to it — to amplify your consciousness and sense of oneness.
Learn about an unprecedented opportunity to join a comprehensive holistic certification training with one of today’s leading botanical medicine experts to take your self-care and spiritual evolution to the next level.
Are you intrigued by the powerful healing properties of the natural world?
Did you know that plants and their medicinal qualities can help you overcome and prevent health challenges... while also supporting you on a contemplative journey of spiritual growth?
Classic Asian medical traditions believe that the greatest goals you can accomplish in life are 1) to take care of your health so you live in a constant state of rejuvenation and enjoy a long and vital life... and 2) to achieve illumination.
In the midst of the environmental, economic, social, and global health climate we’re living in, has there ever been a more important time to nourish and protect your body, and cultivate your vitality and life force?
Whether you’re new to the world of herbal medicine, or you already have a foundational understanding of how to select, create, and use plant medicines to support optimal wellbeing for your mind, body, and spirit...
... we’re excited to let you know about a first-of-its-kind Shift Network year-long immersive plant medicine certification program, taught by David Crow, one of the world’s foremost herbal medicine teachers and practitioners.
The Illuminated Herbalism Certification Program will weave together practical applications of medicines from the Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Western medical systems with the cosmological wisdom and meditative processes of the spiritual lineages that produced them.
In this health-enhancing program, you’ll receive a vast amount of practical information about herbs as medicine — the different types of herbs and their chemical constituents, how to prepare them, and how to use them to treat the major systems in your body...
... as well as the contemplative practices they support.
For now, we’re cordially inviting you to attend a unique one-hour event — at no cost — in which David will introduce you to the most important elements of this groundbreaking training, sharing with you what you can expect and how your participation may transform you and those around you in ways that might now be beyond the reach of your imagination.
Illuminated Herbalism & the 4 Levels of Prana Vata
David, a plant medicine pioneer and leading grassroots healthcare expert, encapsulates plant medicine’s mind-body-spirit healing power in what he calls Illuminated Herbalism.
How can using botanical medicines help us on our path to illumination?
Medicinal plants can enhance and deepen your meditative practices. This is the outer alchemy — using herbs to support health, rejuvenation, and longevity — for the ultimate purpose of completing the inner alchemy of spiritual evolution.
David is one of the only teachers in the world to integrate both the clinical and spiritual sides from ancient lineages with our connection to nature — creating a visionary synthesis of medicine, ecology, and spirituality.
When you consider your breath, for example, you may think about the anatomy of the lungs and respiratory physiology. Yet, your breath is also prana, the vital energy of life, which has a multitude of spiritual and mystical dimensions...
The respiratory cycle is also intimately connected to the pulsation of the heart. The breath and heartbeat are the physical basis for the mindstream and the current of consciousness that flows in this body from birth until death.
Medicinal plants protect and strengthen the lungs and are powerful allies that support the inner alchemy of your contemplative practices.
Your breath, in turn, is linked to the biosphere of the Earth — specifically to the breathing of plants as they photosynthesize solar energy. In fact, in our symbiotic relationship with nature, we breathe together with plants to cultivate what David calls “ecological spirituality.”
In this free online event with David, he’ll share how the journey of Illuminated Herbalism delves into the exploration of the inner and outer dimensions of the breath, as he walks you through the 4 levels of Prana Vata — body sensations... nerve current... the flow of nature in the body... and the surrender to nature’s wisdom.
He’ll explain the outer alchemy of using plant medicines to protect health, rejuvenation, and longevity... and reduce the need for stronger and more toxic medications, thereby bolstering your long-term rejuvenation.
David’s revered teachings are based on millennia-old lineages of medicine, meditation, and mysticism — which offer simple and direct ways to unlock the subtle energetic dimensions of the body.
Join us and move beyond an intellectual understanding of plant medicine into the psychological, spiritual, and ecological experience of Illuminated Herbalism.
In this 60-minute free online event, you’ll discover:
- A guided practice to experience how the 4 levels of Prana Vata — body sensations, nerve current, the flow of nature within, and your body’s surrender to it — provide a way to contact the intelligence of nature operating within your body
- How to experience rejuvenation, longevity, and illumination through the inner and outer alchemy of medicinal plants
- How to use plant medicine and meditation to improve your health and wellbeing, increase your self-knowledge, and achieve spiritual illumination
- The inseparability of spirituality and nature through the direct experience of body-based awareness
- An extraordinary opportunity to participate in a first-of-its-kind Shift Network year-long intensive plant medicine certification program with David
You’ll also discover the life-changing benefits you’ll receive in the year-long certification program, including:
- Deep immersion into the understanding and application of the preventive and curative powers of modern and ancient herbal formulas to strengthen, rejuvenate, and reclaim your health in a holistic and sustainable way
- How to maintain a high level of clinical level self-care — physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually — using herbs to enhance your spiritual practices
- Creation of your own home botanical pharmacy and preparation of a wide variety of medicines
- A vast knowledge and experience of the physical and subtle energy systems of the body, and how to use botanical medicines to treat both — according to ancient herbal lineages and their spiritual teachings
- Wisdom from renowned guest faculty — including Adriana Ayales, Dr. John Douillard, Dr. Marc Halpern, Daisy Lee, Dr. Marisa Jackson-Kinman, Puma Fredy Quispe Singona, and more
- Expert guidance through experiential learning and extensive contemplative practices
- Three monthly integration sessions with a supportive virtual community of like-minded seekers
- And much more. ..
Be prepared to walk away from this inspiring knowledge-filled hour with active curiosity about how you can apply Illuminated Herbalism to your life, and how plants nourish, care for, and protect your physical body... keep your mind clear and healthy... and empower you to reach your spiritual goals.
This groundbreaking certification program will be unlike any other herbal medicine certification offered... anywhere. You’ll learn to use plant medicines and meditation to improve your health and wellbeing, increase your self-knowledge, and give you inner peace — as you develop an understanding of your true nature... the source of your life force... your biological unity with all life, including plant life... and your deeper cosmological identity.
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What People Are Saying About David Crow...
“... respect and reverence for the traditions.”
David makes the ancient teachings of Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Tibetan medicine relevant to our times, without compromising his respect and reverence for the traditions.
— Robert Thurman, American Buddhist writer and academic
“... the wisdom of the ancient Himalayan cultures...”
David shows us how the wisdom of the ancient Himalayan cultures can benefit humanity today.
— Deepak Chopra, MD, author of How to Know God
“... always up-to-date on modern developments in his field.”
David Crow is an elite teacher of natural medicine who really knows what he’s talking about — and is able to express that deep knowledge in a way that his audience can sink their teeth into. He has the rare, remarkable ability to make clear the sometimes arcane concepts of traditional healing systems, and he’s always up-to-date on modern developments in his field.
— K.P. Khalsa, Ayurvedic herbalist and teacher
“... a clear and articulate teacher of deep herbal wisdom.”
David is a clear and articulate teacher of deep herbal wisdom. Steeped in the ancient arts, he also has his finger on the pulse of the most current research. Time spent with David is time well spent!
— Dr. Marc Halpern, President of the California College of Ayurveda
“[David’s] knowledge of botanical medicine is unsurpassed...”
David is well-traveled and weaves traditional Ayurvedic and Chinese medical wisdom together with modern scientific research and his own clinical experience. His knowledge of botanical medicine is unsurpassed — and grounded in an appreciation and love of the natural world that he brings to all his courses and topics.
— Dr. Jill Stansbury, naturopathic physician, Associate Professor Botanical Medicine, Medical Director
“[David’s] courses and classes are a treasure trove of information and knowledge.”
With a shared love of aromatherapy, herbal medicine, and gardening, I regard him as one of the experts and teachers from whom I’ve learned the most, and from whom I continue to learn. David’s writings are inspiring, his essential oils are divine, and his courses and classes are a treasure trove of information and knowledge.
— Chanchal Cabrera, RH (AHG), medicinal herbalist
“... shares practical ways to help you bring his teachings into your daily life.”
David Crow is a gifted teacher, practitioner, and author who has a deep understanding of how essential oils, herbs, and Traditional Chinese Medicine can enhance health and improve our lives. David’s educational programs are comprehensive, yet easily understood — and he shares practical ways to help you bring his teachings into your daily life.
— David Winston, RH(AHG), author of Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief
About David Crow
David Crow, LAc, is a master herbalist, aromatherapist, and acupuncturist with more than 40 years of experience. An expert in Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine, he is one of the world’s foremost authorities and leading speakers in the field of botanical medicine and grassroots healthcare. David has presented his vision of grassroots healthcare, preservation of botanical medicines, and the use of plants for ecological restoration to hundreds of audiences, including an internationally broadcast discussion with the Dalai Lama.
David is a renowned author, a poet, and the founding director of Floracopeia Aromatic Treasures. Floracopeia was created as a way to preserve and promote the use of botanical medicines as solutions to numerous interrelated global problems, such as lack of healthcare, poverty, environmental destruction, and loss of ethnobotanical knowledge.
He has given numerous keynote speeches, taught at conferences and colleges of naturopathic, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Ayurvedic medicine, and has been interviewed on numerous radio programs. He has published in several magazines, and his book, In Search of the Medicine Buddha, has been translated into three foreign editions. David travels and teaches throughout the world. Through his visionary synthesis of medicine, ecology, and spirituality, he has helped transform the lives of thousands.
