Aug 31, 2026
5PM, Pacific, 8PM, Eastern
90 min
Fatigue is one of the most common reasons people seek help, and one of the most poorly served by quick answers. Most advice treats tiredness as a single problem with a single fix: more sleep, more caffeine, a stimulating supplement. But persistent fatigue is rarely one thing. It is a signal, and it can arise from many different roots, the gut and digestion, blood sugar and energy metabolism, the thyroid and hormones, the stress-response system, iron and nutrient status, inflammation, sleep quality, and the nervous system, often several at once.
This advanced class brings the Global Herbalism framework to the question that quick fixes never answer: why are you actually tired? Drawing together Ayurveda, Western herbalism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine alongside contemporary physiology and nutrition, it offers a structured way to think through the many possible roots of fatigue, so that support can be matched to the real cause rather than the surface symptom.
This is not a list of energy-boosting herbs. It is a deeper, more systematic way of understanding your own energy, and the patterns that tell you which root is most likely yours.
Fatigue is not a verdict. It is a question, and it has answers worth pursuing.
This advanced class is ideal for anyone who has struggled with ongoing tiredness and wants to understand it at a deeper level, and for serious students of natural health who want a structured model of energy and fatigue.
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Aug 31, 2026
5PM, Pacific, 8PM, Eastern
90 min
Fatigue is deceptively complex. The same word covers the heavy tiredness of poor sleep, the wired exhaustion of a stressed nervous system, the mid-afternoon crash of unstable blood sugar, the bone-deep depletion of low iron or thyroid function, and the lingering flatness that follows illness or chronic inflammation. These feel similar from the
inside, but their roots are entirely different, and so is what helps. The reason so many people stay tired is that they keep applying a single solution to a problem that has many possible causes.
Every major traditional system of medicine developed its own sophisticated map of energy and its depletion. Ayurveda reads fatigue through the doshas, through the strength of agni (the digestive fire), and through ojas, the subtle essence of vitality and resilience that is depleted by overwork, poor digestion, and stress. Traditional Chinese Medicine distinguishes several patterns of fatigue, qi deficiency, blood deficiency, and the exhaustion of the deeper reserves, each with its own signs and its own remedies. Western herbalism developed the tradition of adaptogens and nervine and nutritive tonics aimed at restoring a depleted system over time. These systems use different language, but each insists on the same thing modern medicine also teaches: that tiredness is a symptom to be traced to its source, not a condition to be masked.
The Global Herbalism approach integrates these traditional maps with the physiology of energy as it is now understood: the role of the gut and digestion, blood sugar regulation and the post-meal crash, the thyroid and the stress-response (HPA) axis, iron and B-vitamin and other nutrient status, inflammation, mitochondrial energy production, and the central role of genuine sleep quality. The goal is to give you a structured way to narrow down which root, or which combination of roots, is most likely driving your own fatigue, and to understand the dietary, lifestyle, and herbal strategies that match each one, with an honest account of what the evidence supports and where traditional use outruns it.
In this advanced session you will work through the major root causes of fatigue one by one, learn the patterns and signs that point toward each, and build a personal framework for understanding and addressing your own energy, including a clear sense of when fatigue warrants medical evaluation rather than self-care.
What You Will Learn
• Why fatigue is many problems, not one: how traditional systems and modern physiology each map energy and its depletion, from the Ayurvedic view of agni and ojas and the Traditional Chinese Medicine patterns of qi and blood, to the modern roles of the gut, blood sugar, thyroid, stress axis, nutrients, inflammation, and sleep.
• The digestive and metabolic roots: how the gut, agni, blood sugar regulation, and energy metabolism drive everyday tiredness and crashes, the signs that point toward these roots, and the dietary and herbal strategies that support them.
• The hormonal and stress roots: how the thyroid and the stress-response (HPA) axis shape energy and resilience, the patterns that distinguish wired-and-tired from depleted exhaustion, and the place of adaptogenic and nervine herbs, with an honest account of what they can and cannot do.
• The nutrient, inflammation, and sleep roots: the role of iron and key nutrients, low-grade inflammation, and genuine sleep quality in persistent fatigue, how to recognize their signs, and how nutritive and restorative strategies address them over time.
• Building your personal fatigue framework: how to read your own pattern to narrow down the most likely root or combination of roots, how to match support to cause rather than symptom, and how to recognize the warning signs that mean fatigue should be evaluated by a clinician rather than self-managed.
Instructor and Approach
This advanced class is taught by an educator who holds a doctorate in Ayurveda and brings more than five decades of practice across Ayurveda, Western herbalism, and the traditional sciences, alongside credentials as a state-credential dietitian-nutritionist (DN-C), Yogaraj in Ayurveda and Registered Herbalist (AHG), and who develops and teaches continuing education under the Global Herbalism framework. The material integrates the classical traditions with current physiology and nutrition, and it is taught with care to distinguish classical doctrine from modern interpretation, traditional use from controlled evidence, and established findings from areas still under study, so that you can trust both what is presented and how its degree of certainty is represented.
Who this Course is For
• Anyone who I curious about living with ongoing or unexplained tiredness who wants to understand it at the root and find a long-term solution
• Students of Ayurveda, herbalism, and natural health who are curious about a deeper fatigue strategy
• Yoga and wellness practitioners who are curious bout energy and vitality
• Anyone who is curious about creating a structured, honest framework for thinking about their own energy
