July 27, 2026
5PM, Pacific, 8PM, Eastern
90 min
The skin is the body’s largest organ and its most visible one, a living record of everything happening beneath it. It is barrier, sensory surface, immune organ, and detoxification pathway at once, and it reflects the state of the gut, the liver, the hormones, the nervous system, and the tissues it covers. Skin that stays healthy across a lifetime is rarely the product of what is applied to its surface alone. It is the product of how the whole system is tended over years and decades.
This advanced class brings the Global Herbalism framework to the care of skin as a lifelong project. Drawing together Ayurveda, Western herbalism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, alongside contemporary dermatological and nutritional science, it treats the skin not as a surface to be corrected but as an organ to be supported from within and without, across the full arc of a life.
This is not an introductory overview. It develops a working knowledge of herbal and physiological principles and builds toward an integrated, usable model of skin health that a person can apply across the lifespan, from the inflammatory skin conditions of youth to the barrier and collagen changes of later years.
Healthy skin is not a cosmetic outcome. It is a sign of a body in balance, and it can be cultivated for a lifetime.
This advanced class is intended for people who wish to with herbs and natural health and want a serious approach to long-term skin support.
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July 27, 2026
5PM, Pacific, 8PM, Eastern
90 minutes
Across every major traditional system of medicine, the skin has been read as a window into the interior. Ayurveda treats the skin (twak) as an outward expression of the tissues beneath it and of the balance of the body’s energies, with conditions understood as systemic imbalances surfacing outward rather than local faults. Traditional Chinese Medicine links the skin to the Lung and to the circulation of qi and blood, and reads many skin patterns as heat, dampness, or blood deficiency expressed at the surface.
Western herbalism developed its own sophisticated tradition of alterative and lymphatic herbs aimed at supporting the body’s clearance pathways so that the skin is not left to carry the burden alone. These traditions use different vocabulary, but they converge on a single principle: durable skin health is built from the inside.
The Global Herbalism approach integrates these traditions with what modern science now understands about the skin: the barrier function of the stratum corneum and the lipid matrix, the skin microbiome, the gut-skin axis, the role of chronic low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress in aging, the influence of blood sugar and glycation on collagen, and the genuine contributions of specific nutrients and botanicals. The aim is not to set tradition against science, but to let each correct and deepen the other, distinguishing what the classical systems describe, what controlled evidence supports, and where the two genuinely meet.
This advanced class develops a lifespan model of skin health: the inflammatory and hormonal skin concerns of early life, the maintenance and barrier care of the middle years, and the collagen, elasticity, and repair concerns of later life, each addressed through internal and external herbal and nutritional strategy. Throughout, the emphasis is on building a practice a person can actually use, grounded in mechanism and respectful of the traditions it draws upon.
In this advanced session you will work through the integrated framework, the major lifespan stages and their characteristic concerns, the internal and topical herbal strategies that support each, and the practical clinical judgement needed to apply them responsibly.
What You Will Learn
• The skin as a systemic organ across traditions: how Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Western herbalism each read the skin as an expression of internal balance, and how those models map onto the modern understanding of the skin barrier, the gut-skin axis, and the skin microbiome.
• The internal foundations of lifelong skin health: the role of digestion and the gut, the liver and clearance pathways, blood sugar and glycation, hydration, and the key nutrients and fatty acids that build and maintain skin from within, with the alterative and lymphatic herbal tradition placed alongside the nutritional evidence.
• A lifespan model of skin concerns: the inflammatory and hormonal conditions of youth (including acne and the eczema patterns), the barrier maintenance of the middle years, and the collagen, elasticity, and repair priorities of later life, each with its characteristic internal and external strategy.
• Internal and topical botanical strategy: the principal herbs used systemically and on the surface for inflammation, barrier support, wound healing, and antioxidant protection, drawn from the three traditions, with attention to preparation, quality, and what the evidence does and does not establish for each.
• Clinical judgement and integration: how to build an individualized, constitution-aware skin protocol across the lifespan, how to combine internal and external approaches safely, how to recognize conditions that require referral, and how to represent the certainty of each recommendation honestly to clients.
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 Vedic and traditional sciences, alongside credentials as a state-credentialed dietitian-nutritionist (DN-C), Yogaraj in Ayurveda and Registered Herbalist (AHG), and who develops and teaches professional continuing education under the Global Herbalism framework. The material integrates the classical traditions with current dermatological and nutritional science, 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 practitioners can trust both what is presented and how its degree of certainty is represented.
No prerequisite. All are welcome.
Who this Course is For
• People who are curious about lifetime skin health
• Ayurveda, TCM, and Western herbalism practitioners who are curious about an integrated skin model
• Students of herbalism and natural medicine who are curious about how to make Global Herbalism work
• Anyone who has a skin
