Herbal Power: Caribbean Herbal Healing
and Magic!
A Workshop with Loulou Prince
You are invited to an herbal workshop in a tropical haven of peace and tranquility! Here you will
learn to use herbs to heal, promote good health, attain your objectives, and do positive magic.
Loulou Prince has been a medsen fey, or herbalist, since young adulthood. He combines his herbal knowledge with his spiritual practice and careful observance of his dreams to care for his friends, family, and community. He will teach you how to become a medsen fey
too!
Loulou Prince has been featured in international publications such as "Sacred Hoop", and receives clients from all over the world at the Roots Without End Society peristyle in Jacmel. During the upcoming workshop you are provided with translation and explanation at all times, and information will be offered that is available so easily nowhere else, especially to international seekers.
Participants will learn a wide variety of skills through hands-on training with Loulou Prince. You will learn to gather herbs in a sacred manner, and use them to compose cleansing and healing baths. You will make tonic drinks, strengthening and purifying teas, massage oils, and other useful products for yourself, other people, and even your animal friends.
You will learn to perform traditional Makaya magic using herbs and plant materials. You will participate in service for the powerful lwa Grand Bwa and Ti-Jean Petro among many others; and you will be taught the principles that enable you to work safely and effectively.
Dream work and reverence for the spirits of the ancestors will help you to incorporate a spiritual dimension into your work with herbs. And you will visit our favorite Caribbean beach to make offerings to the Vodou lwa La Sirene, Queen of Dreams, Mother of All.
You will participate in nighttime Vodou dances, both Rada and Petro. And you will receive the Vodou ceremony of the ben fey! This Petro ceremony provides a sacred herbal bath that will fortify, bless, and magically empower you.
These and many other activities are part of this one-week workshop to be held in
Jacmel, a lovely, peaceful country town with 19th century French colonial architecture and a lively nightlife! Jacmel is one of Haiti's centers of cultural activity. You will be met at the Port-au-Prince airport and will travel by small plane to Jacmel - a scenic, exciting trip over blue Caribbean seas and green mountains. Fifteen minutes later, you arrive!
You will be housed in the delightful Rendez-Vous Guest House or the Hotel Christophe, both located just a few minutes' drive from some of the most beautiful beaches in the Caribbean. Meals at the Rendez-Vous are delicious, clean, family-style, and offer a choice of American, French, and Haitian Creole specialties. The lambi, or conch, is legendary, the prime rib likewise, and the Creole chicken is just out of this world. The Rendez-Vous is run by the redoubtable Madame Jules, whose career in the French diplomatic corps is evident in the quality and cleanliness of the food she serves. No fear of stomach upsets here!
The knowledge and skills you gain in this seminar will help you to work more
effectively with the plants and the spiritual energies of your home region and your own spiritual
tradition.
The fee for this one-week seminar is $1700, which includes your transportation from Port-au-Prince to Jacmel and back (usually a delightful small-plane ride), your hotel room (double occupancy unless otherwise arranged), three delicious meals a day, an outing to our favorite Caribbean beach, all materials and all of the activites of the workshop. You can pay with a money order, email Mambo Racine for information. Or, for a small additional charge of $30 to cover PayPal's fee, you can pay using PayPal by clicking on the button below:
