Beginning Practícal Spanish for Herbalists and Birthworkers HYBRID Online Course

Thank you so much for expanding your tool kit for your practice(s) by investing the time to learn new ways to communicate and listen. Our Original Instructions School team is elated to be bringing you these instructions surrounding the amplification of your language tool set. We have frequently seen the necessity for a simple, accessible way to better equip those who are studying abroad, as well as practitioners who want to expand the scope of who they are able to serve, including Spanish speaking communities.

With the current geopolitical situations unfolding throughout across Nations, it certainly is a poignant time to grow the number of practitioners who are able to serve more of their local communities in a good way. The benefits of learning new languages for your practice are mutual. Not only does your overall neuroplasticity benefit, but also your practice can be supported financially through grant funding, insurance provider qualification, private client opportunities, and programs which only apply to you if you maintain at least a basic functioning level of applicable Spanish.

While this course is built to teach a basic level of proficient Spanish speaking as it applies to Herbalism and Birth work, we know that Spanish too is a Latin language which has long been used as a tool to colonize throughout the continents. Knowing basic Español can certainly extend our tool set as Herbalists and Birthworkers, and still it is still limited. It has been said that every time an indigenous language disappears from Human consciousness, the concepts, and sometimes even Creatures, which it names cease to exist as well. When applied to Herbalism and Birth, it becomes evident that entire ways of relating with Plant Nations, Earth, and Humanity are not named (and therefore are not spoken or sung into reality) within any Latin language, but remain alive and well within the ecology of indigenous tongues that were grown before humans ever had the idea that we are separate from, and have dominion over, Earth.

For our current purposes we recognize the essential role Latin plays in both clinical Herbalism and health care facilities - in fact, we hypothesize that Latin being the way we have agreed across Nations to organize and name our health practices greatly affects the incomplete nature of modern allopathic medicine. Language organizes how our minds perceive reality. When indigenous languages are lost or become forgotten, entire ways of relating with Plant Nations, Humanity, and earth and all of her creatures are also forgotten. In the same way that so many of us are of mixed ancestry, local Spanish speakers frequently blend the Latin language with words, phrases, and expressions from their ancestral languages indigenous to the "Americas", preserving ways of healing and relating.

It is essential that we actively move towards relating with, and restoring our indigenous languages. In Perú we have the absolute pride of having 48 living indigenous languages, and we are blessed to have members from 2 of those Nations join us as guest instructors in this course! Karen Tinta Chumvislla of Quechua Nation and Kety Melissa Yuimachi of Shipibo-Konibo Nation have provided us with key words and phrases in Quechua (Runa Simi) and Shipibo as they apply to Herbalism and Birth. Each time a new student invests in our beginning Spanish language course you are directly supporting these beautiful, resilient indigenous women.

Your Beginning Practical Spanish for Herbalists and Birthworkers has been laid out in the following parts:

Part 1: Primer Pasos - First Steps

Part 2: Communication Basics - Relating with others

Part 3: Active Listening - Understanding Others

Part 4: Expressing Yourself to Others / Storytelling

Part 5: Basics of Herbal Medicine Making

Part 6: Basic Medical Spanish

Part 7: Basics of Perinatal/ Postpartum Care

Part 8: Trauma-informed Client Care

Part 9: Introducing Plant Nations - Visual Plant ID in Spanish

Part 10: Learning with Laughter - Spanish Learning Games

Part 11: Routes and Recipes - Traditional Indigenous Recipes in Spanish

Part 12: Bonus Lesson in Quechua (Runa Simi) Language

Part 13: Bonus Lesson in Shipibo Language

Part 14: Music, literature, and on-going education resources for learning Spanish, Shipibo, and RUNA SIMI

Part 15: Lessons in the foundations of conjugation and tense (external resource), for reference

We are so passionate about providing this introductory course as an accessible way to begin your journey as a Spanish speaking Herbalist and/ or Birth worker. Your language curriculum has been designed with the purpose of providing you with a functioning basic level of Spanish as applied to key words, phrases, and necessary communications that come with studying and/ or practicing Herbalism and Birth work.

Your Course Ebooks

Your introductory language course comes with several different course ebooks, which include:

BONUS MATERIAL

All of your vocabulary words and phrases for this course can be found in your course book (included below) titled Key Words and Phrases in Spanish - Beginning Practical Spanish for Herbalists and Birthworkers. Your printable vocabulary study guides of words and phrases included therein are typed out in the same chronological order as they are spoken in the video tutorials. Your video pronunciation tutorials are shown in their respective section of your course book, along with the printable study guides to which they match. Likewise, each video tutorial has been clearly labeled with the page number(s) from your above mentioned course book it is covering.

Amaru Astudillo of Cuzco, Perú is your guest instructor in your pronunciation video tutorials. Because he is from Perú, and learned how to speak Spanish within Perúvian culture, his accent as well as some phrases reflect that. It is important to note that Spanish accents and terminologies can vary depending on the geographical and physical region where the Spanish is being spoken. Many thanks to Amaru for sharing your knowledge with us!

Your interactive quizzes are distributed throughout the respective parts of your language course to which they pertain. Your final test will be provided once you have successfully completed all prior 15 quizzes. The quizzes and test that accompany this course have been built as learning tools that you are encouraged to take as many times as you would like, or until you have fully grasped the course material which they cover. They are in no way meant to add stress into your life. If this style of learning is not conducive for your purposes, please feel free to reach out to us directly for other learning accommodations.

To schedule your two 30-minute video lessons in Spanish pick 2 available time slots on our calendar by CLICKING HERE.

Key Words and Phrases in Spanish - Beginning Practical Spanish for Herbalists and Birth work - course book

Part 1: Key Words - Primer Paso

Congratulations ! It's time to take your first practice quiz!

Part 2: Communication Basics - Relating with others

Part 3: Active Listening - Understanding Others

Part 4: Expressing Yourself to Others / Storytelling

Part 5: Basics of Herbal Medicine Making

Part 6: Basic Medical Spanish

Part 7: Basics of Perinatal/ Postpartum Care

Part 8: Trauma-informed Client Care

Part 9: Introducing Plant Nations - Visual Plant ID in Spanish

Part 10: Learning with Laughter - Spanish Learning Games

Part 11: Routes and Recipes - Traditional Indigenous Recipes in Spanish

Part 12: Bonus Lesson in Quechua (Runa Simi) Language

Part 13: Bonus Lesson in Shipibo Language

Part 14: Music, literature, and on-going education resources for learning Spanish, Shipibo, and RUNA SIMI

For ongoing education in the languages of Spanish, Shipibo, and/or RUNA SIMI (Quechua), we recommend the following language programs and courses.

RUNA SIMI (Quechua):

Idioma PUCP

Wiracocha Online Language School

To book a 1:1 Runa Simi (Quechua) tutorial class via Zoom, please contact Karen Tinta directly by contacting her on WhatsApp at +51 973 152 373

Shipibo:

Oni Joi Foundations of Shipibo-Konibo Medical Language Culture and Song

Biblioteca Nacional de Perú - Curso del Linguaje Shipibo-Konibo

To book a 1:1 Shipibo tutorial class via Zoom, please contact Kety Melissa directly by contacting her on WhatsApp at +51 988 775 542

Español:

Wiracocha Online Language School

Santander Course Español Online 2026

To book a 1:1 Spanish tutorial class via Zoom, please contact Amaru Astudillo directly by contacting her on WhatsApp at +51 934 172 715

For listening in Spanish with closed captioning, we recommend the following songs and audio books (press CC if the written words in Spanish do not appear).

Part 15: Lessons in the foundations of conjugation and tense (external resource), for reference

You have now reached the end of your beginning language course with Original Instructions School. It has been an absolute pleasure to serve you along your journey, and we look forward to supporting your practice as it continues to grow.