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This is the welcome page for the free Plant & Herb Magic course from Everything IFS Academy. The fourteen-lesson course teaches green witchcraft from the ground up — plant allies, correspondences, sourcing, drying, and every major preparation from infusions and oils to sachets, simmer pots, and jar spells. Every lesson ends with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work practice that turns the teaching inward.

This foundational lesson from Everything IFS Academy answers the question every green witch starts with: what plant magic actually is, how it works, and what separates it from herbalism and gardening. Students learn why plants carry energetic signatures, what the craft can honestly promise, and why a sprig of grocery-store rosemary is enough to begin. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work practice that turns the teaching

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy names the poison path honestly — the ancient tradition of baneful plants like belladonna, henbane, and mandrake — and explains why a beginner course refuses to teach its techniques. Students learn the real history of flying ointments, the plants' genuine dangers, the safer substitutes that do related work, and what the true call to this path looks like years down the road. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Fam

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches the craft of preserving the harvest: when to cut herbs for drying, the five drying methods from hanging bundles to dehydrators, and how to store, label, and rotate a working apothecary. It also takes up the closed-practice conversation — why white sage and palo santo don't belong in a generic witch's cabinet, and the excellent substitutes that do. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS)

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches water as the witch's most accessible medium. Students learn hot and cold infusions, ritual teas brewed with intention, decoctions for roots and barks, sun and moon charged waters, Florida water with credit to its hoodoo lineage, ritual baths, floor washes, body cleansing washes, and the ingestion safety rules that keep the practice honest. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts wo

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches oil as the medium that anoints. Students learn the carrier oils and when to use each, the slow, solar, and heat infusion methods, how to test a finished oil, building layered anointing oils, essential oil safety, the hoodoo condition oils tradition with proper credit, and how to make herbal salves that carry the working in a pocket. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work prac

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches carried plant magic — spells that work in the background of daily life. Students learn to build European sachets for protection, love, prosperity, and dreams, construct and feed a hoodoo mojo bag with proper credit to the tradition, make dream pillows and herbal poppets, and activate, maintain, and retire every form. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work practice that turns

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches the five remaining delivery systems of plant magic: simmer pots that fill a home with a working, loose incense burned on charcoal with resin bases, hand-tied smoke bundles from open traditions, jar spells and old European witch's bottles, and hoodoo-credited herbal powders. Students learn when each method suits which job and how to make them all. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) p

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy assembles the whole course into applied workings for real life. Students get complete spells for love, prosperity, protection, healing, sleep and dreams, peace in the home, courage, communication, grief, cleansing, road-opening, fertility, and spiritual development — each with primary herbs, preparation methods, timing, and the ethical lines that keep the work clean. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Sy

This closing lesson from Everything IFS Academy looks past the curriculum to the life itself — what a decade of green practice actually builds. Students learn the daily rhythm that sustains a practice without constant casting, seasonal attunement, fluent substitution, the garden as ancestor work, returning spent materials to the earth, what to do when life slows the practice, and the one-plant mastery that finds some witches over time. Like every lesson in this course, it clo

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches the three paths every magical herb travels to reach a witch's cabinet: growing, wildcrafting, and buying. Students learn garden setups from windowsill to backyard plot, the ethical and legal rules of wild harvesting, safe plant identification, how to judge a good herb supplier, and which at-risk plants to leave alone. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work practice that turns

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches the correspondence system — the organizing framework of plant magic. Students learn the four elemental plant families, the seven classical planets and their herb clusters, the doctrine of signatures, how to read a correspondence entry, and how to match herbs to any intention by working backward from the registers. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work practice that turns the

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy builds the witch's starting library — the twenty-some foundational herbs of Western plant magic, organized by the work each does best. Students meet the master versatile herbs, the kitchen and spice-cabinet allies, and the protective, prosperity, love, dream, healing, cleansing, and grounding plants, each with its properties, correspondences, and safety notes. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy teaches the relational foundation of plant magic: the difference between treating plants as ingredients on a shelf and knowing them as allies. Students learn how to choose a first ally plant, build genuine working familiarity through the seasons, ask rather than extract, and recognize when a plant is offering relationship — or declining one. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work pra

This lesson from Everything IFS Academy tells the true history of plant magic — the braid of ancient Egyptian, Greek, and European herbcraft, African and hoodoo rootwork, Indigenous traditions, and twentieth-century synthesis behind modern practice. Students learn what's genuinely ancient, what's recent invention, and which techniques deserve credit to the cultures that grew them. Like every lesson in this course, it closes with an Internal Family Systems (IFS) parts work pra