One 2026 AHG Annual Symposium ticket at the Early Registration Rate. Registration includes access to all programming from Friday evening through Sunday evening.

Lodging and meal plans are sold separately. Early registration pricing ends June 30, 2026.

AHG Members receive $50 off General Admission registration. To access your member discount code, visit the member area of the AHG community website or check your email inbox for your exclusive code.

Residents of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee also qualify for $50 off General Admission registration. Please contact [email protected] to receive your regional discount code.

Only one discount code may be used per person.

Only one day pass may be purchased per individual. Discount codes are not eligible for use on day passes.

Your ticket includes access to all symposium activities on either Saturday, August 15, 2026 or Sunday, August 16, 2026, depending on the day selected at registration.

Commuter packages are available directly through the venue and include the onsite facility fee along with a full day of cafeteria meals.

Only one day pass may be purchased per individual. Discount codes are not eligible for use on day passes.

Your ticket includes access to all symposium activities on either Saturday, August 15, 2026 or Sunday, August 16, 2026, depending on the day selected at registration.

Commuter packages are available directly through the venue and include the onsite facility fee along with a full day of cafeteria meals.

Pre-Symposium Intensive with Gina Rivers: This immersive 4-hour, hands-on intensive invites participants into a modern, clinically relevant approach to crafting functional mushroom dual extractions. Blending traditional wisdom with contemporary technique, we will walk step-by-step through the full dual extraction process from start to finish.

Participants will engage directly with the extraction process using tools such as a pressure cooker and Magic Butter machine, allowing us to complete and observe the full preparation within the workshop. These methods are designed to be practical, scalable, and adaptable to a wide range of medicinal mushrooms.

Beyond technique, we will explore the why—examining the biochemical and clinical rationale behind dual extraction, and why simple hydroethanolic preparations are often insufficient for mushrooms. The discussion will extend into clinical applications, with a focus on Reishi (Ganoderma spp.), including its role in clinical practice and how to pair it effectively with complementary herbal allies.

This intensive is designed to equip herbalists with the skills and clinical insight needed to confidently prepare and integrate mushroom extracts into their clinical work, as well as for home or community use.

Participants will leave not only with a deeper understanding of functional mushroom extraction, but also with their own 2 oz dual extract in hand. Registration cost includes a $20 materials fee.

Pre-Symposium Intensives will take place on Friday, August 14th from 1-5pm.

Pre-Symposium Intensive: Healing Connections: Plant-Forward Protocols for the Hypermobility Syndromes & their Co-Morbidities with Lauren Eadline, FNP, APHN-BC, RH (AHG)

The genetic connective tissue diseases that impact collagen such as the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) and their multi-factorial cousin Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder (HSD) are as complex as they are devastating. Far from being "loose joint diseases", and far from being rare, these conditions are gaining time in the "wellness" spotlight while also continuing to cause confusion, skepticism, and a significant amount of debility for folks afflicted with them. Separating fact from medical fad, and weaving the fundamentals of clinical anatomy & physiology with traditional herbal energetics, join us first as we work through the real and surprisingly far-reaching domino effects that defective collagen has on the body, in particular in the joints, brain, spinal cord and autonomic nervous system.

Much of our focus will be on presentation identification: a thorough review of the signs & symptoms of hEDS & HSD both in the history & physical assessment that should prompt the consideration of these often-missed conditions. The energetic patterns of imbalance that often present in hypermobility disorders will be addressed, and lastly, we will review protocols for support that focus on interventional support, botanicals, and stability-focused movement. While the list of potential co-morbidities and consequences of EDS & HSD is long and complex, we will primarily address their impacts in the musculoskeletal & nervous systems, including pain management, joint instability, dysautonomia and disorders of the structural nerves. We will spend special time with POTS, its multifactorial root causes in the hypermobile body, pathophysiology and potential impacts. Furthermore, we will directly address how to assess for POTS and other forms of dysautonomia effectively, including methods to correctly identify root cause(s).

Pre-Symposium Intensives will take place on Friday, August 14th from 1-5pm.

Post Symposium Intensive: The Body Is Not at War With Itself 

A day long autoimmune intensive for clinical herbalists

Someone comes in with swollen fingers, hot joints, and a rheumatoid diagnosis. Something is doing this, and it's the immune system. The obvious story is that the body has turned on itself. That's the story conventional medicine tells, the story most herbalism textbooks tell, and the story the folks in front of you walk in believing. It's the wrong story.

Inflammation is a signal, not an attack. The immune system runs on tolerance, a constant background process of deciding what belongs, what doesn't, and what's worth responding to. When tolerance holds, autoreactive clones expand and then contract. They get deleted, anergized, or held down by regulatory T cells. When tolerance fails, those clones expand and keep expanding, and the signal that should have quieted keeps firing. That distinction changes the clinical work.

The war frame gives you two moves. Suppress the response, or kill the cells. Methotrexate and biologics. It works, sometimes brilliantly, but it doesn't ask why tolerance broke. It doesn't notice when the answer is sitting in the gut, the last three years of stress, or in a botched root canal. Herbalists who borrow the war frame end up doing a weaker version of the same thing. They reach for immune stimulants or suppressants and call them immunomodulators. They tell everyone to eliminate everything forever. They mistake immune suppression for healing.

The tolerance frame asks different questions. What's feeding the danger signal? What's failing to shut autoreactive clones down? What does this constitution actually need? It explains things the war frame can't, like why twenty-five percent of rheumatoid arthritis quiets on its own, why lupus shifts in pregnancy, why folks get worse during a divorce and better in summer.

This class is eight hours of working that frame out. We're covering the history that gave us the war metaphor and the science that broke it. Tolerance, clonal expansion and contraction, and the gut as the tolerance organ it is. Constitutional pattern assessment. A phased protocol that puts resiliency before restriction. An hour on natural history, because if you don't know the baseline, you can't tell whether your protocol worked or the disease cycled. Four diseases walked back to the same upstream questions. Then we tackle your cases. Bring messy ones. If you work with autoimmunity, this class will change how you work.

This Post Symposium Intensive will take place on Monday, August 17th from 9 am to 5 pm. There will be a break for lunch.