Experience & Training

Gratitude to all of my teachers, some of whom are listed below, and to the many unnamed individuals in the lineages of wisdom-keepers of the herbal, ancestral and land-connected healing traditions that have informed and influenced my life and work. Thank you!

In Plant Medicine & Earth-Based Healing…

  • 10+ years of growing and studying medicinal plants 

  • 20+ years of immersing in holistic health and natural healing modalities

  • 15+ years of writing for the herbal & nutritional supplements industry

  • 120-Hour Vitalist Herbal Practitioner Program with Sajah Popham, School of Evolutionary Herbalism

  • 400-Hour Herbal Medicine for Women Course with Aviva Romm

  • Art & Science of Herbalism Course with Olivia Fite

  • Foraging Intensive with Jonathan Darby, Horn Farm Center for Agricultural Education

  • 70+ ceremonies with Amazonian teacher plants

  • Teqse Ñust’a Karpay (Healing Forces of Nature) Initiation with Sheila Guarnagia & Ellen Kittredge

  • Wise Woman Within Yearlong Training with Corinna Wood

  • In-depth study of Ayurveda with Anjali Sunita & Pierre Couvillion

  • In-depth study of living nutrition and herbalism with David Wolfe

In Yoga…

  • 20+ years of continuous yoga practice

  • 10+ years of yoga teaching experience (Yoga Alliance Credentials: E-RYT 200, RYT 500, RPYT, YACEP)

  • Yoga Therapeutics Advanced Teacher Training with Amy Ippoliti

  • 85-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Lily Dwyer-Begg

  • 300-Hour Advanced Jivan Yoga Teacher Training with Anjali Sunita & Vivian Campagna

  • 200-Hour Jivan Yoga Teacher Training with Anjali Sunita

  • 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Training with Kim Manfredi & Camille Moses-Allen

  • In-depth study of classical Tantra, Ayurveda and Pranayama

In Vibrational Healing…

  • Integral Sound Healing Level 1 Training with Eric Lindstrom, Sound Healing Academy

In Women’s Wellness, Pregnancy & Birth…

  • Two wild pregnancies and unmedicated, out-of-hospital births

  • 400-Hour Herbal Medicine for Women Course with Aviva Romm

  • Wise Woman Within Yearlong Training with Corinna Wood

  • Sacred Feminine Shamanism with Fany Carolina

  • Birthkeeper Program, Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center

  • DONA International Birth Doula Training with Chama Woydak

  • 85-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Lily Dwyer-Begg

  • Conscious Contraception Course with Samantha Zipporah

  • In-depth study of Fertility Awareness Method (FAM)