Meet our Teachers
7Song
www.7Song.com
7Song started studying herbal medicine in 1981 as a way to combine my adoration of nature, to learn a type of medicine to treat myself and others, and a way to circumvent ‘the system.’ Now he is full enmeshed in the system, working at the Ithaca Free Clinic, and enjoying it. 7Song also enjoy teaching what he learns about herbal medicine to others.
Class: 7 Common Medicinal Plants that grow in the Finger Lakes Region
www.7Song.com
7Song started studying herbal medicine in 1981 as a way to combine my adoration of nature, to learn a type of medicine to treat myself and others, and a way to circumvent ‘the system.’ Now he is full enmeshed in the system, working at the Ithaca Free Clinic, and enjoying it. 7Song also enjoy teaching what he learns about herbal medicine to others.
Class: 7 Common Medicinal Plants that grow in the Finger Lakes Region
Maria Anderson
www. manifestationsny.com
Maria, Nurse Wellness draws on her Indigenous background to offer holistic healing practices that honor traditional wisdom. Her approach integrates modern nursing principles with ancient Indigenous traditions, including the use of drum circles. These circles provide a space for healing, connection, and community support, allowing individuals to tap into their inner strength and cultural roots for healing and wellness.
Class: Community Drum Circle
www. manifestationsny.com
Maria, Nurse Wellness draws on her Indigenous background to offer holistic healing practices that honor traditional wisdom. Her approach integrates modern nursing principles with ancient Indigenous traditions, including the use of drum circles. These circles provide a space for healing, connection, and community support, allowing individuals to tap into their inner strength and cultural roots for healing and wellness.
Class: Community Drum Circle
Briel Beaty
www.paherbschool.com
www.hawthornbotanicalgathering.com
Briel is a Traditional Western Herbalist, Reiki and Yoga instructor in Central PA. She is the co-founder and director of The Pennsylvania School of Herbalism and The Hawthorn Botanical Gathering, which takes place the second week in June in Central PA. Briel grew up embedded in the PA woods and dabbled in herbalism and homesteading throughout her life. She started her formal herbal studies with Susan Hess in 2014 with a year-long Homestead Herbalism Certificate course. Following that she moved on to study at The Northeast School of Botanical Medicine with 7Song. After the course, she apprenticed till 2017. Since then she has been teaching, making and growing herbal medicines in Central PA.
Class: Herbal Support for Mental Health and Botany on your Plate and Scavenger Hunt
www.paherbschool.com
www.hawthornbotanicalgathering.com
Briel is a Traditional Western Herbalist, Reiki and Yoga instructor in Central PA. She is the co-founder and director of The Pennsylvania School of Herbalism and The Hawthorn Botanical Gathering, which takes place the second week in June in Central PA. Briel grew up embedded in the PA woods and dabbled in herbalism and homesteading throughout her life. She started her formal herbal studies with Susan Hess in 2014 with a year-long Homestead Herbalism Certificate course. Following that she moved on to study at The Northeast School of Botanical Medicine with 7Song. After the course, she apprenticed till 2017. Since then she has been teaching, making and growing herbal medicines in Central PA.
Class: Herbal Support for Mental Health and Botany on your Plate and Scavenger Hunt
Charlotte Butler
Charlotte is a Kambo Practitioner with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Science, intending to educate others on the healing potential of Kambo, a traditional Amazonian frog medicine from Peru. Having personally experienced relief from multiple sclerosis, depression, and anxiety through Kambo, she is passionate about sharing its benefits. Charlotte's background in pre-medicine and 2 years as a student Naturopathic Doctor provides her with a comprehensive understanding of healthcare and natural healing methods. She strives to empower individuals to explore alternative therapies for their well-being.
Class: Discovering Kambo: Amazonian Healing Medicine
Charlotte is a Kambo Practitioner with a Bachelor’s Degree in Health Science, intending to educate others on the healing potential of Kambo, a traditional Amazonian frog medicine from Peru. Having personally experienced relief from multiple sclerosis, depression, and anxiety through Kambo, she is passionate about sharing its benefits. Charlotte's background in pre-medicine and 2 years as a student Naturopathic Doctor provides her with a comprehensive understanding of healthcare and natural healing methods. She strives to empower individuals to explore alternative therapies for their well-being.
Class: Discovering Kambo: Amazonian Healing Medicine
Amanda Crooke
www.locustlightfarm.com
Amanda is the herbalist and owner of Locust Light Farm in NJ. She’s worked with herbs as a farmer, a medicine-maker, herbalist, and magic-maker for 8 years. She offers classes both in-person and online for all levels of experience, and leads rituals and guided experiences for the seasonal holidays such as the Winter Solstice. Amanda is the “Herbal Pharmacy” teacher at David Winston’s Herbalist Training Program and has a private clinical practice.
Class: Phytochemistry and Medicine-Making
www.locustlightfarm.com
Amanda is the herbalist and owner of Locust Light Farm in NJ. She’s worked with herbs as a farmer, a medicine-maker, herbalist, and magic-maker for 8 years. She offers classes both in-person and online for all levels of experience, and leads rituals and guided experiences for the seasonal holidays such as the Winter Solstice. Amanda is the “Herbal Pharmacy” teacher at David Winston’s Herbalist Training Program and has a private clinical practice.
Class: Phytochemistry and Medicine-Making
Michele Crosta
www.motmotcollective.com
Michele is an herbalist and passionate environmental advocate. She studied 3 years under herbalist David Winston. Those years of clinical education proved profoundly transformative and led her on a deeper journey with the plants, cultivating her own flourishing garden, all the while collaborating with local beekeepers learning the art of beekeeping. Her love of this planet extends far beyond her backyard, and has even taken her abroad to Costa Rica, where she also tends to a tropical garden oasis right in the heart of Nosara. Michele’s commitment to sustainability and the plants shines through as the founder of MotMot Collective, crafting delightful herbal products, and as the co-founder of Global Roots CSA, a quarterly offering that brings members together through herbal remedies, education, and community.
In addition to her herbal pursuits, Michele teaches yoga, sharing her knowledge of holistic wellness with others. Driven by a deeply rooted connection to nature, her work blends herbalism, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and yoga, as earth-based movement, forging a heartfelt connection with our inner compass. She shares her knowledge with joy and her dedication to sustainability permeates every aspect of her life. Michele’s holistic approach reflects her belief in the interconnectedness to all living things and her unwavering commitment to nurturing both health and harmony for individuals and the planet.
Class: Herbal First Aid
www.motmotcollective.com
Michele is an herbalist and passionate environmental advocate. She studied 3 years under herbalist David Winston. Those years of clinical education proved profoundly transformative and led her on a deeper journey with the plants, cultivating her own flourishing garden, all the while collaborating with local beekeepers learning the art of beekeeping. Her love of this planet extends far beyond her backyard, and has even taken her abroad to Costa Rica, where she also tends to a tropical garden oasis right in the heart of Nosara. Michele’s commitment to sustainability and the plants shines through as the founder of MotMot Collective, crafting delightful herbal products, and as the co-founder of Global Roots CSA, a quarterly offering that brings members together through herbal remedies, education, and community.
In addition to her herbal pursuits, Michele teaches yoga, sharing her knowledge of holistic wellness with others. Driven by a deeply rooted connection to nature, her work blends herbalism, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and yoga, as earth-based movement, forging a heartfelt connection with our inner compass. She shares her knowledge with joy and her dedication to sustainability permeates every aspect of her life. Michele’s holistic approach reflects her belief in the interconnectedness to all living things and her unwavering commitment to nurturing both health and harmony for individuals and the planet.
Class: Herbal First Aid
Mike DeMunn
Mike is a member of the Seneca Hawk Clan. He has 40 years’ experience in professional forestry, consulting, sustainable forest management and applied ecology. He is one of the original founders of the Finger Lakes Land Trust and has been its forestry advisor. He was the leader of the old growth forest research project for the Great Smokey Mountains National Park Service.
Class: The Great Work- Native Ecological Restoration
Mike is a member of the Seneca Hawk Clan. He has 40 years’ experience in professional forestry, consulting, sustainable forest management and applied ecology. He is one of the original founders of the Finger Lakes Land Trust and has been its forestry advisor. He was the leader of the old growth forest research project for the Great Smokey Mountains National Park Service.
Class: The Great Work- Native Ecological Restoration
Thomas Eisman
Thomas has been learning about and tending to plants for over 20 years. He has led many plant walks and been part of Six Circles Farm for the past 2 decades.
Class: Knowin What's Growin
Thomas has been learning about and tending to plants for over 20 years. He has led many plant walks and been part of Six Circles Farm for the past 2 decades.
Class: Knowin What's Growin
Emma Gutierrez and Zack Despreaux
www.maidenhairmushrooms.com
Emma & Zack have over a decade of mushroom experience between the two of us. Emma has focused more on wild mushroom ID and their relationships with all living things in the forest, while Zack has focused on all aspects of mushroom cultivation and wild mushroom ID.
Class: Mushroom Tea Time
www.maidenhairmushrooms.com
Emma & Zack have over a decade of mushroom experience between the two of us. Emma has focused more on wild mushroom ID and their relationships with all living things in the forest, while Zack has focused on all aspects of mushroom cultivation and wild mushroom ID.
Class: Mushroom Tea Time
Nicolette Hallock
www.fullspectrumfarmcollective.com
Nicolette has been a cannabis grower and part of the complex industry for over 16 years. She grows on her farm using a blend of permaculture and biodynamic techniques to create a sustainable environment for her plants to flourish. She aims to test different theories and feels like the plants guide her more than she does them. If you listen they will speak, learning the language of cannabis has been a long standing passion of hers.
Class: Synergistic connection between fungi and cannabis from soil to shelf
www.fullspectrumfarmcollective.com
Nicolette has been a cannabis grower and part of the complex industry for over 16 years. She grows on her farm using a blend of permaculture and biodynamic techniques to create a sustainable environment for her plants to flourish. She aims to test different theories and feels like the plants guide her more than she does them. If you listen they will speak, learning the language of cannabis has been a long standing passion of hers.
Class: Synergistic connection between fungi and cannabis from soil to shelf
April Hart
www.bespokeapothecary.com
April’s herbal journey began with a breast cancer diagnosis in 2010. Immediately wanting to take a holistic approach to her dis-ease vs. the western medicine approach being offered by her general surgeon, oncologist, and radiologist. Naturally, and organically, this brought her to the world of plant medicine. Turning to the world right outside her door for help. Ultimately foregoing a double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone suppression. Instead using not only nutrition, vitamins, minerals, and plants to battle her diagnosis, but also a mind, body, spirit approach. Learning not only herbalism but also usui reiki, cell level healing, and transcendental meditation.
14 years later and cancer free she works full time as an herbalist, beekeeper and permaculture farmer, alongside her beloved husband, fellow herbalist and greatest advocate, Bill. Their finger lakes region business, Bespoke Apothecary creates, in their NYS certified food production facility, everything from a full skin care line to body, tooth, and haircare products to various herbal teas, tonics, 140+ individual tinctures, syrups and beverages. Nearly 200 botanical based products in total.
April and Bill, their free-range chickens and guinea hens, honey bees and 3 dogs, lives on 85 acres on top of a mountain in Elmira NY. Wild foraging and sustainably growing many of the ingredients in their creations. (as well as producing the honey and beeswax used in their creations)
She is a mother earth lover with a passion for native plants as well as women’s and breast health.
Class: Herbs for Women
www.bespokeapothecary.com
April’s herbal journey began with a breast cancer diagnosis in 2010. Immediately wanting to take a holistic approach to her dis-ease vs. the western medicine approach being offered by her general surgeon, oncologist, and radiologist. Naturally, and organically, this brought her to the world of plant medicine. Turning to the world right outside her door for help. Ultimately foregoing a double mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation and hormone suppression. Instead using not only nutrition, vitamins, minerals, and plants to battle her diagnosis, but also a mind, body, spirit approach. Learning not only herbalism but also usui reiki, cell level healing, and transcendental meditation.
14 years later and cancer free she works full time as an herbalist, beekeeper and permaculture farmer, alongside her beloved husband, fellow herbalist and greatest advocate, Bill. Their finger lakes region business, Bespoke Apothecary creates, in their NYS certified food production facility, everything from a full skin care line to body, tooth, and haircare products to various herbal teas, tonics, 140+ individual tinctures, syrups and beverages. Nearly 200 botanical based products in total.
April and Bill, their free-range chickens and guinea hens, honey bees and 3 dogs, lives on 85 acres on top of a mountain in Elmira NY. Wild foraging and sustainably growing many of the ingredients in their creations. (as well as producing the honey and beeswax used in their creations)
She is a mother earth lover with a passion for native plants as well as women’s and breast health.
Class: Herbs for Women
Isaac Hill
www.plantcunning.com
Isaac is a gardener, astrologer, podcaster and author who lives on a small, permaculture herb farm in Central NY. He has been immersed in the green world since he was an unschooled kid learning the local wild edibles, and is endlessly fascinated by the complex beauty of the cosmos, from the mycelial web to the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn. He is a practicing Vedic astrologer in the Achyutananda Das tradition, and he hosts the Plant Cunning Podcast with his herbalist partner, AC, where they have interviewed some of the most respected herbalists, permaculturists, astrologers and healers in the world.
Class: Native Plant Agriculture
www.plantcunning.com
Isaac is a gardener, astrologer, podcaster and author who lives on a small, permaculture herb farm in Central NY. He has been immersed in the green world since he was an unschooled kid learning the local wild edibles, and is endlessly fascinated by the complex beauty of the cosmos, from the mycelial web to the conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn. He is a practicing Vedic astrologer in the Achyutananda Das tradition, and he hosts the Plant Cunning Podcast with his herbalist partner, AC, where they have interviewed some of the most respected herbalists, permaculturists, astrologers and healers in the world.
Class: Native Plant Agriculture
Darren Johnson
Darren has been an avid mushroom forager and mushroom enthusiast for the last 8 years. He began experimenting with cultivating mushrooms in his bathroom at home, and these projects quickly turned into a deeply myceliated passion! Fast forward 3 years later, he has now started a mushroom farm in Dryden, NY, where he focuses on low tech off-grid cultivation growing medicinal and edible mushrooms for his local community and through online markets. He is also a certified mushroom forager as well as leads mushroom forays & cultivation workshops throughout central NY.
Class: Woodchip bed inoculation of wine cap mushrooms: A gardener’s best friend
Darren has been an avid mushroom forager and mushroom enthusiast for the last 8 years. He began experimenting with cultivating mushrooms in his bathroom at home, and these projects quickly turned into a deeply myceliated passion! Fast forward 3 years later, he has now started a mushroom farm in Dryden, NY, where he focuses on low tech off-grid cultivation growing medicinal and edible mushrooms for his local community and through online markets. He is also a certified mushroom forager as well as leads mushroom forays & cultivation workshops throughout central NY.
Class: Woodchip bed inoculation of wine cap mushrooms: A gardener’s best friend
Eleanor Liebson
www.fingerlakesmaze.org
Eleanor is an Occupational Therapist and host/creator of A'maze'ing Acres Adventure Play Land in Lodi, NY. Play is a child's work; hands on learning especially outside, free to explore, create and simply be themselves using their mind, muscles and imagination is what our children most deserve.
Classes: Making Homemade Paper, Creative Play with "Loose Parts" and "Odds & Ends"
www.fingerlakesmaze.org
Eleanor is an Occupational Therapist and host/creator of A'maze'ing Acres Adventure Play Land in Lodi, NY. Play is a child's work; hands on learning especially outside, free to explore, create and simply be themselves using their mind, muscles and imagination is what our children most deserve.
Classes: Making Homemade Paper, Creative Play with "Loose Parts" and "Odds & Ends"
Amanda Lewis
Alewisacupuncture.com
Amanda is a licensed acupuncturist and certified herbalist, joyfully working with patients in upstate New York since 2007. After completing an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, she studied Western Herbal Medicine at the Rocky Mtn Ctr for Botanical Studies in Boulder, CO. Around the same time, she was introduced to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and completed a Master’s degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College (2003-2007), which included a year of training in a private hospital in Beijing. The last few years, she has been actively studying Classical Chinese Medicine and Qigong, and she continues to enjoy integrating Eastern and Western herbal wisdom traditions in her clinical practice.
Class: Maintaining Your Center with Chinese Medicine
Alewisacupuncture.com
Amanda is a licensed acupuncturist and certified herbalist, joyfully working with patients in upstate New York since 2007. After completing an undergraduate degree from Oberlin College, she studied Western Herbal Medicine at the Rocky Mtn Ctr for Botanical Studies in Boulder, CO. Around the same time, she was introduced to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and completed a Master’s degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine from Southwest Acupuncture College (2003-2007), which included a year of training in a private hospital in Beijing. The last few years, she has been actively studying Classical Chinese Medicine and Qigong, and she continues to enjoy integrating Eastern and Western herbal wisdom traditions in her clinical practice.
Class: Maintaining Your Center with Chinese Medicine
Lore McSpadden-Walker
www.positiveforcemovement.org/blog
Lore (they/them) has been an educator on topics related to equity, community building, and holistic healing for over 17 years. They and their wife are the founders of The Wild Within Acres (formerly Positive Force Movement), which provides embodiment-related services to people who have historically faced systemic marginalization and disenfranchisement in a way that honors the full selves and identities of all who seek their services.
Through The Wild Within Acres, Lore offers handmade micro-batch herbal products; restorative movement coaching; Reiki healing; ancestor work guidance for people of the global minority who are ready to confront the harms of their forebears; and education about topics including social justice, mindfulness, herbalism, and the relationship between somatics and spirituality. Their work has been featured on Livestrong.com, WXXI, Well + Good, Vice.com, the National Board of Certified Counselors' Foundation News, Medium.com, and Self Magazine.
Class: Nothing Simple about Simples! and Meeting the Relational Self
www.positiveforcemovement.org/blog
Lore (they/them) has been an educator on topics related to equity, community building, and holistic healing for over 17 years. They and their wife are the founders of The Wild Within Acres (formerly Positive Force Movement), which provides embodiment-related services to people who have historically faced systemic marginalization and disenfranchisement in a way that honors the full selves and identities of all who seek their services.
Through The Wild Within Acres, Lore offers handmade micro-batch herbal products; restorative movement coaching; Reiki healing; ancestor work guidance for people of the global minority who are ready to confront the harms of their forebears; and education about topics including social justice, mindfulness, herbalism, and the relationship between somatics and spirituality. Their work has been featured on Livestrong.com, WXXI, Well + Good, Vice.com, the National Board of Certified Counselors' Foundation News, Medium.com, and Self Magazine.
Class: Nothing Simple about Simples! and Meeting the Relational Self
Marita A Orr
TeabiscuitInnAndHerbary
Marita have been teaching Since 2010. She taught 4 times a month until 2019. They moved to a new area and had to set roots. Marita currently teaches once a month and runs an apprenticeship program and soap and basket making weekends. She also hosts A Women's Retreat Weekend in the Fall.
Class: Zero Waste Food Storage
TeabiscuitInnAndHerbary
Marita have been teaching Since 2010. She taught 4 times a month until 2019. They moved to a new area and had to set roots. Marita currently teaches once a month and runs an apprenticeship program and soap and basket making weekends. She also hosts A Women's Retreat Weekend in the Fall.
Class: Zero Waste Food Storage
Shona Ort
www.ortfamilyfarm.com
Shona has pretty much been involved in the horticulture industry to some degree her entire life. She was born into a family who were originally wholesale greenhouse operators and then transitioned into a diversified farm which includes a retail nursery that grows and sell herbs and fruiting plants. Shona's role on my family's farm is primarily focused on helping with the field and nursery production of herbs and fruit. She also keeps a large garden where she has grown an array of flowers, herbs, small fruits and vegetables.
Class: The basics of growing native berries
www.ortfamilyfarm.com
Shona has pretty much been involved in the horticulture industry to some degree her entire life. She was born into a family who were originally wholesale greenhouse operators and then transitioned into a diversified farm which includes a retail nursery that grows and sell herbs and fruiting plants. Shona's role on my family's farm is primarily focused on helping with the field and nursery production of herbs and fruit. She also keeps a large garden where she has grown an array of flowers, herbs, small fruits and vegetables.
Class: The basics of growing native berries
Andrea Reisen
www.healingspiritsherbfarm.com
Andrea and Matthias Reisen have been medicinal herb and mushroom growers for over 30 years in the Finger Lakes Region of Western NY. We grow, harvest and dry over 60 medical herbs, we also have an Apothecary and a Education Center at the farm.
Classes: Uterine Balancing and Walk on the Wild Side
www.healingspiritsherbfarm.com
Andrea and Matthias Reisen have been medicinal herb and mushroom growers for over 30 years in the Finger Lakes Region of Western NY. We grow, harvest and dry over 60 medical herbs, we also have an Apothecary and a Education Center at the farm.
Classes: Uterine Balancing and Walk on the Wild Side
Ayla Rose
www.hearthandheart.store
Ayla is a philosopher, community herbalist, and feral housewife at the Hearth & Heart homestead, a small-but-mighty half acre of land in Painted Post, New York. Born in the year of the Earth Dragon under the Earthy sign of Taurus, she found herself in alignment with the Earth Medicine path. With both a deep love and a great respect for our Earth Mother, Ayla made it her mission to share the awareness and appreciation of Her abundance of medicine and magic with others. She received her first Kombucha SCOBY in 2021 and within a year that SCOBY multiplied and took over an entire shelf of her pantry (and of her life). Through independent study and experimentation, she learned about the history and lore of Kombucha, its beneficial properties, different brewing techniques and flavoring, and the many ways to use it other than brewing a delicious, probiotic beverage!
Class: KombuSPA
www.hearthandheart.store
Ayla is a philosopher, community herbalist, and feral housewife at the Hearth & Heart homestead, a small-but-mighty half acre of land in Painted Post, New York. Born in the year of the Earth Dragon under the Earthy sign of Taurus, she found herself in alignment with the Earth Medicine path. With both a deep love and a great respect for our Earth Mother, Ayla made it her mission to share the awareness and appreciation of Her abundance of medicine and magic with others. She received her first Kombucha SCOBY in 2021 and within a year that SCOBY multiplied and took over an entire shelf of her pantry (and of her life). Through independent study and experimentation, she learned about the history and lore of Kombucha, its beneficial properties, different brewing techniques and flavoring, and the many ways to use it other than brewing a delicious, probiotic beverage!
Class: KombuSPA
Lizbeth Russell
www.lindentreeintuitive.com
Lizbeth Russell is an experienced intuitive herbalist, herbal educator, Reiki master teacher, and intuitive. She crafts wholesome products and offers teachings on herbs, meditation, Reiki, and wellness. One of her cherished herbal practices is working with flower essences, which she has been creating since 2015 and educating about since 2018. Lizbeth also offers a longer workshop “Flower essences, Start to Finish,” where you put knowledge into practice.
Class: The Art of Flower Essence Creation & Use
www.lindentreeintuitive.com
Lizbeth Russell is an experienced intuitive herbalist, herbal educator, Reiki master teacher, and intuitive. She crafts wholesome products and offers teachings on herbs, meditation, Reiki, and wellness. One of her cherished herbal practices is working with flower essences, which she has been creating since 2015 and educating about since 2018. Lizbeth also offers a longer workshop “Flower essences, Start to Finish,” where you put knowledge into practice.
Class: The Art of Flower Essence Creation & Use
Sophia Ryan
Sophia is a Conservation Biology major at the SUNY school of Environmental Science and Forestry, and works as a Summer Camp Counselor and Wildlife Educator at Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortland NY. She has a wealth of knowledge about our local herpetofauna and love sharing that knowledge with others!
Class: The Crittering Course!
Sophia is a Conservation Biology major at the SUNY school of Environmental Science and Forestry, and works as a Summer Camp Counselor and Wildlife Educator at Lime Hollow Nature Center in Cortland NY. She has a wealth of knowledge about our local herpetofauna and love sharing that knowledge with others!
Class: The Crittering Course!
Brion Scimae
www.realvitality.org
Brion is a dedicated homeopath and educational consultant at Real Vitality. With a passion for holistic healing, Brion completed a comprehensive 4-year program in Homeopathy at the NY School of Homeopathy in 2014. As a proud member of the North American Society of Homeopaths, he specializes in Homeoprophylaxis (HP), offering personalized care to promote wellness naturally.
Class: Transforming Fear Around Fevers
www.realvitality.org
Brion is a dedicated homeopath and educational consultant at Real Vitality. With a passion for holistic healing, Brion completed a comprehensive 4-year program in Homeopathy at the NY School of Homeopathy in 2014. As a proud member of the North American Society of Homeopaths, he specializes in Homeoprophylaxis (HP), offering personalized care to promote wellness naturally.
Class: Transforming Fear Around Fevers
Maya Shetreat, MD
www.drmaya.com
Maya is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, ceremonialist, and author of The Dirt Cure and the newly released The Master Plant Experience: The Science, Safety and Sacred Ceremony of Psychedelics. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more. Dr. Maya created Quantum Drops (www.quantumdrops.com), a vibrational Master Plant product that is safe, legal, and deeply transformative. She is also the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she offers a training for psychedelic-informed practitioners as well as an upcoming Quantum Practitioner Certification.
Class: Healing Trauma and the Psychedelic Rewiring of Disease
www.drmaya.com
Maya is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, ceremonialist, and author of The Dirt Cure and the newly released The Master Plant Experience: The Science, Safety and Sacred Ceremony of Psychedelics. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more. Dr. Maya created Quantum Drops (www.quantumdrops.com), a vibrational Master Plant product that is safe, legal, and deeply transformative. She is also the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she offers a training for psychedelic-informed practitioners as well as an upcoming Quantum Practitioner Certification.
Class: Healing Trauma and the Psychedelic Rewiring of Disease
Dr. M. Anjani Teves, DO
www.nineriversosteopathy.com
M. Anjani Teves, DO practices Neuromuscular medicine in Ithaca, NY. She attended Touro University California and completed Residency at UHS and was Board Certified in family medicine in 2013. Her work is influenced by her mentor, Maria Gentry, DO, who helped expand her perspective on Osteopathic medicine.
Dr. Teves’s practice predominantly serves patients with severe chronic illness such as autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, toxic mold exposure, chronic Lyme, chemical sensitivities, etc. Noting that many of these patients demonstrated significantly congested tissue and were barely breathing, Dr. Teves has dedicated the last 10 years to understanding how to create better physiology through supporting the diaphragm’s role in the body’s hydraulic system. Dr. Teves has been teaching poly-diaphragmatic breathing, hydraulic/tidal yoga, pineal gland stimulation and conscious tidal circulation of cerebral spinal fluid. She is dedicated to spreading the philosophy and experience of polydiaphragmatic breathing to make it accessible to everyone.
Class: Intro to Polydiaphragmatic Breathing
www.nineriversosteopathy.com
M. Anjani Teves, DO practices Neuromuscular medicine in Ithaca, NY. She attended Touro University California and completed Residency at UHS and was Board Certified in family medicine in 2013. Her work is influenced by her mentor, Maria Gentry, DO, who helped expand her perspective on Osteopathic medicine.
Dr. Teves’s practice predominantly serves patients with severe chronic illness such as autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, toxic mold exposure, chronic Lyme, chemical sensitivities, etc. Noting that many of these patients demonstrated significantly congested tissue and were barely breathing, Dr. Teves has dedicated the last 10 years to understanding how to create better physiology through supporting the diaphragm’s role in the body’s hydraulic system. Dr. Teves has been teaching poly-diaphragmatic breathing, hydraulic/tidal yoga, pineal gland stimulation and conscious tidal circulation of cerebral spinal fluid. She is dedicated to spreading the philosophy and experience of polydiaphragmatic breathing to make it accessible to everyone.
Class: Intro to Polydiaphragmatic Breathing
Shawn Tubridy
Shawn was trained at the TCM World Foundation to Teach Qigong for Breast Health and Dragon's Way Qigong Program in 2012 and have been teaching sporadically ever since.
Class: Breast Wellness from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Shawn was trained at the TCM World Foundation to Teach Qigong for Breast Health and Dragon's Way Qigong Program in 2012 and have been teaching sporadically ever since.
Class: Breast Wellness from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Beth Ward
Maplehollowproducts.com
Beth Ward is owner and operator of Maple Hollow Botanicals (Products), a small botanical skin-care company and herb farm in northeastern Pennsylvania that she operates with her husband, Stephen and two young children. She is also a high school English and Environmental Literacy teacher of over twenty years. She is most happy spending time in the fields and woods with her hands in the dirt, learning from plants, and creating with them. In 2012, she founded her company wherein she creates clean beauty products (and more) from wild-stewarded and cultivated herbs on her farm. Her passion for plant perfumery and sustainability naturally led her to look for a way to make small batch plant distillates in a responsible way. She has been learning the art of essential oil and hydrosol distillation ever since and is delighted to share her experiences with others who want to know more about how to get started with practice of plant distillation.
Class: Sustainable Aromatic Plant Distillation 101
Maplehollowproducts.com
Beth Ward is owner and operator of Maple Hollow Botanicals (Products), a small botanical skin-care company and herb farm in northeastern Pennsylvania that she operates with her husband, Stephen and two young children. She is also a high school English and Environmental Literacy teacher of over twenty years. She is most happy spending time in the fields and woods with her hands in the dirt, learning from plants, and creating with them. In 2012, she founded her company wherein she creates clean beauty products (and more) from wild-stewarded and cultivated herbs on her farm. Her passion for plant perfumery and sustainability naturally led her to look for a way to make small batch plant distillates in a responsible way. She has been learning the art of essential oil and hydrosol distillation ever since and is delighted to share her experiences with others who want to know more about how to get started with practice of plant distillation.
Class: Sustainable Aromatic Plant Distillation 101
Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower
www.PlantPioneers.org
Marguerite, mother, Earthist, Clinical Herbalist-Educator and Registered Nurse who asks Plants permission to speak and relate as a radical wild forager, Plant medicine maker and program developer for EarthSchool. In 2017 she founded the Plant Communication program, "Cultivating Cognitive Agility with Plant, Tree and Nature Allies" a 32 hour training to wake up our indigenous soul through cultivating perceptual diversity. Easy approaches that clarify the messages received from the more-than-human species and surrounding land systems. This path deconditions human exceptionalism and extractive mind over Nature and each other and invites in a more culturally mature world view.
Class: Radical Foraging Walk
www.PlantPioneers.org
Marguerite, mother, Earthist, Clinical Herbalist-Educator and Registered Nurse who asks Plants permission to speak and relate as a radical wild forager, Plant medicine maker and program developer for EarthSchool. In 2017 she founded the Plant Communication program, "Cultivating Cognitive Agility with Plant, Tree and Nature Allies" a 32 hour training to wake up our indigenous soul through cultivating perceptual diversity. Easy approaches that clarify the messages received from the more-than-human species and surrounding land systems. This path deconditions human exceptionalism and extractive mind over Nature and each other and invites in a more culturally mature world view.
Class: Radical Foraging Walk
