Bloomin Greenhouse
Produce n Herbals
Healing with Nature
Herbal Medicine & Organic Produce
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Our honored Teachers:Need a registration form heres the link MHS
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Karyn Sanders of California
Karyn is teaching:
15 Herbs from a Native American Energic Perspective (intensive)
Growing Medicinal Herbs
Walking in Different Worlds
Karyn is trained in both Native American Herbalism and Western Herbalism. She was first trained by her Chato Grandmother for 7 years in traditional medicine. She apprenticed for 2 years with a Curandera and has trained with other Native American Healers. Karyn went to a western herbal school. She has a radio show the Herbal Highway; which airs live from 1-2pm (pst), which can be listened to on KPFA.org. Her radio show has been running for 15 years. Karyn co-runs the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, www.blueotterschool.com, in the mountains of northern California.
Amanda McQuade Crawford of CaliforniaAmanda is teaching:
GynEcology (intensive)
Cardiovascular Heath
My Favorite Materia Medica
Amanda is an herbalist encouraged by recent success foraging for signs of life in Los Angeles. She is seen regularly on "What a Relief", a show on herbs for Veria, a holistic cable television network. Previously she was in private practice for many years in Beverly Hills, and Ojai, California, where she grew, gathered, and made most of her plant medicines surrounded by orange groves, oaks, and avocados. Amanda studies healing around the world, learning from plants, and curanderas, as well as from physicians at home and abroad. She learned about medicinal herbs in British classrooms, the rain forest of Amazon, in Rio de Janeiro, through Asia from Beijing to the Mekong River, in Europe, Australia, Russia, Mexico, and every state in the U.S. She was appointed the Senior Clinical Tutor at Canterbury College in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she spent 2005 integrating their curriculum, new research and clinical practice. She earned her degree in Phytotherapy (Herbal Medicine) from Britain's College of Phytotherapy (Phyto, Greek for "plant"), and a BA in Medieval History from Vassar College. She teaches in hospitals, medical schools, and in open meadows. Amanda is the author of two popular books on women's health, The Herbal Menopause Book, and Herbal Remedies for Women, she contributed to two recent books on natural medicine, the New Menopause Book, edited by Taliaferri et al, and the text, Traditional Medicines for Modern Times; Antidiabetic Plants, edited by Amala Soumyanath, CRC Press. Her most recent adventure has been eploring for urban weeds and growing an organic herb garden in the wilds of Los Angeles.
Margi Flint of Massachuetts
Margi is teaching:Reading the Body
Living with Cancer
The Art of Questioning in Consultation
Margi Flint owns and operates EarthSong Herbals, a busy family practice and herb school on the East Coast. Her filters of wisdom include over twenty years of labor coaching, polarity therapy, and three decades of herbal practice. Margi continues to teach Intermediate Studies and Advanced Clinical Studies. She regularly speaks at nationally known herbal seminars in the U.S. and returns to Canada and England regularly to lecture.
Flint has been Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, North Shore Community College, and for the Masters of Applied Natural Products course at Massachusetts College of Pharmacology. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild.
Her most revered teachers are the plants and her clients. Flint is the author of a textbook for herbalists titled The Practicing Herbalist, Meeting with Clients, Reading the Body (second edition). Further information can be found on her website www.earthsongherbals.com.
Phyllis Light of AlabamaPhyllis is teaching:
The Nervous System, Brain and Emotions (intensive)
The Power of One: Simples, Eneretics and Lore
Signs of the Times: Astrology for Health
Phyllis D. Light, RH, has almost 25 years of clinical experience as an Herbal Consultant and teacher. In addition to formal studies, she traditionally trained with her Cherokee/Creek Grandmother Rosie Light, Tommie Bass and other Appalachian Folk Herbalists throughout the region and is considered an expert in Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine.
Through Diversified Nursing Services, Phyllis is a continuing education provider for nurses, nursing home administrators, physical therapists and occupational therapists. Phyllis is professor of herbal studies at Clayton College of Natural Heath. She is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild, a member of the American Folklore Society and a Registered Healthcare Educator. Phyllis offers herb classes at the Appalachian Center for Herbal Studies as well as individual consultations. She can be reached at 256-931-0351, or www.appalachianherbalist.com. Above all, Phyllis devotes herself to building a bridge between traditional knowledge and modern-day science; to help hold sacred the traditional herbal and healing knowledge that has been handed down from generation to generation while including the scientific research of today.
Paul Red Elk of Minnesota
Paul is teaching:
Animal Medicine, Animals as Plant Teachers (intensive)
Paul is a Lakota Herbalist and the grandson of a Lakota medicine man from whom he learned traditional herbal medicine. He currently is a professor at Minneapolis Technical College where he teaches Western Herbal Medicine classes.
Paul is an American Indian seed saver who promotes the use of native foods and American Indain agriculture, and Indigenous Medicines as a viable option to improve health in the Indian community. He has been collecting Natvie American seeds for 25 years. His collection includes some very rare seeds donated by Native Americans elders, the Science Museum of Minneosta, and seeds from archeological sites.
Paul has served as Program Director of the Dream of Wild Health for 5 years where his focus was on restoring forgotten Native American agriculture. While program director he developed a Native youth Garden Program. He also worked with various Native youth in a Youth Garden Program within the Twin Cities. Paul has also worked with the Ramsey County Historical Society Gibb's Museum. Here he installed a Turtle Effigy Medicine Garden, and restored their old Native American seed collection.
Paul served as curator of the Ethno botany, and Native American seed collection at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Here he installed Native American Medicine Gardens and Three Sister's vegetable gardens, and a pre contact early Native garden showing old forgotten native foods. As curator at the Science Museum he also worked with the Science Museum Youth Group teaching about Indian lifestyles and Indian agriculture.
He is currently working to reintroduce ideas regarding soil amendment using minerals outlined in 1936 governmental pamphlets. Current day soils have been depleted of minerals; therefore food growth in this soil is depleted of those essential minerals. The central focus of this work is to increase the essential minerals in foods by amending the soil they are grown in. He has tested some of these native foods for nutrimental values, and has found surprising results.
Althea Northage-Orr of ChicagoAlthea is teaching:
The Treatment of Lyme's Disease
Digestion and Herbal Medicine
Herbal Medicine and Psychological Health
Althea, MA, AHG, L.Ac., CST is a Professional Herbalist, Master Gardener, Licensed Acupuncturist, and Structural Therapist versed in various methods of bodywork therapy, both Oriental and Western. She is founder and President of the Chicago College of Healing Arts, an institution that has Illinois State Board of Education approval and which offers a Massage Therapy Program, a number of herbal programs ranging from short to a three year clinical training program and a number of other healing modalities. She owns and maintains an 80-acre herbal farm in Indiana that is utilized by both the Chicago College as a teaching forum, as a product source for her herbal pharmacy and as an experimental site for the cultivation or rare and endangered botanicals.
Althea is author of Living With Herbs: A Materia Medica and the Kiva Handbook for Alternative Medicine. She received a Bachelor's Degree in English from St. Mary's of the Woods College and a Masters Degree in Literature from Indiana University, a degree in Chinese Medicine from the Midwest College for the Study of Oriental Medicine, and numerous other certifications in the field of healing arts. She has over 25 years of clinical practice and 15 years of teaching. Her professional affiliations include the American Herbalists Guild, Illinois Acupuncture Assocaition, National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, and American Botanical Council.
Jim McDonald of MichiganJim is teaching:
A Woodland Weed Walk (herb walk)
The Wonders of Wayside Weeds (herb walk)
Foundational Herbcraft
Jim lives in Michigan and has been practicing the Art of Herbcraft for over 14 years, offering a perspective of herbalism that blends western folk and indigenous views of healing with the Vitalist traditions of 19th century western herbalism. He has offered classes and walks throughout the Great Lakes bioregion and nationally, hosts the website www.herbcraft.org and is currently writing "A Great Lakes Herbal". Jim is a Community Herbalist, a manic wildcrafter and medicine maker, and has been an ardent student of the most learned teachers of herbcraft.
Victoria Fortner of Missouri
Victoria is teaching:
Herbs 101: the basics
Trauma: Physical and Emotional
Herbal and dietetic Therapies for Bacterial and Viral Health Hazards
"Make Food your Medicine, and Medicine your Food" - Hippocrates
Victoria, RH, AHG (PeatohahNape Tamsah) of Shawnee and Scot/Irish descent, is trained in allopathic and Traditional Indigenous medicine. She has worked in the American medical field for 15 years. Ms. Fortner has been practicing herbal medicine since 1972 and is the owner of Shawnee Moon Herbaceuticals. She in on the Board of Directors for Earth Circle Sanctuary, Inside Dharma, and the Living Insights Center, also the American Herbalist Guild for eight years.
Victoria is listed in the International Who's Who in Medicine, Second Edition (1995), and has acted as Herbal Consultant to the Missouri Botanical Gardens/Shaw Arboretum on their Osage Garden project, and a division of Regis International. Victoria has artwork as a part of the permanent collection in the National Museum of the American Indian / Smithsonian, Wash, D.C.
Victoria has been a spiritual advisor for Native American inmates in the Missouri prison system. As a lecturer, she travels nationally presenting information and workshops on Native American history, culture and tradition and on all phases of herbal medicine (recognition, gathering, processing, formulation and application). Ms Fortner derives her knowledge from both Native and non-Native traditions of herbalogy, and with her strong medical background, offers presentations that speak to all levels of interest. She is an indigenous dancer, storyteller, counselor, award-winning artist and craft-person. Victoria has been published both nationally and internationally with numerous articles addressing both alternative health and Native American concerns.
Nicholas Schnell of NebraskaNicholas is teaching:
Five System Deep Tissue Cleanse
Starting & Growing an Herbal Practice
Herbs for Common Digestive Diseases
Nicholas Schnell, RH (AHG), RD, LMNT is a Clinical Herbalist, professional member of the American Herbalist Guild and a nutritionist. He operates a thriving herbal medicine clinic in Omaha Nebraska, The Four Winds Natural Healing Center. His practice integrates European phytotherapy, Western Eclectic herbalism and Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has written many professional articles and has a published book, The Complete Guide to Cleansing and Detox. His lifelong passion is herbal medicine. Visit Nicholas at www.fourwindshealingcenter.com.
Matthew Wood of MinnesotaMatthew is teaching:
The Six Tissue States, The Forgotten Energetics of Western Herbalism
12 Organ Systems
Teaching of the Ancient Masters on the Practice of
Traditional Western Herbalism
Matthew, RH, (AHG), is a Clinical Herbalist and educator of almost 30 years and has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of traditional herbal medicine. He is a member of the American Herbalist Guild and has earned his Master of Science Degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine. Currently he is a professor at Minneapolis Community and Techinal College and continues to lecture world wide. Matthew is the author of several books on herbal medicine; Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers; Vitalism, The History of Homeopathy and Flower Essences; The Book of Herbal Wisdom; The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism; and The Earth Wise Herbal, a two volumn set.
Mindy Green of MinnesotaMindy is teaching:
Aromatic Medicines in a Clinical Setting (intensive)
Aroma-Herbalism for Women
Graceful Aging - A Holistic Approach
Mindy, AHG, has 35 years experience in the natural products and health care industries. She has served as Program Specialist for the Integrative Resource Center at the University of Colorado Hospital, Anschutes Cancer Center, where she developed and implemented specialized educational programs and resources on complementary therapies for patients and staff. Mindy served as Director of Education, and later, Director of Research at the Herb Research Foundation's non-profit medical library. She was on the faculty of the Colorado-based Rocky Mt. Center for Botanical Studies and at the Boulder College of Massage Therapy; she was co-owner and a faculty member of the California School of Herbal Studies.
A licensed esthetician and massage therapist, she has founded and owned several herb and essential oil businesses, most recently Green Scentsations - an independent consulting company specializing in botanical therapies, aromatherapy education and product development. She is a nationally certified Registered Aromatherapist, a founding member of the American Herbalist Guild and associate editor of the American Herb Association Newsletter. She has served on the education committees of the Aromatherapy Registration Council and the National Association of Holistic Aromatherapists, and is a member of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. She is on the advisory board of the Australasian College of Health Sciences, on the board of directors for the non-profit, United Plant Savers, and on the Cosmeceuticals Scientific Advisory Board for the Supply Side West Trade Show and Conference. She serves as committee chair for botanicals in cosmetics for the American Herb Products Association.
A prolific writer and lecturer, Ms Green has authored over 40 magazine articles and professional papers on botanicals. She is co-author of Aromatherapy, A Complete Guide to the Healing Art; and author of Calendula and Natural Perfumes, and has contributed to numerous other books on herbs. She has conducted many seminars and training programs for professionals and the lay public, and provided consulting services in various aspects of complementary health care. As an expert in botanical therapies, she has provided more than 400 interviews with leading magazines and newspapers on the subject of herbs and health.
Ms. Green holds a bachelor's degree in Holistic Health Sciences and a master's in Health and Human Services from Columbia Pacific University. She has extensive training in the advanced uses of essential oils from Purdue University and comprehensive training in botanicals and spa therapies from other institutes of higher education. Originally from northern California, Ms. Green was most recently the Clinical Aromatherapist for Aveda and is a long-time environmental activist who enjoys contributing to global health. Find Mindy at Greenscentsations.com
Brigitte Mars of ColoradoBrigitte is teaching:
Sex, Love and Health (Intensive)
Rawvolution
Five Element Theory
Brigitte, AHG, is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild, a nutritional consultant working with Natural Medicine for over forty years. She teaches Herbal Medicine at Naropa University, Omega Institute, Hollyhock, Boulder Boulder College of Massage, Esalen and Bauman Holistic College of Nutrition. She has a weekly radio show called "Naturally" and a private practice. She blogs for the Huffington Post.
Brigitte is the author of twelve books, including, The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine, Beauty by Nature, Addiction Free Naturally, The Sexual Herbal, healing Herbal Teas, and Rawsome. Ms. Mars has been featured on NBC Dateline. She has been happily married for thirty three years.
David Hoffmann of California
David is teaching:
The Need to Question Authority in Today's Herb World
Post Industrial Herbalism/Phytotherapeutic Emergency Response Management
Individualizing Protocols
David, BSc, FNIMH, a fellow of Britian's National Institute of Medical Herbalists, he has been a clinical Medical Herbalist for over 25 years, one of the founding members and past president of the American Herbalist Guild, on the boards of the American Botanical Council, Herbalgram and the Protocol Journal of Botanical Medicine, and the American Herbal Pharmacopeia. David is the author of 17 books on herbalism, The Herbal Handbook, Medical Herbalism, the Science and Practice of Herbal Medicine. He teaches phytotherapy throughout the English speaking world and is visiting faculty at Bastyr University, the California Institute of Intregral Studies, California School of Herbal Studies, the National College of Phytotherapy, and the Rocky Mountain School of Botanical Studies.
Bonnie L Kreckow of MinnesotaBonnie is teaching:
Trama Improv
Listening to Your Body
Bonnie is a Clinical Herbalist, herbal educator, and medicine maker. Her practice in southeastern Minnesota keeps her busy working with clients from infants to elders. She is the creator of an herbal product line labeled Simply Natural and founder of the MidAmerica Herbal Symposium. Bonnie frequently lectures at Winona State University in the nursing program and speaker for local groups educating on the fundamentals of herbal medicine. She has a 7 month apprenticeship program and takes in interns from Minneapolis Community and Technical College. Bonnie is the founder and co-owner of Bloomin Greenhouse Produce n Herbals, a center for healing through whole organic foods and herbal medicine. Not only will she see you in consultation and suggest a path for healing through the herbs but also offers you good nutritional produce. Bonnie has studied with many of these outstanding teachers attending this symposium. Her main mentor is Rosemary Gladstar, spending three years back and forth from Minnesota to the Green Moutains of Vermont, graduating from her 2 year apprenticeship program and then the clinical and advanced program.
Sue Henry of Minnesota Sue is teaching:
Social Media Success in 15 Minutes a Day
Grow Your Business with Referrals
Dream Big! Go Do!
Sue is a social media expert, teaching classes and workshops where ever her leads follow. She is a professional speaker, writer, and area director of BNI. Sharing her experiences and knowledge, Sue teaches people how to use social media to successfully market their business in just 15 mintues a day. She is an expert in networking, in person, offline, and online. You can find her online at her compnay SueHenryTalks; www.suehenrytalks.com. Sue is a contributing author in the NY Times * Wall Street Journal bestseller "Masters of Sales" and is included in Cambridge's Who's Who of Exceptional Women in Business. Her workshops have included people from 18 countries and 37 states. Sue lives on an organic dairy farm in SE Minnesota also contributing to the health of our Earth Mother.
Trish Rolls of Montreal CanadaTrish is teaching:
Touch Therapies
Trish is founder and owner of Touching Lives with Care. Touching Lives with Care provides therapeutic massage, touch therapies and Aromatherapy services to individuals and healthcare facilities. Trish creates programs that include a blend of these therapies along with music and essential oils. She provides services to hospices, palliative care, geriatric care, Alzheimer's, and individuals living with intellectual and physical disabilities. The essence of Touching Lives with Care is to provide a service that focuses on all aspects of the individual; mind, body, and spirit. Trish graduated from the National Health Institute as a Certified Massage Practitioner and is a member of Association des Massotherapeutes Professionnels de Quebec (AMPQ). Her education and training extends to completing the Art and Science of Herbology program by Rosemary Gladstar. She practices energy approaches which in Reiki, Quantum Touch and Therapeutic Touch, as well as Myofascia Release and Trigger Point Therapy. Trish is currently training to be a aromatherapist. Visit Trish at www.touchingliveswithcare.com.
Janell Foust of Ohio
Janell is teaching:
The Making of a Flower Essence
Janell is a Florist, Herbalist, trained in Therapeutic Touch, and Reiki. She is the owner and founder of Lavender and Rose Herbary and Florals opened in 1999. A sweet little herb shop in Richmond, Indiana where she formulates and markets a natural skin care line, teas, tinctures, aromatherapy bath, body and home. For the past 28 years she lived and raised three children on a beautiful 60 acre farm on the southern Ohio and Indiana border among a bounty of native medicinal herbs. Now four grandchildren are walking the land and learning the herbal way. In 1975 she co-founded Rose City Nursery, a landscape, garden center, and greenhouse business still doing business today. Janell studied floral design from the Indianapolis School of Design and Phil Roloda School of Floral Design, Anaheim, California. After many years of floral design I saw the amazing healing power of plants and flowers and their impact on the people who received them. Then the winds changed--literally the plants spoke in a different way and my green pilgrimage transformed. In 1998 & 1999 she took herbal courses from Dominion Herbal College, British Columbia. 2000-2001 Rosemary Gladstar's the Art and Science of Herbology, Intership with Amish Herbalist, Soloman, from southern Indiana. 2003 Rosemary Gladstar's Advanced Herbal Training. In 2008 she continued on with completing Reiki 1 & 2 with Sally Garrett, Earthlight Energies, Tarpley Texas. 2009 completed Therapeutic Touch level 1 & 2 in Ottawa, Canada. In 2009 Janell interned with Trish Rolls, Touching Lives with Care in Montreal, Canada practicing the modalities of Therapeutic Touch and Aromatherapy in healthcare facilities for geriatric care, palliative care, Alzheimer's and hospice care. You can visit Janell's shop at www.lavender-roses.com.
And the exciting journey into the green continues~~~~~~~
Sally Garrett of TexasSally is teaching:
Tincturing by Percolation Method
Sally Garrett, M.S., is an herbalist, photographer, Reiki master and teacher, currently living and practicing in Tarpley, Texas. Her business, Earthlight Energies, is a healing arts retreat center with the mission of working with nature and the arts in ways that connect herself and others to the energies of the earth. Custom formulated herbal products are offered, as well as earth-inspired photography and a diverse variety of classes in nature and arts. Sally has completed advanced apprenticeships with renowed herbalists, Rosemary Gladstar and Margi Flint. She serves as staff photographer for the International Herb Symposium. She offers wellness consults and classes with Reiki and Therapeutic Touch treatments and modalities of aromatherapy and flower essences. The herbal apothecary is becoming specialized in offering a growing variety of top quality tinctures produced by the percolation method. Earthlight Energies is a place to learn and observe respect for the eath and all living creatures. Your presence is welcome. You can find Sally at www.earthlightenergies.com.
Trilby Sedlacek of IowaTrilby is teaching:
Herbal and Nutritional Programs for Those with Thyroid
Gland Disfunctions:Living with Hypothyroidism,
Hyperthroidism, and Auto Immune Thyroid
Nurturing Nervous Nellie
Trilby considers herself a "Community Herbalist" for the past 18 years, consulting with clients through her practice Green Angel Herbs & Healing Arts. She has developed various special formulas that are generally applicable for people with allergies, ADD/ADHD, thyroid problems and menopause, to name a few. She includes lifestyle and nutritional counseling in her consultations, because so many people can eliminate 75% of their health problems by eating better quality foods and making better choices. In addition to her private classes in Cedar Rapids and Des Moines, Iowa, she teaches nursing students at the local community college various topics such as herb-drub interactions.
Ian Finch of MinnesotaIan is teaching:
Strategies for Permanent Weight-Loss
Resistance Training
Ian is owner of Body Balance Personal Training. He holds a certification from ACE (American Council on Exercise) for about 9 years and has been working as a trainer for over 3 years. He loves his job and truly enjoys helping people make positive changes in their lives through exercise and healthy eating. Generally, he helps people lose weight by designing a comprehensive, customized fitness program, showing them how to eat healtheir to lose weight. In addition to training and running Body Balance Personal Training he enjoys sports of all kinds. He stays active by playing in at least a couple of basketball leagues every year and also coaches when he has the time, mostly basketball and football.
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You can also get a great massage while at conference from James Walch and Sue Betts
(They will be charging their fees)
