2014 MidAtlantic Women’s Herbal Conference Teachers

Rosemary Gladstar: Rosemary has been practicing, living, learning, teaching and writing about herbs for over 40 years. She is the author of nine books in-cluding the popular Herbal Healing for Women, Gladstar Herbal Recipes for Vi-brant Well Being and The Science and Art of Herbalism, an extensive home study course. She is the founder/director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center and Botanical Sanctuary, Founding President of United Plant Savers, and director of The International Herb Symposium and The NE Women’s Herbal Conference. She is also the co-founder of Traditional Medicinal Tea Company. Along with creating community and loving people, herbs are her passion and joy in life. www.sagemountain.com

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Maia Toll: In college, friends nicknamed Maia “Our Lady of the Crossroads.” Circumstances change, but our essential self does not, and Maia now stands at the crossroads of herbalism and life-coaching, traditional wisdom and modern medicine, sensuous materialism and deep-rooted spirituality. Having spent dec-ades contemplating the lay of the land, she is an experienced guide for those who find themselves at their own crossroads, in health or in life. Her personal mission is make women's wisdom mainstream.  With this in mind she founded Witch Camp, an online forum where folks can come together to learn about herbs, foods, and living with the cycle of the seasons.  Maia also teaches Herbal Wellness Coaching- her own blend of herbalism and life coaching- to those who want to become guides themselves. Back in mundania, Maia teaches botanical medicine at West Chester University, is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild (RH AHG), and is the founder/owner of Herbiary in Philadelphia. Sometimes, at night, her spirit returns to the Irish hills where she first studied herbalism and left a small piece of her heart.

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Tammi Sweet: Tammi is a passionate and energetic teacher. Her love, amazement and wonder of the human body and how it works shines through as she presents the material in ways people can really under-stand and take home. She loves integrating the wisdom of the body with all aspects of living. Presently she co-directs her Herbal Program at Heartstone Herbal School, and teaches Anatomy and Physiology at the Finger Lakes School of Massage. Her learning of the body has come through many paths including traditional Master’s level college studies in Neurobiology, collegiate athletics, College level Anatomy teaching, Mas-sage School, Yoga Teacher Training, Herbal studies, and most impor-tantly, an ever-growing love of understanding who we are in relation with this wonderful home we call earth.

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Andrea Reisen: Andrea and her husband co-founded Healing Spirits Herb Farm and Education Center in the Finger Lakes Region of New York where they have lived and worked for over 35 years.  They live simply, seeking a life of balance and harmony with all creation.  Our strong spiritual energy enhances Healing Spirits’ ethically wild-crafted and organically grown herbs.  Andrea is a graduate of Rosemary Gladstar’s Herbal Apprenticeship program. She is also a student of numerous healing modalities.

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Donna Bryant Winston BSN, RN: Donna is an herbalist, holistic nurse, and Director of Community Health & Neighborhood initiatives in Bethlehem, PA, and co-director of the New England Women’s herbal Conference. A member of the American Holistic Nurses Assoc., she is currently responsible for a small inner city health clinic in PA, where holistic care and education is the primary focus.  Here she combines her herbal knowledge with her nursing background to educate the com-munity on natural health.  Donna works closely in partnership with area colleges and universities, to provide unique nursing and medical student rotations, in which a natural and holistic approach to healing is prac-ticed.

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Kerry Smith, M.S. is a naturopathic consultant and certified yoga instructor with more than ten years of training and experience in herbs, natural supple-ments, Ayurveda and ancient healing methods.  Her intuitive, gentle approach assists the body's natural healing process and helps restore balance and rhythm to mind, body and spirit. She is owner of Healing Earth Studio and Wellness Center in Lenharstville, PA. www.healingearthstudio.com

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Karla Parker, teacher and our T-shirt Artist, is a freelance graphic de-signer and herbalist in New Tripoli, PA. She is a graduate of duCret School of Art, Clayton College of Natural Health, and David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies. Karla Parker Design offers creative design solutions for a wide range of clients. Karla combined her passions for creativity and herbs in 2011 by founding The Artful Herbalist, LLC. Karla can be contacted at (610) 217-1203 orkparker@artfulherbalist.com

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Elisabeth Weaver is a community-based artist, educator, farmer, forager and aspiring herbalist. She is co-founder of Lancaster Farmacy, a local organic medicinal herb farm and community supported medicinal share program in Lancas-ter, PA. She has taught art in schools and community settings, facilitating mural design, printmaking and botanical drawing. When not busy at the farm or making herbal medicines, she enjoys playing music and spending time in the forest with her partner and 2 year old son.

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Suzanna Stone is an herbalist in Scottsville VA. She founded OwlcraftHealing Ways where she offers clinical herbal consultations and teaches nine-month herbal apprenticeships and day classes in herbal medicine, tradi-tional food-ways, plant spirit medicine and drumming. She is a graduate of Sacred Plant Traditions' three year clinical training program and guest lectur-ers there and at other herbal schools and conferences throughout the East Coast.  Suzanna is also a co-facilitator of rites of passage for young women with the Living Earth School in Afton, VA. Her passion for the drum led her to Senegal where she studied traditional West African drumming and dancing. Her chants can be found on her CD "Songs from the Spiral".

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Michelle Synnestvedt,E-RYT 500, BFA: Michelle has been supporting students in renewing and regaining their health and happiness since early 90's. Michelle has trained hundreds of yoga teachers in Philadelphia and surrounding areas over the last few decades. Michelle received many great gifts from her traditional studies in two lineages from her Guru's.  She is highly respected in the yoga community for her wealth of knowledge in East Indian devotional studies and practices, traditional story-telling, Hatha yoga, Scriptural studies, Mindfulness and Meditation. She is highly regarded for her success in treating injury of body, mind, and heart with a variety of modalities including yoga thera-peutics for injury rehab, massage, and other healing arts. 

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Jen Frey is a member of the Visioning Council of ONE (the Organization of Na-ture Evolutionaries), a group dedicated to the renewal of kinship with Earth and all her beings.  Jen is a Flower Essence and Plant Spirit Healing Practioner and has a practice in East Petersburg, PA.

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Annie Hasz is a passionate botanist, eager to share her love of the plant world. She has farmed for eight seasons, growing vegetables and raising livestock on small farms in Pennsylvania and Virginia. In fall 2013 she completed studies in Clinical Herbalism at Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville, VA.  Annie recently moved home to to start Broad Wing Farm with her fiancé.

Charis Lindrooth, D.C. is a practicing herbalist and chiropractor working out of Healing Earth Studio in Lenhartsville, PA. She and her husband own Red Earth Farm, where they grow a wide variety of vege-tables and cut flowers for their CSA and Farmer’s Markets. A teacher at heart, she has offered many workshops and classes in the local area as well as been a guest lecturer at the New England Women’s Herbal Conference and PASA. For over 20 years she has en-visioned a network of people dedicated to sustainable and natural

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