Our center has grown- this year, 2010, we welcome 3 teaching assistants, all graduates of our 2009 Medicinal Herbalist Certification program. We introduce them below. MARY LIGHT, ND MH heads up Gaia Center and is among the teachers. She teachers around the country and contributes regularly to magazines as writer and consultant. Mary has embraced and studied herbs, wild plants, nature, gardening, flower essences, cooking and medicine making since 1978, and has studied in connection with teachers such as Farida Sharan, Tammi Hartung, Dr. Bernard Jensen, CatFish Man of the Woods, and various traditional herbal healers in Appalachia. She has extensive training, experience, and certification as a practitioner in the natural healing arts : bodywork, massage, energy work, naturopathy, hydrotherapy, herbal therapeutics. She has maintained a private clinical practice since 1991 (www.marylightnaturalmedicine.com) , combining this with her experience with and love of teaching others. ROWENA CONAHAN : Rowena brings extensive wilderness skills training and community herbalist experience to her Wild Edibles walks and lectures. Lately Rowena has been creating a way to share her ever growing connection with intuitive foods nourishment with others eager to learn. A graduate of Vassar, Rowena is a former Montessori teacher, and an active co-housing participant, mother of two small children, community storyteller, and massage therapist. PEGGY JONES: Peggy is a graduate of our Medicinal Herbalist Certification program, 2007, and is currently pursueing advanced herbal studies. She tends expanding herb gardens at her home which is situated on several acres, including many wild stands of Elder tree and marsh plants. She is currently creating wonderful creams, balms, and poultices, and will be assisting in Apothecary and Dispensary projects at Gaia School . MICHELLE MEDLEY - Michelle graduated in 2007 from University of Michigan with a degree in botany, and is preparing her career to apply to medical school. She is a 2008 graduate of the medicinal herbalist certification program at Gaia Center, and is currently in the Advanced Herbal Studies group. Michelle is the designer and manager of our free herbal medicine clinic, to be offered fall of 2009 through Naturopathic School of Ann Arbor activities. She recently returned from Honduras, where she took part in a volunteer program to give medical aid to villagers.
Teaching Assistants: Coraleen Rawls, Maegen Gabrielle, |
