In Gratitude

What is remembered lives.  

What is honored thrives.  

What is loved and cherished grows more roots for the generations to come. 

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Experience and Teachings In Education & Regenerative Design

I have had a wealth of influencing experiences as a teacher over the last 25 years.  These have been within classroom settings, correctional facilities, outdoor education, gardens and farms, and counseling clients through their life changes.  I have harvested seeds of wisdom from them all and reflect these back into my offerings of healing.

• Masters of Education in Leadership in Ecology, Culture, and Learning with a focus on Regenerative Design, Portland State University
• Bachelors of Education in Early Childhood, Elementary, and Special Education, Gannon University
• Permaculture Teacher Training, Cascadia Permaculture Institute
• Permaculture Certification with Toby Hemenway
• Naturalist Training with Dan Daly and Tony Deis
• Other Human Teachers:  Hazel Ward, Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski, Dave Jackie, Heather Flores, Yveline Wilnau, Matt Bibeau, Pramod Parajouli, Dilafruz Williams, John Young, Rain Crow, Peter Michael Bauer, Ivy Stovall, Martin Prechtel 

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Experience and Education in Healing Arts

My path of healing began at a young age.  My best teachers along this path have been experiences brought to me in this life and in past lives.  I am thankful for them all-blissful, heart breaking, surreal, epic.  The gifts and lessons all have woven their unique thread within my soul.  Each day brings with it new opportunities for sacred acts of healing and I listen and dance with them all. 

As a healer my offerings are a comprehensive mixture of divination, sound healing, plant medicine, Reiki, guided visualization, and talk therapy. 

• Sound Healing Practitioner Training with Shalom Mayberg
• Reiki Practitioner Training I & II with Shalom Mayberg
• Mystery School Training with Blue Iris Mystery School/Golden Web Mystery School under Collette Gardiner
• Tarot Teachings with Iris Misciagna & Pom Doyle
• Acutonics Practitioner Training with Acutonics Institute of Integrative Medicine
• Rune Teachings with The Rune Women
• The Burning Times with Rain Crow
• The Faery Roads with Sage Goode
• Silver Bough Edge School with MaeDea OvMoon
• 8 Years as a Reiki Practitioner-offering Reiki healing in a variety of settings
• 8 Years as a Sound Practitioner-offering personalized sound healing and sound baths in a variety of settings

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Experience and Teachings in Herbalism

I have had the pleasure of learning and gaining knowledge from many human allies along my journey as an herbalist.  I honor their influence here by naming them in the spirit of my deep gratitude for their wisdom.

• Vital Ways School of Traditional Western Herbalism
• East West School of Planetary Herbalism
• Herb Pharm Herbal Apprenticeship
• Friends of the Trees Herbal Apprenticeship
• Herb Shoppe Herbal Apprenticeship
• Other Human Teachers: Paul Bergner, Cascade Anderson Geller, Seven Song, Michael Pilarski, Mathew Wood, Rosemary Gladstar, Dr. JJ Pursell, Scott Kloos, Richo Czech, Christopher Hobbs, Judy Bluehorse-Skelton, Colette Gardiner, Shayne Case, Camilla Blossom, Dr. Debra Frances
• The Plants, Trees, and Fungi-for they have been my greatest teacher.
• Over 20 years as a herbal practitioner-offering personalized herbal care, herbal classes, growing medicinals, and creating herbal products

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Farming & Growing

I have been blessed this life with having many places to grow roots  and create a landscape of beauty. I have had many experiences as a farm hand and apprentice, and for the last 19 years I have been growing on my own.  I use biodynamic, organic, low-no till methods.  Using principles of permaculture, biodyanimics, and regenerative design have guided each of my practices as a grower.  

For each and every place I have grown medicine,  I am thankful for being able to offer this work as a magical act of rematriation, regeneration, and revitalization to the Earth.

• The Hive Sanctuary, Hood River, Medicinal, Cut Flowers, Dye Plants, and Nursery
• Wind Mountain, Columbia Gorge, Garden Sanctuary
• Apple Core Farm, Parkdale Oregon, Cut Flower Farm
• Green Anchors, Portland Oregon, Medicinal, Craft, and Food Gardens
• Headwaters Farm, Orient Oregon, Alquimia Botanicals Herb Farm and Medicinal Herb Nursery
• Jean's Farm, Portland Oregon, Myriad Growers, Vegetable and Medicinal Herb CSA, Educational Farm, and Permaculture Education Site
• Learning Gardens Lab, Portland Oregon, Educational Farm and Permaculture Education Site
• River Song Farm, Hood River Oregon, Friends of the Trees and Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski Medicinal Herb Sanctuary and Permaculture Education Site
• Herb Pharm, Williams Oregon, Medicinal Herb Farm

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The Original Tenders

I honor and offer reverence to the original tenders of this land...the Yakama,  Cowlitz, Wasco, Wishram, Klickitat, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and Siletz, and other indigenous tribes whose names may not be known, but their essence lives on in the soils, rocks, trees.  

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Landspirits

Each landspirit of place connected with holds it's own unique frequency and element of healing.  The land, and each of the living bodies within, have always offered me magic and messages both subtle and grand.  They have moved me and been my greatest dance partner. Forging an imprint on my spirit I carry through in the workings I offer.  Landspirits to me include the plants, the great expanse of land and it's mountains, forests, hills, valley, and waterways, rivers, lakes, ponds, oceans, waterfalls, rocks, creeks, gorges, trees, animals, moss, lichens, mycelium and fungi, and subtle energies carried within. I am thankful to carry their essence.