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​​We are thrilled to share our Intentions with you:
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Present different voices of Clinical Herbalism, to offer a great understanding of the various methods and plants professional herbalists use to create healthy minds and healthy bodies, through webinars, pop ups and events.
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To encourage a deeper understanding of how herbal medicine can support and resolve simple to complex health challenges with the guidance of a Clinical Herbalist.
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To have fun, laugh and explore the many facets of herbal medicine.
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Maintain an active you tube channel, which offers all Herbalists and Herbs recordings to the general public. This will be a reliable source for herb enthusiasts to gain herbal knowledge from experienced Registered Herbalists.
Did you know? These registered herbalists also offer herbal consultations, herb walks, formal herbal education programs and retreats! Please feel free to contact individually, see our contact page for email addresses.
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TEAM
Tamara Segal, RH
Tamara is a Registered Herbalist with a special appreciation for the medicine that comes from local wild plants. She lives on a farm in Prince Edward County Ontario, where the pasture land is slowly re-wilding into forest, and many wild edible and medicinal plants have the chance to flourish. Tamara has been running a private herbal clinic at her farm since 2013. People visit her there for holistic support with various health concerns. She grows herb gardens and wild crafts medicines there, which she uses in her practice. Tamara also teaches herbal medicine classes throughout the year, and regularly leads wild plant identification walks in her area. The more she continues with this work, the deeper her appreciation grows for the natural world and all that it provides. All of these offerings come under the umbrella of Tamara's practice, called Hawthorn Herbals, which can be found at https://hawthornherbals.com.
Penelope Beaudrow, RH
Penelope Beaudrow is an educator and Registered Herbalist; earning her diploma from the Dominion Herbal College in British Columbia. She is Product Development Specialist and Herbal Educator at Faunus Herbs; which manufactures, formulates and develops complex food-based supplements for the natural products industry. Penelope is also a board member of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine, moderator at The Annual International Restorative Medicine Conference and past organizer of this conference for ten years, founder of Back To Your Roots herbal retreat and also facilitates The Ginkgo Tree Herbal Course. She is also the founder of The Ginkgo Tree, a small herbal business located on her family farm, Dogwood & Brambles. She has had a career with herbs for almost 25 years; from "the field to bottle" in all aspects of the natural products industry. Penelope has lectured for Restorative Medicine Conference, International Herb Symposium, New England Women’s Conference, Back To Your Roots Herbal Retreat, Heartwood Gathering, Canada Blooms, Toronto Botanical Gardens, and other various organizations. She also has been featured in the Toronto Star's Gardening Column, by Sonja Day and in the United Plant Savers Journal.
Victor Cirone RH
I am a practising herbalist based in Toronto, Ontario and registered as a professional member with the Ontario Herbalists Association. My clinical practice is rooted in traditional Western herbal medicine, though I also draw inspiration from anthroposophy, Ayurvedic medicine, homeopathy, and depth psychology. In addition to herbal medicine, I also practice Marma Nadi Chikitsa, an ancient system of rehabilitative healing originating in India. I work with my patients in order to develop an understanding of health as a dynamic state of being which adapts to changing environmental circumstances and conditions. When we understand how the body and mind relate to the cycles and elements of nature, various disturbances and imbalances can be recognized before they reach the point of crisis. Herbal medicine is a vehicle through which we can move in the direction of wholeness and equilibrium, from wherever we are. Plant medicines work in concert with the body’s own mechanisms and defenses. As an herbalist I am not interested in forcing the body to change; instead I work to support and facilitate the body’s own innate healing capacities and potentials. Holistic herbal healing does not entail the suppression of symptoms. Rather, it involves developing a clear picture of the underlying patterns of dis-equilibrium and susceptibility to dis-ease that affect an individual. We work together from this understanding in order to arrive at a place of health, wholeness, and vitality. www.victorcironeherbalist.com
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Abrah Arneson RH
For most people there is an essential question in their life. This question is their beacon during times of transformation. Some would even say this question is their karma. Abrah’s question is:
how can the intoxicating beauty of life co-exist with depth of despair suffering life can bring?
This question has led Abrah to work in hospice supporting the dying, train as doula to hold women in their labour, travel to all continents on this planet and spend a year in retreat in the Yukon wilderness. Abrah’s practice of herbal medicine, she has been practicing for 15 years, has nourished this question and deepened her understanding of transformation from illness to health, from despair to hope and from disconnection to connection. Her experience with plant medicine has taught her many times that a single plant is much more than a remedy of a physical illness. Plant medicine sooths physical wounds, mends broken hearts and opens minds to the wonder of life. Abrah is the author of The Herbal Apprentice: Plant Medicine and The Human Being and the Herbal Apprentice Workbook. And currently runs a herbal clinic in Ottawa, Ontario and is available for distant consultation via Zoom. Abrah offers an herbal apprentice program in the Gatineau in Quebec. www.abraherbs.com or on facebook at Abrah Herbalist in the Woods
Dionne Jennings
Dionne Jennings has a mission as a Community Herbalist: connecting plants & people.
She began studying herbal medicine in the folk tradition 20 years ago on Vancouver Island, and completed a 3 year supervised clinical apprenticeship in Alberta in 2015.
Dionne feels much of her role as a Community Herbalist is to help others reconnect with lost traditional plant knowledge & practices–whether living on acres of stewarded land or within the challenges of the urban environment.
Dionne has a particular passion for teaching & researching, as well as studying Ukrainian/Slavic Folk & Herbal Medicine, and enjoys utilizing her writing and communication skills on behalf of inspiring and “growing” future herbalists with Wild Rose College. www.yegherbalist.ca