Breitenbush Herbal Conference 2005
September 8 - 11, 2005
Teachers and Workshops

Trillium Botanicals
Information: 503-236-3185
Registration: 503-236-2220
www.trilliumbotanicals.net

Here is an incredible selection of teachers and over 30 workshops for all levels of interest:

 

Cascade Anderson Geller
Cascade Anderson Geller grew up always on the lookout for wild muscadine grapes and picking wild greens. With a family background steeped in Appalachian mountain people's self-reliance and herbal knowledge, she continued her quest for understanding the intricate relationships between plants and people through more formal herb studies on the West Coast with herbal elders such as Ella Birzneck at Dominion Herbal College, Norma Meyers of Alert Bay, B.C. Her studies continue with travel to areas of the world where people embrace a lifestyle that respects and directly uses plants in all aspects of life. Cascade has served on the faculty of naturopathic colleges throughout the U.S., as well as having an herbal practice and offering an educational program open to all students. She continues with her passion for oral teaching and getting people and plants together on herb walks as she has done for nearly three decades. She is currently devoting time as an activist in water and public land politics.

Workshops by Cascade Anderson Geller:

 

Rosita Arvigo
Dr. Rosita Arvigo is a naprapathic physician, herbalist, international lecturer and author. She has lived in Central America for over 30 years where she studied with traditional healer, the most notable of whom was Don Elijio Panti, the renowned Maya Shaman of Belize. She is the founder and director of Ix Chel Tropical Research Foundation in San Ignacio, Belize, an organization dedicated to the preservation and study of medicinal rainforest plants. She is founder and President of The Traditional Healers' Foundation in Belize, which works to support traditional healers. She maintains her private practice in Belize and travels extensively offering workshops in the Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Massage.

She is the author of several books, including: Spiritual Bathing: Healing Rituals & Traditions From Around The World; with Nadine Epstein (Ten Speed Press, 2003) SASTUN: My Apprenticeship With A Maya Healer (Harper Collins, 1994) RAINFOREST REMEDIES: 100 Healing Plants of Belize; with Michael Balick (Lotus Press, 1994) RAINFOREST HOME REMEDIES: The Maya Way to Heal Your Body and Replenish Your Soul; with Nadine Epstein (Harper Collins, 2001)

Workshops by Rosita Arvigo:

 

Julie Bailey
Co-Owner of Mountain Rose Herbs (mountainroseherbs.com) since 1991. Julie has been intimately involved with healing plants since her childhood in England. After an herbal apprenticeship and classes in botany, nutrition, anatomy, physiology, psychiatric and general medicine; Julie managed the herb departments of health food stores and, vegetarian & vegan restaurants. Other adventures include: leading wilderness backpack trips, running a native and medicinal plant nursery and, front desk and herbal consultant at the local medical clinic. Julie has been teaching classes and leading herb walks since 1988. She loves to inform and enlighten people about herbs; empower them to make their own medicines, grow organic gardens and participate in their own healing and that of their home - Earth.

Workshop by Julie Bailey:

 

Jane Bothwell
Jane Bothwell is dedicated to empowering people with the knowledge and wisdom necessary to use plants wisely as food, medicine, and spiritual support. With this learning comes a fuller appreciation of the bounty of creation and a greater ability and desire to care for oneself, one's family, and our universe. She brings to you 20 years of working with clients, teaching herb classes and generally immersing herself in plants. Jane Bothwell directs The Dandelion Herbal Center (www.dandelionherb.com)a rural herbal education center in the coastal hills of Northern California, 70 miles from the Oregon border.

Workshops by Jane Bothwell:

 

Ryan Drum
Ryan Drum, PhD. has been a professional wildcrafter, herbal educator, and practicing medical herbalist for over 25 years after a successful career as an academic research scientist. He has degrees in chemistry BS and phycology, PhD from Iowa State University. He studied herbal medicine with Ella Birzneck at Dominion Herbal College from 1972 to 84, he has taught at their summer seminar for over 25 years. He lives on an isolated island hilltop homestead in the San Juan Islands, WA where he moved in 1976. He has been professionally wildcrafting medicinal plants and sea vegetables since 1977. As a medical herbalist he specializes in seaweed therapies, thyroid problems, and men's health issues. He believes passionately in true patient autonomy, the complete freedom to choose one's caregivers no matter what their credentials, and that true pleasure is the driving force of the universe.

Workshops by Ryan Drum:

 

Peter Gail, Ph.D
Dr. Peter Gail is an ethnobotanist who has been studying how ethnics use backyard weeds for food and medicine for the last 43 years. He received his Ph.D. in Botany, spent 25 years in University teaching and research, and then, in 1988, founded Goosefoot Acres Center for Resourceful Living, through which he conducts seminars and workshops designed to reawaken modern Americans to the resources surrounding them and teach them how to use them. Good Morning America called him "The Wizard of Weeds"; USA Today dubbed him "The King of Dandelions" He is the author of numerous books and articles on creative living and edible wild plants, and the operator of the National Dandelion Cookoff. His column "On the Trail of the Volunteer Vegetable" was a popular feature in The Business of Herbs for over 10 years. In 2002, he was inducted into the National Wild Foods Association Hall of Fame.
Web site: www.edibleweeds.com and www.dandyblend.com

Workshops by Peter Gail, Ph.D:

 

Colette Gardiner
Colette Gardiner is an herbalist with over twenty years experience learning and teaching in the green world. She has offered apprenticeships and intensives since 1989. She has been a featured writer for We'Moon Almanac for many years as well as other periodicals. She also enjoys sharing her perspective through ritual, political action and gardening. Cofounder of the Women's Herbalist Conference 1985-1995, a member of Black Cross Health Collective, and is a Wilderness First Responder. She also works with Reclaiming Tradition.

Workshops by Colette Gardiner:

 

Jo Jenner, ND
Jo Jenner, Herbalist and Naturopathic Physician, has been inspiring individuals with the use of Herbs and Hydrotherapy for 17 years. She taught Hydrotherapy at National College of Naturopathic Medicine and a variety of Natural Healing classes to her community. Her Motto is: Health begins at home.

Workshops by Jo Jenner, ND:

 

Kathi Keville
Kathi Keville brings the art of the herbalism and aromatherapy to life in the spirited seminars she teaches throughout the US and at her Grass Valley home, surrounded by her landscaped herb gardens. An herbalist and aromatherapist for 35 years, she has written over 200 magazine articles and12 books, including Herbs for Health and Healing, Herbs: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, and Aromatherapy: The Complete Guide to the Healing Arts. Kathi is director of the American Herb Association www.ahaherb.com. She is also a consultant for aromatherapy and cosmetic companies and owns the mail-order herb and aromatherapy company Oak Valley Herb Farm.

Workshops by Kathi Keville:

 

Robyn Klein
Robyn Klein, A.H.G., M.S. is a western herbalist and medical botanist whose focus is in on plant identification, plant constituents, and the medicinal plants of the Northern Rocky Mountains. She is currently teaching six courses at Montana State University: Herbal Medicine, Herbal Medicine Laboratory, Medicinal Plants of Montana, Medical Botany, Flowering Plants of the Northern Rocky Mountains, and Plants, People, & Health.
Web site: www.rrreading.com

Workshops by Robyn Klein:

 

Elise Krohn
Elise Krohn is an Olympia community herbalist who feels passionate about the affinity between plants and people. She has an eclectic background in herbal studies including constitutional medicine, plant energetics, phytochemistry and ethnobotany. In 1995 she graduated from Michael Moore's Southwest School of Botanical Medicine and has since studied with diverse teachers including Cascade Anderson Geller, Adam Seller, Joyce Netishen and elders in Belize. She is currently collaborating with tribal elders in teaching botanical medicine, is an herbalist at Radiance, maintains a private practice and teaches in the community. Elise believes that plant medicine should be in the hands of the people and is dedicated to empowering others in practical herbal medicine.

Workshops by Elise Krohn:

 

Solveig de Laissardiere
Ms. de Laissardiere holds a B.S. degree in Agriculture Technology. She studied Wild Gastronomy and Soft Survival Training with Francois Couplan in France, and then, to learn more about wild and medicinal plants, travelled for a year and a half in North and South America, studying with Tim Blakley, Rosemary Gladstar, and Shatoiya de la Tour. She capped her experience in Ecuador working with native peoples, followed by six weeks assisting Dr. Peter Gail at Goosefoot Acres. After returning to France, she trained as a Massage Therapist and in Natural Cosmetics. She now runs Solswan Company, through which she does seminars and workshops on wild plant gastronomy, and teaches classes on Natural Cosmetics and baby massage.

Workshops by Solveig de Laissardiere:

 

Krista Olson
Krista Olson lives with her family on a five-acre farm in Kealakekua, Hawaii. She works for the Malama a Ho'opili Pono public health project, teaches, and provides herbal support and care to birthing women at home and in the hospital. In her years as an herbalist and community health worker in Oregon, Krista was a founding member of Black Cross Health Collective, a faculty member at Birthingway College of Midwifery, and created and taught the Common Roots Herbal Education program with Tracy Bosnian. A longtime student of the plants of Western forests and deserts of the U.S. and Mexico, she is now immersed in study of the unique plant communities and healing traditions of Hawaii. While awestruck by the botanical richness of the tropics, she is still happiest when she finds her old friend plantain growing up recklessly through a crack in the pavement.

Workshops by Krista Olson:

 

Adam Seller
Adam Seller, is an herbalist and director of Pacific School of Herbal Medicine (www.pshm.org), of Hungarian-American descent with twenty one years experience providing health care professionally, nineteen of them practicing herbal medicine, working as a client advocate, wildcrafting, making medicines, teaching people about plants outdoors and community health organizing. He still makes house calls. His clinical work emphasizes a constitutional approach based in western physiology, and a client centered harm reduction model of care. He has been a visiting lecturer and staff at many schools, conferences and programs. He has published in Nosh, Mudflap, and 3 Dollar Bill and has done consulting for numerous periodicals including Mother Jones, Time, Newsweek, and E Magazine. The greater part of his unofficial education came through working closely with community and public health workers in the San Francisco Bay area. He can often be found staring at weeds in vacant lots.

Workshops by Adam Seller:

 

Forest Shomer
Forest Shomer has been a full-time Northwest seedsman since 1973, presenting at Breitenbush herbal conferences since 1983. The originator and director of Abundant Life Seed Foundation, he organized five annual Herbal Retreats in WA and BC. Forest has operated Inside Passage Seeds & Native Plant Services, (www.insidepassageseeds.com) in Port Townsend, Washington since 1992. He currently wildcrafts seed of up to 200 Northwest native species per year, including trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and grasses.

Workshops by Forest Shomer:

 

Ed Smith
Ed Smith ("Herbal Ed") is the founder and co-owner of Herb Pharm (www.herb-pharm.com), and is an internationally known teacher and lecturer on herbs and herbal healthcare who appears at many herbal gatherings, symposiums and expositions throughout the world. His work and teachings incorporate old-world herbal folk knowledge with modern herbal sciences, and also express his love for Nature and her healing plants. Ed taught at The California School of Herbal Studies for eleven years, and is a regular guest lecturer at the naturopathic medical schools, Bastyr University and National College of Naturopathic Medicine. In his constant search for herbal knowledge, Ed travels extensively throughout the world gathering information on indigenous medicinal herbs and their proper cultivation, harvest, and therapeutic uses.

Workshops by Ed Smith:

 

James Snow
James Snow has worked with herbs since 1987. In 1994, after graduating from the California School of Herbal Studies and the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, he began private clinical practice. From 1998-2000 he practiced at the Santa Rosa Medical Group, an integrated medical center in Northern California. From 2000-2002 he helped in the running of the herbal clinic at Sonoma County Indian Health Services and was the primary clinical instructor for the California School of Herbal Studies. In 2002 he moved to Maryland where he is chair of the herbal division for the Tai Sophia Institute's M.A. in Botanical Healing program. He has a private practice in Laurel, MD.

Workshops by James Snow:

 

Sharol Tilgner, ND
Sharol Tilgner, ND is owner, and teacher at Wise Acres Herbal Educational Center in Pleasant Hill Oregon. She has produced the book Herbal Medicine From the Heart of the Earth as well as the herbal video series Edible and Medicinal Herbs, Volume 1, and Edible and Medicinal Herbs, Volume II. She is currently the editor of Herbal Transitions Ezine, and associate editor of Medical Herbalism. Her past includes founder and president of Wise Woman Herbals for 14 years as well as the Pacific NW Herbal Symposium.
Web site: www.herbaltransitions.com

Workshops by Sharol Tilgner, ND:

 

Jonathan Treasure, MNIMH, AHG.
Jonathan Treasure is a British medical herbalist who studied medical sciences at Cambridge University and herbal medicine at the UK School of Phytotherapy, now resident in Ashland, Southern Oregon. Trained as a cancer guide at the Center for Mind Body Medicine, his clinical practice focuses on integrative treatment strategies for people with cancer. He is still writing a textbook on herb-drug and nutrient-drug interactions for Churchill Livingstone.
Web site: www.herbological.com

Workshops by Jonathan Treasure: