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 Who We Are
Mission: The
Northeast Herbal Association's mission is to create a strong community
of herbalists in the Northeast by providing opportunities for
networking, collaboration, herbal education, community outreach, and
personal reintegration with the Green World
NEHA Council
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 President:
Lesley Wooler
B.Sc., RA, CYT earned
her degree in Horticulture at URI. She is a Registered
Aromatherapist through the Aromatherapy Registration council and a
Regional Director for NAHA (National Assoc. of Holistic Aromatherapy).
She is also a member of the AIA (Alliance of International
Aromatherapists). She received over 230 hours of training at The
Center for Holistic Botanical Studies where she was also on staff.
She studied with Valerie Ann Worwood for 4 years and is a Level IV Aroma
Genera Practitioner She has been teaching Aromatherapy
classes throughout New England for the past nine years. Lesley
completed her herbal apprenticeship and advanced herbal programs in the
1990's and is the owner of The Herb Wyfe in Wickford, RI.
Lesley is a member of the American Herbalists Guild, The American
Botanical Council, the New England Unit of the Herb Society of American
and the American Horticultural Society. She is the owner of The
Studio@Wickford Cove, a Yoga and
workshop studio and is a Certified Yoga teacher. Lesley has
maintained her own landscape/gardening business, "Gardening with Finesse
for the past 10 years.
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 Vice
President & Treasurer - Alicia North
Alicia is a
community herbalist, activist, medicine maker, teacher,
flower essence practitioner and garden coach. Having trained
with many world-renowned herbalist & healers, Alicia holds
certifications in Herbal Healing and Iridology. As a
life-learner, she continues to learn from the plants in the
gardens, mountains and wilderness areas near her home as
well as herbal conferences and workshops nationwide. She
created North Star Botanicals in 1997 to provide quality
herbal products and offer education on the varied uses of
herbs and their benefits to her community. She enjoys
sharing her passion with her clients while reintroducing
them to the magic of the green world. Alicia is a past
instructor at Northwestern Connecticut Community College’s
Center for Holistic Studies and it’s “Foundations in Herbal
Medicine” certification course based on Dr. Tieraona Low
Dog’s program which was it’s core for the duration of it’s
existence from 2001 through 2006. She continues to offer
herbal courses, local weed walks and lectures for clients
and special interest groups wanting a better understanding
of how to use herbs for their own health and well being.
Clients who study with Alicia through her garden coaching
services appreciate her balanced approach to tending their
native flora while gaining an understanding for their
particular needs, sensitivities and strengths for a thriving
ecosystem. Alicia is an active member of United Plant
Savers, NorthEast Herbal Association and the Connecticut
Herb Association.
She resides
in the beautiful northwest corner of CT. with her husband
Mark, sons Ben and Alex and a host of furred and feathered
family.
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 Secretary
- Melissa Emma - Melissa began
her appreciation of the natural world from an early age by learning to
garden with her father, then later writing nature inspired poetry, and
finally, in her adulthood, discovering the medicinal properties of
herbs. Currently she works as a seasonal naturalist and continues to
study plants in her urban garden and wherever they grow wild. |
 Membership
and webmaster - Bonnie Rogers -
I am a
clinical herbalist and an herbal educator and have worked with both
people and their animals with herbal medicine for the past ten years.
Being in my garden with the magical, medicinal plants inspires me to
share the wisdom and healing gifts of these green beings with others.
My style of practicing utilizes the Wisewoman tradition of healing.
This methodology is one of compassion, simple ritual and using common
herbs that heal the whole person and maintain health and healing. I
emphasize optimum nutrition and believe that when the body is nourished
at a cellular level it has an intrinsic way of healing itself.
My practice has been influenced through my teachers, notable herbalists
Robin Rose Bennett and David Winston. I am a supporting member of The
American Herbalists Guild, The American Botanical Council and a board
member of the Northeast Herbal Association.
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 Thomas Becker
- bio coming soon
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 Bonnie Kavanagh -
Bonnie Kavanagh has worked in community healthcare for thirty
years both as a registered nurse, with expertise in geriatric
psychiatric care and adult ambulatory medicine, and as a practicing
community herbalist. Bonnie is co-owner of The Herbal Nurses, an
herbal education company that specializes in integration of
botanicals into the allopathic system of healing. She has lectured
extensively throughout the Northeast on the various aspects of using
herbs as food and for the enhancement of health. She served as the
community herbalist at Seven Arrows Farm in Attleboro, Massachusetts
for five years and continues to serve as consulting herbalist to
healthcare practitioners and the public. Bonnie has been featured on
NPR radio. She co-teaches “Conversations in Herbalism” an herbal
apprenticeship in East Meredith, New York. She is a founding member
of the Ocean State Herbalist Association, council member of the
Northeast Herbal Association and an active member of United Plant
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Alternate:
Mary
Blue Hastings
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Mary
Blue Hastings facilitates a 7-month herbal education and training
program for budding herbalists and offers classes and workshops to
gardening, senior and special interest groups and organizations. Since
2004 she has been the Practicing Herbalist, Education Coordinator and
Director of The Peace Gardens Botanical Sanctuary at Seven Arrows Herb
Farm.
Over the last 8 years she has taught numerous free garden/nutrition/herbal
workshops to children and high school students in Providence. She is a founding
member of the following community groups: The Annual Northeast Grassroots
Community Herbal Convergence, Farmacy Herbs, Health and Education Center, and
Providence Recycle-A- Bike.
Farmacy Herbs, Health and Education Center (farmacyherbs.com) is now her main
focus. Farmacy is a non-profit (501-c3) donation based herb shop and community
health center offering free holistic based support to cancer patients and
sliding scale natural health consultations to community members.
From 1999-2002 she acquired three years of herbal experience and knowledge at
Indigo Herbals, an herb shop in Providence RI.
She has worked with many teachers through symposiums and conferences.
In 2004, she started her career as a Community Herbalist at Seven Arrows and
currently sells a line of specialized medicinal tinctures and teas at Farmers
Markets and local stores.
In 2007 Mary presented at the annual NEHA
retreat. She shared photographs and stories of her experiences
as an herbalist volunteering in the health clinics in New
Orleans, post Katrina. She volunteered from December 2006- March
2007, teaching herb classes, organizing disaster zone
apothecarys, and administering herbs, flower essences and first
aid to relief workers and hurricane victims. Info about these
groups can be found on the web:
H.O.P.E.(http://hope.okcancel.org),
Emergency Communities and Common Ground Clinic
http://cghc.org/
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Alternate: Helena Wu
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