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Who We Are:
Our members include
herbal practitioners, growers, retailers, students, artists,
crafters, writers, producers, educators and more. Most are
located within the Northeast but some reside on the West Coast,
Canada and even Europe! The only requirement for membership is
the love of plants and a desire to learn more.
Our
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.
Current
NEHA Council: |
 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 (
www.theherbwyfe.com ) 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 12 years. |
 Vice
President - Alicia North
Alicia is a community
herbalist, medicine maker, teacher and local food advocate.
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. Alicia is an active member of United
Plant Savers and the Connecticut Herb Association.
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 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.
www.bonniesherbals.com |
 Membership
Secretary -
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
Savers.
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 Chris
Marano - Chris
Marano is a clinical herbalist with a health-care practice in
the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. His health care practice
and teachings take him throughout the United States, Canada
and the British Isles. He is founder of Clearpath School of
Herbal Medicine, dedicated to the teaching of holistic health,
herbalism, and Earth-based wisdom; and Clearpath Herbals,
offering health consultations and high-quality, custom-blended
herbal preparations. His
experience draws upon Chinese, Native American and Western
healing traditions. He is a registered herbalist in the
American Herbalist Guild (AHG), a council member of the
Northeast Herbal Association (NEHA), veteran teacher, author,
meditation instructor, and has degrees in pre-medicine,
Chinese philosophy and science education from Columbia
University, a graduate degree from The Herbal Therapeutics
School of Botanic Medicine, Zen and Chinese philosophy
training from the Institute of Chung-hwa Chinese and Buddhist
Culture, and years of training with medicine elders of the
Cherokee and Annishnabe tradition. In addition to teaching
workshops, courses and apprenticeship programs through
Clearpath Herbals in both Western Massachusetts and Coastal
Maine, Chris also teaches Clinical Herbalism at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst. |
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and Andrea Reisen |
 Thomas Becker
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