Symposium Teachers
Thoughtfully selected teacher offerings provide attendees with a wide variety of herbal wisdom to share. This year we offer a broad spectrum of classes. From outlining introductory skills and concepts that budding herbalists can hone all they way to clinical applications for the advanced practitioner, there is something for everyone.
Scroll down and click each speaker's name for their class titles, times and descriptions (available as they are solidified), biographies, websites, and video links.
Scroll down and click each speaker's name for their class titles, times and descriptions (available as they are solidified), biographies, websites, and video links.
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Michael Altman, RH (AHG)
Michael Altman is a peer-reviewed professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and a Certified Nutritionist. He operates through his practice, SeattleCancerCareAlternatives.com and helps people with a variety of health concerns, including optimizing cardiovascular health and sports performance through botanical medicine and nutrition. Michael runs his own dispensary supplying a wide range of his own personally sourced clinical extract encapsulated formulas and unique branded products for clients. He is founder of the Herbal Practitioner Buyers Club which promotes a direct practitioner to patient clinical grade supplement supply chain, with a percentage of profits helping other herbalists and products companies grow their own practices and businesses. More on Michael... |
Ryan Drum, PhD, RH (AHG)
Ryan Drum has a BSc in Chemical Technology and a PhD in Botany (Phycology) from Iowa State University. While a NATO Scholar, he did postdoctoral studies on Cell Biology using the Electron Microscope and Microcine at the Universities of Bonn, Germany and Leeds, England. For 10 years he taught Botany and related subjects at Universities (UMASS/Amherst, UCLA, WWU). He studied Herbal Medicine with Ella Birzneck, founder of Dominion Herbal College in British Columbia for 12 years, and taught at their summer seminars for 35 years. He has been an adjunct faculty at Bastyr University since 1984, and he lectures at major herbal conferences and herbal schools. More on Ryan... |
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EagleSong Gardener, CCH
EagleSong Gardener, CCH is a yarn spinner, story catcher, traveler and weaver of heart and soul. A seasoned, generative gardener and community-centered herbalist. Five decades of hands-on practice in the garden inform her understanding of integrated earth medicine, an herbalist from the ground up. Her experiences with plants brings a grounded understanding of them to every class she teaches. RavenCroft Garden, her home place, has been an on-going 30-year research project. Health from the Ground Up is the core herbal apprenticeship at RavenCroft. In this ever-simmering cauldron of possibility, recipes for cultivating life with meaning are dispensed. She delights in sharing stories, songs and earthly mischief wherever she is called. Story medicine quickens a sense of our world as holy, mysterious and worthy of care…and anyone can do it! With a gritty soul and joyous spirit, EagleSong inspires others to cultivate heart and soul with the medicines of earth and soil. joie de vivre More on EagleSong... |
Denise Joy
Denise Joy is the soul surviving carrier of an herbal tradition passed from woman to woman in the oral tradition. Denise Joy celebrates her herbal lineage. Her early training, from 9-14 was guided by her Ukrainian Gypsy great grandmother. With decades of study and practice, Denise carries more than information or knowledge; she carries a way of life connected with place and community. She has served the Port Townsend area as an herbalist, medicine maker and practitioner for over 31 years. More on Denise... |
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Jeffrey Judkins, DVM
Dr. Judkins has been a practicing veterinarian for over thirty years, the last twenty being focused primarily on holistic small animal medicine. He was the founder of the first holistic veterinary clinic in Portland, Oregon in 1998, and more recently opened the first and only holistic veterinary clinic in Southern Oregon. Dr. Judkins incorporates Chinese and Western herbs into his practice, but prefers using locally harvested herbs whenever possible. He lives with his wife Becky and a menagerie of dogs, cats, goats, sheep, chickens on twenty acres in the beautiful Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon. More on Jeffrey... |
Julie Charette Nunn
Julie Charette Nunn, Crow's Daughter is a shamanic herbalist, nature mystic and long-time teacher, herbal crafter, organic gardener/farmer, goat herder and successful business owner from Whidbey Island. She teaches listening as a way to gain access to the abundant wisdom in nature, and supports people to open themselves to greater possibility by sharing their gifts. Julie offers shamanic herbal apprenticeships, wisdom circles, home study courses and individual mentorship sessions in the shamanic herbal tradition of the wise woman. Julie's specialty is connecting people in nature to learn more deeply who they are. More on Julie... |
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Elaine Sheff, RH (AHG)
Elaine Sheff is the author of several books on herbal medicine and healing, and has been passionate about sharing herbal knowledge for over 25 years. Her latest book is Naked: Botanical Recipes for Vibrant Skin and Healthy Hair. Elaine is the Co-Director of Green Path Herb School, located in Missoula, MT, where she strives to inspire and empower students and clients to remember their connection to the earth, the plants and their own healing process. More on Elaine... |
Kevin Spelman, PhD, RH (AHG), MCPP
Dr. Spelman is an internationally recognized expert on the molecular biology and clinical therapeutics of botanical medicines. A past National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow and Marie Curie research fellow in the European Union, Dr. Spelman has published 27 scientific papers and 6 chapters. He has practiced phytotherapy, informed by the Ayurvedic system, western herbalism and modern physiology, since 1989. More on Kevin... |
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Suzanne Tabert, RH (AHG)
Suzanne Tabert is a bioregional herbalist, adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University and Director of Herbal Education at Cedar Mountain Herb School, in the Seattle and Sandpoint, Idaho regions. Her passion is taking students to wild places and giving them tools to engage and connect with flora, fauna, and the exquisite beauty of nature. Suzanne has been inspiring students with a passion and excitement for all-natural living for over 30 years. A labor of love from 27 years of offering herbals to thousands of customers at street fairs, workshops, and farmers markets, Suzanne has written Wild and Beautiful, Naturally!, a botanical skin care book for those who wish to glow with good health from the inside out! She’s contemplating her next book while offering an amazing platform for folks all over the world to connect with each other and with nature. More on Suzanne... |
David Winston, RH (AHG)
David Winston is an herbalist and ethnobotanist with over 40 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese and Western herbal traditions. He has been in clinical practice for over 35 years and is an herbal consultant to physicians, herbalists and researchers throughout the USA and Canada. In 2013 David was presented with the Natural Products Association (NPA) Clinician’s Award. More on David... |
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Netta Zeberoff, MH, RHP
A fifth generation Doukhobor herbalist practicing in the Kootenays, BC, Canada. Netta apprenticed with Ella Birzneck, MH at Dominion Herbal College. She is a Chartered Herbalist Instructor. Netta comes from a rich heritage of Doukhobor healers. She learned from her elders about the medicinal importance of plants and the spiritual role in the process of healing. Netta has a wealth of field experience filled with the knowledge of many different herbs that are both wild and cultivated. Netta enjoys sharing her skills and knowledge with students who are eager to learn. More on Netta... |
Interested in teaching? Teachers for the 2022 NorthWest Herb Symposium have been solidified. If you are interested in teaching at the 2023 NorthWest Herb Symposium, please email Jay D. Johnson at jay@treefarmtapes.com.