Thomas Avery Garran, PhD
Thomas Avery Garran, PhD, is an herbalist, author, translator, and scholar who has been studying botanical medicine for over 30 years.
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Susan Kramer, AGH, NASH, EWCH
Susan W. Kramer is a Therapeutic Herbalist in private practice in Atlanta, GA. She relies upon Traditional Chinese medicine as her primary analytic tool and uses both western and Chinese herbs in her …
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Sheila M. Devitt
Essay Reviewer Sheila is a reviewer for many of the lesson essays. She is thorough and thoughtful in her comprehensive reviews due to her many years of experience in the herbal community. Sheila M. De …
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Roy Upton, RH, Dip Ayu,
Roy Upton, RH, Dip Ayu, is the Executive Director and Editor of the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of quality control standards for botanical pro …
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Rosemary Gladstar
Rosemary Gladstar has taught extensively for decades and was the herbalist to first start herbal conferences in the U.S.
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Prashanti de Jager, PhD(cand), MS, EMT
Prashanti lived ten years in India where he treated hundreds of people, founded Organic India (an Ayurvedic herb company that processes local herbs by hand), the Dunagiri Foundation Trust and the Bhag …
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Nancy Angelini, LMT, EWCH
Coming from a family of seven sisters and one brother, Nancy Angelini learned to depend on her own resources. From an early age Nancy had a wide ranging curiosity about “how things worked”. A self-des …
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Mariposa Bernstein, L.Ac, DAOM
Dr. Mariposa is truly an East-West woman, having lived for equal parts of her life on both coasts of the country. Mariposa spent her youth in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Her early exploration of b …
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Manish Chandra
Growing up in Nepal, Manish was exposed to Ayurveda from an early age, creating a foundation for his deep connection to this ancient healing wisdom. He has been studying Ayurvedic medicine for the last 10 years, graduating from Mount Madonna Institute, College of Ayurveda in 2010 as a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner. He completed his thesis…
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Lesley Tierra, L.AC., AHG
Lesley Tierra, L.AC., Dip. Ac. NCCAOM, Dip. CH NCCAOM, RH, is a California State and nationally certified acupuncturist and herbalist. In her practice she combines acupuncture, herb and food therapie …
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Joshua Farahnik, RH (AHG)
Joshua is a Clinical Herbalist, Master Energy Therapist, meditation coach, yogi, ordained minister, writer and musician. He has studied numerous healing modalities and traditions from various teachers …
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Jill Barnattan
Jill Barnattan is an impassioned yogi, integrative clinical planetary herbalist, flower essence practitioner and organic gardener, utilizing her 20+ year study and practice of yoga and herbs to empowe …
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Jerry Angelini, MS, LRC, LMT
Jerry is an integrative practitioner drawing from over 30 years of experience and continued training in various modalities. He has a Masters of Science degree in Rehabilitation Medicine/Counseling fro …
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Jennifer Grady, L. Ac., EWCH
Jennifer Grady, L. Ac., is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist. She emphasizes dietary and lifestyle consultations and delights in working with plants and people to create individual herbal medicin …
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Ingrid Bauer, MD, MS
Co-founder of Five Flavors Herbs With experience that bridges Western and Eastern medicine, Ingrid brings rigorous scientific knowledge to Five Flavor Herbs. A graduate of the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint …
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Holly Hutton, EWCH, RH, MS, MFA
Essay Reviewer With her skillful guidance and direction, Holly is our main reviewer for the lesson essays. She also teaches at the East West Seminars, specializing in Medicine Making and Formulation. …
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Dr. Michael Tierra L.AC., O.M.D.
Dr. Michael Tierra L.AC., O.M.D., founder of the American Herbalists Guild, is author of numerous books on health and herbal healing including The Way of Herbs, The Natural Remedy Bible, The Way of Ch …
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David Winston, RH (AHG)
David Winston is an Herbalist and Ethnobotanist with 51 years of training in Chinese, Western/Eclectic and Southeastern herbal traditions. He has been in clinical practice for over 40 years and is an herbal consultant to physicians, herbalists and researchers throughout the USA, Europe and Canada. David is the founder/director of the Herbal Therapeutics Research Library and the dean of David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies, a two-year training program in clinical herbal medicine. He is an internationally known lecturer and frequently teaches at medical schools, professional symposia and herb conferences. He is the president of Herbalist & Alchemist, Inc. a manufacturer that produces herbal products that blend the art and science of the world’s great herbal traditions.
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Darren Huckle, L. Ac.
Darren Huckle, L. Ac., is passionate about the study, practice, and teaching of holistic health. He has spent 18 years cultivating a deep knowledge of holistic life skills including western and Chines …
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Christopher Hobbs, PhD, LAc, EWCH
Dr. Christopher Hobbs, a 4th generation botanist and herbalist, has studied and worked with the medicinal uses of herbs for over 30 years…. …
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Candis Cantin Kiriajes
Candis Cantin Kiriajes is an herbalist living in California’s High Sierras. She is a senior graduate of the East West Herb Course and presently is a member of our distinguished faculty. She holds degr …
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7Song
I have been studying plants, people and herbal medicine for over 20 years now. My interest first started as a youngster with a fascination for things natural, beginning with astronomy, moving into herpetology and later into plants and medicine. And all of this in the suburbs of Long Island, NY In my twenties, I began…
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