Madeleina Bolduc, a certified Clinical Herbalist, has been cultivating the art of herbalism for twenty years. She has been leading small groups in transformative, therapeutic sessions and holding a private practice for the past twelve years in the Bay Area.
As a child growing up in the Colorado mountains, she spent most of her time talking with the natural world. Raised in the eclectic diversity of the Naropa University, she was trained by Tibetan lamas, artists and indigenous elders …
Riyana Rebecca Sang has been a plant lover and gardener for her entire life, and can often be found where the green ones are — wandering the hills, in the forest, or just the local nursery. She came to her work as a healer first as a doula and then a massage therapist, and has finally found her calling as an herbalist. She enjoys incorporating plant medicine, food medicine, and spirit medicine into her work and believes that by reconnecting to the power of using herbs and food to heal …
Gail is a clinical herbalist, medicine maker and teacher with 18 years experience in the clinic and classroom. Her training includes Western Herbalism and physiology, native plant use, Chinese and plant energetic systems. Her business, Commonknowledge Herbs provides pharmacy services for practitioners and produces therapeutic herbal products.…
Terri has been working with botanical medicines in a variety of capacities for over 20 years. She is an owner and medicine maker for The Herbal Apothecary, a full line herbal pharmacy. She is also an organizer of the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium. Her website is: www.herbalapothecaryonline.com…
Sarah Bearden has been a practicing nutritionist since 1996. She is the Director of Roots To Health, a center specializing in Nutrition Consultation and Nutrition Education. She received a diploma in Nutritional Medicine in London and practices both in Marin County and England.…
Karen is our Medicinal Mushroom Instructor. She has been making botanical medicines full-time for 8 years. Karen is an owner of The Herbal Apothecary, providing custom herbal medicines for health practitioners and others. She is also an organizer of the Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium. Her Website is: www.herbalapothecaryonline.com…
Pam is the Ohlone’s Head Instructor and the Center’s Director.
Pam has been working with herbs since 1986. She completed her studies at the California School of Herbal Studies in 1989. She has been teaching classes in medicine making, plant identification, wildcrafting, theory and practice of herbalism since 1991. Pam began the BACHA (Bay Area Clinical Herbalist Association) organization in 1991. In 1997 she became one of the first Western Herbalists on staff at Cha…
Kara is certified by the Ohlone School of Herbal Studies in Berkeley, CA as a Clinical Herbalist. She completed the three year clinical training program at the Ohlone Center, as well as a one year apprenticeship program through Motherland Herbal School in Willits, CA. Kara has also attended many short workshops around the bay area from renowned teachers, and worked as a lab technician making herbal medicine at KW Botanicals in San Anselmo.
Kara currently sees clients on an individ…
Tony manages the pharmacy & dispensary at Ohlone Center where he teaches botanical medicine making.
He is a graduate of the California School of Herbal Studies & apprenticeship programs with Matthew Wood.
He has a private herbal practice in San Francisco and can be reached at (415) 824-6165.…
Jim Hall MA CMT comes from a family of spiritual healers and has been intensively involved in various holistic healing modalities since 1979. He holds a master’s degree in Holistic Health Education from John. F. Kennedy University and has studied with healers from a variety of traditions, including Michael Moore, Kashaya Pomo elder Lorin Smith, Karyn Sanders, Chanchal Cabrera, and medical intuitive Laurie Schyriver. Jim currently teaches at the Ohlone Center …
Autumn Summers is a plant geek. Inspired by the plants since childhood she has studied herbalism and ethnobotany for the last 20 years with a kinship for the plants, seaweeds and mushrooms of Northern California. She has guest hosted KPFA’s Herbal Highway, co-organized free community herb festivals and worked at various herbal businesses including Rosemary’s Garden, Simplers Botanical and KW Botanicals. Currently she teaches edible and medicinal plant classes at the Ca…
