Misty Meadows - Faculty & Staff

Misty Meadows Faculty & Staff

It is with great pleasure and gratitude that we present the teachers and staff of Misty Meadows.
We honor those who are regulars on our schedule and those guest teachers who come to share their gifts with our community from time to time.

Wendy Snow Fogg, Founder/Director/Senior Herbalist at Misty Meadows Herbal Center.

She maintains a busy private healing practice, the scope of which includes Herbalism, Reiki, Aromatherapy, Flower Essence Therapy and Ear Candling. She co-designs the Misty Meadows website (www.mistymeadows.org) and is the primary executive for Misty Meadows.

Wendy designed and teaches the Misty Meadows herbal apprenticeship program titled The Spirited Herbalist ~ A Plant-Guided Journey To Your-Self.

She organizes the Misty Meadows Advanced Herbal Studies Program and teaches many workshops and playshops here at Misty Meadows.

She is frequently a featured teacher at the annual New England Women’s Herbal Conference. Her articles have been published in the journals of the American Botanical Council and the Northeast Herbal Association.

She is a highly sought after speaker by area service clubs, libraries and public schools.

She is active in local land conservation efforts and serves on the Town of Lee Agricultural Commission. She holds memberships in United Plant Savers, Northeast Herb Association, American Botanical Council, American Herbalist Guild and Strafford County Farm Bureau.

Wendy shares the joy of a 29 year marriage with husband Clyde, and relishes time spent with grandkids Damian, Hailey, JohnHenry and Dustin.

Cindy Bir, Associate Director and Medicine Maker, is a Native witch, Certified Herbalist, Eclectic Reiki Master/ Teacher and Aromatherapist. Cindy brings a new fun and fiery energy to Misty Meadows and Misty Meadows products. She loves to listen to people and feels that everyone has something to teach. Her love of learning goes hand in hand with her love of listening. Cindy has studied with local teachers Linn Stilwell, Wendy Fogg, Christopher Penczak and Caroline Mann. She has also studied with Matthew Wood and Diana DeLuca (Botanica Erotica). Cindy believes that life should be full of passion and fun.

Sara Woods Kender, Associate Herbalist ~ I began my journey into herbalism at a young age. Always spending hours in the woods near my rural home of Alton, NH, I found sanctuary there. Spending time with the trees and plants of the forest, hours of walking along logging roads of past and present closely observing mosses & ferns of the forest floor. Maneuvering through gnarled roots, streams and glacial till and just feeling at home; at peace. With my father's love of subsistence gardening and my grandmother's love of ornamentals, I came by it honestly. There was always something missing to me though. Always something in the back of my mind prompting me to take it a step further. After much reading and experimenting with the plants on my own, I found Misty Meadows in the Spring of 2008. I completed the seven month Herbal Apprenticeship and finally found the stepping stones that would become my path. For a short time I became the Junior Herbalist while continuing my education in the Advanced Herbal Studies Program and now enjoy the benefits of becoming the Associate Herbalist where I can continue my herbal journey learning, healing and being in contact with people who seek healing as well as give it. I also became an ordained minister receiving my certificate from the Universal Life Church in 2008. This allows me to do hands-on healing channeling the universal life force of Reiki in the Usui- Tibetan Enhanced Tradition. I continue to participate in workshops, conferences and classes to hone my skills as a healer and broaden my knowledge as an herbalist.

Kate Palmieri and Cindy Barstow , 2010 Misty Meadows Jr. Herbalists.

Kate and Cindy graduated from The Spirited Herbalist: A Plant-Guided Journey to Your SELF in 2009 and were chosen to continue their studies by working in the herb shop at Misty Meadows from January through October of 2010.

Jr. Herbalists are chosen based on their outstanding performance as apprentices and their promise as future practicing herbalists. Kate and Cindy greet customers, listen to their stories, answer herbal questions, blend custom teas and extract compounds. They also run the shop, process mail orders, and answer the phone.

Jr. Herbalists are also given the opportunity to observe Wendy Fogg in consultation with her patients. This is a wonderful way for these budding herbalists to develop intake skills, build rapport with patients, learn diagnostic and listening skills and build their self confidence.

Kate is also enrolled in the 2010 Advanced Herbal Studies Program. An accomplished gardener, she also co-manages the gardens at Misty Meadows.
Cindy is self employed and is involved in land conservation efforts in the town of Wakefield, NH.

7Song is a clinical herbalist and director of the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine in Ithaca, NY. He practices at the Ithaca Free Clinic, where he is the Director of Holistic Medicine. He has been enthralled with plants (from both the botanical and clinical perspective) for more years than he cares to venture.

Jane Smith Bernhardt is an artist, actress and writer. She has traveled throughout the US and internationally with her transformational exhibits and performances. She is trained in visual art, drama, spiritual direction and multi-dimensional healing. She also gives lectures and organizes spiritual retreats. In 2006 New Hampshire Magazine selected Jane as one of its Remarkable Women of the Year. WE ARE HERE: Love Never Dies is her first book. Visit Jane's website at: www.janebernhardt.com.

Dr. Mary Bove obtained her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine and Midwifery Certification from Bastyr College of Natural Health Sciences in Seattle, WA. She received the Diploma of Phytotherapy/Herbal Medicine at the School of Phytotherapy in Great Britain and received membership to the National Institute of Medical Herbalists, London, England. As a young herbalist she started her studies with Native American medicine woman, Norma Myers in British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Bove practices Naturopathic Family Medicine, including women healthcare, well pregnancy care, and pediatric medicine at the Brattleboro Naturopathic Clinic, Brattleboro, VT.

Dr Bove served as a full-time faculty member at Bastyr University in Seattle WA and chaired the departments of Botanical Medicine and Naturopathic Midwifery. She currently serves as adjunct faculty for the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine in the Masters level course, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Boston, MA, Natural Products Program, and Tai Sophie Institute, Botanical Science Program Columbia, Maryland. She is the author of the Encyclopedia of Natural Healing for Children and Infants and co-author of Herbs for Women’s Health and has been published in many magazines and journals. She lectures and teaches at various national and international herb, midwifery, and naturopathic conferences including the Gaia Herb Symposium, Woman’s Herbal Conference, Midwifery Today Conferences, American Herbalist Guild, Medi-Herb New Zealand Symposium, Institute of Functional Medicine, Naturopathic state organizations, American Association of Naturopathic Midwives on the topics of botanical medicine, phytotherapy, pediatrics, women’s healthcare, fertility issues, and natural childbirth.

Dr. Bove works as a consultant and formulator for Gaia Herbs and in collaboration with Gaia Herbs developed a line of children’s herbal products. She is the mother of two healthy, happy, adult children who were raised with herbal medicines and natural lifestyles.

Ginger Bislinghoff has over 30 years experience in the health care profession. For the past 20 years, she has specialized in kinesiology and flower essences and recently had the opportunity to become one of the first instructors of the Australian Bush Flower Essences. Presently, Ginger works with adults, children and animals throughout the country and conducts beginning through advanced classes in kinesiology, face reading and flower essences. Visit her web site at: www.optionstohealth.vpweb.com

Candis Cantin has over 25 years practical experience as an herbalist, herbal and nutritional counselor and teacher of holistic lifestyle principles. Her background includes extensive Western herbal studies, as well as studies in Ayurvedic and Chinese healing systems. Two of Candis’ main teachers are Dr. Michael Tierra with the East West Herbal program and Dr. Vasant Lad of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque. She is also a founding member of the American Herbalist Guild. For 25 years, Candis has owned and directed the EverGreen Herb Garden and School of Integrative Herbology located in the Sierra Foothills where there are extensive organic botanical gardens to view.

Candis is the author of Pocket Guide to Ayurvedic Healing (Crossing Press), and the artist of The Herbal Tarot and co- author of its companion book The Spirit of Herbs.(US Games).

Darlene Chadbourne

Self-Awareness Consultant using Numerology and Sacred Geometry.

Darlene is an intuitive numerologist and life coach, guiding men and women from 20 to 80, who are searching for their passion, purpose, and self-confidence to fuel the rest of their life, for a journey well worth the ride. Darlene is a dynamic teacher and public speaker who has delivered multiple classes and presentations based on tools to help the individual become a self-empowered guide on their own individualized path.

Life is like a labyrinth that started Darlene’s current journey and passions, constantly going within to come out stepping it up to the next level. Darlene’s greatest accomplishments are running a fulltime and part-time business while raising four children and claiming at fifty that the last fifty years of her life are hers, going for a college degree and four years later knowing who she is as a person, with passion and individuality.

Darlene E. Chadbourne
Midlife Guide and Numerologist
www.midlifeguidance.com
www.nativepaths.com

Janaki Clancy is a professional Astrologer and a Reiki Master. After 14 years as a staff/faculty member at Unicorn Books in Arlington, MA, she has relocated to the seacoast area, where she now maintains a private practice. She uses astrology to establish an understanding of the intention of the soul for this incarnation, to ferret out relationship boondoggles, to understand who we are and how we got to be this way and where we want to go, to help bridge the gap from the self to the Self. As a lifelong discipline for Janaki, Astrology provides a unique frame of reference supporting ever-greater self-acceptance and awareness, which can then lead to a willingness to change and grow. Janaki sees astrology clients at her office in Newmarket, NH. Call her at 603-659-0388 to schedule an appointment.

Bevin Clare is a clinical herbalist, nutritionist, and plant lover. She is the Clinical Division Chair of the MS in Herbal Medicine Program at Tai Sophia Institute in Maryland where she teaches and practices. Bevin holds a MS in Infectious Disease from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine based on her years of travel around the globe and witnessing the power of plants. She serves on the board of directors of United Plant Savers and of the American Herbalists Guild. Bevin works to bring plants into the lives of people through food, medicine, and spirit.

Asrianna Dameron ~ As a Psychic Medium, Asrianna taps into your emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual energy to help you understand your personal life issues. She helps you identify your limiting belief systems, thinking patterns, and typical ways of acting and reacting so that you can make informed choices rather than impulsive decisions.

Of Cherokee descent, Asrianna blends Native traditions of Shamanic healing with nearly three decades of study in Tarot, psychology, and complimentary healing methods. She is a certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, and Past Life Regression Therapist.

Asrianna is a published writer, workshop leader, and speaker on topics such as psychic development, mediumship, dreams, shamanism, hypnosis, and creativity. She has been a featured speaker on the subject of journal writing in an author and poet lecture series funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund and the National Endowment of the Arts. She has a bimonthly column at www.innertapestry.org where she answers questions about living a spiritual life in a secular world.

Mark DuMars, MS, PA, AT, LMT

Mark has accumulated nearly 35 years of experience in Sports Medicine and Allied Health. He spent 10 years as a Navy Combat Medic attached to both Navy and Marine Corps Special Forces before receiving his Bachelors’ Degree in Physical Anthropology (Structural Anatomy) from San Diego State University. He then became the Head Athletic Trainer for Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, NH before being accepted at Andrew Weill-Cornell Medical School in New York to be trained as a Physician Assistant specializing in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine and to attain his Master’s Degree in the field of Exercise Physiology. The majority of his residency was attained at The Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan.

After a number of years as a PA and undergoing a life-changing event, Mark changed directions somewhat, broadening his skill base with Therapeutic Massage, Eastern Philosophy and Nutrition. He now, teaches Massage Therapy, Anatomy, Adaptive Physiology, and Structural Integration (TBW) while maintaining a private practice specializing in physical efficiency in athletes and lay people alike.

Julie Farrell (left) is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in Portsmouth, N.H., a Level II Usui Reiki practitioner and an ardent student of alternative healing practices. She blends mind-body and energy techniques with traditional psychotherapy to help clients achieve significant improvement in their lives.

Jahnay Pickett (right) has been a certified Bioenergy Balancing Practitioner since 1985, a system which clears emotional and physical blockages by accessing the Meridians. She is also an Absolute Balanced Mastery practitioner and teaches Usui and Shambhala Reiki. She has worked with many indigenous groups over the globe and has been a student of meditation, yoga and world philosophies since 1972.

Margi Flint, AHG is a professional member of the American Herbalist Guild, an Adjunct Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine since 1994. She is also affiliated with Union Hospital in Lynn, MA. Margi lectures at herbal symposiums as well as medical institutions. She teaches Herbal Pharmacology at North Shore Community College and is a regular guest lecturer at Mass College of Pharmacy and their Masters program. Many area physicians refer clients to her office.

Margi's teaching ranges from beginner herbal apprenticeship to advanced herb and practitioner classes. She oversees Practitioner Circles in Marblehead, MA and Newport, RI.

Margi has been working with people and herbs since she began her herbal studies in 1974. Her clinical practice evolved through continued study with admired herbalists. Influential herbalists have been Rosemary Gladstar, David Winston, Matthew Wood, Christopher Hobbs, Donald Yance, Mindy Green, Chancel Cabrera, Annie McIntyre, Jeffrey Bland, the late great William LeSassier and many more.

This blend of teachers created a truly American-mongrel-Practitioner. A little Ayurveda, some Chinese, lots of Aromatherapy, Native American with some science and a heavy dose of Folk. Throw in years of studying supplements, their quality, best combinations, and time of day to consume. Add to that twenty years of attending births as a labor coach and herbalist, raising four kids who have grown into wonderful adults.

"We teach through the filter of our experience." states Margi, and what a varied and powerful experience these teachers and clients have built into her filter!

Elizabeth J. Foley, EdM, MPH, ATP, RM is the owner of Divine Healing located in Nashua, NH. She is a certified Angel Therapy Practitioner and a Reiki Master. Elizabeth has Masters Degrees in Counseling and Public Health and her services include Angel Therapy, Angel Readings, Intuitive Spiritual Guidance and Counseling, facilitates Angel Healing Circles, and conducts Angel, Fairy and Psychic Development classes throughout New England.

Karen Lacharite is a Sundoor Certified Advanced Firewalk Instructor, Shamballa Master, Certified Aromatherapist, graduate of a Two-year Women's Empowerment Training, and a dedicate of the Goddess. She is a daughter of the Earth who brings her powerful, rooted energy to everything she does. She, like the fire she so loves, has a heart that burns with enthusiasm and a passion for healing on the deepest levels. She is dedicated to sharing the ancient spiritual practice of firewalking with any who dare to dance with these sacred fires! She has walked the long journey through the fires of transformation and healing and wishes to share this powerful ceremony with others. Karen also walks the path of the Peruvian Shaman. She has studied the Inca Medicine Wheel where she trained in the sacred ceremonies, rites and practices of these ancient traditions. Karen resides in Northwood, NH and can be reached at 603-767-8710.

Kate Leigh, LMT

Teaching classes at Misty Meadows since the early days, Kate has a broad-based knowledge of massage therapy, aromatherapy, and other healing modalities. This is useful, as she has synthesized practical wisdom from many fields. Kate enjoys the mutual learning that takes place in the small group workshop format, and will lead participants in blending their own products by the conclusion of the session.

Kate began Midheaven Blends, out of her kitchen, making oils, tinctures, and teas. She has been a licensed massage practitioner for 26 years and past President of the American Massage Therapy Association. She is a registered aromatherapist. Kate has been actively involved in developing the inclusion of natures tools in the massage room for the last fifteen years. Her article in Massage Therapy Journal, “Seashells As Massage Tools”, was published in 1993. Kate is highly respected as a teacher and colleague, most recently moderating at the International Aromatherapy Conference on Cancer, Auto-Immune and Degenerative Diseases.

Carol Lizotte An Herbalist to the Animals, Carol has chosen to use her gifts and training to help bring balance and harmony back into the life of your beloved companion animals. Working with people is also something she does but her passion is the Animals. Carol Lizotte is an Herbalist, Shamballa Reiki Master, and Flower Essence Practitioner. Her herbal and flower essence knowledge comes from years of reading, studying with other herbalists, and practical experience. In 1998 Carol completed her herbal apprenticeship with Wendy Snow Fogg .

Carols' study of Traditional Herbal Diagnosis with Matthew Wood was completed in 2000.
* In 1999 Carol completed her Flower Essence studies with David Dalton.
* In March of 1999 she received her Reiki Master attunements from Lynn Roberts Herrick.
* She received her Shamballa Master Healer attunements in 2002 from Christopher Penczak.
Learning is a life long journey; Carol continues that journey through workshops, reading, and working with clients.

Amanda McQuade Crawford, B.A., MNIMH is an herbalist, and teacher. She received her BA in Medieval History from Vassar College, but later went to England where she could study herbal medicine in a depth that was not possible in the United States where herbal medicine had no legal status. She spent time at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland where she participated in growing and using medicinal herbs. She received a Diploma in Herbal Medicine from the College of Phytotherapy in England and was elected a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists(MNIMH) in 1986. She returned to the United States where she is currently in private practice in Ojai, California and travels to teach at schools and herbal conferences. Philosophically she integrates her knowledge and clinical experience of primarily western herbs and nutrition with stress management, and an awareness of spiritual well-being.

Amanda McQuade Crawford is a well known international public speaker and author. She wrote The Herbal Menopause Book and Herbal Remedies for Women. She is the Associate Director, for the United States of the International College of Herbal Medicine.^[3] She has more than 20 years experience in clinical herbal medicine, is a founding member of the American Herbalists Guild ^[4]and the founder of the National College of Phytotherapy in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She serves on numerous professional advisory boards and scientific review panels including The American Herbal Pharmacopeia.^[5]

Christopher Penczak is an eclectic witch, writer and healing practitioner. His practice draws upon the foundation of modern Witchcraft blended with the wisdom of mystical traditions from across the globe. Christopher is the author of several award winning books, including City Magick, The Inner Temple of Witchcraft, The Outer Temple of Witchcraft, and Magick of Reiki. His articles have been featured in many publications including New Witch, PanGaia, New Worlds and Circle. Based in New England, he travels extensively teaching magick and healing, believing that we can all live a magickal life.

Bethany Sulecki MA, B.B.S. graduated cum laude from the University System of New Hampshire and holds a Bachelors Degree in the Behavioral Sciences with a concentration in Gerontology and Family Dynamics. She graduated from Corinthian College, Brookline, Ma in 1977 and worked within the medical community in private practice and clinical settings as a medical assistant until 1986. Beth also attended Mt Ida College in Newton Wellesley, Ma. and is certified in Thanantology which is the study of bereavement and the dying process. In 1996, she actively began hospice training and assisted many people through their final transition.

Women’s empowerment classes and workshops are vitally important to the work Beth is here to do. Teaching classes in areas of self help, conditioned responses due to unconscious societal patterns, family dynamics and its effect on personal growth, vibrational and energy medicine, Reiki and spiritual disciplines are some of the areas in which she finds her greatest satisfaction. As a student of the Yogic tradition for many years, Beth studied subjects including the Bhagavad Gita, Feminine Archetypes, and Kundalini Rising.

As an Energy Worker, Beth firmly believes the health of the body is greatly enhanced by clearing energetic blocks due to repressed emotion. Through actively addressing these areas of bodily and psychological discomfort we bring balance and peace to the physical body which affects the emotional and spiritual bodies.Pain is our body’s signal that attention is needed. By interpreting and addressing these areas of blocked energy, we can release these OLD stored issues which wreak havoc on our well being. When the “flood gates” of these OLD energies are released, new waves of healing energy are allowed to take its place. Beth incorporates Reflexology and Reiki to assist in the release of these blockages. As a certified hypno-therapist, Beth incorporates past life regression as another tool to eliminate these harmful patterns.

Beth resides in Merrimack, NH.

David Winston, RH (AHG) is an herbalist and ethnobotanist with almost 40 years of training in Cherokee, Chinese and Western herbal traditions. He has had a clinical practice for over 30 years and is a herbal consultant to physicians throughout the USA and Canada. President of Herbalist & Alchemist, Inc. an herbal manufacturing company, he is also founder/director of David Winston's Center for Herbal Studies, which features his highly respected Two-Year Clinical Herbalist Training Program. He is an internationally known lecturer and teaches frequently at medical schools, symposia and herb conferences.

David is the co-author of Winston & Kuhn's Herbal Therapies and Supplements: A Scientific and Traditional Approach, 2nd ed., Wolters Kluwer, 2008, and Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief, Healing Arts, 2007. He is the author of Saw Palmetto for Men & Women, Storey, 1999, Herbal Therapeutics, specific Indications For Herbs and Herbal Formulas, HTRL, 2003, and a contributing author to American Herbalism, published in 1992 by Crossings Press. In addition, he is a founding/professional member of the American Herbalist Guild, and he has served four terms on the Board of Directors.

Matthew Wood, RH, MS has been a practicing herbalist since 1982. In a period when many authors and lecturers are merely "arm chair herbalists" who offer theories and opinions based on book learning, and others have turned to the exotic traditions of India or China, he has been an active practitioner of traditional Western herbalism. He has helped tens of thousands of clients over the years, with many difficult health problems. While Matthew believes in the virtue of many other healing modalities, he has always been inspired to learn, preserve, and practice the tradition of herbal medicine descending to us from our European, Anglo-American, and Native American heritage. He is a member of the American Herbalists Guild (registered herbalist) and has earned his Masters of Science degree from the Scottish School of Herbal Medicine (accredited by the University of Wales).

Matthew has lectured throughout the United States, from Georgia to Maine, New York to California, and Santa Fe to Sperryville, Virginia. He has also taught in Canada, Scotland, England, and Australia. He is known throughout the world as an excellent teacher of herbal medicine. He is also the author of five acclaimed books on herbal medicine:

Seven Herbs, Plants as Teachers (1987)
Vitalism, The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences, originally entitled The Magical Staff (1993)
The Book of Herbal Wisdom (1998)
The Practice of Traditional Western Herbalism (2004)
Earthwise Herbal (2008)