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I am a clinical herbalist with a mission to help women come into their own power to heal. I concentrate on female reproductive EMBODIMENT health. My work attends to physical, psychological and spiritual issues, being that these systems are integrated. I was very first introduced to herbal medicine by my mother and grandmother's teachings. My mom Lucia is from Naples, Italy. She taught me as much as she could remember passed on by her mother, Elvira, about plants and energy medicine. Elvira's mother, my great grandmother Nona read tea leaves. Also, the Strega lineage is passed from my father's mother Mary who practiced herbalism and spiritual healing. This has always been the path lay before me, I was born to into this woman's work and choose to follow it everyday. Coming from that lineage of Italian stregas, or healers, I wanted to maintain my ties to that tradition in my practice. I named my business, Strega Gardens, after that lineage as a way in which to honor and embody the work of my ancestors. This path has led me down many roads, always learning along the way. I followed my intuition to Colorado and now have a certificate in clinical herbalism and a graduate of the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies. I have studied under Dr. Gu Ding in Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Shen Nong Center in Philadelphia, PA, and Mayan Traditional Healing Practices and Uterine Care with Ms. Beatrice Waight, Belize. Held an apprenticeship with Linda White Dove in herbal medicine; an apprenticeship with Claudia Rosewolf in traditional North American indigenous healing practices; and an apprenticeship with Pei Fen Yan in Chinese Medicine in Boulder, Colorado. I have now been in practice for over 15 years, and prefer to grow or wildcraft most of the herbs used, as well as make my own tinctures, tea blends, glycerites, oils, and any other concoctions.

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