The BAHRT Practitioners Circle
Meet the team of herbalists offering accessible consultations for our communities through BAHRT.
Bonnie Rose Weaver is a clinical herbalist, educator, medicinal plant cultivator, and remedy maker. She/they are the author of Deeply Rooted: Medicinal Plant Cultivation in Techtropolis, a book based on their work at 1849 Medicine Garden. As a lifelong guest on occupied Ramaytush Ohlone land, San Francisco, CA, Bonnie Rose's work revolves around increasing access to and education about herbal medicine for all. After seven years as a community herbalist + urban herb grower, Bonnie Rose studied at The Blue Otter School with Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes to become a clinical herbalist in 2017. She reads tarot cards, planetary movements and energy. Se habla español.
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Claire “Chuck” Bohman is a certified herbalist with over 15 years of experience as a professional healer. Chuck has trained with Karyn Sanders, Choctaw elder and Sarah Homes, Senior Herbalist at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine. Additionally, Chuck has served as a mental health professional, community organizer, a chaplain and an herbalist. With their almost 30 years of experience as a practitioner of earth-based spirituality, Chuck incorporates this perspective into their work and their approach to healing. Chuck is an Ordained Interfaith Minister, a Priestess in the Reclaiming tradition and the President of the Temple of the Waters. She has a Masters of Divinity degree with an emphasis in Spiritual Care and Liberation Theology from the Pacific School of Religion and serves as a Chaplain at a Bay Area Hospital.
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Emiliano Lemus is an herbalist, medical student in the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program, and fourth-generation healer/plant meddler. Their Oakland-based herbalism practice centers both social justice and energetic herbalism, based on the teachings of Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine. They've also spent a decade working as a community organizer, workshop facilitator, and educator, on topics including sexuality, sexual health, transgender competence, and the impacts of structural violence on health and wellbeing. As a queer and trans chicano (Purépecha and Chichimeca), Emiliano is passionate about combining experiential and professional knowledge to provide trainings to health professionals and the broader community, as well as holistic health consultations. Se habla español.
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Kara Sigler began their practice in the Bay Area of California as a Western Herbalist in 2006, and as an Ayurvedic Lymphatic Massage practitioner in 2012. Kara supports and educates her clients on integrating herbs and healthy life choices. They incorporate Ayurvedic pulse, face and tongue assessment, as well as other modalities of bodywork, nutritional consulting, and emotional/energetic counseling, into her sessions with clients. Kara’s approach to holistic healing focuses on women, queer and transgender health, but they sees all bodies in their practice. Se habla español.
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Kelley Dunn is trained in both Western and Energetic Herbalism. They began their formal journey studying herbs over 10 years ago looking to find ways to deal with their own anxiety, depression, allergies and gut issues. They have studied under a number of teachers including Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes at Blue Otter School studying energetics and the Berkeley Herbal Center studying western herbalism. While Kelley has come to understand these plants from their own unique perspective, they always want to give credit to the plants and my human teachers. They are also a gardener and lover of nature. They continue to spend a great deal of their life getting to know and love plants in the world. Kelley believes that plants have been working to help heal humans for as long as we have been co existing and their job as an herbalist is to help find the right plants to assist you on your healing journey. It is a deep honor to work with others on their healing journey.
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Lizanne Deliz is an herbalist, remedy-maker, gardener, cook, and community organizer. She practices energetic herbalism, a type of herbal healing that connects plant energy to our own energetic patterns and the roots of our imbalances, as she learned from her teachers Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine. She also trained in Western Herbalism at the Berkeley Herbal Center. Lizanne believes deeply that connecting with plant spirits brings us into closer, healthier relationship with our own selves, our bodies, with the natural universe, and with our communities. She also believe all people should be empowered to steer their health- and self-care in directions that nourish and sustain them, with intention and good information. She aims to be a facilitator of those processes with the help of our plant friends. Se habla español.
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Viola Thorns is a clinical western and energetic herbalist, medicine-maker, educator, apothecarist, and specialist in the field of California and Pacific Western native plants. She practices in occupied Chochenyo Ohlone Territory (aka Oakland, California). She has apprenticed in western herbalism and medicine making with Stascha Stahl, and was certified in Energetic Herbalism at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine in 2018, and continued on to complete the advanced program in 2019, . Bay Area resident of 13 years, she is a queer, transgender, intersectional anarcha-feminist and practicing Buddhist. She is committed to offering affordable, body positive, fat positive, trauma informed, intersectional, LGBTQIIA inclusive, harm reduction focused, sex and sex work positive, anti-racist and anti-oppression centered holistic support, herbal consultations, affirmation, resources, and guidance.
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Samwise studied with the California School of Herbal Studies and Ancestral Apothecary and is currently an herbalist at the Scarlet Sage Herb Company in San Francisco. They run the Self Heal Herbal Free Clinic — a community-supported free clinic serving displaced people in North Oakland. Coming from a background of organizing for liberatory change, Samwise especially loves supporting poor folks, houseless folks, queer and trans people, and anyone who values holistic and compassionate healthcare. They have a vibrant practice that incorporates science, magic, herbalism and ancestral healing that is attuned to love and a world where deep healing is accessible to all.
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Stascha Stahl is an herbalist, remedy maker, apothecarist, and educator practicing in the Chochenyo Ohlone Territory – Oakland, California. Stascha has been studying herbalism since 2006 and seeing clients for the last ten years. Stascha’s approach to herbalism is holistic. She takes into consideration a person’s entire experience, understanding that the connection and interplay between the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of each individual make up a person’s whole health. She believes people are resilient and chooses herbs that will balance body systems and support our innate ability to heal.
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Vanessa Radman is an intuitive herbalist, animist ritualist, full spectrum doula, sex educator and writer. She has been working with plants as remedies since 2008. She supports those navigating the relationship between belonging, personal healing and the healing of our communities, ancestors and the living earth. Vanessa is grateful to her many teachers in both Western, Energetic and traditional folk herbalism including Juliet Blankespoor (Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine) and Lupo Passero (Twin Star Herbs), as well as plant spirit medicine (Pam Montgomery) and ancestral lineage healing (Dr.Daniel Foor). Her ancestors are most recently from Ireland, Southern Italy and the Dalmatian coast (Croatia). She is grateful to live and love on Yelamu Ohlone land.
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BAHRT Collective Members
Meet the rest of the BAHRT team, involved in community organizing and education efforts.
Amanda Sayre Caskey is an herbalist, activist, parent, gardener, and lover of plants, magic, animals and people. She lives and works in occupied Chochenyo Ohlone Territory (Oakland, California) where she was born and raised, and where she continues a lifelong commitment to social justice. She began her herbal studies unofficially in 1999, and officially in 2005, and has been practicing since 2008. She studied at the Berkeley Herbal Center, completed an advanced apprenticeship with Matthew Wood, and has been privileged to have studied with a plethora of other incredible herbalists, plant spirit workers, activists, healers, witches, cooks, queers, ancestors, and remedy makers, as well as the plants themselves. Her practice is a weaving of people and plants, spirit and science, nutrition, heart, ceremony, and the wisdom of the body. Amanda holds a strong container for this wisdom of the body to find communion with the plants and with food (our first medicine) to heal, to rediscover vitality, and to make space for joy.
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Madalyn Berg is a clinical herbalist, artist and educator. She practices in the lineage of the Blue Otter School, seeing plants as well as imbalances from an energetic perspective. Working with her as a practitioner means working in a supported way to make deep healing change in your physical and emotional body. Believing that imbalances exist at the nexus of our internal and external worlds, she considers the physical, emotional and spiritual in relationship to social, political and environmental forces acting on the body. Madalyn's practice is oriented around empowering clients- returning to you a sense of agency over your life and body. She lives and works in Southern Pomo territory, also known as Santa Rosa, CA.
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Tracey Brieger's passion is to support healing for us as individuals, as communities, and for the earth through her pursuits as an energetic herbalist and community organizer. Through her herbal practice, she seeks to support people in finding deep health and balance across the physical, emotional, spiritual and energetic aspects of their beings. Tracey has studied herbalism since 2005 and been in herbalism practice since 2007, including advanced studies through the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine with teachers Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes, a four-year program at the Berkeley Herbal Center, and two years of classes with herbalist Matthew Wood. In complementary practice, she has also been an activist and organizer for more than 25 years, including over a decade doing environmental justice advocacy, and hold an M.S. in Environmental Science, Policy and Management from UC Berkeley.
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Disclaimer:
BAHRT practitioners are not doctors, we are herbalists. We do not claim to treat or cure COVID19. We are sharing what we've learned as herbalists to help keep our bodies well and balanced. We do not diagnose, prevent, treat, or prescribe for illnesses or diseases. Herbal remedies are not a substitute for medical care. Content and resources shared on this website are for educational purposes only. BAHRT encourages you to seek professional medical advice regarding any illness or disease you are experiencing. If you are experiencing severe cold- or flu-like symptoms, and particularly if you are having difficulty breathing, we encourage you to seek medical care immediately.
BAHRT practitioners are not doctors, we are herbalists. We do not claim to treat or cure COVID19. We are sharing what we've learned as herbalists to help keep our bodies well and balanced. We do not diagnose, prevent, treat, or prescribe for illnesses or diseases. Herbal remedies are not a substitute for medical care. Content and resources shared on this website are for educational purposes only. BAHRT encourages you to seek professional medical advice regarding any illness or disease you are experiencing. If you are experiencing severe cold- or flu-like symptoms, and particularly if you are having difficulty breathing, we encourage you to seek medical care immediately.