Donna Reynolds is an experienced herbalist, an
herbal educator - which includes being a voice for her native green plant allies - as well as a quiet
tree-whisperer. She speaks about her magical, medicinal plants and trees often, frequenting parks,
arboretums and local backyards, often for impromptu ‘herb’ walks.
She apprenticed for three years with New York
City’s esteemed Green Witch, Wise Woman Healer, Herbal Educator, Author and Teacher of Earth Spirit Medicine:
Robin Rose Bennett. Her apprenticeship studies included one year of Herbalist-in-Residence clinical studies
at the Robert Morrow Family Medical Center in the Bronx, NY.
Donna studied for four years with internationally
distinguished Herbalist and Ethnobotanist, David Winston, RH (AHG), and is a graduate of his world renowned
two-year Clinical Herbalist Training Program, his one-year Graduate Program for Herbal
Practitioners, and his one-year Therapeutics Program for Herbal Practitioners at his
school, David Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies, in Washington, NJ.
Additionally, she is also a student of highly
respected Author, Herbalist, Healer, Herbal Educator and a Founding Mother of the modern Herbal movement,
Rosemary Gladstar, in her celebrated correspondence course: "The Science
and Art of Herbalism", and
is a graduate of her Teacher Training Program for Herbalists. Donna has
taught classes locally in New Jersey and at Sage Mountain Retreat Center in East Barre,
VT.
Her hybrid expertise - culled from 28+ years in the
Information Technology world - enables Donna to pinpoint stressors contributing to client ailments, and
effectively create comprehensive, individualized healing protocols which not only resolve symptoms but create
constitutional changes needed for physical, emotional and spiritual well being.
Locally, Donna is a member of the Leadership Team for
the Chester Chapter of the Holistic Mentorship Network, in the capacity of
Treasurer.
Currently, when she is not coordinating classes or
giving herb walks, Donna is working on her book-in-progress, Tree
Spirit Medicine: Re-establishing Our Sacred Connection.
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