core faculty
katja swift, director
Katja is an herbalist and teacher working to help adults, children, and families rebuild their relationships with their bodies and with their own ability to heal. By teaching people how to eat real food and use plants as medicine, she helps them to reestablish their connectivity to the earth, to themselves, and to one another. Katja believes that traditional medicine and modern medical practices can coexist as allies, and works to help people make good choices about which methods to use to bring about better health in their own lives. Katja presently runs a family practice in Brookline, MA. She has a beautiful eight-year-old daughter who would like to tell you all about linden, plantain, and dandelion.
Ryn is an herbalist, poet, and movement artist who found plant medicine as a path to deeper engagement with the balances and rhythms in body, mind, and environment. He’s become good friends with the soft and savory leaves of sage, the flexing knuckles of solomon’s seal, and the salamander living inside ginger. As he develops his attunement to the world green and growing, he enjoys sharing its gifts with the people all around who are in need of care and compassion, and those who seek to understand the connections from all things to all things.