The passing down of knowledge is such a treasure.
We are deeply grateful that the following teachers are joining us to share their wisdom.
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2021 INFORMATION ABOUT TALENTED TEACHERS AND DELIGHTFUL
CLASSES COMING SOON!
Khetnu Nefer
Khetnu Nefer is a Gullah/Geechee holistic health practitioner originally from John's Island, SC who is a passionate womb warrior and women's health advocate. An Army veteran, uterine cancer survivor and licensed massage therapist of 15 years, Khetnu fuses various modalities to assist women on their path to well being. She is a writer, dancer, Egyptian yoga instructor, herbalist, certified birth doula, certified Kukuwa African dance instructor and former massage professor. As a graduate of the American College of Healthcare Sciences in Portland, Oregon, Khetnu established her mobile holistic wellness company, A Soulful Touch Wellness, now located in Washington, D.C. where she provides various workshops, products and services to assist women in healing their wombs and their lives. Khetnu is also the founder of the Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering taking place in March 2020 in Charleston, SC. To learn more about Khetnu and her services please visit her website www.asoulfultouch.com
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Susanna Reppert-Brill
In 1850 Philliponc Muller Pross, a German Herb Doctor living in Poland who was quite famous in the medicinal application of herbs and their uses, taught her daughter Marta about herbs. Marta Katharina Pross Loth in turn taught her son-in-law Samuel Ludwig Elgert about herbs. Samuel, a teacher and lay-minister, also became a well-known herbalist passing his herbal expertise to his first-born child Ottylie Elgert, one of thirteen. Ottylie immigrated to America in May 1903. She married and while she lived in Reading, Pennsylvania, loved to garden and she made her own cough syrups, camphor rubs, goose grease salves. Ottylie Elgert Peplau passed her love and knowledge of plants to the last born of her five children. Bertha Peplau Reppert (1919-1999): Bertha instituted The Rosemary House in 1968. She wanted to make herbs and herbal products available to everyone through her one-of-a-kind retail herb and spice and gift ship. Her herbal expertise has been captured in the many books and booklets she has authored. More than a century (or 6 generations) later Bertha happily passed her knowledge on to her last born daughter, #4, Susanna R. Reppert-Brill. Susanna is a true folk herbalist who has striven to proudly maintain her folk herbalist heritage while continuing her herbal studies by completing David Winston's School of Herbal Therapeutics. Susanna also counts James Duke and Rosemary Gladstar among her teachers. She is a Rosemary Circle member of The Herb Society of America and a member of the American Herbalist Guild. A frequent contributor to The Essential Herbal Magazine and enthusiastic speaker, she continues to run The Rosemary House in Mechanicsburg, PA with her husband David.
www.TheRosemaryHouse.com
www.TheRosemaryHouse.blogspot.com
www.rosemaryevents.blogspot.com
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Yuma Bellomee
Yuma "Docta Yew" Bellomee is a Certified Holistic Health Consultant, herbalist, wellness advocate/educator, and musical artist, who has been studying health and herbal medicine since just after graduating from high school, and has been featured in numerous radio programs, natural hair, health & beauty expos, magazine articles, and community and school programs as a speaker and workshop facilitator on wholistic wellness. He is also the founder of Yew-360 Wholistic Health & Wellness (yew360.com), co-founder of Ni Dembaya African Drum & Dance Ensemble, and a member of the Collective Health Initiative (CHI) and African Wholistic Health Association (AWHA) in Washington, DC.