Atava is the founder of Ancestral Apothecary.
She is dedicated to remembering and honoring the healing traditions of her ancestors and also to creating spaces to support others to also make this connection.

Abi Huff is an ever- evolving community & clinical herbalist, medicine maker, intuitive life strategist, community activist, and overall plant nerd.

Angela Basbas Angel is a traditional (Bontoc and Ibaloi tribes- Igorot, Philippines) and holistic healing practitioner, medium/channeler and ceremonialist.

Francine Madrid is a Bodyworker/Sobadora, Herbalist/Yerbera, Full Spectrum Midwife/Partera.

Myrna Cabán Lezcano is a queer Boricua herbalist, educator, and cultural organizer. She grew up eating mangos and being doused in Agua Florida. Her abuelxs inspired her to connect to Spirit and healing by growing gandules, raising chickens, making dream-based predictions, and singing spontaneous songs.

Melissa (she/her) is an herbalist, writer, facilitator, and birthworker based in Ohlone Territory/Oakland, CA. Melissa’s family has roots in Puerto Rico and Poland and she has spent over 18 years working in a variety of social justice, learning, and healing spaces.

Batul True Heart (they/them) is an Indigenous Yaqui (Yoeme) and mixed Panamanian-American (of Indigenous, African, and Spanish descent) Queer and Two-Spirit Curanderismo practitioner, community herbalist, and aspiring death doula.

Tatille Jackson, CMT, is a lifelong student of massage therapy, herbal medicine, and the ways in which our bodies innately strive toward a state repair.

RaheNi Gonzalez I’naru is a Two-Spirit Boricua Taino Ceremonial Prayer Warrior, Healer & Activist. They have spent the past 20+ years focused on healing and learning how to transform trauma, chronic illness & suffering into beauty, love and a higher consciousness.

Luz is a queer mixed-race Xicana indigena raised by Gay and Lesbian parents. She has been active in dreamwork since 2009, holding space for a community dream circle in her home over the course of a year following classes at Ancestral Apothecary.

Rebekah Sze-Tung Olstad is passionate about building relationships and connections with nature in all its forms. She graduated from the first Cecemmana cohort in 2018, and is now practicing as a community herbalist.

Danielle is an Afro-Indigenous herbalist and astrology apprentice, called to self-healing and soul evolution, inwardly and together. Danielle is a 2019 graduate of Cecemmana.

Indigo Som cross-pollinates her practices of dreamwork, tarot, artmaking, foodmaking, meditation and the Dharma, embracing metaphor as a powerful tool for self-knowledge, healing and transformation.

Lilia Roman is from Mexico and has traveled extensively most of her life. She has been studying dance and body movement for over 20 years.

Lilia is RYT 500 and also holds a certificate in iRest Yoga Nidra, Chair Yoga, and Prenatal. She is now part of the Urban Zen Integrative Yoga Therapy Program and has studied Yoga for Scoliosis with Elise Miller. In addition, Lilia also studies Qi Gong, herbology, and Curanderismo. She teaches around the bay area, leading yoga sessions in English and Spanish.

Eleanor Barron Druckrey (Ellie) has been a student of dreams for most of her life, having kept a dream journal since 1976 when she graduated from Cal Berkeley where she studied US and Latin American History

Ayo is a community herbalist, educator, artist, and historian. She is a believer in ancestral tradition, a documentarian of Black herbal and cultural practices, and a community worker. Trained as a clinician, Ayo is an instructor at community-based herbal schools and conferences, owns a small herbal business (The Creative Root), and runs the Planting Reparations Project, a reparations-based, mutual aid initiative that redistributes plants and healing resources to Black people.

Margarita is a certified and licensed Massage and Craniosacral Therapist. She practices Curanderismo in combination with other ancient healing practices. Margarita Camarena was born in Mexico City growing up with the traditional medicine through her grandmothers and the elders in her family.

Avani recently completed Cecemana, the 3 year herbal medicine program at Ancestral Apothecary. She stumbled into (Western) herbalism and loves the magic Cecemanna has brought into her life.

As a practitioner of Mexica Traditional Knowledge and Ceremonies Chicueyi-Coatl currently carries the Primera Palabra of the Calpulli Huey Papalotl from Berkeley, a cultural, educational, and Danza Mexica circle.

Rachel Lee is a healer whose practice is deeply rooted in reclaiming the wisdom, power, and history of her West African ancestors. As a doula, yoga teacher, and folk herbalist, her path to cultivating wholeness embodies a radical Black feminist praxis where the personal is inseparable from the political and spirit work is essential to social freedom.

Luz C. Valverde is a queer mixed race Xicana indigena raised by Gay and Lesbian parents in the 70’s. She has been active in dream work since 2009, holding space for a community dream circle in her home over the following year’s cycle. She believes the circle – ritual is a profound container for deepening ancestral wisdom, healing inter-generational trauma and receiving guidance.

Cera Merrick (they/them) is a fourth generation grower of chili peppers, medicine maker, pregnancy loss/abortion doula, and fertility awareness educator. They humbly walk with the plants on the path toward liberation and reproductive autonomy.

Elisa (she/her) grew up in the vast and beautiful Sonoran Desert and currently resides in the foothills of the Sierras. She is a zine writer, sun bather, medicine maker, and grower of plants. She practices place-based herbalism rooted in ancestral wisdom. Her work is dedicated to helping people and animals ground into their bodies and heal themselves, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She sees her work with plants as an extension of activism towards social and health justice. 

Erin Caitlin Sweeney (she/her) is a cis woman of European descent living in Huichin, the unceded Ohlone territory now known as Oakland, CA. She is a politicized healer, educator & group facilitator. She’s a Leo Sun & Aries Rising with a Pisces Moon. She’s a storyteller, plant lover, and dancer.

Kara Wood (she/her), lives on Ohlone land in Oakland, CA.

She is a folk herbalist and an ancestral medicine connector. She creates a container for people to connect with their ancestors, the elements, the plants and with their bodies.