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She is adjunct faculty for Bastyr University where she oversees gardens and teaches in the Botanical Medicine Department.<\/h4>\n<h4>Nicole specializes in bioregional medicinal plants and is a fully stocked herbal apothecary with wild and weedy custom formulations for her clients and students from all over North America. Nicole is committed to honoring, respecting, and protecting the Earth through all her work. In 2009 she became a Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and Clinical Mentor.\u00a0 Nicole has practiced, collected herbs, and taught since 2000, and has studied ecology, botany, and bioregionalism since 1995. 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.section-bg -->\n\n\t\t<div class=\"section-content relative\">\n\t\t\t\n\n<h4><strong>Lineage<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Nicole is the first of her family born in North America.\u00a0 Her story really begins in war torn Europe.\u00a0 Nicole&#8217;s maternal side escaped Poland to land in Canada in the early 50s after her mother was born in England.\u00a0 Her father escaped Hungary during the revolution of 56 and ended up in Texas with some distant relatives.\u00a0 Her parents met in school in Paris in the 60s and came back to Texas, where Nicole was born.\u00a0 Her love for herbs and wildcrafting has roots\u00a0 that stem from her childhood spent with her maternal grandmother and a close family friend Pani Miela.\u00a0 Malgosha(maternal grandmother) and Pani Miela were\u00a0 mushroom and berry foragers and she spent summers in Ontario with them as a child. \u00a0Pani Miela was also a herbalist and massage therapist and gave her her\u00a0 first digestive bitters from wild plants. \u00a0They taught her how to walk in the woods as a child, how to cook, and many stories about forest folk.\u00a0 Her paternal grandmother passed in 2014 in Hungary at 96 years old, she grew all of her own food and used herbs unti her passing.\u00a0 They never spoke each others language, but through her she finds herself following in her footsteps as well as she grows her own food and herbs.\u00a0 She still visits her family overseas and is dual citizen of Hungary.\u00a0 With herbalism, she follows whatever herbal traditions work and uses the herbs growing around her in a holistic paradigm. \u00a0Like many new Americans, most of her family traditions are lost to war and language barriers. She practices from the traditions passed mainly from her many teachers she has had the honor of sitting with listed below.<\/p>\n<p><u><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Educational Background<\/span><\/u><br \/>Nicole dedicated herself to the study of ecology, botany, herbal medicine, holistic healing, and bodywork since the mid 90s. She specializes in educating about the responsible harvesting and use of native and weedy bioregional plants as medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Institutional Learning:<br \/>BA Environmental Resource Management, minoring in Botany at the University of Texas in Austin.<\/p>\n<h4>Awards<\/h4>\n<li>Community Service Award from the American Herbalists Guild 2019 for my work to free fire Cider\n<li> Community Builder Award from the American Botanical Council 2019 for my work to free fire cider\n<p>\n<h4>Work Experience and Holistic Healing Education:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.herbalgram.org\/\">American Botanical Council<\/a>\u00a0educator 1998-1999\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>500hour program with Michael Moore in 2000 at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.swsbm.com\/HOMEPAGE\/HomePage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Southwest School of Botanical Medicine<\/a>\u00a0with michael Moore in Bisbee, AZ\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Zen Shiatsu\u00a0Program level 1 and 2\u00a0Austin TX 2003\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>LMT-Massage Therapy Program at The Star Institute Austin TX 2004\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Marma Point Therapy Intensive with Dr Vasant Lad at the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque NM 2007\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Millenium Seed Bank Collector for the Kew Gardens 2008<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Ayurvedic Hands On Therapies Intensive with Sonia Masocco at the Ayurvedic Institute Albuquerque NM 2008\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Clinical Intensives: Refining Clinical Skills with Margi Flint of Earthsong Herbals, William Morris, and Matthew Wood\u00a0MA 2010, 2011, 2012<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>2012-2014 Continuing Education with Paul Bergner and Karyn Sanders<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Advanced training in Myofacial Release, Cranial Sacral Therapy Level 1 and 2, Arvigo Methods of Uterine Self Care, Hot Stone,\u00a0Kinesiology, Medical Astrology<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Assistance with the Texas Medical Association Botanical Medicine Exhibit 2017<\/li>\n<li>Hurricane Harvey Gulf Coast Herbal Aid 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"wsite-multicol\">\n<h4 class=\"wsite-multicol-table-wrap\">\u00a0<strong>Herbal Mentors<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph\">Nicole has apprenticed and worked with several individual herbalists, herb stores, and in clinics around the country. Some the herbalists she has taken classes or worked under that have shaped her practice\u00a0include: J<em>asmyne Cleft, Greta de la Montagne, Filiberto Delgado, Margi Flint, David Winston , Matthew Wood, Paul Bergner, Susun Weed, Karyn Sanders, William Morris, and Maria Elena Martinez.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"paragraph\"><strong>First Aid Clinics I&#8217;ve worked in<\/strong>:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Asylum(haha) in the Oregon Wilderness<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Active Resistance Toronto<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>WTO Seattle<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>FTAA Protest Tucson AZ<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>EF Rendezvous Wilderness Clinics several years<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Dandelion Clinic for the International Reclaiming Convergence Texas<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Plan Z Appalachia Radical Faerie Sanctuary North Carolina<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Hurricane Katrina Free Clinic New Orleans<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Sundance Free Clinic in Northern Arizona<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Hurricane Harvey Gulf Coast Herbal Aid<\/em><\/li>\n<li class=\"paragraph\"><em>Occupy Medical Eugene Oregon<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Guest Speaker<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>American Herbalists Guild Symposium Colorado<\/li>\n<li> NW Herbfest <\/li>\n<li> HerbDay Celebrations Austin and Eugene<\/li>\n<li>Mountain Rose Herbs Free Herbalism Project Seattle and Eugene<\/li>\n<li>Moonflower Herb Fest Austin TX<\/li>\n<li>Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center TX<\/li>\n<li>Heart of Texas Herb Symposium TX<\/li>\n<li>Traditional Roots Conference OR\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>International Herb Symposium MA X2<\/li>\n<li>Womens Herbal Symposium NH<\/li>\n<li>Herbalismo Conference TX<\/li>\n<li>Eclectic Herbals Internship OR<\/li>\n<li>Plant Medicine Summit Online\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Survival Summit Online<\/li>\n<li>Grow Network Home Medicine Summit Online<\/li>\n<li>Mother Earth 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