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Madeleina Bolduc, a certified Clinical Medical Herbalist, has been cultivating the art of herbalism and ritual for twenty years. She leads groups in transformative, therapeutic sessions and has held a private practice for the past eighteen years.

Madeleina is a counselor and coach, a teacher of natural medicine and mindfulness & meditation practices, a workshop facilitator, ceremony officiant, ritualist and artist.

Fundamentally, Madeleina is a Holistic Practitioner, using an expert container of Life Counseling and Coaching to hold and guide clients and students through experiences of personalized Vibrant Aliveness by integrating Clinical Medical Herbalism, embodiment practices, nutrition, Traditional Chinese and Tibetan Medicine, Energy Medicine, communication skills, spiritual counseling and indigenous wisdom.

As an only child growing up in the Colorado mountains, she spent most of her time talking with and relating to the natural world. Raised in the eclectic diversity of the Naropa University, she was trained by Tibetan meditation masters, artists and indigenous elders in the practices of everyday magic, consciousness and world wisdom traditions. She had the great blessing to be a first-generation Western Buddhist in the Sangha (spiritual community) of the meditation master, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and his student, Pema Chödrön.

Madeleina chose to develop the path of medicine by completing a three-year clinical program at the Rocky Mountain Center of Botanical Studies, and completing her clinical studies with Paul Bergner in 1999. Since then, she has traveled throughout South and Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and China studying with shamans, curanderas, master healers, doctors and medicine people– among them the beloved Beatrice Waight, Hortense Robinson, Rosita Arvigo. Dr Nida Chenagtsang, Donna Eden, Daria Halpren, Shelly Torgove and Will Morris also hold revered places as beloved and influential teachers in Madeleina’s medicine mandala.

With the encouragement of her teachers, Madeleina has developed a holistic understanding by integrating many healing modalities. She is certified as a Clinical Medical Herbalist, Eden Energy Medicine practitioner, Reiki practitioner, massage therapist, and counselor and coach. As well, she is deeply trained in the practices of nonviolent communication, expressive arts therapy, and somatic movement and performance arts. She finds that these bring freshness and diversity to her students and clients. She was both a visiting teacher and core faculty at various herbal schools, including the Berkeley Herbal Center, as well as a Clinical Supervisor.

Currently, Madeleina is faculty at the Scarlet Sage School of Traditional Healing Arts, teaches an 8 month Elemental Herbal Wisdom Immersion, virtual training programs, Herbal Medicine Making classes, Community herbal rituals, maintains her private practice, and co-leads Grief Rituals in the lineage of the beloved, late, Sobonfu Somé. She is a long-time, devoted student of the illustrious maestro Martín Prechtel, is training with master teacher Adam Gainsburg in Open Human Heart work, and painting a new body of work.

As a re-Weaver of Culture, Madeleina is passionately dedicated to the preservation and cross-pollination of intact wisdom and healing traditions, while infusing them with fresh color, flavor, and perspective. She loves teaching people about the Vitality of plants, our Relationships to the Elements and the incredibly diverse ways in which we can kneel and kiss the ground, while encouraging Life to thrive!