Speaker: John Slattery, Herbalist Through intimate relationships with the landscape, plants, and other life forms of the natural world, a cosmology forms in which the mind, body and spirit are viewed as one, as part of the whole. I’ll share some of my story of learning from indigenous healers of the Sonoran Desert while finding my ancestral roots interwoven through the sands, mountains, and trees of this landscape.

We’ll explore the richness of traditional plant usage in the Sonoran Desert and greater Southwest bioregion through a confluence of cultural backgrounds, individual experience, and the ancient symbol of the Triskele. We’ll discuss plants such as estafiate and oshá from a Vitalist Bioregional Herbalist perspective.

Related product: The PowerPoint for this recording is available here: 2025 Southwest Conference Book Download (PDF)

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Continuing Education:

Naturopathic Physicians: This recording has been approved for 1.5 general CME credits by   

• Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine (OBNM)
• Arizona SUHS (Sonoran University of Health Sciences)

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