Vani Mayshark
Vani Mayshark has dedicated the better half of her life to the study and use of plant medicine. She is in constant awe of the plants and their connection with humankind. Herbal medicine remarkably supports healing of the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. She is both delighted and humbled to journey with you on this path of wellbeing.
Vani is a graduate of the California School of Herbal Studies Roots of Herbalism and Clinical Herbalism courses. She has apprenticed with herbalist Donna d’Terra and served as a caretaker of Motherland Botanical Sanctuary in Mendocino County, California. Vani trained as an Ayurvedic Practitioner in Kerala, India, and she is a forever student of Hatha Yoga. She enjoys finding the “middle way” between Western Herbalism and Eastern traditions. Plant medicine has been her realm of study and practice since 2008.
Planting Gratitude by Vani Mayshark
Gratitude for the plants and their selfless nature, who endlessly give nourishment, medicine, and beauty to all living creatures. Plants are the life that sustain all life.
Gratitude for the earth, who holds us all so tenderly, who connects us to all life forms, who is our mother, our shelter.
Gratitude for my teachers, who awakened me to my truth, who introduced me to the plants, who introduced me to my earthly mother.
I owe my life to you.
Gratitude for my younger self for choosing this path, who heard the quiet call of a green heart eager to grow,
and listened.
Gratitude for my present self,
whose humble hands are covered in dirt, who can offer nothing but the plants,
which is plenty.
Gratitude for purpose, for service, for offering.
Gratitude for healing, evolving.
Gratitude for the plants.