Vision

Good health is everyone’s birthright and as we mature, it becomes one’s personal responsibility. As healthcare costs skyrocket simultaneously with plummeting quality or care, more and more people are turning to "alternative" healthcare for more individualized and effective support for health and wellness. Humans have managed well enough with this "alternative" healthcare for many millenia, only just emerging into "modern science and medicine" within the last 100 years or so. And while there is no denying the life saving power of modern medicine, perhaps, it is only needed in the most extreme situations and is not nearly as necessary as we think. For example, giving someone antibiotics for a cold is like using a fire extinguisher to put out a candle. It often causes more harm than good. As a healing arts practitioner my intention is to:

• Dedicate myself to rigorous on-going study with continuous subjection to peer review.
• Offer consultation only within the scope of my knowledge and that which is stated by the law.
• Engage in ethical harvesting, preparation and distribution of plant medicines.
• Offer periodic free clinics and/or reduced fees for lower income populations.
• Offer individuals, families and the community, resources, education and classes on natural health, healing and herbalism.
• Promote awareness of locally and other endangered or over harvested medicinal plants.
• Use and sell chemical free, hand-made and organic products.

Bio

Joslyn Jordan is a Nationally Certified Massage and Bodywork Therapist and a graduate of the Bennington CCV Massage & Bodywork Program. Her training consisted of over 800 hours of instruction including; Western and Eastern massage instruction and application, anatomy, physiology, physiopathology, CPR and First Aid.

She's received a certificate in The Art and Science of Herbology with Sage Mountain and Rosemary Gladstar out of Barre, Vermont; an internationally acclaimed intensive program of study including traditional Western Herbal materia medica, field identification, plant medicine formulation and clinical case study analysis. She also has been studying and practicing herbalism, making and selling herbal products in the area for the past five years.

Joslyn is furthering her education and training in the healing arts with Burlington College in Transpersonal Psychology, with Michael Tierra in planetary herbalism, and is participating in the clinical herbalism mentorship program with the Amercian Herbalists Guild (AHG).

Joslyn is also a writer, a student of Okinawan shohei-ryu karate, creator of the local American Tribal Style Bellydance Troupe, Sisters of the Shawl, and co-founder of Bennington Beledi. She lives in Bennington with her husband, Steve and two children.