OUR TEACHERS

Patricia Kyritsi Howell is the primary teacher for the BotanoLogos School. Other teachers include skilled herbalists and other practitioners who bring years of study and practical experience to our programs.

Patricia Kyritsi Howell, Registered Herbalist (AHG)
Program Director

Patricia is a clinical herbalist, author and teacher. In her classes, lectures and practice, she combines sixteen years experience as an herbal practitioner, a solid background in the therapeutic use of herbs, and an in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants native to the Southern Appalachians.

Patricia is the author of Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians (2006). She serves as a member of the Governing Council of the American Herbalists Guild, advises the Atlanta Botanical Garden on medicinal herb programming and is the co-founder of the Georgia Herbalists Guild. She is the co-owner of Wild Crete, a company that offers travel seminars on herbs and traditional cuisine on the Greek island of Crete each spring.

 

 

Lorna Mauney-Brodek, Herbalist, Medicine Making and Field Botany Instructor

Lorna is an herbalist with a global perspective on the role herbs play in healing. In her travels she has studied the plants of the Tuscan hills of Italy, the deserts of the southwest, and the Pyrenees Mountains in the Catalonia region of Spain, but her first love is the abundant herbs of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

Lorna studied herbal medicine with Dottore Maurizio Gioli, Arno River Valley, Tuscany, Italy, the late Michael Moore of the Southwest School for Botanical Medicine Bisbee, Arizona and Patricia Kyritsi Howell at the Botanologos School for Herbal Studies in north Georgia. She recently completed the Clinical Internship Program at the Appalachian School for Holistic Herbalism in Asheville, NC. (completed in 2008)

Her extensive experience as a medicine maker includes managing the herbal apothecary at a busy clinic in Atlanta and the creation of her own line of herbal tincture compounds. She has been teaching medicine-making at BotanoLogos since 2008.

Lorna is currently in clinical practice at her office in Atlanta where she is following her dream to offer affordable, holistic health care to her community.