Let's talk business - Are you a solopreneur working on building a yoga, massage, acupuncture, coaching, herbalist, nutrition or other wellness business? Health and wellness is a $500 billion industry and growing - join us for this discussion on how to make your wellness business practice a thriving one.

Meet our Moderator:

 Lindsay Jean Thomson began working in the wellness world after taking her first yoga teacher training in 2006 at Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC. After moving to San Francisco, she co-founded a flourishing company that brought workplace yoga to the teams at companies like Weebly and Pivotal Labs. Most recently, she continued her education and became a coach through intensive training at industry leader Coaches Training Institute. Lindsay loves helping people feel more alive, uplifted, and empowered. She uses her background in wellness to take a holistic, human-centered approach to supporting her coaching clients, many of whom are women entrepreneurs in the wellness sphere. Lindsay is also a Founding Coach with The Coaching Fellowship, an international community of coaches dedicated to helping young professional women reach their most ambitious goals.

Meet our Panelists:

Blythe's Adams, Western Clinical Herbalist, Teacher, and creator of Blythe's Botanicals has been practicing herbal medicine since 2006 in Oakland, CA.  

Teaching people how to take care of themselves and their families using herbal medicine, nutritional foods and lifestyle changes for optimal health is her mission via her private practice Community Herbalist.

Blythe sees herbal clients, teaches herb classes, medicine making classes and  leads herb walks.  Her botanical line Blythe's Botanicals will launch Spring of 2014 providing hand-crafted therapeutic herbal creams for specific skin conditions like eczema, radiation burns, scars, tattoo healing and general skin health.

Community Herbalist is located at 3798 Grand Avenue #3, Oakland, CA 94610

 

Demetra Markis is a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of California. She opened Yerba Buena Community Acupuncture in 2010, and currently practices alongside the staff of four other acupuncturists to provide over 275 acupuncture treatments a week to a growing community of patients. She is committed to working to further the availability of affordable, accessible acupuncture and herbal medicine, and is currently developing an herbal cooperative aimed toward creating sustainable products to meet the clinical needs of her patients.

This discussion is in partnership with the California Historic Society in  honor of their Women's History Month exhibit, "Juana Briones y su California":

In this bilingual exhibition about the life and times of Juana Briones (1802–1889)—pioneer, founder, healer—we experience the transformation of California under three flags: Spain, Mexico, and the United States. We navigate alongside Juana—without a formal education yet dynamic, strategic, and resourceful—through the social, economic, political, and legal upheavals of nineteenth-century California. Through paintings, maps, portraits, legal documents, and artifacts, we realize a vision of Juana Briones as a woman adaptable yet undaunted in her pursuits. More broadly, through her accomplishments—as mother, landowner, business woman, and humanitarian—we glimpse how some women, including those of Mexican and Spanish descent, influenced our state's history on a wide-ranging yet distinctively human scale.