Anya Tyutyunik, co-founder of the Artemisia Institute, is a lifelong herbalist, healer, mama, and dancer of the wild. Born in Ukraine and now rooted in Southern Oregon, she tends a vibrant herbal farm and healing retreat La Medicina Farm with her three sons and a joyful crew of 77 animals. Anya is the founder of the Women’s Healing Conference and shares earth wisdom, oriental medicine practices, and deep feminine healing through mayan uterine massage, family constellation, through acupuncture practice, and always love.

Erica, co-founder of Artemisia Institute, began teaching professionally in 1999. She graduated with a BA in Studio Art from CSU Chico and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. She holds a teaching credential in Studio Arts from Cal Poly Humboldt. Erica studied herbalism and nutrition for 2 years at the Living Awareness Institute in Vacaville, CA. She worked for 20 years teaching Art, Literature, & Nature Sciences in the California public school systems and in alternative education such as Bar-O Boys’ Ranch, Del Norte Juvenile Detention centers, and 7 years in Del Norte County Mental Health, creating programs in the Arts for youth and young adults.

 Most recently, she received her certifications as an advanced practitioner of NLP (NeuroLinguistic Programming), Mental & Emotional Release, and Hypnotherapy and offers Breakthrough Sessions that quickly help youth and young adults release depression, anxiety, negative thoughts, and limiting beliefs in order to become inspired and empowered to create and achieve their goals and life purpose.

 She is also a student and teacher of the Western Hermetic Mysteries and Ancient Indigenous European spiritual practices and is an Initiate of a Rooted Ways tradition. She has been studying Hermetic Tarot and reading for herself since 2003.

 Erica is happily married to her husband Daniel of 24 years and a proud mama to two young adults, an entrepreneur named Orion and a concept artist and painter named Leila Moon. She lives in the forest with her husband, their puppy, 3 cats, many plants, and lots of music.

Luzia was born Jewish, raised a Humanist and has practiced Buddhist meditation most of her life. She has participated in Native American ceremonies for 23 years and been a follower of Mother Ammachi for 20 years.

In 1987 she was enchanted by the Queen of the Forest and initiated into the church of the Santo Daime in 1989. She lived extensively in the Brazilian rainforest and studied/practiced herbal medicine, energetic healing spirit work, mediumship, and sacraments practiced there.

Luzia specializes in Bio-energetic Analysis. She works with individuals, couples, and groups on a long and short term basis and is the leader of various workshops. She is gifted at getting to the core issues and guiding people through the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual layers of these tensions.

She believes in resolution through revelation, the benefits of deep study, and an environment of support and nurturance for the emerging Self. Integrating spirit combines Luzia’s knowledge and experience as a pastoral counselor with her wisdom and aptitude as a spiritualist. Her presence creates a feeling of permission and safety that allows the unknown, unthinkable, and unimaginable to emerge and be recognized with respect.

Efrem Korngold, OMD, L.Ac has 50 years of experience as a pioneering teacher, author, and provider. He co-authored Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine, the Chinese Medicine Works Clinical Handbook, numerous articles in journals and magazines, developed the acupuncture curricula for one of the first accredited acupuncture schools in 1979, and formulated Chinese Modular Solutions, Sage Solutions & Gentle Warriors (manufactured by Kan Herb Company). He practices acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in San Francisco. https://chinesemedicineworks.com

Dr. Laura Robin is honored to bring her many passions together to create a unique healing experience at Artemisia Institute. Drawn to the center’s vision, she offers a creative and empowering paradigm for those seeking to optimize their health and well-being.

 An osteopathic physician for more than 35 years—and specializing in Functional and Integrative Medicine for the past 25—Dr. Laura has long held a deep respect for the body’s innate ability to heal when given the right tools. She believes that understanding how

the body struggles and recovers is a vital part of the healing process, and her lifelong passion has been to educate, mentor, and empower people to cultivate vitality, resilience, and longevity/healthy lifespan.

 Her training extends far beyond conventional medicine. With years of additional study in energy medicine, plant medicine, and spiritual practice, Dr. Laura brings a profound respect for the unseen influences that shape health—emotional, vibrational, and spiritual.

She sees true well-being as the harmony of body, mind, spirit, and the natural world, and she guides her patients with this holistic philosophy at heart.

 Known for her ability to uncover the root causes of complex health challenges, Dr. Laura helps individuals clarify their next steps on their healing journeys. A longtime member of the Rogue Valley community, she served as Medical Director of the Southern Oregon

University Student Health and Wellness Center for 10 years, and as a member of the Jackson County Medical Advisory Board. She co-founded Rosa Transformational Health, where she guided nearly 600 people through Functional Medicine programs.

 Today, she continues to teach and consult with individuals ready to take an active role in their healing. She offers her 9-week online

Total Health Reset program, an online course for people wanting to go through the basic building blocks of functional medicine; she is the author of Get Your Health Back.

Crystal is a lineage Appalachian witch, clinical herbalist, Hellenistic astrologer, yogini, and poet who has guided hundreds of students and clients to heal themselves from chronic illness, become more fully embodied, and begin living in the enchanted realms that are our birthright.

She has 20+ years of somatic and yogic studies, 17+ years of herbal medicine study, and 11+ years of committed ceremonial study with indigenous and folk medicine carriers from around the world.

She has also been initiated into several other healing traditions through arduous ceremonial fasts, prolonged isolation, ritual possession, and even being temporarily paralyzed by a lightning strike.

She has been teaching her craft full-time for over sixteen years from international universities, to yoga studios, to her own wellness center and ceremonial center, and finally to the world-wide web.

Matthew “Merlin” Kenney is a professional traditional astrologer, ritual magician, and translator of Ancient Greek and Sanskrit. He teaches and practices astrology as a complete spiritual path, utilizing the natal chart alongside alchemy, ritual magic, and daily meditation to bring healing and empowerment to his students and clients.

Merlin has been featured as a speaker on several prominent astrological platforms, including Kepler College and Nightlight Astrology. He teaches several courses on astrology, meditation, and ritual magic, and also offers natal chart readings, elections, and horary readings.

Merlin’s professional practice is deeply informed by his daily spiritual practice. He is a dedicated practitioner of Ashtanga yoga, Daoist internal alchemy, and Baguazhang. He is a 24th generation disciple of the Daoist Dragon Gate Sect.

Robin Bliss-Wagner has dedicated his career to teaching and mentoring children, teens, and adults in deep nature connection, survival skills, bird language, and tracking since 2004. His favorite thing to do has always been to be in nature. His love of the wilderness has led him on many adventures. From the Kalahari Desert to the UC Santa Cruz campus, he has studied nature and mentoring in many contexts, both academic and experiential. He has even lived for a summer in the stone age. Stories, earth skills, and nature’s wisdom from these experiences are the foundation of his work. Robin is a Waldorf graduate, and received his BA in Bioregional Studies with highest honors from UC Santa Cruz. Also a blacksmith and fiddler, he lives in Southern Oregon with his wife and their three sons.

Nature lover, Permaculture designer, Slavic folklore specialist, singer and artist, Waldorf teacher, Community manifesto, Farmer and mother. Motto: as above so below, we are all parts of the amazing universe, universe is inside each of us. Originally from Siberia, Natalya and her family lived 20 years in California, exploring multiple directions in life, mainly around harmonious personal development, traditional cultures and children education. Growth opportunities brought Natalya’s family into Talent, Oregon, where she anchored her roots in beautiful Grebenniki Farm, and under the starry sky developed new passion in astrology that interweaves her rich and diverse endeavors.

Desiree DeMars is a shamanic guide, hypnotist and sacred artist with a passion for working with those seeking deep transformation. Her shamanic divinations carry the lineage of the Zulu (south African) tradition known as Reading the Bones.

A divination is a direct consultation with the spirit world for advice about ancestral influences and the growth of one’s spirit. The throwing of the bones reveals a map, pattern or constellation so to speak, of one’s life and their spiritual energy or frequency.

The information channeled from the ceremony brings forth inspiration that can strengthen one to fulfill their life purpose or shift a course of action the spirit needs for growth at this time. The true value of the session is revealed through your own unfolding process, as you embody the work by learning to listen the voice of nature, your instinct, and a deeper connection to your life purpose.

I have been a vessel for merging the ancient and the new for over 25 years which started as a personal exploration of yoga, meditation, and nutrition as a teen. Highly sensitive and creative, I continued to study many forms of body work, plant medicine, and subtle energy practices as I offered a broad spectrum of services in my private practice.

In my personal exploration and professional trainings in integrative health practices, I experienced a spontaneous recall of a past life as a medicine woman while living in the canyon lands of Malibu, CA. This ignited a journey of personal healing and training with shamans around the world.

Sofia is a biologist turned mystic. An awakener of wild seeds, wild dreams in people and places. Wild as in without exile of the weeds, without taming voice, grief, rivers, without planting in rows. Wild as in lands unowned, but in which we are planted. Sofia tends to the living seed capsules of plants across the continent. Along the way she also replants people with knowledge of bird language, baskets, hide tanning and other manners of being in collaboration with land. She tends to the wild seed sleeping in people, helping remove the fences around voice, creativity, and full feeling. She paints portraits of peoples inner gifts, and our interrelationship with Wild Others—planting images in psyches that may grow us towards a more alive world.

Sofia has a MSc in Biology, completed a 2 year long nature connection immersion with Wisdom of the earth, has trained in many modalities of soul work (Dream Tending, Grief Ritual Leadership, IFS, Deep Imagery)

Sofia has been collaborating with plants in her artistic practice, for 6 years, in the form of baskets, plant dyes and natural art materials. Also coming through in her work is her apprenticeship to wild plants and the practice of wild tending, which aims to interact with wild plants in a way that promotes the health of individuals and ecosystem.

Sofia’s first word was bird! She has since followed a winding path through academic biology (MSc), wild bird rehabilitation, deep nature connection immersions (8 Shields with Wisdom of the Earth) and many forms of soul work. She has been teaching bird language for 5 years to people all over the continent. She is dedicated supporting people to deepen relationship with their whole selves, with wild nature and the wise mysterious, through soulcentric practices and direct interaction with the more than human.

Sofia is dedicated to reawakening and tending to the exiled parts of thriving human culture including creativity, playfulness, full feeling, the intelligent imagination and connection with the animate more than human world.

She brings a wholistic approach to her mentoring drawing on her time as biologist (MSc), artist and deep nature connection mentor.