Sherene Schostak, M.A. is a Jungian Analyst and astrologer in private practice for the past eighteen years. She specializes in depression, anxiety, creative blocks, life transitions, eating disorders, and relationships. She is the author of several books including: Speculation Now; Transpersonal Astrology: Explorations at the Frontier; & Surviving Saturn’s Return (McGrawHill). She holds a Master’s Degree from New York University in Clinical Psychology, a Masters in Developmental Psychology from Pace University and advanced graduate work in psychoanalytic studies from The New School and The Jungian Institute, ISAP, Zurich. She is currently based in San Francisco but teaches workshops internationally.

Laura Ash of the Scarlet Sage Herb Co. is a clinical herbalist, queer, mother of two children, and the current owner of The Scarlet Sage Herb Co. in San Francisco. Laura has been a clinical western herbalist since 2005 when she attended the California School of Herbal Studies. Laura has traveled all over the world in search of healing modalities. She has trained in Ayurveda with Dr. Vasant Lad in New Mexico, southern France for essential oils, traveled to Northern Lapland Sweden to seek out her own ancestry medicine, and to Tanzania to work with the Maasai in documenting their traditional medicine, starting Herbal Anthropology Project, 501(c)3, to keep their knowledge safeguarded with Intellectual Property protection.