Cheryl Weatherby practices the Shen-Hammer lineage of Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis - a system working with more than 90 diagnostic qualities found across six principal and twenty-two complementary pulse positions. She studied under senior instructor Ross Rosen as part of a 2000 hour internship at The Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (2006 - 2010), as his associate practitioner from 2012 - 2020, and continues to train with Shen-Hammer certified instructors across the country. In addition, Cheryl learned Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis from Dr. Vasant Lad at The Ayurvedic Institute and throughout the California College of Ayurveda’s pancha karma certification program. The psycho-emotional and physical health information revealed by these systems allow for discernment of a disease process at a very early stage.

Passionate about nutrition, Cheryl completed the Natural Gourmet Institute’s chef training program in New York City with culinary internship at Mercer Kitchen. She is clinically trained in Kanpo Sino-Japanese herbology (Nigel Dawes) and traditional Chinese herbal medicine.

Cheryl began integral anatomy training with Somanautics (2003) and taught gross anatomy for Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment. She is licensed in acupuncture and has completed certification programs in hypnotherapy, craniosacral therapy, manual lymph drainage, chi nei tsang Taoist visceral manipulation, Nuad-Bo Rarn Thai yoga, Ayurveda, and energy medicine.

While studying classical midwifery with The Russian Birth Project in St. Petersburg, Cheryl participated in 27 births, performed prenatal, postpartum, and newborn exams in both hospital and home settings, and practiced traditional manual protocols for turning breech position. She works with both men and women to enhance fertility and provides treatment throughout all trimesters for symptom relief and prevention, to enhance immunity and health, and assist with mind/body/emotion labor preparation.

In addition to private practice, she has worked in doctors’ offices, community clinics, wellness centers and for the VA Health Administration.

Take a walk on the herbal medicine farm:

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

- John Muir

“The world contained in a seed,

Determined by its program.”  - Dejan Stojanovic

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.” - E.A. Bucchianeri.

Luna moth has no digestive system. Lives one week with sole intention to breed.

CamouFROGe!

(hint: green stripe)

“All rise!”

The female is shaking her wings as the male lands behind her and then flies in a circle, lands closer, circles again, closer…

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the sea and music in its roar: I love not man less, but nature more" -Lord Byron

constant reaching

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.” - Henry David Thoreau

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