Our Educators

YesSpiral

YesSpiral is a student of life and has taken immersions into tarot, yoga, reiki, herbalism, shamanism, and astrology. Throughout their mystical immersions they have remained grounded while raising a daughter and employed by major global financial institutions working with investments. They have a communications and media degree, investments and insurance licenses, and a certification in project management.

They believe the wisdom gained from all life experiences is what guides us to become better humans; more patient, honest, loving and understanding of others; less judgmental; more compassionate to ourselves as well as others; less fearful; more courageous; more balanced in our relationships with family members and friends.

You can find them in Manhattan, journaling, doing tarot readings, creating workbooks, presentations, facilitating moon circles, making herbal crafts, art projects, and hiking in nature and in the city.

Heidi Smith

Heidi Smith, MA, RH (AHG), is a graduate of the three-year clinical herbal studies program at Arbor Vitae, and is accredited as a Registered Herbalist by the American Herbalist Guild. She holds a master’s degree in mental health counseling, and has studied energy work and flower essences under several teachers. Her practice blends psychosomatic therapy, flower essences, and herbal medicine to address the multifaceted aspects of disease, with an emphasis on emotional wellness. She specializes in facilitating recovery from complex trauma stemming from narcissistic abuse. Heidi is passionate about engaging both the spiritual and scientific dimensions of the plant kingdom, and sees herbal medicine as a radical way to promote ecological and social justice. She lives and works on unceded Munsee Lenape land. She is author of The Bloom Book: A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance. You can read more about her practice at moonandbloom.com.

Amínata (Amíkolé) Maraesa

Amínata (Amíkolé) Maraesa is an adjunct professor at Fordham and New York University with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from NYU. Her research history and interests include medical anthropology, politics of reproduction, gender and development, explorations of risk, transnationalism, and yoga with a regional concentration in southern Belize. Her academic works include In a Good Position for Birth: Pregnancy, Risk, and Development in Southern Belize (2018, Vanderbilt), Risk, Reproduction, and Narratives of Experience (2012, Vanderbilt), and the documentary film Woman to Woman: Addressing the Need for Doula-Assisted Childbirth (2003, DER).

Amíkolé has apprenticed 28+ years in the Wise Woman herbal tradition with Lata Kennedy at Flower Power. She conducts herbal workshops and private consultations and created an international line of hand-crafted shea butter beauty products: Dr. Amíkolé's Shea Butter.  She is a certified yoga instructor and has founded a non-profit holistic health institute, Mango Meditation Healing Arts Center, in Punta Gorda, Belize. She currently serves as Chair of the Board at Sixth Street Community Center on the Lower East Side, NYC and is Honorary Director of Grant Sourcing for Rhythm of Change, Belize.

Amíkolé is committed to education as form of empowerment, crosscultural exchange as means to global peace, and embodied therapeutic practices to inspire happiness.

Lata Kennedy

The store’s resident Wise Woman/Flower Shaman, Lata Chettri-Kennedy, is a knowledgeable and quality-driven herbalist who is loved and admired far and wide for her integrity as well as her loving positive energy and the empowering information she offers.

Lata offers Astrological Readings to discuss the depths of your natal chart and upcoming astrological transits.