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Heather Nic An Fhleisdeir
Head of Faculty ~ Director
A Clinical Herbalist and healing counselor with a compassionate touch, a bold and
enthusiastic presence and an authentic knowledge of health, healing and herbalism. She has assisted thousands in reclaiming their own health process and in giving healing aid to their families. Heather
has been an instructor since 1989, the proprietor of Mrs. Thompson’s; a public retail herbal apothecary and cultural heritage shop since 1994, Founder of Lusrach; a
retail herbal apothecary in the Highlands of Scotland, an herbal products manufacturer for both Nic an Fhleisdeir Botanicals and Pictish Vision Incense, a research herbalist and founding director
of An Ceangal Mara Foundation.
Having studied through seminars with Deepak Chopra M.D. and “infamous” Herbalist Susun Weed, she was trained at The
Oregon School of Herbal Studies and at Brighid’s Academy of Healing Arts as an Herbalist. She has also received tutelage from Naturalist and Scottish Elder Allister Brebner and continues to
research and seek out knowledge, experience and inspiration from people, books, old manuscripts, the plants and the land.
As a former professional chef, Heather offers working skills and techniques usually only available to persons in the culinary trades
and of much value to the herbalist. As a Minister, she makes available deeper understandings of Celtic, Scottish and Pictish cultural spirituality, mysticism and sacred healing ways.
Among her teaching positions since 1989, Heather has taught at Los Angeles Harbor College, Los Angeles Mission College, as
an interpretive guide in The U.S. National Park Service, at Unity by the Sea Church, Every Woman’s Village, The Highlands Recreation District (of San Mateo California),at Mrs. Thompson’s
Herbs, Gifts And Folklore and Brighid’s Academy of Healing Arts. Since 2001, she has taught in both Scotland and America as Director of The Academy of Scottish Herbalism, at the Spiritualist
Church and Cheshire House in Scotland, at the University Of Oregon in the Sociology Department and the Outdoor Program and for the Confederated Tribes of Coos and Umpqua.
“Born with a natural instinct for becoming one with neglected herb gardens, eating the plants that would not die, I was reintroduced
as an adult to herbs in order to heal myself from a severe illness. I was raised around Native American culture and spirituality. At the encouragement of a Native American Elder, I re-embraced my
Celtic, Scottish and Pictish ancestral ways and began training in Celtic herbalism and continued formal training as an Herbalist. This combined education and experience has given me a
traditional approach to herbalism and healing whose time
- I believe, has come again.” ~Heather
Joleen Marl, River Kennedy
...And other guest Herbalists respected in their field.
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