About Renée Camila
Renée (she/ella) Camila is a bilingual (spanish + english) yerbera and traditional birthworker. Born and raised in San Francisco on Muwekma, Ohlone, and Ramaytush territory as the child of Nicaraguan immigrants, her practice La Yerba Buena Herbs draws from her Spanish and Indigenous (Chorotega) ancestry.
Trained in Indigenous energetic herbalism by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes of the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, Renée has been in clinical practice since 2016. Following in the footsteps of her ancestors, she is also a student of Mesoamerican Traditional Medicine (MTM) and Curanderismo.
She is dedicated to the empowerment and healing offered by plant spirit medicine through a social justice lens. She offers energetic herbal consultations, traditional birth care, folk medicine for ritual use, and classes. She is also one of the hosts of the Herbal Highway, co-founder of the Now and Then Herb School, and member of the Siskiyou chapter of Seeds of Ancestral Renewal (SOAR).
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Curriculum vitae
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2023: Advanced Full-Spectrum Birthwork, Cornerstone Doula Trainings
2020: Traditional Postpartum Birthwork, Panquetzani
2016-Present: Clinical Herbalism, Blue Otter School
2015: Aromatherapy, College of Botanical Healing Arts
2003-2007: Creative Non-Fiction Writing, Eugene Lang College
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March 2024: Educator at Southwest Conference on Botanical Medicine
2022 - Present: Educator at Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
2022 - Present: Educator at Herban Cura
2022: Educator at Seagrape Apothecary
2022: Educator at Oshala Farm
2020 - Present: Educator at Spirit Weavers Gathering
2019 - 2020: Vendor at Modern Witches Confluence
2016 - 2017: Vendor at West Coast Craft
2016 - 2017: Vendor at Homestead Apothecary’s Annual Herbal Medicine Fair
2015 - 2019: Vendor at Renegade Craft
2015: Trunk Show at Curator
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2023 - Present: Educator, Herbaculture Internship at Herb Pharm
2021 - Present: Birthworker & Educator, Seeds of Ancestral Renewal (SOAR)
2020 - 2021: Clinical Herbalist, Klamath Siskiyou Herbal Alliance (KSHA)
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2019 - Present: Co-Founder & Instructor, Now and Then Herb School
2018 - Present: Radio & Podcast Host, The Herbal Highway
2016 - Present: Clinical Herbalist, Renée Camila