Gina Badger, 2 year Director

RHT


Gina Badger (they/she) is a clinical energetic herbalist and the founder of Long Spell, a multi-modality virtual wellness clinic. They are a queer nonbinary femme of mixed western european ancestry born on Cree territory and currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Gina's lifework is contributing to a collective vision of holistic health care that’s equally heartfelt and irreverent, down-to-earth and visionary, gentle and rigorous.

Gina launched Long Spell in 2018, and she has been growing and making their own medicine, offering workshops, and serving as a community herbalist for more than ten years. As a Registered Herbal Therapist (RHT, BCHA), Gina has completed 2,500+ hours of training in herbal medicine, botany, and first aid. Before pursuing herbalism as a career, they worked as a visual artist and editor for over a decade, having earned an MSc in Visual Studies from MIT (2010) and a BFA in Studio Art and Art History from Concordia University (2008).

Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes of the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine and Colleen Emery are Gina's primary herb teachers, and she continues to benefit from their mentorship. Thanks to their teachings, Gina's practice is informed by both Indigenous energetic principles (via Karyn’s Choctaw lineage) and the western herbal tradition. As a white settler practicing earth-based medicine on occupied Indigenous lands, Gina is committed to a lifelong process of transparency and reciprocity with respect to the knowledge they have been entrusted with. 


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