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Dorena Rode earned her Ph.D. in physiology with an emphasis in alternative medicine from UC Davis in 2004. She was ordained as a Universal Life Church minister in 2007 and as a Buddhist Spiritual Guide (Maroke) in 2010. For the past twenty years she has been maintaining a regular practice of meditation and internal arts (Tai Chi, Chi Gung, Bagua, Hsing Yi). Her extensive knowledge of nutrition, anatomy, physiology, energy medicine, personal recovery, ThetaHealing® (certified practitioner since 2007), and herbal medicine allow her to approach her consulting work from a broad perspective.

Dorena Rode began her professional career in the health and healing sciences in 1981 when she began studying and using plant medicines and energetic healing modalities. She has taught herbal medicine classes at the California School of Herbal Studies, Dry Creek Herb Farm, Northern California Women’s Herbal Symposium, and the Sutter Integrative Health Center in Davis. She has a BA in chemistry and her graduate research (funded by National Institute of Health - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine) focused on herbs used in female reproductive issues. She loves plants and promotes sustainable growing and harvesting.