About

Grace MacNeil is a trained herbalist, an Arvigo therapist, and the founder ofMonarch Apothecary where she creates artisan herbals and soaps using herbssustainably, harvested and cultivated in a 24 acre farm in southern Indiana since2006 for the local and internationally community.She is a Certified Advanced Holistic Doula through The Matrona, Certified Cuppingtherapist and Reiki practitioner. She is the co-founder of the Heartland School ofHerbal Studies and mom to three grown children.She was born with an amniotic band syndrome and spent much of her childhoodhaving reconstructive surgeries.Her interest in Plant Medicine started 1995 when she got pregnant from her firstchild and read the book Hygieia: “A Woman’s Herbal” by Jeannine Parvati Baker aherbalist from Utah.In 2000, she moved with her husband to North Carolina and began her professionalherbal education training completing a 2 year and 400 hr certificate program inherbal medicine at the North Carolina School of Natural Healing with the herbalistHimani Ellis.Grace offers the Arvigo®Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy along with holisticassessment, herbal consultation, FIRE and biomagnetic cupping, self care massageinstruction, and other supportive modalities such as herbal remedies.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/Roots_of_Impact_Podcast)