Meet Niki Morrell
herbalist
I wanted to be a herbalist from the age of seven or eight. Somehow, from some book that was read to me or that I read myself, I learned there were wild plants with the magical ability to help people heal.
I loved the idea of something so common, so plentiful, being able to relieve pain and suffering. I also loved the ancient lineage of plant medicine. The fact that it evolved alongside us. The fact that everywhere humans settled, they made friends with the old ones already there, the plants that had so much to teach and share with them as food, as shelter, as fibre, as medicine, and as participants in sacred practices.
It took a while but now I’m a qualified herbalist—a proud graduate of the Southern Institute of Medical Herbalism. But the learning never stops. I continue to deepen my knowledge and experience under the expert eye of SIMH’s founder, Richard Whelan.