Dear Friends,
We are delighted to invite you to a special online conversation with Hayley Gardner, a gifted Classical Chinese Medicine practitioner, herbalist, and the founder of Estuary Herbs on Florida's Gulf Coast. Hayley is one of those rare healers who embody deep compassion and profound expertise in equal measure. She is currently walking through a particularly demanding chapter of life that is deepening her commitment and gifts.
Date: Tuesday, March 17th
Time: 19:00 - 20:30 CET/ 10:00–11:30 AM PDT
About Hayley: Hayley's path into Chinese Medicine began as a teenager, through a decade-long apprenticeship with master physician Dr. Ni Hai-Sha, whom she studied with until his passing. In the twenty years since, she has devoted herself to the classical roots of this tradition -- grounding her work in the Han dynasty source texts that many modern programs have moved away from. What sets her apart is her ability to bridge the ancient and the modern -- illuminating how Chinese Medicine's understanding of the body's elemental balances speaks directly to the health challenges people face today.
In addition to running her own herbal pharmacy, crafting customized formulas and serving as a resource for practitioners across the United States, Hayley also teaches at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine in Bradenton. And her herbal product JING -- a nourishing adrenal tonic born during the pandemic -- is now carried nationally and used in acupuncture clinics around the country. Over the years, she has developed a deep calling to support people navigating serious illness, including women undergoing treatment for breast cancer.
Last fall, life brought Hayley to a new threshold. The unexpected news of a baby on the way was followed shortly by her husband's diagnosis with a form of blood cancer. In a quiet stroke of grace, it was the pregnancy that prompted the bloodwork that caught it early, at a highly treatable stage. Hayley responded by bringing everything she knows to bear -- complementing western chemotherapy with customized herbal formulas, meditation, and deep nourishment. The results of this multidimensional approach have been atypically positive. Together, the couple is navigating this chapter with deep practice, steady optimism, and a shared conviction that the journey is asking them to heal on the deepest level.
Now, just days from welcoming their son, she carries a sense of new life in every sense -- and a deepened commitment to making what she has learned available to others walking similar paths.
We look forward to exploring with Hayley what it means to walk the healer's path through life's most intimate turning points -- and the role of ancient wisdom, inner practice, and love when the ground shifts beneath your feet.
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In joy and friendship,
Pavi, Fiona and Zita on behalf of the Well of Being
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