ABOUT YOUR TOUR LEADERS

Patricia Kyritsi Howell, Registered Herbalist (AHG), is a Greek

American medical herbalist and naturalist whose family of origin

lives on an island 50 miles north of Crete. She is author of

Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians and has been a

professional member of the American Herbalists Guild since 1995.

Patricia owns BotanoLogos, a school for herbal studies in the

mountains of north Georgia, and teaches Secrets of the

Mediterranean Diet: the Traditional Cuisine of Crete for the

Continuing Education Program at Emory University in Atlanta,

Georgia.

 

Robinette Kennedy, Ph.D., Clinical Anthropologist, has

lived and worked on Crete off and on since 1975. She spent

more than a year living in a rural mountain village on Crete

where she documented the powerful role of women's

friendships in a traditional culture. (Gender and Power in

Rural Greece, Jill Dubisch, ed., Princeton, 1986) Her book in

progress presents her original research about a ritual

practice depicted in the sacred art of prehistoric Crete that

awakens shamanic consciousness.

 

Yiorgos Spiradakis, Licensed Archaeological Guide, is a native

of Crete and one of the island's

most respected archaeological

guides. In addition to his vast

knowledge of Minoan artifacts

and culture,Yiorgos' keen

observations of the natural

world offer a seasoned view of

the powerful historical and

contemporary relationships

between plants and people on

Crete. He is also a farmer who

produces organic olive oil.