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It is our passion and mission to educate our community about the alternative, supportive and integral health options available to us, that can stand alone or work with other forms of medicine. When people are given the right tools for  supporting their health anything is possible. It is our desire to provide the community with these tools through our services, education and products.  When we are healthy, we are happy, when we are happy we make the world a better place. You are your own best healer.

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Amanda M. Komisarek
         1 Washington Center East Suite 3030 Dover, NH 03820                  603-969-4603
        Amanda @lionstoothwellness.com

Objective:  To provide the community with products and services  and education that allow each  individual to take their health back into their own hands. You are your own best healer.

Qualifications:
*Certified Herbal Practitioner 2005-present: specializing in facial, pulse & tongue assessment, whole  health nutrition & empowerment.
*education, ayurveda, behavioral kinesiology muscle testing, wild/local plant identification, personalized herbal formulation.
*herbal health & body care product line.
*Reiki Master practitioner from 2006-present.
*Reiki & Herbal health instructor 2008-present.

Education:
*University of New Hampshire Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology 2003.

*Misty Meadows Herbal Apprenticeship Certification 2005 ( 141 hrs.): wild herb identifications, aromatherapy,
flower essences, herbal formulations, customizing protocols for individuals, 45 hrs. independent outdoor field
work, herbal body care, ayurvedic independent study, astrology 101.

*Advanced Herbal Program Certification 2006 (50 hrs.): anatomy & physiology,  digestive, reproductive, urinary systems,  tongue, pulse, & face assessment, herb/drug contraindications & interactions.

*Sage Mountain Advanced Herbal Program Certification 2008 (120 hrs.): A & P, intake, tongue, pulse & facial assessment, ayurveda, inflammatory disease, clinical aromatherapy, cholesterol & cardiovascular health, women’s health, immunity, cancer, respiratory disorders.

*Misty Meadows Herbal Internship 2006 (105 hrs.):  professional consult understudy with senior herbalist, tending to the retail shop assisting customers,  herbal formulation.

*Briarwood Herbals Aromatherapy Certification 2007 (48 hrs.): history of essential oils, chemical constituents,
safety & essential oils, blending techniques, internal usage, product making.

*Usui-Tibetan Enhanced Reiki I, II, Master-Teacher Certification 2006-07.

*Crystal Magic/Healing Christopher Penczak 2007: history of crystals, used physically, emotionally, spiritually, magically & for meditation.

*Women’s Herbal Conference 2005-2008 : homeopathy, nervous system disorders, vaccination safety, herbal contraceptives, STD’s, medicinal trees, allergies, plant spirit medicine, pulse assessment, medicinal mushrooms,
cordials.

*International Herbal Symposium 2007: digestive health, thyroid dysfunction, depression & anxiety,  sexual health.

*International Herbal Symposium 2009:  cancer & Ayurveda, quantum physics & herbs, tree medicine, seaweeds
as food and medicine,  aromatherapy for rejuvenation,  Flower essence therapy.

*International Herbal Symposium 2011: medicinal mushroom identification, plants, women & shamanism, plant spirit medicine, herbs & lymphatic health, herbs, taste & health, folk lore and power of absinthe, urinary health for felines.

Professional Background:
WSCA 106.1 FM Portsmouth Community Radio : PaganFM! "Herbs for Life" weekly segment.  2010-present.

*New Outlook Teen Center, Featured Teacher 2010: Sleep & Dreams & Herbs
*New Outlook Teen Center, Featured Teacher 2009: Natural Body Care: product making, diet, herbal support for skin health

*Cantebury Village Lavender Day Speaker 2009: Lavender In the House and Home

*NOFA-NH NHHN Spring Conference Speaker 2009: Natural Skin Care Health

*La Leche League Dover, NH Featured Speaker 2008: Natural Body care: health and body products, label & ingredient comprehension, health issues regarding products,  how to make your own.

*Portsmouth Health Food 2005-08:  Customer care/consultant, supplement, vitamin & HBA buyer.

*Tranquiliteas Tea Room 2007: Community Clinic participant, herbal consultations, Reiki treatments.

*Blue Moon Imports 2009-2010: Herbal Teacher, Reiki Clinic Practitioner

*The Eighth Chakra 2009-2010: Herbal Teacher

*Lion’s Tooth Herbals: Owner /practitioner: 2006-present

*Herbal consultations by phone, internet, in person

*Reiki treatments: people, pets, distance, in person

*Herbal health & body product line including: extracts, glycerites, essences, tea, liniments, lotion, balms, salves & special orders.

*Products sold at The Eighth Chakra (Dover, NH),  Portsmouth Health Food
Center, Lucy's Art Emporium (Dover, NH), Organic Bonita Salon & Spa (Newmarket, NH), Seacoast Soap Company (Rye, NH), Groton Wellness Center (Groton, MA),  Dover Health Food (Dover, NH),  The Herbal Path (Portsmouth & Dover NH)


*Website

*Online Store
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Lion's Tooth Wellness was  created in 2006 while I was recovering from a car accident with two broken ankles stuck in a wheel chair. Since I had lots of time on my hands, I was able to start building my website, begin putting my herbal studies to the test by treating friends, family and community with herbs and sharing the health education I had acquired over the past year. But really my journey & inspiration to start this business began over a year earlier.
Fall of 2004 I had applied to study at Misty Meadows Herbal Center in Lee, NH in a  6 month herbal apprenticeship program .  I had always been curious about plants and healing, especially aromatherapy, but didn't know much about it. So, I thought I would give it a whirl, and if I liked it, I liked it and if I didn't I didn't.
Shortly after applying for the herbal apprenticeship  I was abruptly diagnosed with high grade cervical dysplasia and HPV. For those unfamiliar with these terms, it meant that I had high grade pre-cancerous cells growing on my cervix along with a virus that comes  with most cervical cancer, Human Papilloma Virus.  I was of course shocked and confused and had little understanding of the causes of these imbalances. Now that the FDA has come up with a vaccine, there of course is much more information available to the public about these conditions. 
My doctor told me that I was to have a biopsy to see how aggressive the cell growth was and then from there my options would be discussed.  After the biopsy it was decided by my doctors that the malformed cells were expansive enough to merit a laser procedure where the first layer of my cervix would be removed.  Cutting off my "problem" did not seem like the answer to me, only a temporary fix with a fairly invasive procedure.  Knowing that I was about to study a form of alternative medicine that spring, I thought perhaps I should look into some of these alternatives now, and walk a little of my talk. I asked my doctors for time. They gave me 3 months.  After the 3 months were up they felt it was important to have the laser surgery done if there were  no changes in my condition.
From here, I decided to call Misty Meadows seeing as how I would be studying there.  Wendy, the senior herbalist and my soon to be teacher, didn't have any appointments available and I didn't want to wait.   I then found an old business card of a chiropractor/Ayurvedic practitioner I had lying around the house.  Someone had left the card with a tip at a restaurant I used to work at, and for whatever reason I kept it. The doctor was local, and I had heard about the practice of Ayurveda here and there and thought it was pretty interesting. (If you aren't familiar with Ayruveda it is one of the oldest healing systems and lifestyle practices know deriving from India.)
 When I came in for the  Ayurvedic appointment and sat down in the doctors office, my life changed.  The first words out of his mouth after looking at my file was, "Did you know that your body changes, grows, sheds and shifts every second of every day? Your body is never, ever the same from one moment to the next.  Just because you have dysplasia on your cervix  right now, doesn't mean it will be there a month or even a week from now."  Well, I am paraphrasing, but it was something like that.
No doctor had ever said anything like that to me.  And no doctor had ever talked about my spiritual, emotional and physical health like this one had  either.  Ayurveda seemed to touch on every aspect of health that are often overlooked in western medicine: mind body and spirit.
After our full consult, the Dr. had given me a strict body type or "Doshic" diet to follow, a yoga routine, a meditation routine, even a time schedule of when I was to wake and retire, and a series of full body cleanses I was to do at home.  I was follow this routine for 3 months and then go back to my gynecologist for a check up.
 So, I did.  The routine was hard at times, and sure I cheated a little here and there. But, after awhile it became an easy routine.
I went back to the GYN after 3 months and I was given a clean bill of health. There were no signs of dysplasia or HPV to be found.  And all my doctor had to say was, " Hmm. Good for you."  Here I am 7 years later and still healthy.
Like I said, my life changed the moment I sat down in the Ayurvedic doctors office.  And it continued to change even more when I began my apprenticeship at Misty Meadows. I had gotten a scary but wonderful jump start into the world of health alternatives and delved even deeper into this world as I learned about herbs as healers, and other whole health practices.  After the apprenticeship I was an intern at Misty Meadows when I was thrown another scary but important curve ball: my car accident. Although I didn't enjoy being in a wheel chair it gave me the time and space to slowly build a business and a practice that is now so close and true to my heart.  Illness and misfortune are often blessings in disguise. Illness is our bodies way of telling us to wake up and take notice.  If we take the time to receive these messages and bravely walk through these experiences courageously, then we will come out the other side of the tunnel that much happier, healthier, and stronger. 
It is an honor and a blessing to work with my community and to help empower, educate and support them as I was, so that they can take their health back into their own hands and find their own path to balance, happiness and well being.
Green Blessings,
Amanda Komisarek CHP, CRMT
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Office Location: 
One Washington Street Mills
 3rd Floor East Suite 3030
Dover, NH
*by appointment only

Phone: 603-969-4603

Email: amanda@lionstoothwellness.com
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