Reishi Strauss is an Appalachian-born herbalist, mycologist, medicine-maker, and microdose coach now based in the Pacific Northwest. She graduated from Bastyr University in 2019 and received her Bachelor’s of Science in Herbal Science. A lover of the intersections between science and spirit, Reishi has taken courses in pharmacology, ethnobotany, herb/drug interactions, disease processes, and more. In 2022 Reishi completed her studies from the Columbines School of Botanical Studies where she studied ecological stewardship, clinical herbalism, and botany. Reishi is passionate about being in relationship with plant and mushroom medicines in a way that is reciprocal to the Earth and the indigenous communities who steward them. She owns and operates a non-alcoholic elixir bar business – Earth & Spirit Elixirs – and seeks to be in symbiotic interspecies relationships with the plants, fungi, insects, bacteria, animals, humans, minerals, and many other lifeforms whom we co-habitate with this beautiful planet Earth. Reishi currently resides in Portland on the traditional lands of the Multnomah peoples.