Vanessa Chakour is an herbalist, visual artist, educator, former pro-boxer, environmental activist, and founder of Sacred Warrior—a multidisciplinary educational and experiential “school” offering plant medicine, wildlife conservation, and meditation through courses, workshops, and retreats. Vanessa has worked in partnership with the Wolf Conservation Center in New York, The Jaguar Rescue Center in Costa Rica, and Alladale Wilderness Reserve in the Scottish Highlands, and has shared her work as a speaker at the United Nations, Brown University, and the Muhammad Ali Center. Her writing and work are rooted in the belief that healing happens through reclaiming an intuitive connection to ourselves, the natural world, and our own “inner-wild.” Her new book, Awakening Artemis is now available from Penguin Life in the US and UK and will soon be released with Ullstein Press in Germany. You can find her at vanessachakour.com and follow her at @vchakour.
