Ellen Evert Hopman M.Ed.

Ellen Evert Hopman Quick Facts

Main Areas: Druids, Celtic history and spirituality, rituals, herbal healing, herbal lore
Best Sellers: A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year, Priestess of the Forest: A Druid Journey, A Druid's Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine
Career Focus: Author, speaker, workshop leader
Affiliation: The Order of the Whiteoak (www.whiteoakdruids.org), The American Herbalists Guild, Pioneer Valley Interfaith Coalition for Peace and Justice, OurFreedom; a Pagan civil rights organization

ELLEN EVERT HOPMAN
http://www.celticheritage.co.uk/EllenEvertHopman

Ellen Evert Hopman is a Master Herbalist and lay Homeopath who holds an
M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling. Hopman is a
founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile)
http://www.whiteoakdruids.org/ and its current Co-Chief,

a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, and a
Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana. She was Vice President of The Henge of
Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years. She has also
been at times a member of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF), an international fellowship devoted to creating a public tradition of Neopagan Druidism. Hopman has been a teacher of Herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990. She is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild.

Hopman has presented on Druidism, herbal lore, tree lore, Paganism, and Earth
magic at conferences, festivals, and events in Northern Ireland, Ireland,
Scotland, Canada, and the United States. She has participated in numerous
radio and television programs including National Public Radio's "Vox Pop"
and the Gary Null show in New York. She presented a weekly "herb
report" for WRSI radio out of Greenfield, MA for over a year and was a
featured subject in a documentary about Druids on A&E Television's "The
Unexplained" (Sacred Societies, February 1999).

Ellen Evert Hopman is a voice for Pagans in modern society and is author of
a growing number of books. Her new novel, Priestess of the
Forest: A Druid Journey (Llewellyn, February 2008), is an exciting new
project for her, combining a heart-warming fictional romance with practical
Druid rites and rituals. The sequel The Druid Isle comes out in April 2010. She has already finished the third book in what will be a Druid trilogy.

 

 A Druid's Herbal for Sacred Tree Medicine (Inner
Traditions - Bear and Company, June 2008) is the long awaited sequel to A
Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year.
Other books include  Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccans, and Witches Today
(with Lawrence Bond, Destiny Books, 2001), People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out (Inner Traditions, 1995), Walking the World in Wonder - A Children's Herbal (Healing Arts Press, 2000),
A Druid's Herbal for the Sacred Earth Year (Destiny Books, 1994)  and Tree Medicine-Tree Magic (Phoenix Publishing, Inc., 1992, currently out of print)

She has also released video
tapes and DVDs on the subjects covered in her books through Sawmill River
Productions: http://www.sawmillriver.com/

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