Andrea Marcinkus, owner of Adhara Alchemy, is a passionate herbalist, naturalist, intuitive healer, and experienced forager. With over 35 years of dedicated study and practice, Andrea has cultivated a deep connection with plant spirit medicine and the healing potential of our botanical and fungal allies.

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She studied at a young age with her grandfather and deepened her knowledge through study with practiced herbalists and indigenous healers. Based in the western Chicagoland area, she offers an array of transformative services. These include intuitive healing and plant spirit healing sessions that incorporate shamanic practices, horse medicine healing sessions, personalized meditation guidance, Reiki sessions for humans and animals (specializing in equine reiki), cacao ceremonies, and sound healing.

 

Andrea has also studied meditation for over 25 years, and is a certified Meditation Teacher through the Priority Academy and the Complementary Therapists Accredited Association. Andrea is a Usui Ryoho Reiki practitioner at the Master-Teacher Shinpiden level, with a specialization in animal reiki services.