Clare Bonsall

Clare has been busy raising her two daughters for the last 17 years and found that feeding her family healthful and delicious food was one of the most challenging and satisfying aspects of her job as a mother and wife. Clare holds a CA State Teachers Credential for K-6 Education; she has taught Kindergarten as well as Mother/Toddler Programs, and worked in her daughters' classrooms as a cooking instructor. She is currently the Co-op's Family Education Coordinator and is in the Nutrition Educator program at Bauman College

Candis Hope Cantin

Candis is the founder of the Evergreen Herb Garden and the School of Integrative Herbology in Placerville, where she offers apprenticeship programs throughout the year. She has over 25 years practical experience as a counselor and teacher of wholistic lifestyle principles.

Manvir (aka Jim Deneff)

Manvir has taught the Kundalini Yoga of Yogi Bhajan in the Sacramento area for twelve years at numerous venues, and “follows his bliss” by sharing these teachings with others.
Presenting the material in an easy-to-understand style, he will guide you in performing Kundalini Yoga exercises in accordance with your individual body’s tolerance and needs in a safe and comfortable environment. For more information go to www.KundaliniYoga.name or call Manvir at  916-806-0623

Bob Dreizler

Bob is a chartered financial consultant specializing in socially conscious investing. He encourages people to align their investments with their values. He is a registered representative with Protected Investors of America, and a member of NASD and SIPC.

Stacey Dreizler

Stacey is a former owner of Dreizler Physical Therapy, has been delivering hands-on, customized physical therapy care for more than thirty years. She divides her time between treating patients at the clinic and teaching Body Joy, a group of classes that range from learning to be your own best body worker to free form dancing your spirit into motion. Please see www.bodyjoy.net for further information.

Shankari Easwaran

Shankari is a food aficionado who would love to pass on her family recipes to you. She offers fun cooking classes and caters parties and weekly meals. Her goal is to make you love Indian food as much as she does and eliminate the myth of curry. In addition to the cooking lesson, you will also learn a little about the province she hails from.

Dionisio and Terese Esperas

Owners of A Healthy Kitchen, a business specializing in private cooking classes and demonstrations, interactive dinner parties, and personal chef services. Please see www.ahealthykitchensac.com for further information.

Brad Gilbert

Brad is Master of Medical Qigong, has been in the health field since 1992 and has been practicing qigong since 1999. He is a master instructor of Qigong and an EFT practitioner. Brad practiced as a social worker back in the 1990s and now combines his knowledge of psychology and Chinese Energy Medicine to empower his students to a greater state of health and awareness.

Sean is one of the Farm Managers at Soil Born Farm's American River Ranch site. He has worked on a number of organic farms from Hawaii to Ireland.

Dr. Suzette Lanzarotta

Dr. Lanzarotta is a chiropractor and homeopath. She is a graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic and has over 1,500 hours of course and clinical training in nutrition and homeopathy. Dr. Lanzarotta has 25 years of experience providing classical homeopathic and nutritional services, both at her Auburn family practice clinic and through her Web site, www.naturalmedicine.com, the largest free informational site providing full spectrum and comprehensive information on everything from health, lifestyle, diet and nutrition (including recipes) to drug/herb interactions and the latest research data and a comprehensive newsletter. She enjoys lecturing at the Co-op and welcomes new patients to her practice.

Kami McBride

Kami is a practicing herbalist in Vacaville. She has taught herbal medicine and women's health since 1988 and currently teaches Herbology at UCSF School of Nursing. Kami inspires people to bring the use of herbal remedies back into everyday life to support optimum nutrition, health, and well-being. For more information, visit www.livingawareness.com.

Cris McKone

Chris is a former cooking instructor with HomeChef Cooking Schools. She has had extensive training in cooking techniques, ingredients and tools. Currently the owner of Christine's Cuisine in Gold River, she also offers individualized classes and sells custom cakes and pastries.

Karla Lacey Minors

With dual U.S./British citizenship, Karla Lacey-Minors spent 17 years abroad before returning to California late 2003 to settle in the Sacramento area. Since repatriating she's focused on connecting people through the written word and the culinary arts: editing and writing feature articles for magazines locally and abroad, newspapers and web sites; creating the successful not-for-profit Jr. Chef cooking program; publishing her monthly newspaper column ‘Fresh Talk', which has been circulated to an audience in excess of 100k; and making regular television appearances with her Jr. Chef's. Her program has brought together nearly 1000 children from a variety of cultural, economic and ethnic backgrounds from throughout California, across the United States and Mexico over the past 4 years, and has been extensively featured on television programs and in newspapers statewide.

Eileen Murray

Eileen has been preparing family-style meals for thirty years. From Alaska to the North Pole, from Nevada City to Sacramento, as a camp cook, baker, entrepreneur and instructor, Eileen has been cultivating the art of cooking organic whole food. She is an accomplished macrobiotic cook receiving instruction at the Kushi Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and the Vega Center in Oroville, California. When Eileen is not tending to her personal chef business, you'll find her in the garden.