Red Moon Wellness 5th Ave bet. She has been attending births for a decade at homes, birth centers, and hospitals throughout New York City. She is currently a part-time faculty member at the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism in Brooklyn where she teaches courses on herbal therapuetics for female reproductive health and the musculoskeletal system.
She is currently on faculty part-time in the massage therapy department at Pacific College of Health and Science in Manhattan formerly Pacific College of Oriental Medicine , and has also previously supervised student massage clinics, taught massage courses and written prenatal massage curriculum at CUNY-Queensborough Community College and the Finger Lakes School of Massage in Ithaca.
Lena was certified as a birth doula by homebirth midwife and educator Susanrachel Condon of Niara Healing Arts. She also completed an advanced doula training with legendary midwife, Ina May Gaskin and renowned doula instructor and director of the film Orgasmic Birth, Debra Pascali-Bonaro.
She was trained as a lactation counselor through the Healthy Children's Center for Breastfeeding and is certified through the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice. She began studying herbal medicine 13 years ago, first through two apprenticeships at Alba Nueva herb farm in Costa Rica and the Heartstone Herbal School near Ithaca, NY and then went on to receive a Master of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine from Maryland University of Integrative Health, where she also completed a one-year post-graduate clinical internship at the university's Natural Care Center Clinic.
While at Rutgers she also studied French language and literature in Paris, France and regional politics in Zagreb, Croatia. Lena worked as a coordinator of a community education program on gender-based violence as well as on a domestic violence response team in New Brunswick, NJ. She also directed a variety of community-based campaigns in New Brunswick where she worked on issues relating to human rights, education, peace work, and a number of local community issues.
