About Renée Camila

Yerbera Herbalist Renée Camila of The Herbal Highway Traditional Care in Mount Shasta California

Renée (she/ella) Camila is a bilingual (spanish + english) yerbera and traditional birthworker. Born and raised in San Francisco on Muwekma, Ohlone, and Ramaytush territory as the child of Nicaraguan immigrants, her practice La Yerba Buena Herbs draws from her Spanish and Indigenous (Chorotega) ancestry.

Trained in Indigenous energetic herbalism by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes of the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, Renée has been in clinical practice since 2016. Following in the footsteps of her ancestors, she is also a student of Mesoamerican Traditional Medicine (MTM) and Curanderismo.

She is dedicated to the empowerment and healing offered by plant spirit medicine through a social justice lens. She offers energetic herbal consultations, traditional birth care, folk medicine for ritual use, and classes. She is also one of the hosts of the Herbal Highway, co-founder of the Now and Then Herb School, and member of the Siskiyou chapter of Seeds of Ancestral Renewal (SOAR).

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  • “I have been intending to write this for months, and yes, I've been busy with life, but really I wasn't sure I could put words to the experience of working with Reneé. Simply put: she gave me tools that changed my life. She will be the first to say that she doesn't do the work, and her medicine doesn't do the work - YOU do the work. But she has a gift for finding just the right herbs to help you while you are doing it. My work with Reneé has empowered me to walk through doors I didn't even realize I was standing in front of.

    One of the things that is so powerful about Reneé is how deeply she listens to you, in every way, pulling out the words under the words and offering them back every so often as a simple question. "So do you think that....?" I have found her gentle questions and observations every bit as helpful as the medicine she sends.


    I have never worked with someone who is so deeply attuned to, and perfectly suited for the gifts they offer the world.”

    -Client, Session Work, 2023

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