Instructors
Our instructors bring together decades of experience across herbal medicine, aromatherapy, gardening and permaculture, bodywork, esthetics, and anatomy and physiology. Each teaches from an active practice, and students learn from their specialties in classes, gardens, and hands-on weekends.
Martin Hansen
Licensed esthetician, herbalist, and aromatherapist; a community educator in Denver since 2000, teaching herbal medicine, product formulation, aromatherapy, and nutrition.
Kimberly Thompson
Clinical herbalist, licensed massage therapist, and licensed esthetician and an instructor at our schools since 2014 teaching plant identification, medicine making, and bodywork.
Sharona Thompson
Permaculture designer, community garden leader. Sharona created the Ruby Hill Tiny Urban Farm in Denver, where she teaches the program’s gardening classes.
Eric Howell
Anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology instructor, certified to teach in Colorado; teaching since 2000, including human dissection work at CU Boulder.
Hillary Hilliard
Founder, owner, and program director; created DIMS in 2010 and trained in Thai Yoga Massage in Thailand in 2004.
