Appalachia Feel Good
Your source for appalachian wellness products & experiences
Appalachia Feel Good exists to help people feel good from the inside out—through movement, nature, traditional plant wisdom, and the handmade goods of our mountain home. Rooted in the Blue Ridge and guided by Appalachian values, we offer yoga, herbal classes, and local creations that inspire wellness and play. We believe that a healthy community requires fairness, so we prioritize fair pay and ethical compensation for every instructor, guide, grower, and maker who shares their craft with us. When we honor each other, we all feel good.
Wood Botanicals
Flower Essences & Yoga Instructor
Tammy Redmond Wood was raised on a dairy and tobacco farm that has remained in her family for more than three centuries. The rhythm of the land shaped her—its demands, its quiet wisdom, and its lessons in resilience. Growing up amid generational patriarchy and following the farming advice of the "experts" of the times, Tammy's family used pesticides. As a result, Tammy faced significant health challenges that later revealed the toll of toxic exposure. These experiences became the profound catalyst for her lifelong commitment and devotion to natural healing--both for herself and for her family.
Her path led her to study herbalism at the North Carolina School of Natural Healing, where she immersed herself in the wisdom of plants, nutrition, and the natural world. Seeking deeper balance of mind and spirit, she turned to flower essences and yoga. Two decades of dedicated practice of both culminated in her raising her two children almost exclusively using natural remedies. In addition, she became a certified yoga teacher. These holistic modalities gave her a renewed connection to spirit, compassion, and the transformational power of love.
Wood Botanicals was founded in 2007, rooted in a deep love of flowers and the natural world. The flower essences were first shared within the community, where they were warmly received. Guided by an appreciation for native plants, Tammy began creating a wide range of essences using local flowers, weeds, and herbs.
Tammy now shares her knowledge with sincerity and purpose, advocating for the well-being of people, animals, plants, and the earth itself. As the inheritor of her family’s historic farm—once meant for her brother, whose life ended tragically—she is dedicated not only to restoring the land but also to honoring her lineage and cultivating a future rooted in wellness, community, and reverence for the natural world.
Heidi Berkovitz
Clinical Herbalist & Educator / Founder, Community Herbals
Heidi Berkovitz is an educator, clinical herbalist, medicine maker, and wildcrafter with a passion for nature, the healing arts, helping others, and commitment to building community. She has been teaching for over 30 years.
She received her formal herbal training from One World Healing Arts Institute), AB Tech's BioNetwork, and the Appalachia School of Holistic Herbalism. Heidi has taken several intensive workshops and classes with a variety of herbalists, including Matthew Wood, Feather Jones, Doug Simons, Darcey Blue, Rosemary Gladstar, Dr. James Duke, Lisa Ganora, David Winston, and many others. Heidi's primary herb teacher was Mimi Hernandez, now the Executive Director of the American Herbalist Guild.
Heidi received her BA in Education, with a concentration in Environmental Education from Warren Wilson College. Previously she was certified in Massage and Hydrotherapy from Educating Hands School of Massage, and started working towards an MS in Therapeutic Herbalism from the Maryland University of Integrative Health.
Heidi offers a variety of classes in herbal medicine & natural health, offers herbal consultations, and custom made herbal formulas. Her specialty areas include Natural Pain Management, Immune Support, Food as Medicine, and Drug Herb Interactions focusing on research and supplements to negate drug side effects.
Community Herbals
Community Herbals is a cooperative member of the natural products industry, whose main goal is to make a positive difference in the world and for humanity. We consciously choose to support local agriculture and herbalism. By developing and nurturing relationships with growers, wildcrafters, and herbalists, we source the highest possible quality plant medicine from trained professionals who respect the plants and the land from which they come. All materials used have been sustainably grown or ethically wildcrafted. Through education, we strive to empower people by teaching about the traditional, scientific, and intuitive uses of medicinal plants, and their important role in our fragile ecosystem. Our intention is to create a positive ripple effect on the planet, one person at a time. Community Herbals would love to support your natural health goals by providing you with quality herbal medicine sources from chemical free and organic herbs.
Spirited Collections
Handcrafted skincare products
Spirited Collections is a family-run body care company born from a homesteading journey that began in Alaska. After relocating to Western North Carolina 14 years ago, Llayla, the company's founder, has continued the tradition of crafting natural remedies from the land. Specializing in local, grass-fed tallow as the foundation for the majority of her products, Llayla creates deeply nourishing skincare that honors both skin and earth. She sources herbs locally whenever possible, with the majority being organic, connecting her products to the landscapes around her. What started as a simple practice of creating healing balms and salves has grown into a thoughtfully curated line of handcrafted skincare. Each item is made with intention, using pure, natural ingredients that truly nourish the skin. From soothing balms to luxurious body butters, Spirited Collections embodies the spirit of simplicity, sustainability, and self-care.
Red Moon Herbs
Locally grown, organic herbal products
Guided by the Wise Woman Ways, Red Moon Herbs creates potent herbal products in small batches using the highest quality fresh plant material that is almost all local and all organically grown or wildcrafted.
Started in 1994 by Corinna Wood and Jessica Godino, Red Moon Herbs has seen many changes over the past 30 years, including incredible growth, several locations and, most recently, stringent compliance with FDA regulations regarding herbal products. In 2012, the directorship was passed to from Corinna Wood to Jeannie Dunn. Throughout these changes, the focus and mission of the business has remained strong and true: to create tried and true herbal preparations for the whole family from local, abundant plants.
As a professional herbalist and North Carolina native, Jeannie has been wildcrafting and making herbal extracts, oils, and salves for over 18 years. She studied formally at both the NC School of Natural Healing and One World Healing Arts, but her herbal roots go much further back to the back-to-basics lifestyle infused in her as a child. Jeannie picked strawberries, canned vegetables, and pulled weeds from row crops with her parents and three siblings on their multi-generational family farm in Efland, NC. Today, knowing the powerful beneficial properties of those 'weeds' she used to pull, Jeannie happily uses them in her fermentations, herbal extracts, and fun, health-affirming elixirs.
Animal Haven of Asheville
Animal sanctuary and perfect spot for private yoga
We are a 10-acre farm animal sanctuary in East Asheville, home to more than 60 rescued residents including pigs, goats, sheep, chickens, a goose, and one very special cow. Every animal here has a name, a story, and a second chance at a life free from harm.
Many of our residents arrived from neglect, abandonment, or uncertain circumstances. They now live safely, able to graze, root, rest, and form bonds freely. What makes our sanctuary special is not just the number of animals we care for, but that each one is treated as an individual with personality, preferences, and dignity.
You might meet Tulsi, our gentle yet giant cow, or Lizzie, our vigilant goose who takes her self assigned security role very seriously. And then there’s Jingles, our blind dwarf goat who doesn’t let her challenge slow her down for a second. She knows her barn by heart, keeps up with her best friend KC, and happily soaks up attention from anyone who offers it. People connect with her immediately because she’s a reminder that joy and confidence don’t depend on perfect circumstances.
Animal Haven is more than a safe place for animals — it’s a place where people can slow down and reconnect with something simple and grounding. The pace of the farm, the sounds of the animals, and the open space create an atmosphere that makes it easy to breathe a little deeper. That’s part of why we offer activities like farm yoga. Not with the animals (our goats have made it clear they have their own plans), but near them, in the calm environment they help create.
At its heart, Animal Haven exists to protect vulnerable animals and to cultivate a more compassionate world for all beings. Every visit, every donation, every volunteer shift, and every shared moment here helps move that mission forward.
Aaron "Woody" Wood
Appalachian soul music
Aaron “Woody” Wood is an old soul as authentic as the foothills from which he emerged. When pressed on it, he calls his music "Cosmic Appalachian Soul." He is steeped in the old Delta blues and the folk music from these mountains while fearlessly leaning into rock, soul and funk.
Music featured on our home page: “My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains"
Kelli Martin
Yoga Insructor
When Kelli first started practicing yoga in 2000, she was wooed by the agility, calm, and clarity it produced. Inspired by some of her early mentors, she embarked upon a 200hr Integral Yoga residential teacher training program, receiving her certification in 2009 from Satchidananda Ashram Yogaville in Buckingham, VA. Kelli builds upon her roots in Integral Yoga to express her very accessible, unique, personal style, which could be described as welcoming, gentle, slow, and sometimes playful, yet pleasantly challenging to mind, body, and soul, while incorporating mindfulness, breathwork, asana, and relaxation. Kelli also completed Kidding Around Yoga teacher training in 2016. For almost two decades, she has taught children and adults, publicly and privately. Other activities that Kelli enjoys are hiking, kayaking, astrology, and art, which sometimes intermingle with her yoga practice and instruction.
Lauren Birth
Yoga Insructor
Lauren has been a yoga instructor for 13 years. She started out in Florida leading full moon yoga on the beach. She has since taken her exploration to Asheville’s mountain tops and local farms. She thoroughly enjoys leading folks on hiking adventures to be complimented by a beautiful yoga flow. Her heart is warmed with goat giggles when she visits the farm for a goat yoga experience. “It never gets old.” She has often said. Lauren is also a passionate massage therapist with 15 years experience. She believes she has truly found her calling and finds both professions to be rewarding and fulfilling. She is a natural healer and has found her purpose in helping others feel better and be their best selves. In her free time she is a proud autism mama and enjoys keeping her busy. She loves various water, sports, nature, music and dancing.
Special Thanks
Heartfelt thanks to Robin Weiss for sharing beautiful mountain photographs, and to Callie Wood for the herbal photography and logo artwork that add such a special touch.