Bio -
Geoffrey "Geo" Edwards is an educator and healing arts practitioner native to Milwaukee WI whose work integrates art therapy, acupuncture, and herbal medicine. He is a registered art therapist, licensed acupuncturist, and owner of Grain & Pestle Market and Healing Arts Garden located in Highland Park Michigan. Geo is a guest lecturer at colleges, universities, and community schools nationally and internationally. and currently sees clients privately for acupuncture and herbal consultations in Detroit MI and is part of the clinical team at Associates of Integrative Medicine located in Troy MI. He also facilitates art therapy and mindfulness groups for inpatient clients at Metropolitan Behavioral Health, Dearborn.
Geo studied Art Therapy at Mount Mary University (Milwaukee) and started his journey in 2007 as an art therapist working in juvenile detention and inpatient psychiatric care in Wisconsin and later in Northern Virginia. Experiences at the time as a parent with young children having complications from severe allergies and asthma eventually led Geo to consider more holistic approaches and he returned to school to study Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine. Since then, he has worked as a Chinese Herb Dispensary Supervisor and Acupuncture Clinic Faculty at Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly Tai Sophia Institute) and has extensive training facilitating the community acupuncture model while working at City Acupuncture Circle, in Washington DC where he gained experience successfully treating a wide range of ailments with acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal medicine. As an herbalist his focus has been on herb cultivation and his gardening practice has multiple influences that includes Black Southern farming, Maroon herbal traditions, and Daodi Chinese herb cultivation practices. Each of these botanical influences can be witnessed at Grain & Pestle Garden where he facilitates plant walks, classes & workshops on numerous topics including pottery, therapeutic art making, holistic mental health, qi gong, and the essentials of herbal medicine.
Geo studied Art Therapy at Mount Mary University (Milwaukee) and started his journey in 2007 as an art therapist working in juvenile detention and inpatient psychiatric care in Wisconsin and later in Northern Virginia. Experiences at the time as a parent with young children having complications from severe allergies and asthma eventually led Geo to consider more holistic approaches and he returned to school to study Acupuncture & Chinese Herbal Medicine. Since then, he has worked as a Chinese Herb Dispensary Supervisor and Acupuncture Clinic Faculty at Maryland University of Integrative Health (formerly Tai Sophia Institute) and has extensive training facilitating the community acupuncture model while working at City Acupuncture Circle, in Washington DC where he gained experience successfully treating a wide range of ailments with acupuncture, moxibustion, and herbal medicine. As an herbalist his focus has been on herb cultivation and his gardening practice has multiple influences that includes Black Southern farming, Maroon herbal traditions, and Daodi Chinese herb cultivation practices. Each of these botanical influences can be witnessed at Grain & Pestle Garden where he facilitates plant walks, classes & workshops on numerous topics including pottery, therapeutic art making, holistic mental health, qi gong, and the essentials of herbal medicine.