Bera Dordoni, N.D., a founding member of BASTIS Foundation and Director of the foundation’s Vitality Program, has nearly three decades of experience in the CAM field as a naturopath, whole-life coach, nutritional counselor, lecturer, organic gardener, and health-oriented cook. She was asked to return from California to New Mexico (where she was born and raised) to fill a void in an area of education – learning how to build and strengthen the immune system naturally. She now runs the Wellness Warriors Project in an effort to help reduce the diabetes epidemic in McKinley County.
While she lived in southern California Dr. Bera’s innovative techniques and recipes were called into play at cancer wellness retreats held between St. Joseph’s, St. Mary’s and St. Jude’s Hospitals, where she directed Marriott Hotel chefs hired to prepare meals for the retreats on use of all natural foods. She is also a requested speaker at national health conventions and CAM-oriented expose. She counsels patients (and their animal companions) suffering from diabetes, cancer, heart disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, allergies, obesity and other disabling and life-threatening illnesses. Many clients who were given no hope of recovery from their medical doctors have recaptured their quality of life by simply practicing the three easy steps of her Vitality Program. Dordoni’s potent herbal line of detoxification and rebuilding tonics is used in medical clinics internationally, including the acclaimed Institute for Progressive Medicine in California.
Dordoni is the author of the CAM-educational book I Have a Choice?!, a trade paperback that has won praise from both CAM and allopathic physicians for its even-handed introduction to the benefits of alternative and complementary medicine, and is finishing up her sequel to this book with more informative, enlightening information that can easily be read by anyone. Her Words of Wellness column educated readers for the last 4 years in the Gallup Journey until she pulled her column when a new editor started asking for hunting trophies for the magazine. Dr. Bera and her husband Ron provide an organic juice and coffee bar and free educational materials at the Ramah Farmers Market during the summer. All produce for this comes from their organic garden. They have also prepared on-site nourishing, vibrant, organic meals for the market festival – complete farm-to-table preparations