Shabari Bird founded the first Waldorf School in Georgia in 1978, The Native Wisdom School in 1982, Sacred Drums of the Earth in 1984 and Birds Nest Retreat in 1994.

For over a decade Shabari was a teacher at Sun Bear’s Medicine Wheel Gatherings and was blessed to be a Vision Quest Guide for hundreds of women. 

She is passionate about self-improvement and fostering living soils. She teaches food preparation (Exotica: A course in Aromatic Spice Cooking), Food fermentation and preservation as well as plant ferments for fertilizers and insecticides.

Her late husband, Christopher Bird (1928-1996), co-authored “Secrets of the Soil” and “Secret Life of Plants”.