Mary Sheila Gonnella, BCHN
Having served clients for over a decade as a Board Certified Holistic Nutrition Consultant and Ayurvedic Practitioner, Mary Sheila teaches clients how to honor their unique physiology, move self-care to the front burner, and achieve and maintain radiant health.
In addition to Mary Sheila’s private practice, Occidental Nutrition, she consults and teaches classes through doctor referrals in a clinical medical setting, where she works with people to have complete health transformations.
Her online courses include Your Roadmap to Bone Health, Blood Sugar Reset, Adrenal Vitality Blueprint, Winter Vitality Cleanse, Deeper Than Weight Loss, and Food Mood & Fermentation.
One of Mary Sheila’s favorite ways to connect with her students is by rolling up her sleeves, putting on an apron, and teaching cooking classes, reconnecting people to their ability to create delicious healing food in their own kitchen. Her classes include Fermentation, Eating for Immunity, and Everyday Superfoods, to name a few. Mary Sheila has been a featured speaker and teacher on various online summits and stages around the San Francisco Bay Area.For more information visit www.occidentalnutrition.com .
2026 Session 1 & 2
- INTENSIVE: Sacred Metabolism: Balancing Blood Sugar & Hormones Through Food, Herbs & Rhythm
- The Hormone Transition: Supporting Perimenopause and Menopause with Food, Herbs & Rhythm
- Nourishing the Brain: Food, Herbs & Daily Rhythms for Cognitive Longevity all levels
2025 Session 2
- INTENSIVE: Strengthen Your Bones: A Holistic And Ayurvedic Approach all levels
- Thyroid Health all levels
- Wise Woman Wellness: Hormone & Metabolic Balance for Perimenopause & Menopause in 2 parts
2024 Session 1
- Intensive: Nutritional, Herbal, and Lifestyle Support To Balance and Optimize Blood Sugar Balance ~ all levels
2023 Session 1
- Intensive: Nutritional, Herbal, and Lifestyle Support To Balance and Optimize Blood Sugar Balance all levels
2021 Virtual Session 1
- NTENSIVE:Nutritional, Herbal and Lifestyle Support To Balance and Optimize Blood Sugar intermediate-advanced
2020 Virtual Session 1
- Spring Ferment Class, part 1 - Boost your Biome!
- Spring Ferment Class, part 2 - Microbe Lecture & Q&A
- Nutritional, Herbal and Lifestyle Support to Balance and Optimize Blood Sugar, part 1
- Nutritional, Herbal and Lifestyle Support to Balance and Optimize Blood Sugar, part 2
Teachers Session 1: May 15-18, 2026
Teachers Session 2: May 22-25, 2026
