Dr. Azra Bertrand is an award-winning author, physician, and visionary wisdom-keeper of the ancient traditions of Sophia (living earth wisdom), rebirthed for a modern age. This sacred philosophy unites biology, ecology and cosmology into a perennial stream of holistic wisdom to bring healing and balance to our world. His vision is expressed in the intersecting disciplines of Ecomancy™ and Biomancy™, that reveal the hidden world inside nature that is calling to us.

​Passionate about visionary philosophies of healing, awakening, embodiment and natural philosophy and magic from a young age, his career began in integrative and regenerative medicine, where he immersed himself in mind-body healing, psychology, nutrition, herbalism, raw food, spirituaity, meditation, energy work, and somatic awakening. His studies took him across the world, visiting remote indigenous tribes, studying with priests of the eastern religions, and meeting some of the world’s leading doctors and cutting-edge scientists.

He draws inspiration from his ancestral lineage of alchemist-physicians who wove together philosophies of spirit, body and land, including explorer and horticulturist, André Michaux, who was the royal botanist to King Louis XVI at the famous gardens of Versailles, and the philosopher Christoph Hufeland, a leading light in alchemy who wrote a widely translated book on regenerative life-force called Makrobiotic (1797) and was a friend, peer and personal doctor of the philosopher Johann von Goethe, whose work encoded the mystical path of Alchemy.

Azra’s life-long love has been the exploration and practice of bio-energetics, the meeting place of the biological sciences with the world of psyche and subtle energies. His studies of Core Energetics with Dr. John Pierrakos introduced him to this merging of science and spirit. Dr. Pierrakos was a student of psychiatrist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich, who was a peer of Carl Jung -  both trained by Freud. Reich was a pioneer in somatic psychology and body magic.

Over the last decade Azra has led retreats and trainings around the world, sharing a new vision of the ancient earth-based and feminine wisdom streams, and has worked with more than 30,000 patients and clients as doctor or mentor. In 2017 he received a Nautilus Award for the co-authored Womb Awakening book, and has written extensively about the feminine wisdom traditions, healing, myth and symbology. In 2020, he co-authored Magdalene Mysteries (Inner Traditions), with his wife Seren Bertrand about the feminine lineage of Embodied Alchemy, which won the 2020 Gold Nautilus Award in the category of Religion/Western Spiritual Thought.

His legacy work is Biomancy and Ecomancy, a pathway of alchemical embodiment, revealing the organic evolutionary magic emerging from body, bioenergetics, archetype and ecological wisdom during these times, under the cathedral of the greater mysteries of Sophia. Azra lives together with his wife and young daughter in the Appalachian mountains of North Carolina.