Samantha Zagar

Guide, Intuitive, Medicine Woman

(pronounced sjackarrr but you can say it like zay-gar)

I’ve always been a BC girl. I was born in northern BC in a small town called Terrace. When I was 10 I went west with my Mom to Vancouver Island, and at 20 I went south to the Okanagan where I’ve been ever since.

I came here for University, but I stayed for my son, Maven who I had at the age of 25. Becoming a single mom when my son was 3 was the catalyst I needed to launch my first successful business - Mountain Medicine Holistics, which has adapted and evolved into Sam Zagar Consulting Inc.

When I’m not guiding my amazing clients, I am usually busy playing with with my horse Princess Esmeralda, or my corgi Neo, my son Maven, eating simple but delicious food, wildcrafting plants, wearing velvet and cowgirl boots, testing skincare, and watching crime shows.

The Alchemist of Human Systems

I see people as uniquely differentiated, and yet mechanically predictable. I think we all have modes of operating that are customized for our incarnations, and I’ve found that Human Design is the map with the best instructions for operating our vehicles according to how they were made.

My expertise is forged in the alchemy of nature, entrepreneurship, and the profound realization that learning never ends.

In 2017, I launched Mountain Medicine Holistics, hand-crafting herbal remedies. I spent years wildcrafting my own botanicals in British Columbia, formulating, producing, and selling highly effective tinctures, oils, and tea’s and more across Etsy, my website, and local markets. However, my business was fundamentally transformed by a single conversation at a farmers market. A woman sought a product to "fix" her, and I realized her pain was not physical, but emotional. My advice to her was direct: none of my products could fix the energetic cause. I told her she needed to believe in love again or she was going to die of heartbreak. She told me I should stop making products and just “talk to people” so I did.

That moment was my turning point. I shifted my focus entirely from selling medicine to providing the “diagnosis” via Human Design charts, evolving my business into Sam Zagar Consulting Inc. and becoming primarily advice and education based.

My prior practical experience became the foundation of my current work because I stopped treating symptoms and started solving systems.

The Pillars of My Practiced Wisdom

My philosophy is backed by a broad spectrum of hands-on experience and education

  • Energetic Diagnosis & Design: I use Human Design as my core blueprint tool, informed by years of personal study in Ayurveda, Yoga, Auric studies, Nutrition, and Energetics.

  • Holistic Formulation: My deep understanding of health protocols is rooted in my time as an entrepreneurial herbalist, coupled with my Holistic Health Practitioner education. I understand how to build a protocol, from sourcing the raw materials to seeing its effect on the whole system.

  • Systemic & Psychological Depth: My work is grounded in real-world psychology, stemming from my academic studies at UBC Okanagan and my critical experience providing trauma counselling in a Women’s Transition Center. I’ve read HD bodygraphs and provided de-conditioning therapy for more than 1,000 clients, and I read the whole person—their history, their energy, and their biology.

  • Cultural and societal understanding: I’ve given lectures and taught yoga within local First Nations communities and am versed in traditional plant medicine with respectful practices. I’ve worked internationally since 2018 which has brought me clients from many ethnicities, who speak many languages, with many different spiritual beliefs. I also have clients with physical disabilities, and clients on every range of the Autism spectrum.

  • Femininity: I identify as a Woman, a mother, and a daughter. I enjoy being able to bring qualities of softness, grace, tenderness, nurturing - but they’re backed with a ferociousness that defends those who depend on me. I’m strong enough to support you when you need someone to lean on and spicy enough to tell you when it’s time to stand on your own.