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The People’s Medicine Bag Seasonal Herbal Immersions were designed to connect everyday people to their own powers of transformational healing through building lifelong relationship with safe, simple and powerful plants. These immersions help us to learn and heal as a communal whole.
Disclaimer: We do not claim in any way to treat or heal any disease. Any healing that occurs is a a result of your own skill, thrill and will. The healing that occurs in your life and in your relationships corresponds to the quality of our instruction and is a learning objective of this course. You will track your wellness as an indicator of the quality of your learning.
A materia médica is the the body of remedies used in the practice of herbal medicine. Unlike the unchecked growth model of extractive cultures, we believe that less is more. The People’s Materia Medica fosters what our auntie Robin Wall Kimmerer might call a culture of reciprocity. It is deep rather than broad, embodied rather than theoretical and accessible rather than exotic.
Gain the discernment to experiment, research and build your own community of plants, their properties, their stories an the way they like to share support.
Traditional models of healing center “experts” whose identities often correspond with structures of dominance. We democratize herbal medicine with simple and easy to remember frameworks which make the practice of herbalism simple, safe, and effective.
You will learn the principles of People’s Medicine throughout the course.
Herbal medicine making needn’t be complex for it to create profound and powerful transformations. With a few pieces of wisdom your remedies will not only be easier to produce but far more effective than “precision medicine.”
You will learn to make powerful herbal remedies and learn how to avoid raggedy ones.
We are deeply inspired by Aboriginal Indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta and his work Sand Talk which deeply challenges colonial epistemologies or ways of knowing and asks us to “unbraid our minds” to find soloutions to common problems. Yunkaporta describes pattern-mind “…as seeing entire systems and the trends and patterns within them and using them to make accurate predictions…” This course helps us to cultivate pattern-mind in relationship to our bodies and their healing by leaning on the patterns discerned by our ancestors.
Identifying and recognizing these ancestral patterns gives us a framework to craft elegant solutions to our common health problems and we will do just this throughout the course.
Our ancestors created wholeness by following the rhythms of the natural world rather than impeeding those rhythms. Each season brings new opportunities to heal or harm our bodies and learning to adapt to the season connects us to the wisdom of our blood ancestors and the ancestors of the land.
In this immersion we not only center the season of our study but we learn how to utilize the gift that the seasons have to offer.
Knowing the name of body parts isn’t synonymous with being a healer. The colonial imagination envisions the human body as a group of isolated mechanical parts and believes that breaking it down to its tiny bits can teach us how to remedy the whole. This has caused a proliferation of “specialist” who loose the forest for the trees. We prefer what indigenous scholar Tyson Yunkaporta calls a kinship-mind approach which is a way of thinking and learning that depends on linking knowledge though relationship.
Learn the body at the level of systems, the relationship of these systems, and the patterns that govern these relationships.
Our Ancestors practiced healing as a collective. They grieved as a collective. They lived collectively. When we learn as a collective, the knowledge we grow and cultivate is greater than the sum of our individual parts. No one person has to know everything, or carry everything, we dissolve our individual perfectionism and lean on one another as a pillar of greatness. Healing together is as powerful as learning together.
We will accelerate each others learning and wellness though collective participation in this course.
Our bodies are our project.
What are you going to create of yourself out of this course?
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We selected the lowest possible price that would allow your team of black women herbalist and organizers curate a cadre of our favorite Queer and BIPOC healing practitioners to bring you a live and immersive herbal learning and healing experience. You are welcome. If you would like to proliferate these teachings, please consider becoming a immersion sponsor. Each sponsorship directly lowers the cost of participation for our beloved students and supports the visible and invisible labor of our beloved teachers and organizers.
