A SPECIAL EVENT FEATURING:
Atava Garcia Swiecicki MH, RH (AHG), she/her
Guest Teacher Atava Garcia Swiecicki, MH, RH (AHG), she/her
Herbalist, Educator and Author of The Curanderx Toolkit: Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing.
Atava is guided by her dreams and her Mexican, New Mexican, Polish, and Hungarian ancestors. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher and is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their own ancestral medicine.
Atava studied Feminist Studies at Stanford University and received her master’s degree in the Indigenous Mind Program at Naropa University Oakland. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas and traditional knowledge keepers. She was the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine in Oakland, CA where she trained hundreds of curanderx and herbalists.
Atava loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers. She has family roots in Detroit, lived for three decades in Oakland, CA, and now dwells in the high desert of New Mexico with her wife and cat.
WEBSITE: www.ancestralapothecary.com
INSTAGRAM: @curanderxtoolkit
Friday, September 20th 2024
Introduction to Curanderismo
Learn about the history, philosophy and practices of curanderismo. Discover key concepts that inform the work as curanderx, such as the diagnosis and treatment of susto. We will discuss the use of important plants used in curanderismo and learn ways to incorporate these practices and plants into our daily lives for healing.
WHEN: Friday 9/20
6:30 - 8:00pm
FEE:
$25 early bird / $30 after
Early bird ends Sept 13th
WHERE:
The American Botanical Council
6200 Manor Rd
Austin, TX 78723
Saturday, September 21st 2024
Supporting Our Resilience with Practices of Mexican Traditional Medicine
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For the past five hundred years, the practice of traditional Mexican medicine, or curanderismo, has been integral to people’s resilience & survival in the face of colonization. Today, many of the practices of curanderismo continue to be supportive to help us navigate the impact of stress and trauma in our bodies, hearts, and spirits.
This class will introduce some of the history, philosophy & cosmovision that informs our cultural healing practices. We will talk about the diagnosis of el aire (energetic wind) with a focus on susto (shock, fear, trauma). We will learn ways to treat susto and other strong emotions with herbal medicine, baños (herbal baths) and limpias (spiritual cleansings). Workshop participants will learn the tools and techniques to perform a self-limpia ritual for energetic cleansing, protection and emotional release.
WHEN: Saturday 9/21
10am - 4:30pm
FEE:
$150 early bird / $165 after
Early bird ends Sept 13th
WHERE:
The American Botanical Council
6200 Manor Rd
Austin, TX 78723