Medicina Ancestral Viva: rebozo, plant allies & cultural reconection
About this Event
Cultural reconnection is more than learning ancestral practices or collecting information about where we come from. It also involves understanding how knowledge is learned and transmitted, strengthening relationships with family and community, developing relationships with the territory where we live today, and recognizing the responsibilities that come with carrying cultural knowledge.
Through the four pillars of cultural reconnection and different ways of learning and knowing, we will explore how cultural knowledge can remain living across migration, interrupted transmission, and changing territories.
The hands-on portion brings these ideas into practice through selected plant allies, herbal preparations, traditional baths, limpias, rebozo, touch, water, rest, and personal and family care. Rather than collecting techniques or recipes, we will focus on learning through observation, relationship, practice, and context.
Dates, Time & Location
Saturday, October 24
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Sunday, October 25
9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
12 hours of in-person learning and hands-on practice
5469 Huntington Dr N
Los Angeles, California
Reciprocity-Based Registration
This workshop uses a reciprocity-based registration model. Everyone receives the same workshop, materials, and hands-on instruction regardless of the registration level selected.
The different rates are intended to make the workshop accessible while also recognizing that accessibility must be sustainable for the person providing the work.
Community Access — $180
For participants experiencing a meaningful financial barrier. This limited early-access rate is available through September 15. If this rate is financially accessible to you, I invite you to choose Community Supported or above.
Community Supported — $250
For participants who need some financial flexibility but are able to contribute more than the Community Access rate.
Sustainable Value — $300
This is the rate that allows this workshop to be offered sustainably. It reflects not only the hours of instruction, but also the preparation, materials, travel from Ohio, transportation, lodging, meals, and the time required to bring this workshop to another community.
Community Sustainer — $350
For participants who have greater financial capacity and would like to contribute beyond the Sustainable Value. This helps offset Community Access registrations and supports my ability to continue bringing this work to other communities.
Scholarship Sponsor — $400
This level is for participants who would like their registration to directly help another person access the workshop.
For every Scholarship Sponsor registration, a partial scholarship will be made available to someone who otherwise could not afford to attend.
How the Reciprocity Model Works
$180 — Community Access
I need significant financial accessibility to participate.
$250 — Community Supported
I need some financial flexibility.
$300 — Sustainable Value
I can pay the amount that sustainably supports this workshop.
$350 — Community Sustainer
I can contribute beyond Sustainable Value.
$400 — Scholarship Sponsor
I can contribute at a level that directly creates additional scholarship access.
Payment Plans Are Available, contact .
Please do not hesitate to ask about a payment plan. I want participants who genuinely want to attend to have options for making the workshop financially manageable.
What We Will Explore
Core topics:
- The four pillars of cultural reconnection
- Cultural reconnection as relationship, participation, reciprocity, and living practice
- Different ways of learning, knowing, and transmitting cultural knowledge
- Family, community, oral transmission, observation, embodied practice, mentorship, research, and documentation as different pathways of learning
- Cultural memory, migration, interrupted transmission, and continuity
- The difference between ancestry, cultural knowledge, belonging, and lived relationship
- Reconnecting without romanticizing or reproducing practices outside their context
- Learning from the territories where we live today while maintaining relationships with the places and knowledge we come from
- Plant allies from Ohio and California
- Learning a plant through observation, identification, seasonality, cultivation, harvesting, preparation, use, and relationship
- How plant knowledge travels, changes, and develops through migration
- Ethical harvesting, cultivation, and reciprocity with plants and land
- Herbal preparations for everyday personal and family care
- Traditional herbal baths, foot baths, and jicarazos
- Limpias and traditional cleansing practices
- Personal and family uses of the rebozo beyond pregnancy and birth
- Rest as part of traditional care
- Cultural appropriation, extraction, commercialization, and the responsibilities that come with learning traditional knowledge
- Supporting living Indigenous communities, artisans, teachers, and knowledge holders
- The difference between personal cultural practice, sharing knowledge, and claiming professional or cultural authority
Hands-on component: Rather than collecting disconnected techniques or recipes, we will work through a living practice process: observation → relationship → preparation → practice → reflection → integration.
Participants will work directly with selected plant allies and traditional preparations, including plant observation, herbal preparations, baths or foot baths, jicarazos, personal limpias, rebozo massage, rhythmic movement, holding and containment, and practices that combine plants, water, warmth, touch, rebozo, and rest.
Important
This workshop does not certify participants as traditional healers, curanderas, sobadoras, parteras, herbal clinicians, or medical providers. Traditional knowledge cannot be completely transmitted in a weekend. This workshop is an educational and experiential space intended to strengthen cultural reconnection, personal and family practice, relationship with living knowledge, and the ability to continue learning responsibly.
Questions, payment plans, or help registering:
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