Knowledge Share Description
At the heart of our climate catastrophe is disconnection. We see this in the continued patterns of colonization within the so-called United States that have exacerbated fire season. What does it mean to learn how to manage breathing through smoke? How does this exhalation impact all the other beings on this planet? One way to begin the energetic shift necessary towards rebalancing the impact of the anthropocene is to come together in community and bridge connection towards healing. During this class we will examine the historical context of fire season on Turtle Island as well as explore the herbs, preparations, and practices that can support the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our humxn bodies as well as our relationships towards our more-than-humxn kin. There will be special attention towards preventative medicine as well as acute care.
Knowledge Share Includes
Understanding the historical context of fire season with relation to colonization and Indigenous rematriation
Exploring the spiritual energetics of fire season and its impact on humxns and our more-than-humxn kin
Learning how to work with herbal medicine as preventative medicine to support our mind, body, and spirit before fire season, including materia medica, preparations, and recipes
Learning how to work with herbal medicine as acute care to support our mind, body, and spirit once fire season is active, including materia medica, preparations, and recipes
Exploring practices than can support our communities and environments towards rebalancing the impact of the anthropocene
Resource Package
Check back soon to see if Renée will be offering fire season herbal kits along with this event…or send an email to herbancura@gmail.com if you would like to get on the waiting list if & when this opens up!
Cost
$35 - BIPOC or low income
$75 - standard or reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
The zoom link will be sent 1-2 days prior to the knowledge share. Recording will be available for 30 days.
For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Fire Season
Accessibility Information
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
*Live captioning & ASL interpretation may be available with advance notice
*Spanish interpretation may be available with advance notice. Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com.
Virtual Gathering
Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share
2:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.
Facilitator
Renée (she/ella) Camila is a bilingual (English/Spanish) yerbera and traditional birthworker. Born and raised in San Francisco on Muwekma/Ohlone/Ramaytush territory as the child of Nicaraguan immigrants, her practice La Yerba Buena Herbs draws from her Spanish and Indigenous (Chorotega) ancestry. Trained in traditional energetic herbalism by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes of the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine, Renée has been in clinical practice since 2016. Following in the footsteps of her ancestors, she is also a student of Mesoamerican Traditional Medicine (MTM) and Curanderismo. She is dedicated to the empowerment and healing of plant spirit medicine through a social justice lens. She offers energetic herbal consultations, traditional birth care, folk medicine for ritual use, and classes. She is also one of the hosts of the Herbal Highway and co-founder of the Now and Then Herb School.