Kultivating Kapwa: Conversations with Community, Episode 13
"Honoring and Tending to Our Ancestral Relations to Plants, Lands, and the Planet"
In this episode, we are joined by Angela Angel. We discuss re-membering the earth, plants, elements, and all non-human beings as Kapwa, the moments she realized she was called to her path, her most recent lessons from the earth and land, and much more.
Angela is currently residing in Ohlone Territory, specifically the Sogoretea Land Trust. She is Igorota, Bontoc and Ibaloi, Pangasinense and Ilokana. She comes from the rice terraces of the Cordillera Region, the beaches and salt flats of Pagasinan, and shout out to Baguio, her hometown.
Angela is a healing practitioner, gardener, artist, medium/channeler, and ceremonialist. She has continued her indigenous lineage as a young traditional healer (Bontoc and Ibaloi tribes- Igorot, Philippines). Angela received a vision directing her to explore how ritual and our innate psychic abilities can translate in the “modern world” as a step to bridge our ancestral knowledge and to begin healing historical trauma. She has since worked to integrate this directly with her social justice work.
In 2013, she began coordinating free holistic and traditional healing clinics with the Bay Area’s Healing Clinic Collective. Angela is currently a teacher for Ancestral Apothecary, School of herbal, folk and indigenous medicine. She teaches regular series offerings: Ninunong Gamot, Philippine Folk and Ancestral Medicine, and Decolonizing Wellness. She loves tending to her garden and facilitating the connection of plants with people. She is a certified Western Herbalist and integrates indigenous ancestral medicine in her classes. She holds her own healing practice and you can find out more about her work at: Other Ways of Seeing | Etsy - Nature As Muse
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Hosted by Jana Lynne Umipig//
Produced by Olivia Sawi//
Co-Produced by Annie Aarons-Sawi//
Music by AstraLogik
