We each carry our own unique ancestral medicine, and can (and should!) spend a lifetime uncovering it. A teacher of herbal, folk, and indigenous medicine, Atava is deeply grounded in and a powerful guide through this sacred work.
IN THE INTRO:
- Synchronicity, mushroom medicine, and the deer dress
- Herbal Medicine Giveaway
- Ancestral Apothecary's Student of Color Scholarship Fund- investing in herbal education is investing in the health of your community
- The Ancestor Song
IN THE INTERVIEW:
- Invocation
- When an ancestor becomes an ally from the other side
- How to know when it's really a message from spirit and not just our own projection
- Food as the one surviving cultural tradition within a family
- Remembering your indigenous mind
- How giving time and attention to our roots can heal relationships among the living
- Ancestral connection and reverence work never ends
- Healing is in our bones, our blood, our DNA
- Being witnessed in our stories
- Remembering that the plants are (literally) our ancestors
- Using plants to ground deeply when talking about and facing ancestral issues like colonization and slavery- we're never alone as long as we have our plant allies
- Making space for people of color to explore and reclaim their ancestral medicine
- Teaching healing skills so that people can treat those within their own communities and not need saving from elsewhere
- Herbalists are the grassroots community healers
- You're going to be a better herbalist and healer if you're rooted in your own ancestral traditions
- We all come from people who work with plants
- Love is the basic fundamental vibration that keeps the universe moving- how love and community saw Atava through uterine cancer & remembering to reweave the energy of love back into the healing arts
- A beautiful death: how the love we give and receive in this life carries us into the realm of the ancestors
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