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Into Healing with Mira KaddouraHealing through The Wisdom Of Plants & The Land: Layla Feghali – Into Healing S2, Ep.5Layla Feghali is an ethnobotanist, cultural worker, and author who divides her time between her ancestral village in Lebanon and her diasporic home in California, where she was born and raised. Her book, The Land in Our Bones, documents cultural herbal and healing knowledge from Syria to the Sinai while interrogating colonialism and its lingering impacts on our culture. Dedicated to exploring and sharing the ecological richness of homelands, she emphasizes the significance of pluralism in thriving ecosystems and the sacred bonds with the land and each other. As a steward of eco-cultural remembrance and decolonization movements, Layla invites...
2024-11-041h 37
CIIS Public ProgramsLayla K. Feghali: On the Land in Our BonesSome podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description.
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This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land.
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Layla K. Feghali is a cultural worker and folk herbalist who lives between her ancestral village in Lebanon, and California, where she was raised. Her work is dedicated to restoring relationships to earth-based ancestral wisdom as an avenue towards eco-cultural stewardship, healing, and...
2024-10-031h 03
Conscious ChatterTeju Adisa-Farrar of Black Fiber & Textile Network and Author Layla K. Feghali on geography and what our relationship to place can teach us about *sustainability*Episode 321 features Teju Adisa-Farrar, the founder and co-creator of the Black Fiber & Textile Network and the creator/host of the Black Material Geographies podcast, alongside Layla K. Feghali, the founder of River Rose Remembrance, a Plantcestral & Ancestral Re-Membrance practitioner, cultural worker, author & story re-collector (archivist). Teju is currently the Director of Outreach & Programs for the Fibers Fund, and co-creates with members of BFTN. Layla's book, The Land In Our Bones, showcases an exploration of the herbs & land-based medicines of Lebanon & Cana'an, highlighting the power of culture's relationship with land. "I think of culture as a w...
2024-06-111h 23
We RiseStewardship, Remembrance, & Sovereignty with Layla Feghali & Iman Labanieh | Ep. 49Join Layla K. Feghali of River Rose Remembrance & Iman Labanieh of Baylasan Botanicals for a timely conversation about Layla's newly released book, The Land in Our Bones. Highlighting lineages of herbal resilience, diasporic stewardship, and unraveling the rippling impacts of colonial violence on our earth and communities, this book about people and traditions of the Levant offers relevant fodder to grapple with the dire times we are in.As organizers and herbalists with roots in Lebanon & Syria, the ongoing genocide in Gaza has been particularly heavy on our hearts and minds. Many of us have shifted our practices...
2024-05-311h 33
Tatreez TalkS1E18. Tatreez as Folk Art Resistance with Veera from @impinsandneedlesSend us a text18. TATREEZ AS FOLK ART RESISTANCE WITH VEERA FROM @IMPINSANDNEEDLESVEERA IS A TATREEZ ARTIST, ORGANIZER, FOLK HERBALIST, AND WRITER (@impinsandneedles). In this episode you’ll learn everything from folk herbalism to folk art to folk resistance. See a theme? We are diving deep with Veera on all things folk, which — spoiler alert — is anything “of the people” and you will be on the edge of your seat wanting to hear every word that she shares.There’s a role for every one of us in Palestinian liberation. For our Pale...
2024-05-021h 00
KPFA - The Herbal HighwayDiaspora Medicine with Layla K Feghali – April 23, 2024Join Renée Camila and her guest Layla K Feghali for a conversation about embodied connection to ancestral medicine from the diaspora. Their discussion explores how colonial displacement relates to herbal traditions around birthwork, language, and belonging. Layla is a gifted plant storyteller and the author of The Land in Our Bones, which documents cultural herbal and healing knowledge from Syria to Sinai while interrogating colonialism and its lingering wounds on the cultures of our displaced world.
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2024-04-2359 min
Sounds of SAND#76 Land, Lineage & Resisting Genocide"This is a spiritual test, this is a spiritual war, as much as it is a material one. People say, ‘As above, so below.’ How we are interfacing with the physical realities of this moment, the ways that we are leveraging our daily energy are either making us complicit with life's desecration or helping us to affirm life and the spirit of resistance. The battle that we are in is right now!"— Layla K. Feghali on the violence in Gaza, Sounds of SAND, Ep. #76We are now over four months into a worsening genocide in Gaza — with ove...
2024-03-141h 31
Conscious ChatterCelebrating the cultural tradition, past and present, of Palestinian Tatreez with artists / educators Lina Barkawi and Eman Toom & why sustainable fashion must include cultural sustainabilityEpisode 316 features guests Lina Barkawi, a Tatreez practitioner, preservationist, and educator based in Brooklyn, alongside Eman Toom, a Palestinian Tatreez artist, teacher, sewer and crafter. "Part of just doing tatreez, in my personal opinion, is a form of resistance because we're basically just existing and we're showing our Palestinian identity, but there have also been very explicit uses of tatreez as a form of resistance. And so you have thobes that came out of the intifadas in the '90s where the flag was banned and so these are very explicit uses of tatreez where they would...
2024-02-271h 14
The Frontline Herbalism Podcast59 - Herbalism, Resistance and Remembrance with Layla K. FeghaliThis episode is an interview with Layla K. Feghali (she/her), an ethnobotanist and cultural worker living between Lebanon and California. We talk about the current iteration of genocide in Gaza, and the need for resistance, rage and action. Layla shares her experiences within herbalism and how folks can support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that is highlighting herb companies supporting the Israeli Occupation. We discuss her new book The Land in Our Bones which weaves together her work in exploring the herbs and land-based medicines of Lebanon and Cana’an. We talk about ancestral herba...
2024-02-121h 19
For The WildLAYLA K. FEGHALI on The Land in Our Bones /361In a timely and heart-wrenching episode, returning guest Layla K. Feghali shares the power and perseverance of homeland, even in the face of colonial violence. As the genocide in Palestine continues and worsens, Layla offers a powerful call to listen to our rage and take real action against empire. Layla reminds us that in urgent times, action must come before grief and before healing. You cannot heal a wound that is still actively bleeding. Remembrance is a key part of liberation from the systems that tried to force disconnection from the land. As Layla s...
2024-01-1056 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldPractices for Care and EnduranceA special bonus episode organized by Hala Alyan with adrienne maree brown, Spenta Kandawalla, Adaku Utah, Sepideh Moafi, Noor Tagouri and Layla Feghali. With gratitude to CTZNWELL.
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2023-12-111h 26
The Lighthouse Conversations with Hashem Montasser“It’s our responsibility to keep our heritage alive.” Shereen Al-Mulla on launching Hikma Rituals, motherhood and reclaiming her heritage.Hashem meets up with Shereen Al-Mulla, soon-to-be Master Herbalist, and co-founder of Hikma Rituals, a homegrown brand of botanicals including oils, tinctures and dusts. Hashem and Shereen discuss the beginnings of her journey into herbalism by way of a rose infusion ritual, the desire to reclaim her Iraqi heritage, and the serendipitous meeting with Mahdiah El-Jed, her business partner and co-founder. Shereen talks about the challenges that Hikma Rituals faces going head-to-head with big Pharma and the wellness industry’s good, bad and ugly. We also catch a glimpse of Shereen’s efforts towards community building and the rewards she...
2023-04-1443 min
home—body podcastPlants + Reciprocal Relationship / Gina BadgerMy guest today is Gina Badger, and she is an energetic clinical herbalist. She shares about how to build reciprocal relationships with plants and with the land, particularly as a non-indigenous person. Gina also breaks down what our bodies need right now in light of the pandemic and what plants can be our allies and how we can use them. We discussTarot + astrology for the coming weekHow she emerged from working primarily in the art world to the work of a “kitchen witch”Her approach + practice to herbalismHow being a settler is a funda...
2020-04-021h 27
2020-03-181h 12
Bespoken Bones PodcastRe-Membering our ancestral knowings with our plancestorsLayla Feghali of River Rose Apothecary speaks here of how to regather ancestral memory and access our embodied memory.
2019-02-1958 min
The Numinous PodcastTNP101 Layla Kristy Feghali on Plantcestral MedicineLet's talk about talking to plants. Like, really being in relationship with the plant realm. My guest today is Layla Kristy Feghali, of River Rose Apothecary. I was drawn to seek out Layla as a guest because of her beautifully soft, gentle, and sweet relationship with plants and in particular, one of my favourites, roses.
2018-03-3051 min