Working The Roots! Ancestral Remedies, Health  & Resilience

Casa Tía Luna

a deep dive into the ancestral healing traditions of food and plant medicines that helped us survive over 500 years of colonialism.

Mills College

CasaTiaLuna@Mills presents...Working The Roots! Ancestral Remedies, and How to Remain Healthy and Resilient in Today's Changing ClimateSun Apr 2 @ 10am Registration Required: <a href="https://casatialuna.eventbrite.com">https://casatialuna.eventbrite.com</a>Join Creative Conjurer, Michele Lee, (author of Working the Roots, artist, curator, historian, activist and educator) &amp; Iya Awujo DvinaEstrella Ramey (community herbalist, full spectrum doula, traditional artist and performer, counselor, ceremonialist and educator) for a deep dive into the ancestral healing traditions of food and plant medicines that helped us survive over 500 years of colonialism. It's a tradition of continually learning, adapting, and embracing healing from other cultures so we can have Strong Medicine to thrive in today's environment. Attendees will also be introduced to practices for maintaining spiritual grounding and balanced mental health, how to work the powers/spiritual alchemy, honoring the seasons and moon cycles, crystal empowerment, ancestor altars, one-on-one informal health conversations and more.Our Working the Roots event is the first of 3 circles in the series produced by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/casatialuna/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Casa Tia Luna</a>, Roots of Resilience: Ensuring Strong Health and Spiritual Nourishment in a Rapidly Changing Climate and Society.Roots of Resilience: Ensuring Strong Health and Spiritual Nourishment in a Rapidly Changing Climate and Society: African Americans, Afro-Indigenous, Indigenous peoples -- all those who suffered enslavement, removal, genocide and land loss at the hands of european colonization on Turtle Island (aka the Americas) survived because of their strong faith and powerful healing tradition. We celebrate this survival, and share medicinal healing practices in the past, present and what we need in the future to continue to THRIVE and SURVIVE in a rapidly changing climate and society. Three Saturdays in the month of February, March and April we will present informative, engaging and interactive workshops that explore this topic and various tools for:<ul><li>navigating and thriving in our holistic health (physical, emotional, mental, spiritual)</li><li>ancestor communication and acknowledgement</li><li>grounding/balancing our connection with Mother Earth, the elements and other sentient beings and more will be highlighted. </li></ul>This is a gathering of family.  Art, Movement, Dance, Song, Altar building, and storytelling will be the web we weave like Anansi the Spider and SpiderWoman to secure our surviv-ability and legacy for future generations. This series is hosted by:  Michele Elizabeth Lee, Wadastick Publishing, Author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing. Artist, Educator, Curator, Historian Iya Awujo DvinaEstrella Ramey, Founder of Water &amp; Honey Community Well, Sistas In Service Intl and Incense Gurl. Community herbalist, full spectrum doula, traditional artist and performer, counselor, ceremonialist and educator.R﻿ecommended Text: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Working-Roots-Traditional-African-American/dp/0692857877" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.amazon.com/Working-Roots-Traditional-African-American/dp/0692857877</a>~﻿~Registration: Note, this circle will be a hybrid circle with a limited number of in-person seats along with Zoom participation as well. Please indicate your choice during registration. Our ceremonial circle is offered via donation-based registration, suggested at $60. We ask everyone to offer what you can so CTL can continue to make these kinds of important discussions and reflections on our ancestral teachings available in our BIPOC communities in the Bay Area and beyond. We always offer a limited number of reduced tickets for anyone who cannot pay the suggested donation. This requires only that you contact us directly at least 3 days prior to the circle at tialuna415@gmail.com, so we can discuss how we can make this happen with a donation/offering and/or trueque/barter that's possible for you. Please offer what you can, including assistance in all the work that goes into our circles, such as flyer design and distribution, social media help, administrative and day of setup/cleanup work, etc. We also accept medicine offerings as part of your offering. F﻿ree Registration for Mills College Community: Thanks to cosponsorship by our student group, CasaTiaLuna@Mills, free admission is available for anyone using their Mills College Northeastern email address to register.~~Giving Back to Community: As part of Casa Tia Luna's commitment to community-based learning/knowledge sharing, 15% of all revenue for each of our workshops/circles goes back to Indigenous and BIPOC communities and those doing healing work there. ~ COMMUNITY COLLABORATORSCasa Tía Luna (CTL) is an Indigenous ancestral healing space founded by Indigenous women in 2020 for where medicine carriers/ practitioners are invited to make their offerings available for our BIPOC communities here in the Bay Area. If you are interested in workshops or trainings for your organization or community, or if you have any questions about Casa Tia Luna, please contact us at tialuna415@gmail.com. CasaTiaLuna@Mills is a BIPOC centered student organization dedicated to exploring in non-appropriative ways the many forms of non-western ancestral knowledge about healing practices, or medicina, from our own traditions, families, and ancestry. Together, we will co-create spaces for knowledge-sharing circles with teachers/maestras from the broader BIPOC community where we can teach, learn, discuss and practice various wellness lifeways that are a part of our lineages and cultures/culturas. We hope to encourage each other in our personal journeys in such areas as herbal medicine.Thank you to our cosponsoring community organizations:Incense Gurl Handcrafted and Fragrant WaresImdigginusKuratedRara Tou LimenSacred Grove Traditions Sistas In Service InternationalWater &amp; Honey Community Well Inc.Wadastick Books Publishing &amp; HappeningsOur Casa Tia Luna Spring 2023 Offerings from our CTL community of maestras, including Michele Elizabeth Lee (Author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing), Maestra Veronica Iglesias (The Jade Oracle), Mama Davina D. Estrella Ramey (Founder, Water and Honey Community Well ), and the Wakan Wiya Two Spirit Drum with drumkeeper Zamora are all listed at <a href="https://casatialuna.eventbrite.com"></a><a href="https://CasaTiaLuna.eventbrite.com">https://CasaTiaLuna.eventbrite.com</a>. Follow <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CasaTiaLuna/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Casa Tia Luna on Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/casatialuna/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Instagram</a>, and <a href="https://casatialuna.eventbrite.com">Eventbrite </a>to receive notices of all our upcoming circles and workshops.

Michele Elizabeth Lee is a multi-disciplinary Soul who has worked in the creative arts for 40 years as an exhibiting artist, activist, writer, curator, author, historian, cultural anthropologist and educator. She is an Author, Historian, and Cultural Anthropologist. Starting in1996, Ms. Lee documented the practice of Traditional African American healing. Starting with her own family lineage and healers who are from Mississippi, Louisiana and Virgina, Ms. Lee branched out to locate other healers in the south and parts of the eastern seaboard, weaving in and out of several indigenous nations. This journey took her to base herself in the south and live down a dirt road in rural North Carolina for 4 years. She sought out other healers throughout the south/southeast by word of mouth and often traversed through the backwoods with them looking for medicine plants. Ms. Lee apprenticed with several of the elders who shared their practice and knowledge with her. Her book, Working The Roots: Over 400 Years of Traditional African American Healing is the culmination of this sojourn! She is chair of Art Against Apartheid for the SF Bay Area, and Cofounder and Executive Director of Wadastick Artists and Scholars Residency and Cultural Center. Currently she works with a variety of afro-indigenous efforts t o affirm and reclaim cultural identity, repair and correct historical inaccuracies and restore self determination and pride in the individual and greater community. In 1998, Ms. Lee co-founded Wadastick Artists and Scholars Residency and Cultural Center in rural North Carolina. The residency hosted artists from across the country and had sites at the Tuscarora Indian Nation, St. Helena Sea Island, South Carolina, in the heart of the Gullah culture and in, El Potrero, Mexico, a small clay-building village. Wadastick ran successfully for six years.

Iya Awujo Dvina Estrella Ramey, Awon Ohun Omnira vocalist.‘Iya Awujo’ means ‘Community Mother’ or Co-Madre in Yoruba. She is the founder/executive director of the Water &amp; Honey Community Well Inc. a nonprofit entity, and lead Doula, educator, counselor and ceremonial facilitator for its wellness program, Sistas In Service International. She is also the founder of Incense Gurl Handcrafted Fragrant Wares established in 1998.At 43, she is the mother of seven biological children, a stepson, a daughter-in-love, and a grandbaby, a ranging in age from 30-2. Her family and lineage hail from North America: New Orleans and all over Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, South and North Carolina, Virginia, Canada, The Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. Born in Oakland and raised in Berkeley, she currently lives and serves in the Oakland- San Francisco Greater Bay Area of California.She says: “I love to sing, dance, garden, travel, craft, cook for and host family and friends, work with youth, commune with elders, innovate, study history and culture, and I’m generally up for anything I can do to uplift and support my community, while also having fun, especially in nature!”

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