80. Serenading the Waters: Grandmother Medicine & Expanding the Parameters of Herbal Care - Damiana Calvario

Herbalism is an outlet for creative expression, a tool for community care, and a pathway to our own inner knowing. Let us revel in the freedom we have to make our own healing medicine with guidance from the land, the ancestors, and the mythic realm.

TOPICS:

Being an abuela in training
When an ancestral name is tied in to a landscape
Kitchen herbalism in Mexico
Gardening with whatever is on hand
Following the threads of our ancestors’ herbalism
The multifaceted medicine of rose (& making an essence from 100 roses!)
Your romantic relationship is yours to create; it doesn’t have to look like anything
Healing is not a straight line
Acknowledging the limits of ancestral healing, and the positive outward ripples we create when we self heal
Damiana shares the story of being held up at gunpoint while delivering herbal medicine to folks in need, and what facilitated the perpetrator’s unexpected change of heart
Anger as the fire that triggers action
Expanding the possibilities of flower essences- infusing without harvesting, Aguas Serenadas, and spontaneously capturing moments
Collective essence making in liminal space