Way of Plant Medicine
All life forms, sentient and insentient are revered and honored in a Garifuna healing practices. Our mythology teaches that herbs are endowed with a unique healing spirit. Whereas people are said to have individual spirits, herbs have group spirits, and each herb comes with an offering of better health for humanity. Each plant spirit agrees to take care of a certain illness, and some agree to work in teams. It is the group spirit with which the healer communicates with when employing the help of herbs in healing.
This workshop explains and offers a closer look at how this relationship of plant and person is harnessed; introducing these herbs and the medicine they offer, as well as the secrets of how these herbal spirits work together.
Medicine Bundle
This course explores the sacred knowledge of Medicine Bundle making in the nature-based traditions of Garifuna people. Garifuna mythology teaches that herbs are endowed with unique healing spirits, and that plant spirits can be invoked to help take care of specific illnesses. This course teaches the technique of "folding" certain sacred plants into a powerful personalized healing bundle that participants will create, experience, and treasure as a keepsake of this journey. Everyone taking this course will learn how to work the Medicine Bundle on different areas of life for healing.
Love Potion Making (Romancing The Bush)
Participants get to experience bush medicines used traditionally for enhancing loving energies, developing creativity, and healing relationships. Those who attend this event will learn identification, propagation, harvesting, preparation, and traditional uses of the featured plants.
Participants learn how to make the elixir of life and love formula that has been passed down through generations of Garifuna healers. It is used traditionally by our people for its aphrodisiac effects to:
improve sexual stamina, drive, and performance in both men and women
to reduce anxiety and calm nerves
to relieve depression and balance mood swings
as an immune system booster to clean the blood from bacteria, viruses, prevent ulcers
as a general vitality tonic to increase energy and endurance, and reduce fatigue
as a change of life tonic for Menopause and Andropause to improve blood circulation, bone density, protect brain cells, and enhance memory
This formula uses natural ingredients and is made in our traditional way. With wild crafted organic plants native to our territories of the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Enhancing Conception Naturally
Obstacles, which block conception and inhibit healthy pregnancies are not always rooted in the physical realm, and can sometimes be attributed to other less tangible causes. Indigenous people believe the process of conception involves all three layers of existence: physical, emotional, and spiritual. In order to conceive a healthy spirit, a woman must seek to balance all three layers. Moreover, these conception blockers can have emotional, psychological, and even spiritual roots that require healing before giving up and resorting to more invasive manoeuvres. Any or all of these layers may be off balance and require balancing before the body agrees to become pregnant. Help from modern medicine is, by its own admission, limited to the physical realm of life. The remaining three layers of life are what this workshop will address. Ideal for those wishing to conceive.
Individuals who attend this workshop will learn about:
Fertility enhancers (foods/plants) used traditionally by indigenous people
Pain seeds that inhibit conception & how to remove them
Products & Food additives that interfere with reproduction systems
Natural remedies for a healthy reproductive system
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