Emotional Healing with Herbal Medicine

Date: 2 Saturdays, May 26th and June 9th

Time: 1 pm- 6 pm

Medicinal plants & flowers, given to us with love from Mother Earth/Tonantzin can be important allies on our path of emotional healing. They can help us to recognize, release, transform & heal our emotions.

In this class we will each create our own healing herbal/flower essence remedy for ourselves. In the time between sessions, we will work with our remedies and document our healing process.
In this class we will discuss the thirteen aires (emotional airs/states) and herbs that can be used to address them. Some of the aires we will discuss are susto (shock, fright), coraje (anger), tristesa (sadness), and verguenza (shame).

You will learn simple, practical ways to incorporate herbal medicine into your life to assist you in your healing path.

Afterwards, Atava will be available for mini herbal consultations to help create for you a personalized herbal formula to support your own healing.

Cost: $225

To Register: $100 deposit required to save your space. Balance due at first class.

The Curandera/o's Toolkit

Date: Mondays, February 13- March 26

Time: 10:00 am- 12:30 pm

Ancient cultural healing systems like curanderismo have much wisdom to offer us on our healing paths. In this class, you will learn the basics of holistic healing from the perspective of Mexican curanderismo.

We will explore the basic concepts of health and illness and how it impacts our body, mind & spirit. We will work with the healing energy of the sacred elements, with an emphasis on herbal medicine.

Class time includes a local herb walk so you can get to know how to recognize and use our local medicinal plants. In class you will also have a chance to make and take home many different herbal medicine preparations.

Cost: $250

To Register: $100 deposit required to save you space. Balance due at first class.

Dreaming into 2012: Prophecy, Guidance & Healing

Date: 8 Thursdays, February 23- April 19

Time: 9:30 am- 11:30 am

This is a dream group facilitated by Atava Garcia Swiecicki.

This dreamgroup is dedicated to remembering our indigenous ways of knowing through community dream work. The focus of this dream group will be on receiving and sharing the important messages from the spiritual world in this prophetic year of 2012. We will work with ritual, art, tarot, guided meditation, and plant spirit medicine to enhance the dreamwork process.

Cost: $325

To Register: Application required and $100 to save your space in this group. Payment in full required at the time of the first session. Email atava@ancestralapothecary.com for application.

Slavic Ancestral Remembrance & Healing Circles: Oakland workshop

Date: 3/2, 4/6, 5/4, 6/1 and 6/16

Time: time

These circles are a space for exploring and remembering the indigenous mind of our Slavic ancestors. Class time will include prayer, ritual, dreamwork, genealogical work and other methods of indigenous science to help to activate our remembrance process.

This work is based on my studies and training in the Indigenous Mind Program and the pioneering work of my mentor Dr. Apela Colorado, founder of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network.

As a Master's degree student, I deeply explored my Polish ancestral roots and wrote about my process in my thesis entitled: Journey Into My Polish Indigenous Mind.

Cost: $375

To Register: Application required and $100 deposit to secure your space. Please email atava@ancestralapothecary.com for an application.

Slavic Ancestral Remembrance & Healing Circles: Teleseminar

Date: April 2012 and June 16th, 2012

Time: time

See description for Oakland class.
For those of you who don't live in the Bay Area, I will be starting teleseminar in April. Please contact me if you're interested. I will try to pick a time that works for people in multiple time zones.

Teleclass students will be welcome to join us in person on the June 16th class.

Cost: TBA

To Register: Email atava@ancestralapothecary.com.