Ancestral Approaches to Supporting Health and Balance
🗓 Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
🕖 Time: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM EST
📍 Location: Zoom (Free – Registration Required)
🍂 Seasonal Shifts, Traditional Wisdom
As the seasons change and routines reset, this educational session explores how the Shanenawá community uses plants from their local environment to support wellness, maintain balance, and care for themselves and their families.
Grounded in cultural tradition, this workshop offers insight into everyday uses of forest-based knowledge — shared respectfully for awareness, not replication — and the values of observation, respect, and reciprocity that shape Indigenous approaches to well-being.
🌱 What You’ll Learn:
How Indigenous communities approach seasonal health through natural practices
Examples of non-consumable forest plants used in daily routines (e.g., for bathing, cleansing, or comfort)
The cultural significance of preparation, intention, and intergenerational teaching
Reflections on how wellness is understood as a community-centered practice
The importance of preserving knowledge systems that support ecological and cultural resilience
🧭 Event Format:
Welcome and seasonal reflection
Guided presentation from a Shanenawá cultural educator
Visual demonstration of non-ingestive herbal practices
Discussion and Q&A around knowledge transmission and cultural protection
This session is part of the Indigenous Foundation’s seasonal wellness series, emphasizing how ancestral knowledge can support harmony with nature, family, and self during times of transition.