Join Atava for a Platica (heart-to-heart conversation) on Supporting our Resilience with Ancestral Medicine Practices taking place on Friday, October 2nd, 2026 from 6:00-7:30 PM at Melipona.

Join Atava Garcia Swiecicki, author of The Curanderx Toolkit, Reclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing, in a conversation about how ancestral and plant medicine practices can support our resilience and resistance.

Topics: Herbal, Ancestral & Dreamwork Medicine, Community Building

Atava's Bio: Atava Garcia Swiecicki (she/her/ella) is the author of The Curanderx Toolkit:  Reclaiming Ancestral Herbal Medicine and Rituals for Healing.  She has been an herbalist for over thirty years and is guided by her dreams and her ancestors.  She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher and is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their ancestral medicine.   She also loves helping people build relationships with plants, whom she considers some of our greatest teachers and healers.  She was the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk and Indigenous Medicine on Ohlone territory in Oakland, CA.  She’s currently living in Tiwa Pueblo territory in Albuquerque with her wife and cat and learning to grow food and medicine in the high desert.

Her website is: www.ancestralapothecary.com and she can be found on IG: @curanderxtoolkit or YouTube: @ancestralapothecary.

Sign up here: https://meliponamassage.as.me/atavaplatica

This Platica is Donation Based $10-25 - Please venmo @wildroseheart $10-25 when signing up.