Workshop: Philippine Folk Medicine through a Historical Lens

Join traditional herbalist Angela Angel for an interactive herbal workshop and historical mapping of folk medicine from The Philippines. From layers of colonization along with pre-colonial healing traditions, we will dive into the complexity of indigenous and adopted practices. Learn about practical herbal remedies and recipes using historical texts and from Angel's latest zine, Halamang Gamot. 

Angela Basbas Angel is a traditional and holistic healing practitioner, medium/channeler, ceremonialist, multi-disciplinary artist, poet and permaculture gardener. She has continued her indigenous lineage as a traditional healer (Bontoc and Ibaloi tribes - Igorot, Philippines). Angela received a vision directing her to explore how ritual and our innate psychic abilities can translate in the “modern world” as a step to bridge our ancestral knowledge and to begin healing historical trauma. She has since worked to integrate this directly with her social justice work. In 2013, she helped to form and began coordinating free holistic and traditional healing clinics with the Bay Area’s Healing Clinic Collective. Angel was the school coordinator and taught at Ancestral Apothecary School of herbal, folk and indigenous medicine for nearly seven years in Oakland, California. She loves tending to her garden and facilitating the connection of plants with people. She is a certified Clinical Western Herbalist and integrates indigenous ancestral medicine in her classes. Angel runs regular classes in healing and plants including “Ninunong Gamot: Philippine Folk and Ancestral Medicine" and “Decolonizing Wellness”. Angel is a spiritual strategist and proponent of healing justice and decolonization. She has been an organizer and facilitator for various grassroots organizations for over 25 years. She consults for social justice non-profit organizations and movement workers to lean into a Spirit-Guided framework and integrate health, wellness and our relationships to the land for long-term and sustainable movement resiliency. 

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