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Stronger Together: DAWA Ancestral Wellness Series
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The Homewood Early Learning Hub & Family Center is hosting a three-part series monthly for caregivers that will cover everything from ancestral food traditions and nature-based healing to lifestyle transformation. Families that attend all three sessions will receive a $50 gift card.
The Stronger Together: DAWA Ancestral Wellness Series will be held from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the following Fridays – April 10, May 8, and June 12 at the Homewood Early Learning Hub & Family Center.
Session 1
The April 10 session, Remembering Our Roots: Ancestral Foodways, will enable participants to explore ancestral food traditions and how disconnection from traditional ways of eating has affect community health.
Activities include group memory sharing of foods, remedies, and rituals from childhood; an introduction to ancestral wellness principles, beginning guided DAWA wellness journals, and creating an herbal infusion (tincture or oxymel) to take home at the end of the series.
Session 2
The May 8 session, Listening to the Body and Nature as Medicine, blends organ wellness and nature-based healing, teaching participants how to listen to their bodies while reconnecting with the earth.
Topics will include understanding body signals and signs of imbalance, organ wellness, simple seasonal ancestral cleansing practices, and grounding, sunlight, fresh air, and basic plant medicine.
Activities during this session include body-awareness practices, creating an organ-support herbal blend, and planting seeds to take home and nurture. The session will also include time for journal reflection.
Session 3
The June 12 session, Creating Our New Life: Vision and Commitment, will enable participants to complete their herbal infusion from the first week and engage in a session focused on identity, affirmations, and lifestyle transformation.
Activities during this session include straining and bottling herbal infusion, a DIY herbal tea station, affirmation board creation, and a final sharing circle during which participants will present their personal wellness commitments.
