Step into Your Ancestral Work w— curandera Felicia Ruiz
In this episode, curandera + indigenous foods activist Felicia Ruiz shares with us the importance of connecting to your ancestry and how to begin working with your ancestors. She shares with us what holds people back from connecting to their roots and what belonging + transformation can unfold when we undertake this healing invitation.
Felicia is a curandera, indigenous foods activist, and natural foods chef whose work is deeply rooted in the healing properties of all earth medicines. Her business name came to be after friends lovingly called her "the kitchen curandera", as she was often creating healing foods and remedies in her tiny adobe kitchen.
Her work has been featured in Food & Wine, Spirituality & Health, and on "Padma Lakshmi's Taste The Nation" among many other platforms. Felicia lives in the Sonoran Desert with her husband, and she has a book coming out this month called Earth Medicines. We have a link below where you can order or pre-order your copy.
It is with great honor, that with permission from her elders and earning the title of Curandera in ceremony, Felicia carries on the lineage of natural healing ways through private consultations, medicine workshops, and ceremony.
we discuss
The perspective of plants + plant memory
Centralizing ancestral relationships in both everyday life + ceremony
The importance of connecting to your own medicine from your own land first
The harm of appropriating and capitalizing on Native culture
The healing she witnesses when people connect to their own ancestry
How to begin your own ancestral healing journey
How our individual healing is our responsibility and our gift
What often holds people back from ancestral work
Why shadow work is an important, valuable component to a spiritual path
How food can help us reconnect to our heritage
Personal insights + boundaries learned from her daily ancestor practice
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Mentioned in the episode—
Resma Menakem on On Being podcast
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L I S T E N
We started this season reflecting on the house of the goddess, and now we end where we began — carrying water medicine and the wisdom of Her with us into the summer sun.