Welcome
Thank you for visiting Mamabotanica.com. I am excited to share my vision of personal and planetary well being with you! This website is my venue for promoting events, information, and all around good ideas for how to live more fully in your body and more lightly on the planet. I see how we treat our bodies and how we treat the Earth as inextricably tied to each other. It seems silly to be concerned about “saving the world” when you are stressed out and not feeling good much of the time. It also strikes me as odd when I encounter people who are obsessed with their personal fitness or health but don’t have any idea where their food is grown or how it gets to them. I am a teacher by trade and by avocation. I am delighted to have the opportunity to share my experience with you.
I learned about alternative health and ecology when I studied medical anthropology in college. I was intrigued about the use of healing plants in ritual, psychology, and physiology. On an ethnobotanical excursion to Tapachula Mexico I became interested in food as medicine and was deeply moved at the reverence the campesinos had for their seed collection. Their respect and consideration included the entire plant community where they lived.
At approximately the same time I began to explore yoga as a form of exercise. I had no idea that I was dipping my toe into a river that would sweep me away on a current of thousands of years of tradition and wisdom. I’ve had the good fortune to practice with some incredibly gifted and patient teachers. Their brilliance and my willingness to sink in and learn to articulate and identify with my anatomy (the gateway to the ethereal!) have been powerful guides on my yoga journey.
When I took my first permaculture course with Earthflow Designs more than ten years ago it was as if a lightbulb flashed in my head. What I had previously learned of ecology, microbiology, botany, mycology, anthropology, and ethnobotany fit into a pattern of understanding that also fit with my anatomy and philosophy teaching from yoga. A patterning junky was born!
I continue to learn more about yoga, permaculture, and how they intersect all the time. I am happy to share what I’ve learned with you and to support others on the path to discovering their passion.
I learned about alternative health and ecology when I studied medical anthropology in college. I was intrigued about the use of healing plants in ritual, psychology, and physiology. On an ethnobotanical excursion to Tapachula Mexico I became interested in food as medicine and was deeply moved at the reverence the campesinos had for their seed collection. Their respect and consideration included the entire plant community where they lived.
At approximately the same time I began to explore yoga as a form of exercise. I had no idea that I was dipping my toe into a river that would sweep me away on a current of thousands of years of tradition and wisdom. I’ve had the good fortune to practice with some incredibly gifted and patient teachers. Their brilliance and my willingness to sink in and learn to articulate and identify with my anatomy (the gateway to the ethereal!) have been powerful guides on my yoga journey.
When I took my first permaculture course with Earthflow Designs more than ten years ago it was as if a lightbulb flashed in my head. What I had previously learned of ecology, microbiology, botany, mycology, anthropology, and ethnobotany fit into a pattern of understanding that also fit with my anatomy and philosophy teaching from yoga. A patterning junky was born!
I continue to learn more about yoga, permaculture, and how they intersect all the time. I am happy to share what I’ve learned with you and to support others on the path to discovering their passion.
