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Indigenous Medicine and Herbalism from a Mayan Healer -Intro
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Indigenous Medicine and Herbalism from a Mayan Healer -Intro

How to expand the tools to serve others and learning how to heal yourself and others and maintaining balance
Created byAlejandro De Santiago
Last updated 12/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • You will learn the basic concepts of Traditional and Herbal Medicine.
  • You will learn about the main elements in traditional medicine for healing.
  • About medicinal plants and diseases and their Cold, Hot or Warm qualities and How to Heal Them
  • You will learn how to make compounds/ remedies with medicinal plants for various ailments.
  • You will learn basic concepts of the cosmovision of traditional indigenous medicine.
  • You'll learn the fundamental role of the Indigenous Healer
  • You'll know how to protect yourself energetically
  • You'll learn the different ways to diagnose a patient

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Course content

7 sections • 7 lectures • 3h 53m total length

  • The Fundamentals of Indigenous Medicine (universal concepts )34:22

    In this first module, you'll learn about the the relationship we have with nature. It is clear we come from nature but indigenous medicine goes much deep into this principle that helps us become more aware of this interdependece so we can heal better and faster and we can share this medicine more effectively with others.

    Balance as the most important aspect to consider when treating an ailment and of conducting our life, habits, relationships, etc., in order to hace and mantain optimal good health and wellbeing.

    What are some of the main "cultural" diseaeses (this is the term used by academia), but that are seen in modern culture with different names. This is vast and goes from healing of trauma to Intestinal dissuptions in children, to dealing with "evil eye" or toxic energies.

    What are the principles of hot and cold. Diseases have a cold or hot origin and has to be treated with hot or cold remedies to regain balance and health.

Requirements

  • No prerequisites are needed. Only if you are willing and want to learn. And have an open heart.
  • No practical training or previous knowledge is required to do this course.

Description

In this 6 MODULE ONLINE COURSE you will learn the basics to maintain more health and balance on a personal level and help your patients and family members to heal in a more holistic and natural way, from the vision of Indigenous natural medicine.


Discover Traditional Medicine and learn to heal with ancestral wisdom with the Introduction to Herbal and Traditional Indigenous (Maya) Medicine & Herbology Course.


Learn a more integral / holistic way of approaching your own health, one that sees not only each person as a whole:

the physical,

the mind,

the soul,

emotions,

your family

environment,

work / career

social,

natural...

every area of your life;



Because we are integral interconnected beings. As all our bodies are integrated, we are integrated with the Existence.


Start integrating this medicine into your healing practices right from day one.


Maestra Sofia will share with you the tools and knowledge that can be life-changing.



The course has the fundamentals you need to learn, including specific details you will not find anywhere, only in the teachings of indigenous elders.

  • • How to bring health / balance to you, your patients, or loved ones by applying the profound principles of hot and cold in this medicine.

  • • How to optimally recollect, store and use plants

  • • The different types of remedies like: teas, infusions, concoctions, extracts, poultices, traditional curative massages or sobadas, baths, among others

  • • The ailments of the soul and how to cure them

  • • How to properly protect yourself energetically when treating patients.

  • • The different ways to diagnose a patient

  • • How to properly create specific remedies

  • • The five most common ailments and different therapies to treat them

  • • How to constantly create and maintain balance in you and your life and environment.

  • • How to find remedies in nature everywhere you go, regardless of the place and situation.



Teacher:


Sofia Diaz is a Mayan indigenous healer and temazcalera. She has been walking this path since she was a child.



She was born in a Mayan Tzotzil community in Los Altos se Chiapas into a family of indigenous Mayan healers.

She is the founder of Mayahuelcalli A.C., a clinic and school of traditional Mexican medicine in Morelos, Mexico for more than 20 years.

And has traveled throughout Mexico, the United States and Europe to share her ancestral knowledge through diploma courses and workshops for any person or group open to learn this medicine: indigenous communities, schools and universities, among others.


*This course has been DUBBED from Spanish to English by Mayan Ajqij Tata Alejandro de Santiago.


Sofia speaks Tzotzil Mayan and Spanish and Tata Alejandro De Santiago dubbes / translates in English.

He is an indigenous medicine medic (as officially called in Mexico) Curandero, ajq'ij and has been  working on diverse projects to bring awareness of indigenous medicine for more than 2 1/2 decades.








Who this course is for:

  • Therapists, healers, that already have a practice helping others improve and maintain a good health
  • Alopathic doctors who wish to learn this medical model* (WHS catalogues indigenous medicine as a medical model, just as CTM, Ayurveda or allopathic medicine)
  • This course is for people who may have basic or no knowledge of any healing or medical method.
  • For people who may already have patients and want to incorporate new concepts and techniques to offer.
  • For people who want to incorporate herbalism to support themselves and their families in improving and maintaining good health.

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