Ancestral, Folk, & Herbalism School

 

Class & Topics

* Cultural Appropriation, Accountability, Ethics & Elders

* Walking the medicine path in a responsible way

* Navigating academic and Professional environments embodied and empowered as a spirit-driven medicine person

* Celtic Spirituality, Magic & Mysticism; a practical approach to spirituality & the wheel of the year

 

About

Malia Roe is a practicing indigenous (Miami Indiana Tribe) and Celtic pagan who walks the crooked path. As a practitioner, she draws deeply from her lifelong relationship with the invisible world (spirits, ancestors, energy) that began in her childhood. That relationship has grown and been nurtured by the teachings she’s been gifted from seers, mediums, wise women, cunning folk, witches, curanderas, herbalists, and medicine people from a wide range of cultural and ancestral traditions. She has been called to share those teachings and experiences with others in ways that support their own journeys of self-awareness and empowerment. Malia’s circles of practice embrace both her indigenous and celtic ancestors. She is a member of the Seven Arches Longhouse, the Black Rose, Black Tree, and Reclaiming magical traditions, the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD), the Ancient Order of Druids in America, and the Sisterhood of Avalon. She is a reiki master (Usui tradition), a certified Life & Mindfulness Coach, a certified herbalist but the centre of Excellence, an OBOD-trained Celebrant and a legal ceremonial officiant. She is also involved with the Healing & Reconciliation Institute, and is a trained HRI facilitator. Malia most often offers teachings on: · Wildcrafting a responsible, respectful medicine path · Working from/with the land where you live / land-based spirituality · Cultural appropriation, accountability, ethics & elders · Communicating with the ancestors · Beginning & advance energetic healing (combining ancestral & reiki approaches) · Celtic spiritualities (druidry & witchcraft, neopaganism & historical practices) · Living the wheel of the year · Divination methodology & practice · Herbal medicine & folk workings · Guided meditation, journeying, hedge-riding

Sacred Practice: Learning Through the Wheel of the Year

This class focuses on spiritual and sustainable living practices, taught through the pagan calendar - the eight-fold Wheel of the year - which derives from ancestral Celtic/European harvesting and spiritual living practices. We'll focus on understanding how our ancestors engaged with these holidays, the distinction between specific Celtic (Welsh, Irish, Scottish) practices, and how different pagan spiritualities (druids, Wiccans, witches, Avalonians, etc.) engage with the Wheel. We'll look at practical ways to include Wheel observations into your life as well as explore crystals and herbs to enhance those practices.

Communicating with the ancestors through scrying and other methods of divination

This course focuses on how to use tools and methods from different cultural traditions in order to connect with our ancestors as a path to self-awareness and wisdom. The course includes basic instruction on grounding and energetic protection as well as spirit journeying to create relationships with ancestors. We'll explore a variety of tools - scrying, tarot, runes, ogham, etc. - that serve as a conduit for ancestral communication.