BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.35.1//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://spiritualgrowthevents.com/ X-WR-CALNAME:Spiritual Growth Events X-WR-CALDESC:Free X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=03;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-d72c5c85c6c5a1da806d45e917a714ee@spiritualgrowthevents.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260820T173000 DURATION:PT1H DTSTAMP:20260812T114102Z RDATE;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260820T173000,20260823T110000 CREATED:20260812 LAST-MODIFIED:20260812 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:2 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:The Indigenous Way of Healing with Plants – Free Class with Adriana Ayales DESCRIPTION:\n\nFree Online Event\n\n What if health is shaped not only by what happens inside the body, but also by your relationships with nature, community, emotion, purpose, and spirit? Indigenous healing traditions across the Americas offer a relational perspective that invites you to look beyond symptoms and consider the wider conditions that support balance and wellbeing.\n \n\n Rainforest herbalist and curandera Adriana Ayales explores this perspective through plant wisdom, traditional stories, ceremony, and contemplative practice. Rather than approaching herbs simply as remedies, she shares traditions in which plants are understood as teachers, allies, and companions within an ongoing relationship of gratitude and care.\n \n\n You’ll explore Adriana’s “Healer as Gardener” philosophy and the idea that healing can begin by cultivating healthier relationships with yourself, the natural world, community, spirit, and the living systems around you. She’ll also introduce ways rainforest healing traditions understand physical and emotional symptoms as meaningful signals that can invite deeper reflection.\n \n\n Along the way, Adriana will share traditional approaches to herbs and botanical preparations, guide you through self-assessment, and invite you into a contemplative practice that deepens connection with nature and with yourself.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n\n Registration is free, and event access details and reminders are sent after you register.\n \n\n\n\n\n Explore This Free Event\n \n\n Jump directly to the section that interests you.\n \n\n\n \n →\n Why Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n What You’ll Learn\n \n \n\n \n →\n Who Should Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n About Adriana Ayales\n \n \n\n \n →\n Endorsements\n \n \n\n \n →\n Frequently Asked Questions\n \n \n\n \n Register Here For Free\n →\n \n \n\n\n A Relational View of Healing\n \n\n Why Attend “Indigenous Plant Healing: Explore Herbal Wisdom, Ceremony & Relational Wellbeing”\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n It is easy to think of health as a collection of isolated symptoms or problems to solve. Indigenous healing traditions offer another lens, inviting you to consider how wellbeing is connected with your relationships to your body, emotions, community, environment, purpose, spirit, and the living world.\n \n\n Adriana Ayales brings years of study with master herbalists and Indigenous medicine peoples throughout Central and South America to this exploration. Her approach places medicinal plants within the larger traditions of folklore, ceremony, reciprocity, and relationship rather than treating them only as substances to take.\n \n\n This perspective may be especially meaningful when stress, loss, emotional overwhelm, recurring concerns, or disconnection leave you wondering what a more compassionate relationship with yourself and nature could look like. Rather than offering a promise of a quick fix, Adriana invites you to explore practices and ideas that emphasize attention, relationship, and the conditions in which greater balance can be cultivated.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Plant Wisdom + Contemplative Practice\n \nWhat You’ll Learn\n\n We’ll begin by exploring how Indigenous healing traditions understand health through relationships, so you can consider the connections among plants, people, community, environment, spiritual practice, and personal wellbeing. Adriana will introduce the “Healer as Gardener” philosophy and why cultivating supportive conditions can be as important as focusing on what seems to be wrong.\n \n\n From there, you’ll look at traditional relationships with herbs, roots, flowers, barks, resins, bitters, and other botanical allies, which means plant medicine is approached within a wider context of gratitude, reciprocity, reverence, and care. Adriana will also draw on folklore and Indigenous cosmology to illuminate why plants may be regarded as teachers and companions as well as medicines.\n \n\n Along the way, you’ll explore how physical and emotional symptoms can be approached as meaningful messengers, and then Adriana will guide you through self-assessment and a contemplative exercise. These practices offer a way to reflect on areas of relationship that may feel out of balance, so the teaching becomes something you can engage with personally rather than only understand conceptually.\n \n\n Here’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n \n\nHow Indigenous healing traditions connect wellbeing with relationships to self, nature, community, spirit, and the living world\nAdriana’s “Healer as Gardener” philosophy and the importance of cultivating conditions that support balance and vitality\nWhy medicinal plants may be approached as teachers, allies, and trusted companions rather than only as remedies\nTraditional ways of working with herbs, resins, flowers, bitters, roots, barks, and other botanical preparations\nThe role of gratitude, reciprocity, reverence, and care in relationships with plants\nHow rainforest healing traditions can view physical and emotional symptoms as meaningful messengers\nWays self-assessment can help you reflect on relationships that may feel strained or out of balance\nHow folklore, ceremony, and Indigenous cosmology help give context to traditional plant wisdom\nA contemplative practice for returning to yourself and deepening your connection with nature\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n For Plant-Curious Seekers\n \nWho This Is For\n\n This event may resonate if you are interested in medicinal herbs but want to understand plant healing within a wider relational and spiritual context. It may also speak to you if you are navigating chronic stress, loss, recurring health concerns, emotional overwhelm, nervous-system vulnerability, or a desire to feel more connected with yourself, your community, and the natural world.\n \n\n The session is also relevant for herbalists, healers, wellness practitioners, and spiritually curious people who want to learn more about rainforest traditions from Central and South America. Whether you are newer to plant medicine or already familiar with herbal practice, Adriana’s emphasis on relationship, reciprocity, ceremony, and traditional stories offers a distinct perspective to explore.\n \n\nPeople curious about Indigenous healing traditions and rainforest herbalism\nThose interested in medicinal plants beyond a symptom-focused approach\nAnyone drawn to the relationship between plants, spirituality, community, and the Earth\nPeople moving through stress, loss, emotional overwhelm, or periods of disconnection\nHerbalists and plant-medicine students interested in traditional relational approaches\nHealers, wellness practitioners, and spiritually oriented practitioners\nThose interested in folklore, ceremony, Indigenous cosmology, and contemplative practice\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Meet Your Teacher\n \nAbout Adriana Ayales\n\n Adriana Ayales is an author, educator, and rainforest herbalist from Costa Rica. From a young age, she was immersed in healing and herbalism and later devoted more than a dozen years to studying several healing traditions alongside master herbalists and Indigenous medicine peoples.\n \n\n Her work is deeply connected with the plant traditions of Central and South America. Through her teaching, Adriana brings together traditional herbal knowledge, folklore, ceremony, and the relational understanding of plants that shaped her early life and continued studies.\n \n\n Adriana founded Anima Mundi Herbals, an apothecary and herbal medicine facility in Brooklyn, New York. Its medicines are sourced from organic and ethical farms, wildcrafters, and Indigenous peoples around the world.\n \n\n She is also the author of Healing Tonics and Adaptogens: Herbs for Longevity and Everyday Wellness. Adriana resides in Costa Rica, where she was born and raised.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Rainforest Herbalism and Plant Wisdom\n \nEndorsements\n\n\n\n “Adriana’s course taught as much as a college semester. She goes beyond the slide presentation with insightful, intuitive material that informs, enlightens, and inspires. She is beautiful from the inside out, highly intelligent, articulate, kind, and honest. This was one of the best courses I’ve ever taken, and an incredible value. I highly recommend it.”\n \n\n Ellie\n \n Oregon\n \n \n\n\n\n “Adriana is so good at integrating herbalism with spirituality, cosmology, physiology, and shamanic practice in such a beautifully illustrative, fascinating yet grounded and evidential way that I could hardly wait for each session to begin. I’m so looking forward to any additional course offerings taught by her.”\n \n\n Tahirah\n \n New York, New York\n \n \n\n\n\n “Medical herbalist, curandera healer, author, educator, businesswoman, and mother, Adriana Ayales is one of the rare teachers who seamlessly integrates a lifetime of classical herbal training into modern Western culture. A highly articulate teacher, she presents the ancient knowledge of plant medicine with a clarity that draws from scientific medicine, years of clinical practice, and the magical realms of the psyche.”\n \n\n David Crow\n \n Author, herbalist, educator, and founder of Floracopeia\n \n \n\n\n\n “What an incredible opportunity to join herbalist Adriana Ayales in this insightful and inspiring course. Designed to lead one on a journey deep into the heart of herbs and empower others on their green path, Indigenous Plant Medicine brings together a host of wisdom keepers, herbalists, and healers to share their knowledge and love of plants with others.”\n \n\n Rosemary Gladstar\n \n Renowned herbalist and educator\n \n \n\n\n\n “Adriana’s upcoming course on Indigenous herbal medicines will be a treasure to partake in. Adriana is a wellspring of knowledge of both the scientific and magical properties of plant medicine and herbal wellness, and her teaching will no doubt reach anyone who joins at any level in their studies. She’s a vibrant and passionate speaker, teacher, and translator for the abundant plant kingdom.”\n \n\n Leah Song\n \n Rising Appalachia\n \n \n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Everything You Need to Know\n \nFrequently Asked Questions\n\n Select any question below to reveal the answer.\n \n\n Event Details\n \n\nWhen and where does the event take place?\n\n This free online video event takes place on Thursday, August 20, at 5:30pm Pacific Time. A final replay presentation is scheduled for Sunday, August 23, at 11:00am Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nWho is Adriana Ayales?\n\n Adriana Ayales is a Costa Rican author, educator, rainforest herbalist, and founder of Anima Mundi Herbals. She spent more than a dozen years studying several healing traditions alongside master herbalists and Indigenous medicine peoples and is the author of Healing Tonics and Adaptogens: Herbs for Longevity and Everyday Wellness.\n \n\n\nWhat will I learn during this event?\n\n You’ll explore how Indigenous healing traditions understand health through relationships among plants, people, community, environment, and spiritual practice. Adriana will also introduce her “Healer as Gardener” philosophy, traditional approaches to botanical allies, self-assessment, and a contemplative practice centered on relationship and connection.\n \n\n\nWhat if I can’t attend live?\n\n Register even if you can’t attend live. Registration includes access to a recording, and a final replay presentation is scheduled for Sunday, August 23, at 11:00am Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nHow long is the event?\n\n The free online event is approximately one hour long.\n \n\n\nDo I need any special equipment to participate?\n\n Any participation or access details will be provided when you register.\n \n\n\nWho is hosting the event?\n\n This event is presented by The Shift Network\n \n\n\nIs this event suitable for beginners?\n\n Yes. The teaching is accessible to people who are curious about Indigenous healing traditions and plant medicine, while herbalists, healers, and other practitioners may also find the relational perspective relevant.\n \n\n\nIs this event religious?\n\n The event is spiritually oriented and explores Indigenous healing traditions through plant relationships, cosmology, ceremony, and contemplative practice. It is not framed around adherence to a particular religious denomination.\n \n\n\nWill there be an opportunity to go deeper after the event?\n\n Yes. Adriana will share information about an upcoming 5-week live video course exploring Pre-Columbian Indigenous healing cosmologies, traditional medicinal herbs, cleansing rituals, dreamwork, and emotional healing traditions.\n \n\n\nWhat can I expect to feel during the event?\n\n The session includes stories, teaching, self-assessment, and contemplative practice, but each person’s response will be individual. The experience invites reflection on balance, connection, and your relationship with plants, nature, community, and yourself.\n \n\n\nCan I share this event with friends?\n\n Yes. You are welcome to share the public registration page with friends who may be interested in Indigenous healing traditions, herbalism, plant medicine, ceremony, or relational wellbeing.\n \n\n\nIs this event really free?\n\n Yes. Registration for this online video event is free. Adriana will also share information about an upcoming 5-week live video course separately.\n \n\n\n About the Teaching & Practice\n \n\nWhat does the “Healer as Gardener” philosophy mean?\n\n Adriana uses the “Healer as Gardener” philosophy to explore healing as the cultivation of conditions in which health, balance, and vitality can flourish. Rather than focusing only on fighting illness, the teaching emphasizes tending the relationships and conditions that support wellbeing.\n \n\n\nHow do these traditions understand the relationship between plants and healing?\n\n In the traditions Adriana will explore, plants are not regarded only as remedies. They may also be approached as teachers, allies, and companions, with the relationship a person cultivates with a plant understood as part of working with its medicine.\n \n\n\nWhat role do gratitude, reciprocity, and reverence play in plant medicine?\n\n Adriana will explore plant relationships rooted in gratitude, reciprocity, reverence, and care. These principles place herbal practice within an ongoing relationship with the plant world rather than treating plants simply as resources to use.\n \n\n\nHow are physical and emotional symptoms approached in this teaching?\n\n Adriana will explore rainforest healing traditions that regard physical and emotional symptoms as meaningful messengers that can invite attention to deeper relationships with yourself, nature, community, spirit, or purpose. This is presented as a traditional healing perspective rather than a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment.\n \n\n\nWhat will the self-assessment practice involve?\n\n Adriana will guide you to gently reflect on places where you may be experiencing ruptures or imbalance in important relationships. The practice is intended to support greater awareness and understanding of the patterns you are noticing in your own life.\n \n\n\nWhat kinds of plant preparations and botanical allies will Adriana discuss?\n\n Adriana will discuss traditional work with herbs, resins, flowers, bitters, roots, barks, and other botanical allies. Her emphasis is on the relationships, traditions, and healing context surrounding these plants rather than viewing them only as isolated remedies.\n \n\n\nHow do folklore, ceremony, and Indigenous cosmology fit into the event?\n\n Adriana will use traditional stories, Indigenous cosmology, and ceremony to provide context for the ways plant wisdom has been understood and carried across generations. These elements help illuminate the relational and spiritual dimensions of the healing traditions she will explore.\n \n\n\nHow might this event be relevant if I’m dealing with stress, loss, or recurring health concerns?\n\n The event offers a relational perspective for reflecting on stress, loss, emotional overwhelm, recurring concerns, and periods of disconnection. Adriana’s teaching emphasizes curiosity, connection, and the wider conditions surrounding wellbeing rather than promising a particular health outcome.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Health Disclosure\n \n\n The contents of this website/e-mail are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This website does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.\n \n\n\n\n Relationship Disclosure\n \n\n We are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. In order to do this, please note that whenever you click the links and purchase items, in most (not all) cases we will receive a referral commission. 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Indigenous healing traditions across the Americas offer a relational perspective that invites you to look beyond symptoms and consider the wider conditions that support balance and wellbeing.\n \n\n Rainforest herbalist and curandera Adriana Ayales explores this perspective through plant wisdom, traditional stories, ceremony, and contemplative practice. Rather than approaching herbs simply as remedies, she shares traditions in which plants are understood as teachers, allies, and companions within an ongoing relationship of gratitude and care.\n \n\n You’ll explore Adriana’s “Healer as Gardener” philosophy and the idea that healing can begin by cultivating healthier relationships with yourself, the natural world, community, spirit, and the living systems around you. She’ll also introduce ways rainforest healing traditions understand physical and emotional symptoms as meaningful signals that can invite deeper reflection.\n \n\n Along the way, Adriana will share traditional approaches to herbs and botanical preparations, guide you through self-assessment, and invite you into a contemplative practice that deepens connection with nature and with yourself.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n\n Registration is free, and event access details and reminders are sent after you register.\n \n\n\n\n\n Explore This Free Event\n \n\n Jump directly to the section that interests you.\n \n\n\n \n →\n Why Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n What You’ll Learn\n \n \n\n \n →\n Who Should Attend\n \n \n\n \n →\n About Adriana Ayales\n \n \n\n \n →\n Endorsements\n \n \n\n \n →\n Frequently Asked Questions\n \n \n\n \n Register Here For Free\n →\n \n \n\n\n A Relational View of Healing\n \n\n Why Attend “Indigenous Plant Healing: Explore Herbal Wisdom, Ceremony & Relational Wellbeing”\n \n\n \n \n \n \n\n It is easy to think of health as a collection of isolated symptoms or problems to solve. Indigenous healing traditions offer another lens, inviting you to consider how wellbeing is connected with your relationships to your body, emotions, community, environment, purpose, spirit, and the living world.\n \n\n Adriana Ayales brings years of study with master herbalists and Indigenous medicine peoples throughout Central and South America to this exploration. Her approach places medicinal plants within the larger traditions of folklore, ceremony, reciprocity, and relationship rather than treating them only as substances to take.\n \n\n This perspective may be especially meaningful when stress, loss, emotional overwhelm, recurring concerns, or disconnection leave you wondering what a more compassionate relationship with yourself and nature could look like. Rather than offering a promise of a quick fix, Adriana invites you to explore practices and ideas that emphasize attention, relationship, and the conditions in which greater balance can be cultivated.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Plant Wisdom + Contemplative Practice\n \nWhat You’ll Learn\n\n We’ll begin by exploring how Indigenous healing traditions understand health through relationships, so you can consider the connections among plants, people, community, environment, spiritual practice, and personal wellbeing. Adriana will introduce the “Healer as Gardener” philosophy and why cultivating supportive conditions can be as important as focusing on what seems to be wrong.\n \n\n From there, you’ll look at traditional relationships with herbs, roots, flowers, barks, resins, bitters, and other botanical allies, which means plant medicine is approached within a wider context of gratitude, reciprocity, reverence, and care. Adriana will also draw on folklore and Indigenous cosmology to illuminate why plants may be regarded as teachers and companions as well as medicines.\n \n\n Along the way, you’ll explore how physical and emotional symptoms can be approached as meaningful messengers, and then Adriana will guide you through self-assessment and a contemplative exercise. These practices offer a way to reflect on areas of relationship that may feel out of balance, so the teaching becomes something you can engage with personally rather than only understand conceptually.\n \n\n Here’s just a little bit of what you’ll learn:\n \n\nHow Indigenous healing traditions connect wellbeing with relationships to self, nature, community, spirit, and the living world\nAdriana’s “Healer as Gardener” philosophy and the importance of cultivating conditions that support balance and vitality\nWhy medicinal plants may be approached as teachers, allies, and trusted companions rather than only as remedies\nTraditional ways of working with herbs, resins, flowers, bitters, roots, barks, and other botanical preparations\nThe role of gratitude, reciprocity, reverence, and care in relationships with plants\nHow rainforest healing traditions can view physical and emotional symptoms as meaningful messengers\nWays self-assessment can help you reflect on relationships that may feel strained or out of balance\nHow folklore, ceremony, and Indigenous cosmology help give context to traditional plant wisdom\nA contemplative practice for returning to yourself and deepening your connection with nature\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n For Plant-Curious Seekers\n \nWho This Is For\n\n This event may resonate if you are interested in medicinal herbs but want to understand plant healing within a wider relational and spiritual context. It may also speak to you if you are navigating chronic stress, loss, recurring health concerns, emotional overwhelm, nervous-system vulnerability, or a desire to feel more connected with yourself, your community, and the natural world.\n \n\n The session is also relevant for herbalists, healers, wellness practitioners, and spiritually curious people who want to learn more about rainforest traditions from Central and South America. Whether you are newer to plant medicine or already familiar with herbal practice, Adriana’s emphasis on relationship, reciprocity, ceremony, and traditional stories offers a distinct perspective to explore.\n \n\nPeople curious about Indigenous healing traditions and rainforest herbalism\nThose interested in medicinal plants beyond a symptom-focused approach\nAnyone drawn to the relationship between plants, spirituality, community, and the Earth\nPeople moving through stress, loss, emotional overwhelm, or periods of disconnection\nHerbalists and plant-medicine students interested in traditional relational approaches\nHealers, wellness practitioners, and spiritually oriented practitioners\nThose interested in folklore, ceremony, Indigenous cosmology, and contemplative practice\n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Meet Your Teacher\n \nAbout Adriana Ayales\n\n Adriana Ayales is an author, educator, and rainforest herbalist from Costa Rica. From a young age, she was immersed in healing and herbalism and later devoted more than a dozen years to studying several healing traditions alongside master herbalists and Indigenous medicine peoples.\n \n\n Her work is deeply connected with the plant traditions of Central and South America. Through her teaching, Adriana brings together traditional herbal knowledge, folklore, ceremony, and the relational understanding of plants that shaped her early life and continued studies.\n \n\n Adriana founded Anima Mundi Herbals, an apothecary and herbal medicine facility in Brooklyn, New York. Its medicines are sourced from organic and ethical farms, wildcrafters, and Indigenous peoples around the world.\n \n\n She is also the author of Healing Tonics and Adaptogens: Herbs for Longevity and Everyday Wellness. Adriana resides in Costa Rica, where she was born and raised.\n \n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Rainforest Herbalism and Plant Wisdom\n \nEndorsements\n\n\n\n “Adriana’s course taught as much as a college semester. She goes beyond the slide presentation with insightful, intuitive material that informs, enlightens, and inspires. She is beautiful from the inside out, highly intelligent, articulate, kind, and honest. This was one of the best courses I’ve ever taken, and an incredible value. I highly recommend it.”\n \n\n Ellie\n \n Oregon\n \n \n\n\n\n “Adriana is so good at integrating herbalism with spirituality, cosmology, physiology, and shamanic practice in such a beautifully illustrative, fascinating yet grounded and evidential way that I could hardly wait for each session to begin. I’m so looking forward to any additional course offerings taught by her.”\n \n\n Tahirah\n \n New York, New York\n \n \n\n\n\n “Medical herbalist, curandera healer, author, educator, businesswoman, and mother, Adriana Ayales is one of the rare teachers who seamlessly integrates a lifetime of classical herbal training into modern Western culture. A highly articulate teacher, she presents the ancient knowledge of plant medicine with a clarity that draws from scientific medicine, years of clinical practice, and the magical realms of the psyche.”\n \n\n David Crow\n \n Author, herbalist, educator, and founder of Floracopeia\n \n \n\n\n\n “What an incredible opportunity to join herbalist Adriana Ayales in this insightful and inspiring course. Designed to lead one on a journey deep into the heart of herbs and empower others on their green path, Indigenous Plant Medicine brings together a host of wisdom keepers, herbalists, and healers to share their knowledge and love of plants with others.”\n \n\n Rosemary Gladstar\n \n Renowned herbalist and educator\n \n \n\n\n\n “Adriana’s upcoming course on Indigenous herbal medicines will be a treasure to partake in. Adriana is a wellspring of knowledge of both the scientific and magical properties of plant medicine and herbal wellness, and her teaching will no doubt reach anyone who joins at any level in their studies. She’s a vibrant and passionate speaker, teacher, and translator for the abundant plant kingdom.”\n \n\n Leah Song\n \n Rising Appalachia\n \n \n\n\n Register Here For Free\n \n\n\n\n Everything You Need to Know\n \nFrequently Asked Questions\n\n Select any question below to reveal the answer.\n \n\n Event Details\n \n\nWhen and where does the event take place?\n\n This free online video event takes place on Thursday, August 20, at 5:30pm Pacific Time. A final replay presentation is scheduled for Sunday, August 23, at 11:00am Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nWho is Adriana Ayales?\n\n Adriana Ayales is a Costa Rican author, educator, rainforest herbalist, and founder of Anima Mundi Herbals. She spent more than a dozen years studying several healing traditions alongside master herbalists and Indigenous medicine peoples and is the author of Healing Tonics and Adaptogens: Herbs for Longevity and Everyday Wellness.\n \n\n\nWhat will I learn during this event?\n\n You’ll explore how Indigenous healing traditions understand health through relationships among plants, people, community, environment, and spiritual practice. Adriana will also introduce her “Healer as Gardener” philosophy, traditional approaches to botanical allies, self-assessment, and a contemplative practice centered on relationship and connection.\n \n\n\nWhat if I can’t attend live?\n\n Register even if you can’t attend live. Registration includes access to a recording, and a final replay presentation is scheduled for Sunday, August 23, at 11:00am Pacific Time.\n \n\n\nHow long is the event?\n\n The free online event is approximately one hour long.\n \n\n\nDo I need any special equipment to participate?\n\n Any participation or access details will be provided when you register.\n \n\n\nWho is hosting the event?\n\n This event is presented by The Shift Network\n \n\n\nIs this event suitable for beginners?\n\n Yes. The teaching is accessible to people who are curious about Indigenous healing traditions and plant medicine, while herbalists, healers, and other practitioners may also find the relational perspective relevant.\n \n\n\nIs this event religious?\n\n The event is spiritually oriented and explores Indigenous healing traditions through plant relationships, cosmology, ceremony, and contemplative practice. It is not framed around adherence to a particular religious denomination.\n \n\n\nWill there be an opportunity to go deeper after the event?\n\n Yes. Adriana will share information about an upcoming 5-week live video course exploring Pre-Columbian Indigenous healing cosmologies, traditional medicinal herbs, cleansing rituals, dreamwork, and emotional healing traditions.\n \n\n\nWhat can I expect to feel during the event?\n\n The session includes stories, teaching, self-assessment, and contemplative practice, but each person’s response will be individual. The experience invites reflection on balance, connection, and your relationship with plants, nature, community, and yourself.\n \n\n\nCan I share this event with friends?\n\n Yes. You are welcome to share the public registration page with friends who may be interested in Indigenous healing traditions, herbalism, plant medicine, ceremony, or relational wellbeing.\n \n\n\nIs this event really free?\n\n Yes. Registration for this online video event is free. Adriana will also share information about an upcoming 5-week live video course separately.\n \n\n\n About the Teaching & Practice\n \n\nWhat does the “Healer as Gardener” philosophy mean?\n\n Adriana uses the “Healer as Gardener” philosophy to explore healing as the cultivation of conditions in which health, balance, and vitality can flourish. Rather than focusing only on fighting illness, the teaching emphasizes tending the relationships and conditions that support wellbeing.\n \n\n\nHow do these traditions understand the relationship between plants and healing?\n\n In the traditions Adriana will explore, plants are not regarded only as remedies. They may also be approached as teachers, allies, and companions, with the relationship a person cultivates with a plant understood as part of working with its medicine.\n \n\n\nWhat role do gratitude, reciprocity, and reverence play in plant medicine?\n\n Adriana will explore plant relationships rooted in gratitude, reciprocity, reverence, and care. These principles place herbal practice within an ongoing relationship with the plant world rather than treating plants simply as resources to use.\n \n\n\nHow are physical and emotional symptoms approached in this teaching?\n\n Adriana will explore rainforest healing traditions that regard physical and emotional symptoms as meaningful messengers that can invite attention to deeper relationships with yourself, nature, community, spirit, or purpose. This is presented as a traditional healing perspective rather than a substitute for medical diagnosis or treatment.\n \n\n\nWhat will the self-assessment practice involve?\n\n Adriana will guide you to gently reflect on places where you may be experiencing ruptures or imbalance in important relationships. The practice is intended to support greater awareness and understanding of the patterns you are noticing in your own life.\n \n\n\nWhat kinds of plant preparations and botanical allies will Adriana discuss?\n\n Adriana will discuss traditional work with herbs, resins, flowers, bitters, roots, barks, and other botanical allies. Her emphasis is on the relationships, traditions, and healing context surrounding these plants rather than viewing them only as isolated remedies.\n \n\n\nHow do folklore, ceremony, and Indigenous cosmology fit into the event?\n\n Adriana will use traditional stories, Indigenous cosmology, and ceremony to provide context for the ways plant wisdom has been understood and carried across generations. These elements help illuminate the relational and spiritual dimensions of the healing traditions she will explore.\n \n\n\nHow might this event be relevant if I’m dealing with stress, loss, or recurring health concerns?\n\n The event offers a relational perspective for reflecting on stress, loss, emotional overwhelm, recurring concerns, and periods of disconnection. Adriana’s teaching emphasizes curiosity, connection, and the wider conditions surrounding wellbeing rather than promising a particular health outcome.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n Health Disclosure\n \n\n The contents of this website/e-mail are for informational purposes only and are not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. This website does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.\n \n\n\n\n Relationship Disclosure\n \n\n We are grateful to be of service and bring you these life-changing events free of charge. In order to do this, please note that whenever you click the links and purchase items, in most (not all) cases we will receive a referral commission. 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