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Decolonizing Food and Medicine

Bringing together decades of experience in healing work from Plant medicine to Western medicine to work in social change, our circle of healers starts with the growing connection between Sage LaPena and Rupa Marya, who are building the vision for clinical work that decolonizes food and medicine, prioritizing care for those most harmed by the systems put in place through colonization that have separated people from the earth and her offerings of care. The work is starting in building bridges in our understanding, in mapping out the vision of decolonizing practice, in creating an herbal apothecary and bringing together communities for care. The work will progress with our first mobile clinic to take the medicine where it is needed most. Sage and Rupa are developing curriculum and training for healers to advance their care in directions that harmonize people to the web of life around them, supporting community immunity, enhancing vitality and lowering systemic inflammation. In cultures living with intact tradition, food and medicine are never separated—they are always a force of healing. From how we grow and prepare foods from seed to patient, the circle of health we create is founded in principles of reciprocity and care.