Education Events in Magenta

For this interactive half-day session, Nawa and Argo will teach you about the ancestral frameworks of herbal medicine, plant allies, animism and Hilot, also known as traditional Filipinx medicine. They will guide you to prepare, cook, and store Lana using methods passed down from Filipinx ancestors. Together, we'll imbue this mixture with our intentions and spirit and choose a selection of tanom/halaman/plant allies: ginger (luy-a), lemongrass (tanglad), guava (bayabas), & moringa (kamunggay/malunggay). We’ll then move through the elements of pressing and pounding herbs (yuta/Earth), milking and extracting coconut milk, and cooking herbs and coconuts together using fire (kalayo), before finally setting the medicinal oil.