Why this work is important?

Do you know what your mother ate, what was her diet like when you were in her womb? What was the environment like? This ancestral memory is still informing your health and your biology, the way you digest nutrients, the way you relate to your environment. You not only inherited physical traits but also a whole gut biome. And this is also part of your identity. 

Decolonize your Diet is a journey of reclamation to help you remember your ancestral tangible wealth which includes the foods your ancestors ate because your whole body biome, every part, tissue, organs, bones are made of what your mother ate when you were in her womb and so your body has an affinity (through ancestral cell memory) to foods that are ancestral =closer to your original biome. 

I hear many speaking about Decolonizing our Minds and while this is important, it is only part of the equation/inner work. 

What about decolonizing your diet and food?What about going deeper and beginning to Decolonize the foods we eat and hence our souls?

What is missing in retreats and Decolonial spaces are conversations around food, conversations around the importance of decolonizing our plates! And so we inadvertently perpetuate colonial ways of being that further disconnect us from our cultural identities and ancestral ways.

We need conversations around how decolonizing our minds without also decolonizing and integrating our ancestral diets, and hence our digestive fire, keeps us fragmented. Disconnecting the mind from the whole body and our root.

This offering is inspired by my recent in-person retreat gathering in which we asked women to join us in the kitchen. I have been hosting those retreats for years now, but in my recent retreat, it became clear that instead of expecting to be served, we need to bring the core place of any retreat or in-person gathering, the kitchen and the nourishment closer to the work we are offering and weaving.

Not only were the meals nourishing but the warm co-creation and joy that was created in the kitchen through our participation, and through sharing ancestral memories of food and recipes was part of the medicine, part of the whole healing experience and made it truly memorable.

By tending to our nourishment, root and foundation, we tend to our souls. 

When we connect and begin to question what is our relationship with our ancestral diet, what is in our plate and begin to question subconscious programing like adopting somebody’s else diet because it is considered more refined, diet culture, excessive fasting even when our bodies need nourishment instead of restriction to root us in, we begin to reclaim our ancestral memory through food.

Subconscious programming may look like adopting the idea that European cuisine is more refined, (like french cuisine) Or that the Mediterranean diet is the best diet for longevity and while this may be true, often for those of us who have been severed from our ancestral roots and identities, this only removes us and further disconnects us from our cultural identities. 

Is Decolonize your Diet for You?

• This offering is a transformational journey into your relationship with your ancestral diet
• This transformation invites you to reclaim more of your ancestral and cultural identity through food.
• It invites you to see your ancestral diet as medicine
• You will receive practical tips and meaningful suggestions to connect with your ancestral healing remedies. 
• You will walk away feeling empowered in mending your connection to your ancestral wealth. 
• You will walk away feeling more embody instead of restricted. 

 Ask Yourself? 

• • How have you been colonized around food and diet? 
  • What was the environment you grew up in like? This is part of your original gut biome!
  • What is your relationship to your Ancestral foods and diet?
  • What is your relationship to your body?
  •  What beliefs do you hold around your ancestral foods?
  •  Do you endorse diet culture?
  •  Do you eat unhealthy foods or process foods out of convenience?
  • In our fast-paced culture, what was modeled to you in terms of your relationship and connection to your food? 
  • What stories about ancestral foods and diet did you grow up with and which stories do you wish to reclaim?  

The exchange for this 7-weeks offering is $ 700

Program Schedule link: Canva Schedule