THE WISDOM OF THE MINERAL KINGDOM
Remembering Our Bigger Earth story
Ben Okri says, “Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life.”
In this Mineral Year of 2024, please join us as we excavate the wisdom of indigenous technology in the modern world. We'll explore how the Mineral Kingdom teaches us that our Original Medicine fulfills our deepest longing to know and live our purpose... and how without expression in the world we can never reach our full potential in community.
About The Original Medicine 4-Part Series
This program is a psycho-spiritual cross-cultural mindfulness approach to the teachings that weave together Indigenous Wisdom, Mindfulness, and Earth-based practices in order to integrate seasons and the transitions between the seasons as cross-cultural mindfulness tools. In Indigenous societies, there are long-standing practices of honoring the sacred, cultivating stillness, embracing silence, being in nature, and conducting rituals to acknowledge the coming changes in the world around them and within themselves.
Prior participation in previous OM 4-Part Sessions not required.
This event registration is for the Original Medicine 4-Part Series - Spring Season on Saturday, March 16 from 10:00 am - 12:00 pm (Pacific Time).
A Zoom Link will be sent on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, prior to the event. Please check your spam folder if you do not see our email with the zoom link.
If you have any questions, please email info@braidedwisdom.org.
ABOUT THE TEACHER
Mbali Marais is the founder of Return to Origin NPO/PBO. She was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. She is a descendant of the Khoi Khoi peoples, French Huegenots, Dutch, Portuguese, Bushmen, Shangaan, adopted into the Dagara tribe, and is an initiated stick diviner, as well as the Amaghebe clan of the Xhosa peoples. At 3 years old in 1954, she was taken by her parents to live in London. Through her own challenges, which she now understands was her own rootlessness and a sense of homelessness, she developed a passion which became a mission and fascination in health and healing, via the “other route”.
Mbali's diverse background in the healing arts, integrative medicine, indigenous practices and transformative guidance, provide a sound container for both modern and ancient healing modalities. She is now living in the Eastern Cape surrounded by two rivers and the Indian Ocean.
Follow Mbali Marais on YouTube @waterspirit_mbalimarais and learn more about her work at: https://ourdivinemedicine.wordpress.com/.