On the Land in Our Bones with Layla K. Feghali and Maryam Hasnaa I CIIS Public Programs

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RECORDING: On the Land in Our Bones with Layla K. Feghali and Maryam Hasnaa
DESCRIPTION: Tying cultural survival to earth-based knowledge, Lebanese ethnobotanist, sovereignty steward, and cultural worker Layla K. Feghali offers a layered history of the healing plants of Cana’an (the Levant) and the Crossroads (“Middle East”) and asks into the ways we become free from the wounds of colonization and displacement. Layla remaps Cana’an and its crossroads, exploring the complexities, systemic impacts, and yearnings of diaspora. She shows how ancestral healing practices connect land and kin-calling back and forth across geographies and generations and providing an embodied lifeline for regenerative healing and repair.
Anchored in a praxis she calls Plantcestral Re-Membrance, Layla asks how we find our way home amid displacement: How do we embody what binds us together while holding the ways we’ve been wrested apart? What does it mean to be of a place when extraction and empire destroy its geographies? What can we restore when we reach beyond what’s been lost and tend to what remains? How do we cultivate kinship with the lands where we live, especially when migration has led us to other colonized territories?
Layla’s latest book, The Land in Our Bones, recounts vivid stories of people and places across Cana’an, sharing lineages of folk healing and eco-cultural stewardship: those passed down by matriarchs; plants and practices of prenatal and postpartum care; mystical traditions for spiritual healing; earth-based practices for emotional wellness; plant tending for bioregional regeneration; medicinal plants and herbal protocols; cultural remedies and recipes; and more.
Join Layla and initiated Priestess, Energy Worker, Medicine Woman, and Flower Practitioner Maryam Hasnaa for a profound conversation that invites us to re-member our roots, to deepen our relationship with the lands where we live in diaspora, and is a beckoning call towards belonging, healing, and freedom through tending the land in your own bones.
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Such a timely offering. Thank u so much for sharing this valuable gem. 💖🌳🕊️💫

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[@angeldaley]

Beautiful, much needed medicine! thank you 🙏🏾

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[@emanabdallah252]

love this so much, thank you both xx

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