Knowledge Share Description

During this knowledge share we will explore Filipinx food as a medicine for our inter generational legacy of revolution & healing in living relationship with the land. We will explore the socio-economic conditions of why the Philippines is an agriculturally rich ancestral land yet most of our people are landless. In the past 50 years, the sacred plant of Rice who forms the foundation of our agricultural traditions has been especially harmed and distorted through legacies of imperialism and industrial genetic modification. As a balm for this living history, we will journey with Rice in cooking meditation to help us re-orient into right relationship with this sacred plant and the earth who provides this gift to us for our nourishment.

We will

• learn a basic history of rice & indigenous rice traditions

• We will come away with an basic understanding of the modern history of Rice genetic modification & economic exploitation whose roots are founded in the Philippines

• We will learn how to prepare a simple steamed rice treat as a gentle meditation/medicine for these legacies

Cost

$35 - low income

$50 - standard

$75 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)

Please apply here for a scholarship.

Accessibility Information

*ASR (automated) captioning provided

Virtual Gathering

The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out immediately upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.

5:00pm - 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.

Facilitator

Kai is a medicine keeper, healer, educator, community organizer, artist, permaculture gardener, & seed keeper. Kai currently lives on the unceded, occupied Confederated Villages of the Lisjan Ohlone and was born/raised on unceded, occupied lands of the Harsimus Lenni-Lenape. Kai is a descendant of ancestors who were migrant settlers to Turtle Island from the Philippines (Panay Island), China (Fujian Province), Ireland (County Monaghan), Germany (Saarland), and Lithuania (Vilnius). Kai walks in the ancestral healing paths of Hilot (Philippine traditional healing), Emotional release modalities, somatic/energetic healing, and indigenous agriculture traditions. Kai has inherited these teachings mainly from their Philippine ancestry but has also been taught by Taino, Mexica, West African diaspora & European descent teachers. They also practice in the path of engaged Buddhism, with most of their learrning coming from the Theravada (Insight) lineage of Southeast asia. Kai’s main virtual community offering is Filipinx Food as Medicine, a seasonal course where we reclaim ancestral foodways & self-healing practices through a decolonial lens of Philippine & Amerikan society.