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Herb Plants

The Program

Winter-Spring 2026

Enroll in the Akouatzin Medicina Ancestral Community Herbalism School for the Spring 2026 Yerberi Schedule. Send us an email now and we will reach out with more information. 

January

IN PERSON

Saturday, January 17th

Opening & Blessing at Kalpulli Teokalli Teoyolotl

Teachings:

  • Community Herbalism by BIPOC for BIPOC, rooted in ancestral sacred plant-medicine traditions

  • The lifelong path of the Yerberi / Healer / Curanderi

  • Healing & Being in Right Relationship with the Land with Abuela Santa Akouatzin

  • Guided Plant Meditation with Briana Popoca​​

  • Guest Speaker: Jefa Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli

ZOOM

Thursday, January 22nd

Alleviating the Winter Blues

Teachings:

  • An introduction to herbs that uplift mood and support mental wellness during the darker winter months. (January is recognized as Mental Wellness Month.)

Focus: Mental Health & Well Being

Supporting Teacher: Leighla Molina

ZOOM

Thursday, January 29th

Herbs to support the Nervous System 

Teachings:

  • Introduction to herbs that support the nervous system during times of seasonal & lunar shifts, stress, grief, and transitions. 


Focus: Nervous system health & grief relief support

Supporting Teacher:  Briana Popoca 

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February

IN PERSON

Saturday, February 7th

Herbal Allies for Heart Health at Casa de Resistencia. 

Teachings: Introduction to herbs that protect the heart. Strengthening the Physical & Spiritual Heart. 


Focus: Heart Health

Supporting Teacher: Arely Camacho Pino

ZOOM

Thursday, February 12th

Herbal Allies for Winter Wellness 

Teachings: Boosting the immune system, addressing sore throats, coughs, cold & flu season

Focus: Immune System & Lung Health 

Supporting Teacher: Akayla Bogan

ZOOM

Thursday, February 19th

Standing in your Power: Sexual & Reproductive Organ Health 

Teachings: Sexual Health Herbal Allies. Ancestral Practice - Honoring the Moon Cycles.


FOCUS: Sexual Health and Reproductive Organ Health

Supporting Teachers: Akayla Bogan

March

IN PERSON

Saturday, March 7th

Spring Cleaning & Nutrition at Small Town Farm

Morning Teachings: (Dani Juarez)

  • Spring Cleaning- how to use Herbal support for the body’s detoxification process after Winter. Spring Equinox is here!

  • Cleaning our personal spaces, decluttering our minds, supporting our bodies, minds, and spirits.  

 

Afternoon teachings: (Briana Popoca)

  • Nutrition: Addressing the Health Ailments that affect our Communities (diabetes, cancer, high blood pressure)

FOCUS: Digestive, circulatory/lymphatic systems, and respiratory systems.

Supporting Teachers: Dani Juarez & Briana Popoca

IN PERSON

Sunday, March 8th

Partera topic: Warming the Womb/Awakening our Creative Centers at Resistencia Book Store

Teachings: Connecting to our creative centers with pelvic steams/ bajos as self-care. Students will begin to grow in awareness & relationship to aliveness (movement and flow) in the pelvis as signs of wellness. 

 

Focus: Herbs for the reproductive continuum 

Supporting Teacher: Abuela Felisa Yolocuicapahtli Yzaguirre

ZOOM

Thursday, March 12th

Herbs for Liver Health & Kidney 

Teachings: Sacred Rage & Biles

FOCUS:

  • Digestion herbal allies and support.

  • Nourishing Anger: Liver Health 

Supporting Teacher: Leighla Molina

ZOOM

Thursday, March 26th

Relieving Spiritual and Physical Pain with

Teachings: Relieving Spiritual and Physical Pain

 

FOCUS: Body aches, Muscular & Joint systems, Lymphatic System

Supporting Teacher: Briana Popoca Salpeter

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April

ZOOM

Saturday, April 9th

Respecting our Ancestral Master Plant Teachers

Teachings: Respecting & Working with our Ancestral Master Plant Teachers

FOCUS: Responsibility and Integrity when approaching these sacred plants. 

Supporting Teacher: Al Acosta 

ZOOM

Thursday, April 16th

Working with Sacred Plants for Protection 

Teachings: Introduction to using herbs for Protection

 

FOCUS: Rituals for Spiritual Protection of Self and Home. 

Supporting Teacher: Briana Popoca Salpeter

IN PERSON

Saturday, April 18th

Limpia Demonstration at Kalpulli Teokalli Teoyolotl

Teachings: Continuing theme of Protection with Sacred plants, Smudging, Limpias 

 

FOCUS:  Making the medicina: Smudge Bundles, Agua Florida, Bundles for Rameadas

Guest Teacher: Abuela Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuahtli​

May

ZOOM

Thursday, May 7th

Summer Cooling Herbal Allies Part 1

Teachings:  Summer Cooling Herbal Allies and Support. Part 1

 

FOCUS: 

  • The Spirit of the Skin and the Relationship to Self

  • Protecting Skin Health and the Healing Touch

Supporting Teacher: Claudia Ojeda

ZOOM

Thursday, May 14th

Summer Cooling Herbal Allies and Support, Part 2

Teachings: Summer Cooling Herbal Allies and Support. Part 2

 

FOCUS: 

  • Preparing Summer Cooling Herbal Support: Aguas frescas, Shrubs, Elixirs & Oxymels 

  • Wound Care

Supporting Teacher: Arely Jaguar Camacho Pino and Dani Juarez

IN PERSON

Saturday, May 16th

Presentations by Apprentices and Yerberis at Bastrop State Park

NOTE: Camping optional on Friday, May 15th & Saturday May 16th

Presentations by Apprentices and Yerberis.  Closing our Círculo.

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The Spirit of Giving & Receiving:

Reciprocity

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At AMA Herb School, we offer an Indigenous model of learning — one rooted in community, shared wisdom, and the creation of a sacred circle. We reject the inflated costs and rigid hierarchies of most Western herbal schools. Our teachings honor lineage, lived experience, and learning through relationship with the Earth and each other. In traditional times, our elders were supported through sacred offerings — food, herbs, eggs, tobacco, and other meaningful gifts. We continue to welcome these traditional offerings, like tobacco or copal, with gratitude. At the same time, we now also rely on monetary contributions — an energetic exchange that helps sustain this work in the modern world. So whether you’re joining us as a student or supporting us as an ally through monthly donations, your commitment helps keep these teachings alive, rooted, and accessible to our community. Tlazocahmati. Thank you.

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