AMA Herbalism School

January
IN PERSON
Saturday, January 17th
Opening & Blessing at Kalpulli Teokalli Teoyolotl
Teachings:
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Community Herbalism by BIPOC for BIPOC, rooted in ancestral sacred plant-medicine traditions
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The lifelong path of the Yerberi / Healer / Curanderi
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Healing & Being in Right Relationship with the Land with Abuela Santa Akouatzin
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Guided Plant Meditation with Briana Popoca
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Guest Speaker: Jefa Rosa Tupina Yaotonalcuauhtli
ZOOM
Thursday, January 22nd
Alleviating the Winter Blues
Teachings:
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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:
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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


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)
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Spring Cleaning- how to use Herbal support for the body’s detoxification process after Winter. Spring Equinox is here!
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Cleaning our personal spaces, decluttering our minds, supporting our bodies, minds, and spirits.
Afternoon teachings: (Briana Popoca)
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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:
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Digestion herbal allies and support.
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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


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:
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The Spirit of the Skin and the Relationship to Self
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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:
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Preparing Summer Cooling Herbal Support: Aguas frescas, Shrubs, Elixirs & Oxymels
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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.

The Spirit of Giving & Receiving:
Reciprocity

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.