Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden March Events
“Native People/Native Plants”
March Special Presentations at the Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden
A grant from the Florida Humanities Council has made possible a series of public presentations on traditional utilization of plants.
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“Down the Garden Path: Envisioning a Prehistoric Medical System”
Michele Williams, PhD, RPA
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 7:00 pm, Nature Chapel – Free Admission
Prehistoric home health as it would have been practiced in Florida and beyond depended on native plants and the communal knowledge of medical plants carried through the generations by mothers, aunts, and grandmothers as they cared for their families.
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“Prehistoric Plant Pharmacy Tour of the Botanical Garden”
Constance N. Miller, Retired Clinical Herbalist
Saturday, March 15, 2014 at 10:00 am at Key West Botanical Garden – Free Tour
A hands-on walking tour will link present-day uses to the ancient practices of Florida’s earliest inhabitants.
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“Maya Traditional Uses of Plants for Healing and Ceremony”
Jennifer O’Hagan
Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 7:00 – 8:15 pm – $5 admission; free to KWBGS members & students
This presentation will include the medicinal, emotional and spiritual use of plants in traditional Maya Medicine Healing from Central America as practiced by tribal shamans. Jen will also show the award-winning video, “Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer”.
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“Maya Plant Pharmacy Botanical Garden Tour”
Constance N. Miller, Herbalist
Saturday, March 22, 2014, 10:00 – 11:30 am; $5 tour; free to KWBGS members & students
Experience a hands-on walking tour of Maya medicinal plants in our Botanical Garden from the above lecture, and from writings of O’Hagan’s teacher, Rosita Arvigo.
For more information on these presentations, visit www.kwbgs.org or call 305-296-1504.
Key West Botanical Garden Society is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit maintaining the botanical garden for the City of Key West.
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Also in March, the KWTF&BG will be the venue for an all-day seminar on non-invasive self-care abdominal massage, herbs, nutrition and mind/body/spirit healing from the ancient tradition of the Maya, and how to use it yourself:
Hands on Health – The Maya Way, Jennifer O’Hagan, RH (AHG)
Sunday, March 16, 2014, 10:30-5:30, fee $100
Jennifer O’Hagan is a registered professional herbalist through the American Herbalists Guild. Further studies took her to Rosita Arvigo’s Institute, where she studied for over a decade and is a senior instructor. She travels all over the world teaching Maya Abdominal Therapy, and was chosen to teach Maya Spiritual Healing classes at the Institute. She is on the Arvigo Institute’s Advisory Council in Belize. Jen is a licensed massage therapist, Reiki Master, and Loomis Digestive Health Specialist. Her practice is in Hope, NJ, in the northern Ramapo Mountains.
Required: pre-register and pre-pay at www.arvigotherapy.com under Course Schedule.