Healing Wisdom for Modern Times
Healing Talk & Tobacco Ceremonies
This healing talk focuses on traditional wisdom & ceremonies of the Americas, plant medicines, sacred altars, ancestral lineage, and the origins of dis-ease in our physical, mental & spiritual bodies and how to transform and transmute them. You will also receive personal healing practices you can incorporate directly into your daily life.
Following the talk, you will be given the opportunity to participate in an optional liquid tobacco ceremony from South America called “Singada”, where we will work with the sacred medicine of the Nicotiana Rustica, commonly known as “Mapacho” or “jungle tobacco”.
Tobacco is one of the most powerful native plant spirits, which is also why it is one of the most abused colonized plant medicines on the planet, and should only be used with deep respect and healing intention... This is your opportunity to work with tobacco in a sacred manner.
This medicine will help heal, cleanse & release old blockages, unhealthy patterns, memories and traumas. It offers clarity, balance & grounding, as it helps to re-align your body, mind, spirit & soul. You can decide to participate once you have heard the talk and the ceremony instructions. The medicine can be received by nasal ingestion, topically, or not at all - the decision is yours to make.
BIOGRAPHY • Erika Gagnon is a ceremonial leader, wisdom carrier & healer who helps others remember how to heal themselves. Born in Canada, she honors all of the ancestors of her mixed race heritage, but does not identify as First Nations. The wisdom and ceremonies she carries, come from her 28 year walk on a medicine path & Red Road, working with Indigenous elders from North & South America, and their ancestral ceremonies, medicinal plants & altars. Erika is honored to have received their blessings to continue their traditions and leads temazcal (sweat lodge), tobacco, water blessing, and other healing ceremonies, as well as personal healing sessions.
LIMITED SPACES • Please reserve your spot if you are interested.
LOCATION • Herbarium Officinale, Hoher Markt 5, Vienna 1010
DONATION BASED • According to your means - No one turned away for lack of funds. All participants are encouraged to make a personal financial donation which represents your feeling of gratitude and reciprocity for this offering, helps cover travel & expenses, and supports Erika’s ongoing work to bring healing spaces and ceremonies to others. Please pay cash.
