![]() ![]() Currently, the farm is focused on working with migrant field workers and black + indigenous farmers to reimagine and build new food systems that foster food sovereignty within these communities. Jennifer’s vision is to continue supporting BIPOC communities within the framework of healing justice, identifying holistic responses to generational trauma and violence. She has been learning herbalism for most of her life, which has deepened and grown into a practice of curandera, ancestral healing, and folk tradition practices with food, medicine, and deep soul work. Learning from her great abuelita, Grandma Mary, a Mexican yerbatera and family matriarch, Jennifer began her journey with plant wisdom, healing, and food as nourishment at a young age. I’ll just be asking you to imagine breathing in and out of your heart centre (chest) and to see how it makes you feel, that’s all.Jennifer Rose Marie Serna is a Latina folk herbalist, mother, regenerative farmer, land activist, skill educator, and owner of Wapato Island Farm. I won’t be asking you to believe in anything that you can’t feel, or any explanation for what you can feel. It doesn’t matter, yoga works better if you work with some of these concepts. You can think of them as atmospheres or qualities of experience, or sub-conscious sensory information, or circulation or pure visualisation. The fact is that chakras, prana and other ‘energetic’ forces and networks of the body are just the maps we use because they work. ![]() Researchers of various kinds are looking into some of that, but there’s no solid boundary between mind, body and electro-magnetic field, and so we occasionally visualise things that may or may not have a basis in physical reality. ![]() Some of what we do is explained with more-than-physical maps of the self that we don’t have rational explanations for. ![]()
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