Talk
Ayurveda
Kena Acosta
(Spanish and English)
Tue, Jun 2, 3pm
Sala Quetzal
Biblioteca Pública
Donation 60 pesos
Traditional medicine of India
| Kena Acosta is a dancer and healer from Amatlán, Morelos, will work with campesinos at CEDESA (Centro de Desarrollo Agropecuario) in Dolores Hidalgo and give a talk on traditional Ayurveda medicine of India. |  |
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Julie DuRand, president of the Bernard Weisman Foundation, will translate the talk and help to field questions and comments.
Acosta lived in India for three years, 1994–97, studying dance and Eastern health practices including Ayurveda. When she returned to Mexico in 1997, she began to make oils and tonics as used in India, as well as soaps and shampoos, which are more commonly used here. Her group, called Tlayur, is an alternative enterprise that combines production, information and learning. She and her partner Patricia Cano participated in the Bernard Weisman Foundation Women’s Trade Fair in March of this year.
According to Acosta, “Tlayur is a health project that seeks to promote knowledge about the generous grace of nature, working with natural primary materials and based on ancestral knowledge about medicine, nutrition, agriculture and all practices that respect life. We try to make Tlayur’s oils, tonics, soaps and shampoos rich and pleasing to the senses as well as therapeutic. We promote the principles of Ayurveda medicine in schools, at festivals, in alternative spirituality and health food stores and projects related to fair trade, community trade and organic products.”
Acosta’s work promotes an understanding of the connection between Ayurveda and Mexican herbal lore, based on the following themes: the origins of herbal medicine, the elements of nature, hot and cold qualities, properties of various plants and parts of plants, and nutrition. Similar to ancient Mesoamerican cosmology, Ayurveda is based on “five great elements”—earth, water, fire, air and space. It also focuses on balancing three elements of the human body: breath, phlegm and bile, utilizing various preparations and exercise, yoga, meditation and massage.
Acosta will be available for personalized Ayurveda analyses on the same day as the talk and on Wednesday, June 3.
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Plática ecológica
Atahualpa Caldera Sosa
El rio Laja y su importancia ecológica
Friday June 5th at 4 pm
Biblioteca Publica, Sala Quetzal
60 pesos
Salvemos al Laja
La cuenca alta del Río Laja se localiza en el estado de Guanajuato y constituye un corredor vital para la vida silvestre local y migratoria y el territorio de numerosas comunidades locales. El Río Laja es tributario del Río Lerma, uno de los ríos más grandes de México. Por su biodiversidad y alto valor de endemismos de peces y aves, la Ecoregión del Lerma es considerada una Zona de Importancia Global por el World Wildlife Fund.
Hoy en día la cuenca del Río Laja está severamente dañada, pues aún cuando todavía cuenta con áreas de bosque y zonas conservadas, el crecimiento de la población, la conversión de las zonas forestales al uso agrícola y/o ganadero, la sobreexplotación del acuífero subterráneo y la degradación de los sistemas acuáticos, ha impactado no sólo en los ecosistemas sino también en los sistemas productivos de los cuales depende la supervivencia de la población de la Cuenca.
La conferencia trata de la situación actual del rio Laja y las implicaciones ambientales y sociales que ha tenido la explotacion de sus recursos naturales en la region. Será impartida por el especialista en gestión integrada de cuencas, el biólogo Atahualpa Caldera Sosa.
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