Atava Garcia Swiecicki

Atava is guided by her dreams, the plants and and her ancestors. She studied Feminist Studies at Stanford and received her Master’s degree at Naropa University. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas and traditional knowledge keepers. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher and is dedicated to remembering the healing traditions of her ancestors and supporting others to reconnect with their ancestral medicine. She is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal & Folk Medicine in Oakland, CA.