Event Description:

Hermanas: Mujeres Curanderas/(Sisterhood: Women Healers) will be hosting a wellness retreat, “Sacred Connections: Honoring Nature, Wellness and Ancestral Traditions” during the 2024 National Latino Conservation Week.  This event is a national event coordinated by Hispanic Access Foundation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our event will be kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month on Sunday, September 15, 2024 and is being co-sponsored and hosted by the Suffolk County Cornell Cooperative Extension at the Suffolk County Yaphank Farm in Yaphank, NY. 

Mujeres Curanderas are four 4 Latina entrepreneur women healers that are supporting our community through transformational, certified trauma informed healing and nutritional holistic wellness modalities.  Through culture and purpose, we assist members in our community and their families live a healthier lifestyle both physically and mentally.  Our retreat “Sacred Connections: Honoring Nature, Wellness and Ancestral Traditions”  purpose is to reconnect the community with the earth, through food and ceremony with its bounty, hiking, meditation, yoga, and a cooking class for all to remember and be one with nature, it’s beauty, and use traditional ancestral ways of healing with the earth’s energy.

Proceeds will be donated to the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County to support their academic program for youth and families.  Educational programs such as: Agriculture, Marine, Community Education and 4-H Youth Development programs. They are educators, researchers, specialists, and volunteers dedicated to the mission of preserving Suffolk County's vast heritage, protecting their eco-systems, supporting families, and providing youth opportunities for community service and research-based education in science, technology, engineering and math. (STEM)

 

This is a MUST registered event.  Space is limited

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