CBD 2023: Healing with the Ancestors – Toltec Practices for Intergenerational Flourishing with Brenda Salgado, MS

Toltec and indigenous traditions have a deep understanding of the importance of cultivating relationships with our Ancestors in order for us and future generations to heal, flourish and thrive. For many in modern society, we don't always know how to work with ancestors, may not know their names or stories, yet we still carry strong imprints in us of their traumas, challenges, gifts, and talents that have been passed down the line. In this workshop, Brenda will introduce participants to healthy ways of working with Ancestors, and will lead Toltec breath and energy practice to support the healing of ancestral trauma and patterns that no longer serve us. This helps us to clear the patterns in our line that we don't want to carry forward, and to access the gifts that they share with us.

This workshop is part of a two session series taught by Brenda Salgado. Attendees are encouraged to register for one or all sessions in the series, as well as for other Contemplation by Design Summit sessions.  The first part of Brenda Salgado's series is on Oct. 29 and titled,
"Mindfulness, Indigenous Prophecy, and the Time of the Sixth Sun with Brenda Salgado"

Brenda Salgado, MS, is the founder of Nepantla Consulting and Program Director of the Racial Healing Initiative. She is a mindfulness author, speaker, wisdom keeper, Toltec energy healer, trainer, and organizational consultant. She holds degrees in Biology, Developmental Psychology, and Animal Behavior. In the past, she has served as the Director of the East Bay Meditation Center, as Associate Director at Wisdom & Money, and as a Senior Fellow at the Movement Strategy Center, and is the author/editor of Real World Mindfulness for Beginners: Navigate Daily Life One Practice at a Time.

In addition to her seasoned nonprofit and consulting experience, Brenda has received training from elders in traditional medicine and healing ceremony in Purepecha, Xochimilco, Toltec and other indigenous lineages, Brenda draws on the healing powers of the natural world to guide her work. Her current projects are focused on mindfulness practices that draw from multiple traditions, ceremony for ancestral healing and collective transformation, and the weaving of mindfulness and indigenous teachings/prophecy for understanding the times we are in as a human family. She is committed to co-creating a society filled with wholeness and beauty. 

CBD 2023: Healing with the Ancestors – Toltec Practices for Intergenerational Flourishing with Brenda Salgado  is part of the FREE Contemplation by Design Summit, Oct. 24- Nov. 2, 2023.

The full Summit schedule is posted at: http://contemplation.stanford.edu/summit. All events are FREE and online.

Registration opens September 12, 2023