Medicine Bags for the Spirit with Rose Two Feathers Hernandez

Join Rose Two Feathers Hernandez to make sacred medicine bags that nourish your spirit and soul. Medicine Bags for the Spirit with Rose Two Feathers Hernandez Rose is an indigenous artist & craftswoman, curandera, designer, and poet. They are a native of Texas, a Mescalero Apache (Aztec), and Mestiza in lineage. They have been an entrepreneur and accomplished artist since 1988, and a practitioner in the healing arts for over 40 years; walking the Two Spirit Red Road since 1987. They have been acknowledged as a Keeper of the Rock for their Mayan Clan. Their teachings on indigenous cultural crafts has been offered and taught since 2005. Their passions are sanative based, sharing knowledge and providing In-kind service work for the empowerment, enrichment, and evolution of others that seek balance and spiritual connection to self and the universe. This workshop will address the use and reason for the personal medicine, the types of weaving used and the material of leather types, creating patterns, use of glue and other tools such as hole punching chisels, leather lace and sinew, sewing styles, adding embellishment, and using cord or lace to hang bag for wearing. Rose will explain the difference in animal hides, their meaning and medicine, use of stones or glass beads, adding extra adornment such as quill, claws, charms, or bone. Ages 15+