CIMARUTA REMEDIES
Ancestral Folk Medicine and Connection
Cimaruta Remedies is an authentic container for healing, connection and magic rooted in the protective folk medicine ways of my ancestral lands.
I am devoted to helping clients who seek support in healing physically and emotionally with plants to find their deeper truth.
We work together to practice restorative wellness — with the plants and healing relations with the ancestors.
Many of us have suffered ancestral and multigenerational trauma, and Cimaruta Remedies offers tools for both liberation and reclamation. We are a nurturing space that welcomes all who are interested in forming new and healing attachments to the body, the plants and ancestral guides.
Herbal Wellness sessions and Ancestral Connection Sessions are held via zoom.
Cimaruta Remedies also is a product line of organic, home grown and sustainably and ethically sourced plant medicine.
I am practicing ancestral healing work and making ancestral medicine on land that is stolen and not my ancestral land, to aknowledge this and work towards rematriation, a portion of the sale of all my salves goes to pay Shuumi Land Tax
ABOUT ME
I am Kara. I live on the territory of the Ohlone people, in what is named the the city of Oakland, CA.
I am a mother, a partner, a folk herbalist and an ancestral medicine connector.
I create a container for people to connect with their ancestors, the elements, the plants and with their bodies.
My matrilineal side, my ancestors were Mediterranean, living in Calabria, southern Italy, for thousands of years. My patrilineal side, my ancestors were from Highland Scotland, Germany, Ireland, England.
The over 20 years of ancestral work I have personally practiced has led me to ancestral medicine rooted in my Italian, Mediterranean and European folk ways.
I attended Ancestral Apothecary's first Cecemmana clinical herbalism program and have taught classes at Ancestral Apothecary since graduating. I’ve also held amaro making workshops in Oakland, bringing the medicine of ancestral bitters to my community.
It is an honor to listen to the call to hold space and show up sharing my experiences and perspective through holding seasonal Italian folk medicine and Mediterranean plant classes. I offer private herbal consultations for specific concerns and preventative holistic self care and private ancestral connection sessions, helping individuals to find their own ancestral medicine within.
My products can be purchased locally directly from me, at BayMade in Oakland or here on this site shop. I grow many of the plants I work with to make my salves, tea blends and tinctures.
I look forward to connecting and working with you.
