About AMA
Indigenous knowledge, in Indigenous voices.
Ancestral Medicine Academy is an Indigenous-centered educational platform dedicated to creating spaces where Indigenous elders, knowledge holders, healers, and leaders can share their knowledge directly with a global audience.
Through courses, films, conversations, and gatherings, AMA explores ancestral approaches to healing, spirituality, ceremony, ecology, consciousness, and our relationship with the living world.
About the academy
An educational space for Indigenous voices.
Ancestral Medicine Academy is an Indigenous-centered educational platform where elders, knowledge holders, healers and leaders can share their knowledge in their own voices.
The academy brings together film, conversations and educational experiences to explore ancestral approaches to healing, spirituality, ecology and our relationship with the living world.
How this work took shape
Six years behind the camera.
For six years, Francisco has been following and documenting Indigenous leaders, elders, traditional healers and knowledge holders. Through this work, he has gathered more than 120 hours of footage.
This growing body of recordings forms a foundation for the academy. It brings together material gathered over years, offering a starting point for films, conversations and learning resources.
The next stage is to organise and contextualise this material, working towards educational experiences guided by the people whose knowledge it holds.
What we are building
From recordings to learning.
AMA is developing a space for films, recorded conversations, courses and gatherings. These different formats allow people to encounter teachers through their stories, perspectives and lived experience.
The recordings are a starting point. Building the academy also involves selecting material, providing context and developing learning experiences with the knowledge holders involved.
Meet the people behind the teachings on our Teachers page, or explore the principles that guide this work on Our Vision.
What guides us
Discover the vision behind the work.
Explore our digital maloka and the responsibility of preserving knowledge for future generations.