Tending Your Inner Garden: Healing the Microbiome, Healing the Earth

“Our guts are not isolated systems, but mirrors of the planet’s ecosystem.” In this visionary session, Dr. Crystal Dawn Silas—physician, herbalist, and traveler— invites us into a story of connection, where healing the microbiome is inseparable from healing the Earth. Through herbs, spices, fermented foods, and lifestyle practices, Dr. Crystal shows how to restore microbial diversity and resilience within. Using her simple “Five Rs” framework, you’ll learn what to remove from your diet, how to replace it with nutrient-rich foods, which herbs and ferments reinoculate microbial diversity, how to repair the gut lining, and how to rebalance through rhythm and lifestyle medicine. This class is both science and ritual, blending practical tools with an invitation to remember our place in the living web of life.