Preserving and teaching Hmong Healing Practices

This project integrates traditional Hmong healing practices into modern lifestyles and empowers younger Hmong to embrace the wisdom of their ancestors for overall health and well-being. The main objectives are: 1) identify and describe Hmong healing practices for common ailments through a series of oral history interviews of Hmong elder practitioners; 2) preserve and pass down traditional Hmong healing practices with free community workshops engaging together in learning and practicing traditional Hmong healing rituals and producing a series of three, 2-3-minute, videos demonstrating each healing practice and its techniques; 3) connect with ancestral wisdom at the workshop through health lessons that compare and apply Hmong healing practices with that of similar western self-care modalities for common ailments; 4) empower Hmong families to live a well-balanced life including the daily use of traditional healing practices.