WHAT IS SASTIMOS?
‘Sastimos’ is a word in Rromanes, the umbrella term for the languages of the Rromani* peoples, and is an exclamation that loosely means ‘good health!’
Sastimos Holistic Health offers small batch, sustainably harvested and grown herbal remedies, holistic health consultations, mentorship, and classes.
Sastimos Holistic Health is specifically focused on acknowledging the stories of people, power, and culture, centering those understandings in the conversations of health and well being.
Sastimos Holistic Health favors working with medicinal plants that people tend to dismiss because they are labeled ‘invasive’ and ‘problematic’.
Like the Rromani peoples*, invasive plants have survived the harshest conditions with very little support, facing obstacles with strength and resilience; qualities that can benefit everyone in the current era of climate change.
*Rromani people is an umbrella term for a group of globally diasporic peoples who are organized by nation, tribe, and clan, often pejoratively referred to as gypsies. The Rromani originally hail from Northern India and currently live on almost all continents throughout the world.
10% of all Sastimos Holistic Health profits are annually donated to the Rroma Peoples Project.
Though Ayurveda and Rromani peoples hail from overlapping regions of India and have some strong intersections in medicine and healing modalities, Jennileen was not trained by a Rromani healer and does not purport to practice Rromani medicine professionally. She is, however, a Rromani woman and that cultural intelligence cannot be separated from who she is as an Ayurvedic practitioner and herbalist.