Blazing Star Herbal School

The Art and Revolution of Self Care- Winter Edition

 

 

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence.

It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

Audre Lorde

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Care to join me? 

We'll begin on the NEW MOON on Feb 9th 2024

about the program:

🫀It is an invitation to rest and re-set, to gather and grow together

🫀Each day for 30 days you will receive an email with an attached PDF, featuring a prompt,  a practice, a sample ritual, a quote/affirmation, and a seasonal recipe or two*.  Some practices will be cumulative (and others a one time experience). Some days you will find the suggested action easy and some days perhaps a little more challenging, some days the rituals will speak right to you and other days you may want pass and to create your own. 

* I try to keep them simple with items which most people have in their homes or can be found at the local grocery store, if I suggest a more specialized herb or ingredient I will offer more common alternatives also. I want to introduce nourishing herbal practices to you but also make it immediately and transformative

🫀You will be guided to create your own personal self care toolkit and manual. 

🫀We will have a private (optional) Facebook page to document your progress and share challenges with other, I will be popping in daily to cheer you all along and offer inspiration and support.

 

This email/PDF based course gives you tools you can return to time and time again.  Often all we need that one little action to shift our mindset/ the energy and to be able to take those small steps needed to start to feel more like ourselves.  Something I have learnt during my 25 years in the Holistic Health Care field is that by creating reliable self-care habits we can be more present, make clearer decision, and begin to unlock the fullness of life.

Be prepared to start feeling very full :-)

The best road to self care is to establish simple, daily practices which remind you of the gifts, benefits, blessings,  you enjoy and the goodness that prevails in your life. Step by step we can reset our past programming and begin to treat ourselves with love.

 

What you need to participate in the class:

Really just show up and participate

🌱A Journal or notebook (a place to catch your thoughts) would be helpful

🌱30-45 minutes set aside for you each day during your 30-day experience

🌱Willingness to try new things! and find new ways to be in community.

 

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Together we will define Self Care and its importance. 

Create a culture, community and Practice of Self care

Explore Spiritual, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing

Be Intentional, Be Strong together

Create Ceremony and Prayer

Integrate and Inspire

Commit and Reward

 Be in Gratitude

and Love

Join the Self - Care Revolution! 

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And remember that we are in this together! No-one needs to suffer alone. Reach out! and be kind to one another

We will begin this journey on the first New Moon of 2023, Jan 21st

Program Details:

 

Sliding Scale Price:  $33-$66

A word about the sliding scale: Please offer what you feel comfortable paying. If you are able to pay more know that you are supporting someone who is struggling financially but feels like this program would benefit them.  If you are buying the course and gifting it to someone please let me know. Once I receive your payment I will be emailing you more details.

 

Paypal: The Art and Revolution of Self-Care  

Venmo @tonya-lemos

 

about your guide:

I, Tony(a) Lemos have been a community herbalist for close to 30 years and have been the Director of Blazing Star Herbal School for 21 years guiding and mentoring herbal apprentices on their journeys with plant medicine. I am passionate about sharing my love of plants, people and the planet and helping people experience the feeling of connection which happens when communities are formed.

I am also passionate about Self Care, the intersection of herbalism and lifestyle, Sensory Plant Medicine, Spiritual Health with Plants and the Plant/Person relationship.  I also offer holistic herbal lifestyle consultations and individualized healing sessions. 

Beyond the Blazing Star Herbal School I am a published author and have lectured at multiple venues including the Northeast Women’s Herbal Conference,  the Green Nations Gathering, the Flower Essence Conference, The Northeast Aromatherapy Conference, NOFA MASS,  United Plant Savers and the CT Institute of Herbal Studies (1996-2006) and a multitude of local healing centers and yoga studios.

More than anything I love bringing people together who share interest in what it means to be in a  healthy relationship with all sentient beings. 

 

🌿🎨Botanical Art In-Studio Summer Session🎨🌿

Botanical Art In- Studio Program

Summer Session 

Starting Friday June 2nd 2023

Class meets 1 friday per month starting in May for 8 months

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This is a journey to find new creativity through our connection with the natural world and is suitable everyone who is curious about the world around. This is cumulative program in which creating an artist community is important. 

 

Learn "new" ways to connect with the magic and medicine of plants. Our ancestors drew health, strength, nourishment, and meaning from their relationship to the natural world, and yet today most of us have lost that vital connection leaving us ungrounded and lacking a deep sense  of place. There is such healing when we connect materials to place, I use found materials from a particular place to help establish a relationship with it. The result has me feeling more grounded, content and spiritually freer. We will explore a series of ideas working with nature—in its widest sense—to nurture our creativity, inspire us, make us more sustainable as artists, and breathe back energy and flow when our artistic streams run dry. The study of nature through art allows the “student-artist” to experience, observe, value, analyze, synthesize and express their understanding of, and relationship to, nature,  the environment and elements.

Art making has been part of the human experience for since prehistoric times: more than 39,900 years ago, some of their first marks left by our ancestors on walls of caves were the outlines of their hands and crude drawings of animals. Our need to be creative is in our blood! Art has scientifically been proven to help our mental health, boost our brains, relieve anxiety and stress, and even boost our immune system.  Botanical art adds another layer of healing potential by using the plants as our main inspiration and whenever we can to make the tools we will use. While deepening our connection with our natural evvironement

You do not have to be an artist to herbalist to join. Just a creative being who loves plants and wants to explore new ways of self expression and deeper connection to plants. If you can trace your hand you are ready for this class!  The techniques shared in this class are super exploratory and fun, easy to grasp and practice at home without a lot of expensive equipment. 

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Course covers:

Techniques 

• Basics of eco-printing on paper and fabric (steam printing, heat press, bundle dying)
• Botanical Dyeing on fabric (inc. clay resist printing, and indigo dying)                                                         
•  Intro to Printing (monotype/gel/relief/intaglio collagraph)
• Botanical Dyes intro
• Alternative processes in Photography (Anthotypes + Cyanotypes+ Lumen and Cyanolumen)

Practice and Mindset

• The language of plants and Printing
• Seed and Earth Art
• Getting + Staying creative (practices)
• The Art of Seeing
• Finding and developing your unique style
• Finding inspiration from the world around you
• Self Care for the artist
• Reading list
• Suggested/optional field trip

Projects 

• Creating an Herbarium and record keeping
• For the final project students are invited to create / design/ embellish an item of clothing
• Research project on color of their choice

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Studio Class Dates:One Friday per month beginning June 2 2023 (8 day long classes total)  Conway MA 

the remainder of the classes will be  first Friday of the month June through Jan

Class times: 10am-4pm

Cost: $850 plus $80 materials fee payable in cash on class 1

 ($200 deposit to register PayPal/venmo/checks)

Location: Conway MA

Payment Options

Pay in full ($50 discount) $800.00 USD Deposit $200.00 USD Balance $650.00 USD

 

Student testimonial:

"I took Botanical In-Studio Art class with Tonya Lemos (Blazing Star Herbal School Fall 2021) having no prior background in art or herbalism. I was intrigued by the topic and felt it might help me expand my sense of connection to and understanding of plants and beauty in my backyard while inspiring creative play in the visual arts. OMG has this been true! I’ve had the time of my life printing, playing, and eco-dying using plants on fabric and paper, and also cyanotype! Tony’s been an outstanding teacher– clear, organized, warm, generous, and intentional as she’s built community, and nurtured skills and artistic inspiration in each one of us. This course truly opened my eyes much wider to the beauty and wonder all around. Thank you Tony for sharing your gifts, passion, materials, and knowledge in this class that has been magical for me!!!" AJK

Images of said student work"

A personal and Global Healing Ceremony featuring "Tulsi" the incomparable one

 

 

 

 

When: Tuesday September 3rd, 10am-3pm

Where: Blazing Star Herbal School (in Conway- address mailed upon RSVP)

Suggested donation: $10-15

 

What to expect:​ We will start the day with a sacred tea ceremony, followed by a ​green breath meditation (a form of breath work created by Pam Montgomery)  then together we will create a (landscape) living Altar dedicated to Tusli (Holy Basil). 

 

Why Tulsi? Tulsi can be used as a spiritual tonic  which helps connect ones soul to the heart aiding in balance and integration of spiritual energy into daily life and help us live in a heart-centered place. It also helps bringing clarity around our true nature (& soul directed purpose). It is also considered to be a sattvic herb, this means that it is 'beneficent to all, harmful to no one"

 

What to Bring: Flowers, seeds, candles and a small dish honoring Tulsi for our potluck. (the dish does not have to include Tulsi. A water bottle and a  favorite mug for your tea! Tea will be provided. 

 

 

Please RSVP by email and plan on being timely!

 

Sliding Scale

Option 1 $10.00 USD Option 2 $15.00 USD

                                                                                   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tulsi plant is regarded as a threshold point between heaven and earth. Tulsi can be used as a spiritual tonic which helps connect ones soul to the heart aiding in balance and integration of spiritual energy into daily life and help us live in a heart-centered place. It also helps bringing clarity around our true nature (& soul directed purpose). It is also considered to be a sattvic herb, this means that it is 'beneficent to all, harmful to no one' Tulsi Devi is associated with the Venus, the planet of love, and invokes compassion, devotion, and bliss in a very intense and pure form. Tulsi is a sacred herb that is grows near temples in India and is worshiped as a goddess, as it carries the energy of the Divine Feminine.Though daily worship is prescribed, Tuesdays and Fridays are considered especially sacred for Tulsi worship. Rituals involve watering the plant, cleaning the area near the plant with water and cow dung (considered sacred) and making offerings of food, flowers, incense, Ganges water etc. Rangoli (decorative designs) of deities and saints are drawn near its foot. Devotees pray to Tulsi and circumbulate it,chanting mantras According to a Vedic holy text, "anyone who connects with Tulsi lives eternally in the Land of Divine Bliss".

 

 

Check out all these Tulsi Altars!

 

"Ceremony focuses attention so that attention becomes intention. If you stand together and profess a thing before your community, it holds you accountable.

Ceremonies transend the boundaries of the individual and resonate beyond the human realm"  

(Robin Wall Kimmerer- Braiding Sweetgrass)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Herbs and Practices for these Changing Times Workshop

 

 

Herbs and Practices for these Changing Times Workshop 

 

New Date! Friday, November 1st  2019 New Date!

10am - 3 PM

 

It is a serious thing just to be alive
on this fresh morning in this broken world.

~ Mary Oliver

 

BEING DEDICATED to a practice of self-care that nourishes AND heals the body, heart, mind, and spirit may be the most empowering, and loving action you can do for yourself (and those around you). Working with both the medicinal and spiritual properties of herbs, we will create a heart-healing toolkit of valuable remedies for living on the Earth in these changing times, of herbs, daily rituals, healing practices which build resiliance and support our healing journeys to wholeness and connection. We will discus herbal allies (including Tulsi, Hawthorn, Self Heal, Goldenrod, Motherwort, Rose, Cacao) for these dark times and different ways of integrating them respectfully into our lives .

 

In this class will will be exploring new and creative ways to call on our plant allies to help us thrive in these changing times. We are facing new levels of challenges that manifest deeper in the spiritual realm than we have seen before so we are called to rise to a new level of self care and deeper relationship with our plant allies and connection to the Earth. Separation is responsible for many of these ails; creating rituals and ceremonies which address our needs on the spiritual realm as well and the emotional and physical is the way forward. 

Just reproducing recipes and tonics of past times no longer serves us in the best way as we have changed, as our needs have evolved, and our herbal practices need to become more dynamic to reflect this. Change is constant health is dynamic and our healing practices need to reflect this fluidity and move away from stagnant beliefs.

 

 

 

 

This workshop is part instructional and part ceremonial. 

 

$60

We also accept VENMO, please email for details. Feel free to email wth any questions

This class is a bringing together of the work i have been focussing on in the past few years and I am looking forward to sharing with you all. I am also excited to teach it at other locations so please feel free to suggest venues that might be a good fit.

Sensory Plant Immersion with Cannabis

SUNDAY SEPT 15th

12-5pm 

at Blazing Star Herbal School (Conway MA) 

(street address upon registration)

 

Join  Tony(a) and special guest presenter Julia Agron for an afternoon of sensory plant immersion with Cannabis. During this session, you will be taught the dynamic process of sensory plant immersion as taught by Isla Burgess based on Participatory Science, a process which has its foundation in the work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ( 1749-1832). Plant immersions are also explored using a ‘Jungian Mandala’ template based on the work of C.G. Jung’s four ways of knowing – thinking, feeling, sensing, intuiting.

Plant Immersions offer a different way of seeing that bridges worlds and gives glimpses into other ways of being, or should we say, other being’s ways. During this workshop, we will sensorize* with cannabis – spending the whole workshop with the plant.

Following the dynamic sensory immersion process Julia will share from her wealth of experience addressing the following topics

Why does Cannabis present as a “magic fix” for such a wide range of ailments and conditions?

Why Whole Plant Medicine?

Concentrates from the traditional to the highly technical

Extraction, CO2 Extraction, Distillation

Methods of Consumption

Each participant will leave with a participatory sensory plant profile, and following the session will receive a follow-up email with exercises to deepen your practice well as a more traditional plant profile and some sample recipes.

This session is open to everyone OVER 21 YEARS of AGE whether novice, practitioner or educator. The dynamic group process will enable you to understand and work with plants at a deeper, vibrational level.

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  *Sensorize – to fully explore and experience a plant with all our senses 

  “Individual phenomena must never be torn out of context. Stay with the phenomena, think within them, accede with your intentionality to their patterns, which will gradually open your thinking to an intuition of their structure.”

  — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  This article by at Natasha Myers Schumacher College "Exploring Goethean Science" really does a nice bob explaining the concepts. Herbalist Isla Burgess of New Zealand is really the only person I know who has brought this work to herbalism. She is how I was introduced to this work.

 

All about Julia Agron

Julia Agron has been a passionate cannabis advocate for over 20 years. During her time
working in a medical marijuana dispensary, she had the opportunity to see thousands of
patients find increased health and wellness through cannabis, and thousands of lives made
better and more full through safe, legal, and supported access to this unique plant medicine.
Since stepping away from working in a dispensary, Julia has enjoyed focusing her energies in
the cannabis space on events, community education and advocacy, as a Cannabis Consultant
and as the Coordinator for NOSHA, the Northeast Sustainable Hemp Association.
“My passions are cannabis, sustainable living, social justice, and my community. I believe these
things are all interconnected. We need a serious shift in how we live together, and on this
planet, and I see cannabis, in all her forms, as a vital part of creating that shift. I believe that
everything I've done in my life brings me here, now, to do this work.”

 

 

Pre Registration Required (class size limited)

Class cost: $70

(21 +)

 

Sensory Immersion w/ Cannabis

Full Payment $70.00 USD Deposit $40.00 USD

                                                                    

The "Egg Moon" Special

The "Sprouting Grass Moon" is also known as the Egg Moon

 

While I prepare my Physical being eating greens and taking alteratives,  I am also paying attention to my Spiritual being and my heart by practicing more clearing ceremonies on my home and myself, including smoke clearings using my ancestral plants, and Egg, Plants, and Candle Cleansings (Limpias) as taught to me through an ongoing apprenticeship with Rocio Alvarez, Ecuadorian Curandera and Phd in Ethnobotany.

 

 

What is spiritual cleansing? It is a type of healing that seeks to identify and cure the spiritual cause for any problem that is manifesting in your life. This can also be thought of as an energy clearing or energy hygeine. Spiritual cleansing techniques are used to clear negative energy and improve your welbeing.

Spiritual cleansing is based on the concept that everything is energy: humans, thoughts, plants, rocks, light, emotions, animals, space… everything. Energies impact and change each other.  Spiritual cleansing isn’t limited to human beings. Since everything is energy, you can periodically do a spiritual cleanse on your home, car, workplace, objects you own, places you spend time in, etc. – basically anything occasionally needs a sprucing up.

A “limpia" or spiritual cleansing, is used to cleanse the body, mind and soul of stagnation, or negativity. Spiritual cleansing can be defined as spiritual hygiene – cleaning yourself from unwanted energies that we collect in each day of our life. It’s a matter of hygiene – just as you take a shower each day,  it's beneficial to cleanse yours energy body/aura regularly. An aura is an energy field that surrounds every living being. As we move through our life, our aura is our basic defense, protecting us from negative energies and weaker entities /attachments that fly all around us, all the time. As we move through life and get hit with powerful all types of powerful energies, our aura becomes weaker and sometimes cracking  allowing these energies to enter us. Every living thing on Earth collects different energies on a daily basis.

You can use spiritual cleansing for: feelings of hurt, guilt, fear, shame, anger, resentment and sadness can be hard to get rid of and can easily manifest in physical problems), ’bad energy’, ‘bad vibes’ or unexplained disturbances or lack of well-being in a home or work place,  to remove a persistent feeling of negative, heavy energy surrounding you.

 

What is the process?

A whole fertilized egg, that has been “charged” on an bed of seeds, candles and crystals is passed over the body in a scrubbing motion. I begin at the crown of the head and end at the soles of both feet. It is done fully clothed and in the standing position, when possible.When using the egg you are essential going through the person’s aura, and body, pinpointing specific areas if necessary, and allowing the eggs sponge like properties to absorb the energy. The egg traps the energy. The negativity transfers from you, to the egg. The final step, is breaking the egg it into a glass of water, reading it and then disposing of the shells and egg. 

This technique of spiritual cleansing using an egg is connected to many different cultures and traditions because the egg  has long been regarded as symbol of life and seeds potential.

The Egg Moon Special, Spiritual Cleansing:

For first timers 40% off 

♥  Spiritual Cleansings (Egg Limpias) $60  now $36

 You can book a session by emailing me (blazingstarclinic (at) gmail (dot) com

Payment can be either through paypal (blazingstarclinic (at) gmail (dot) com  or Venmo prior to appointment

 

 

Mugwort: Craft & Spirit

Location: Hedgerow Healing Arts

Shelburne Center, MA

Dates:

Saturday July 27th, 1o am-4 pm

Sunday July 28th.  1o am-4 pm

(optional but included) 

Mugwort Full Moon Feast

Thursday August 15th 7-9pm

 

A weekend f deep immersion with Mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris). We will access the healing gifts of Mugwort through sensory immersions, plant journeying, breathwork, dreamwork, and handcrafts including paper-making, dried mugwort bundles (smoke medicine) and home brewing.

We will enter a sacred relationship with Mugwort where we work in community with this plant ally and experience personal and collective healing.

The weekend immersion culminates under the August Full moon  in an extravagant feast featuring mugwort- a place at the table is included with this weekend workshop.

You will not want to miss this completely nourishing mind body and spirit connection with Mugwort! Join us for a Mug-load of fun and magic!

 

This class will be co taught by Devon Whitney and Tony(a) Lemos

Price for weekend including lunch and all supplies $195 and a place at the table for the Mugwort Full Moon Feast

(Does not included overnight accommodations)

This is a complete series which builds upon itself and culminates in a feast of knowledge and yumminess! We cannot accommodate partial attendance.

   

 

A teaser to a special class announcement coming soon!

(an excerpt from "The Art of Connection with your Plant Ally' )

 

the beginning

 

It was the early 1990’s and I was in my early 20’s like so many of my apprentices are now. I had arrived at the Wise Woman Center in Saugerties NY (by way of Kenya!) to become a live in apprentice with Susun Weed. Though already having a certificate as a Natural Therapist I could barely identify a dandelion but knew all the terminology, pathologies and products. Right away it became clear that Susun was an anomaly! So different to my previous teachers. Classes (can you even call them classes?) started late in the day, we sat on ground, goats trampled on us as we spoke and followed us as we wandered, note taking was not encouraged, and there were no term papers, no exams or curriculums to be followed. I spent the evenings perusing her books, what a collection she had! (life goal- no marie kondo 30 books limit!!) In no time having handled most volumes making note of where I could find what info and made a long list of books I would read over the next 9 weeks. I had a plan (after all I am a virgo), my own curriculum.

 

Or at least I thought I had a plan....My teacher had a different plan! a challenge for me “Do not open another book through out this apprenticeship” She wanted me to learn directly from the plants (20 years later I can honestly say WOW THAT was a perfect assignment for me, thank you Susun- i do often wonder whether the woman who was told not to speak again for a few weeks feels the same way!)

 

We were then told that we were to find a “green ally” to work with through out the program.

 

“Choose a plant that grows very near to you. . . You don't need to know the name of the plant, or anything about it. You will be sitting with your plant every day, dreaming with it, journeying and journalling with it. . . You are to develop a special caring, nurturing, relationship with your green ally. Our green allies tend our souls along with our sores.”

 

I felt lost, no books, working with a plant I knew nothing about? A relationship with a plant? Talking with/to a plant? Is that really possible. How do you pick a plant? They pick you!!!! How do I know when I have been picked...then what? Introduce yourself? and they’ll speak back  hmmm I was stuck here for 9 weeks and expected to learn, not take notes, learn herbal medicine, gain experience directly from a plant! I had no idea what plants were weeds and what were not, and which had all those good medicinal properties I had learnt about.

 

Day after day after our “Talking Stick Ceremony” in a cold sweat I would gather my journal and supples and head out to find me a plant ally, or to hide and make it seem like I was doing something, day after day i would come back a little more anxious. The next morning again, water bottle, bread and cheese in hand I would walk out the back door and get hit in the face or chest by some over grown, unruly plant that was trying to take over the cheese porch,! I would carefully put it back in place so as not to get it caught in the door wondering why Susun doesn’t she just cut this damned plant back as I balanced my belongings, held the door to move this plant out of my path and the door trying re-direct it, and yep everyday there is was back in my path. I do not remember how long it took, or when it finally occurred to me that that perhaps that plant was my plant, my ally. She had found me an ally indeed just as stubborn and persistent! I could not have chosen a better plant ally to get me started on this journey, she has taught me so much, named after the lunar goddess Artemis and, like the moon, she invites us to travel with her from the material world into the magical. Mugwort is particularly helpful when facing fears, working out problems and overcoming creative or emotional blocks, as she helps us to access deep memories (whether personal or collective) and bring them to light. Her intoxicating aroma has guided me for years.

 

Thats how Mugwort came to be my first green ally, a relationship that guided me, rooted me and very much helped form me into the woman I am today. Mugwort represents so many of the strong feminist women role models who have guided me some i have had the pleasure to meet in person, some just through social media and others just in spirit form.  I have had many allies since Mugwort, not all of them have been tattooed onto by body but all have left a mark in my life.

 

To this day I carry Mugwort with me on my left arm along with a Poppy and some Mary Oliver wisdom from “Why I Wake Early”

 

 

“Hello, sun in my face.

Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields

and into the faces of the tulips

Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

 

Why am i telling this story now you might wonder.

 

Twenty two years later I am revisiting my first ally, reconnecting, starting in reverse order reading all the first books I read Witches Heal! Billie Potts,  Juliette De Baraicli Levy, Maude Grieves, I remember the day Herbal Rituals: Recipes for Everyday Living by Judith Berger came out! (life changing) , followed some early Gail Faith Edwards! I met her as a young woman, since then I have become a mother and am soon approaching 50 years of age! She has been with me for many transitions and life changes, and I have so much gratitude to her for the guidance and support I don't think she has left my side since we first met in the cheese room at the Wise Woman Center! So this year I return to the beginning. 

 

 

Stay put a special announcement coming next week!

Fall 2018 Happenings!

Happy October everyone!

 

Song for Autumn

 

In the deep fall

don’t you imagine the leaves think how

comfortable it will be to touch

the earth instead of the

nothingness of air and the endless

freshets of wind? And don’t you think

the trees themselves, especially those with mossy,

warm caves, begin to think

 

of the birds that will come — six, a dozen — to sleep

inside their bodies? And don’t you hear

the goldenrod whispering goodbye,

the everlasting being crowned with the first

tuffets of snow? The pond

vanishes, and the white field over which

the fox runs so quickly brings out

its blue shadows. And the wind pumps its

bellows. And at evening especially,

the piled firewood shifts a little,

longing to be on its way.

 

Mary Oliver

 

 

As you all know newsletters and mailing lists are not my forte! and since facebook seems to do it all, it all these days I have slacked further! for this I apologize.  

 

We are half way through my 18th Year of teaching the Tuesday beginner/intermediate Apprenticeship, which i believe has finally found it's rhythm and coming of age!

 

We do have a few new offerings coming up soon (i will outline and link to them below) and I hope to get out and about a little more and teach a few 1 day workshops around town (i know you have been asking for sometime) Other than that I am focused on finishing up my book "8 Years of Tuesdays" and hoping that a publisher will show some interest!

 

 

 

1)  Beginning next week

 

#30 Ways to Say “Thank You” "Fall Edition"

This is an offsite program! Together we will inventory our blessings, offer prayers, send love, and kindle our creativity. Give yourself the gift of slowing down and noticing the simple ways to cultivate gratitude  in our lives every day. 

Each day you will receive an email with an attached PDF, featuring a Gratitude prompt, a suggested practice/ritual, a quote/affirmation, and a seasonal recipe. Some practices will be cumulative (a  and others one time. 

The 30 day program runs from Oct 7-November 8th and cost s$30.  

For registration and more info click here  #30 days of gratitude 

 

 

2) Beginning later in the month

Ceremonial Plant Healing:Healing the world, Healing ourselves- an apprenticeship

Plants are our ancestors and our teachers, and living their medicine can transform our lives. Ceremonial Herbalism is an exploration into the ancient ways of honoring and using plants in a sacred way for personal and global healing.10 months of Ceremonies that build our relationship, deep connection and bring us into alignment with the Earth, the elements and humanity. Rituals of deep apology, thanks, love, and forgiveness. A hands-on course, in which we will intimately explore Cross-Cultural Shamanic Arts and practice which supports and encourage balanced living in a modern age.

Begins on November 16th 2018, One Friday per month. For registration and more info click here Ceremonial Plant Healing 

 

 

3) Spiritual Cleansing and Healing Sessions

As many of you know I have been studying Shamanic Healing Practices with Ecuadorian Curandera Rocio Alarcon for the past six years. Illness is seen as a messenger of disconnection rather than a condition. The goal of the traditional shaman/Curandera is often not to cure a condition but to remove its cause by restoring in the patient the sense of balance, harmony and reconnection to the sacred and the Earth. As a society we have lost our connection to the Earth, this is causing a lot of sadness, grief, broken heartedness and physical and spiritual disease.  

For more info on Spiritual Healing techniques and booking sessions please click here

 3) and finally

For the 2019-2020 Apprentice Season I am offering 1 full work-study position. The apprentice selected will be expected to work for 6 additional daytime hours per week either in the garden/ or in the office often completing assigned tasks independently.

Applicants should have a strong desire to connect with plants and study herbalism, be willing to work hard and have time to commit as a student/ apprentice and to do your work-study.

If you are interested in applying please email a cover letter expressing why you believe you are the right person for this opportunity. If the selected apprentice completes the apprenticeship and work-study the relationship can continue for Year 2.

Interviews will take place in early Feb. 2018

 

For more info on the apprentice program beginning in April 2019 click here 

Also Just a reminder that OCTOBER is the month you SAVE! If you sign up for either Apprenticeship (year 1 or year 2) and pay in full before NOV 1st you save BIG!

 

"Just before the death of flowers,
And before they are buried in snow,
There comes a festival season
When nature is all aglow."
-   Author Unknown

 

 

Be well everyone, 

Take Care of one another and hope to work with you sometime soon

-- 

Green Blessings, -t