Deepen your creative practice with the Dream Seeding Studio. Together we’ll explore relationships with plant kin through collective remedy-crafting, develop personalized energy-clearing rituals and write towards juicier futures through the lens of ecopoetics and spellcasting.
The Dream Seeding Studio primarily serves BIPOC through monthly writing circles and an upcoming self-paced course. Apothecary offerings, digital love letters and workshops are open to all.
Are you ready to transform your practice?
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In-Person Workshops
Choose an upcoming class in San Diego
Poetic Herbalism: Create simple herbal remedies and sit with a BIPOC-authored ecopoem. All materials provided.
→ Learn more here.
Ecopoetry Sip & Write: Receive creative prompts and space to free-write while enjoying fresh tea from my garden.
→ Register for upcoming classes here.
Herbal support
Re-align with handcrafted remedies
Invite medicinal plants to nourish your body, mind and creative spirit. Choose from herbal extracts, tea blends and skin salves in the Creations by Florea **apothecary** ~ all made with locally grown plants and crafted with love.
→ Request a custom remedy here.
Commissioned Portraits
Celebrate your energy with an avatar!
See your magnetic spirit reflected in a colorful, one-of-a-kind digital illustration. Add this avatar to your website, business cards and social media profiles.
→ Request a custom illustration here.
1:1 Creative Journeywork
Move out of stagnancy and into expression
Share your creative concerns, current blocks, and dream seeds. Over 2-3 months we’ll deepen your relationship with a plant relative, develop rituals that feel true to you and receive a custom herbal remedy. In-person and virtual support spaces available.
→ Choose your Journeywork path here.
Dream Seeding Community
Connect and share with BIPOC creatives
Deepen your practice in our virtual creative community. We gather monthly to explore ecopoetry, exchange somatic practices, and share what’s emerging and present in our creative lives. Donation-based space open to all BIPOC.
→ Returns Spring 2026, register in advance here.
The Dream Seeding Studio is rooted in collaborative and intuitive knowledge-building. There are several diverse and accessible entry points including free and donation-based workshops, no-cost mutual aid herbal remedies, opportunities to request custom remedies and deeper 1:1 consultations.
Thank you for approaching our offerings with intentionality and honesty. We look forward to working with you in ways that honor our mutual time, resources and energy. Learn more about our foundation, community-based intentions and services below.
The Dream Seeding Studio is the creative home for Shel’s Heart-led offerings.
Shel is a Black/Chinese/non-binary herbalist, witch and poet living in their birthplace of stolen Kumeyaay Land (San Diego). Read Shel’s published poetry in For the Wild, Lucky Jefferson, New Words Press, Braided Way and Ebony Tomatoes Collective.