For those who have been curious about….
✼ creating your own herbal tea blends
✼ integrating LOCALLY cultivated plants into your practice
✼ reading ecopoetry to feel more connected to the earth
✼ writing your own poetry in a slow, intentional community space
Craft herbal remedies for holistic wellness
All materials provided to create your own digestive oxymel. We will use entirely locally cultivated plants from both the Creations by Florea home garden and Abriendo Caminos farm.
Explore BIPOC-authored ecopoetry
Dive deep into a lineage of poetry exploring themes of land, reciprocity, belonging & ecocentrism with selected pieces from poets of color.
Weave an herbal poetics piece for your practice.
We will spend time drafting a Materia Poetica, or plant-inspired poem, that draws on your personal experiences of herbalism. In this space, knowledge is collaborative and we celebrate everyone's relationship to plants without needing to apply hierarchies! You belong in this space and have much to offer our small group.
📝 What is a Materia Poetica?
Materia Medica are botanical documents that list medicinal plants’ chemical constituents. Materia Poetica divert from medical language by centering personal experience. They are poems that reflect the essence of a plant beyond scientific language. Interweaving many tongues is encouraged.
🪶 Why study ecopoetry?
Ecopoetry roots us in a larger story of living beings on Earth. When we look at BIPOC authors writing ecopoetry, we see how land shapes our relationships, resources & healing. Ecopoetry is a celebration of where we come from, who walked before us & what we may leave behind. Poetic Herbalism invites the plants to be co-authors in our story of remembering how to be in right relation with the land.
I’ve attended two workshops with Shel during the Poetic Herbalism series and each circle was a chance to meet new plant kin, people, and to deepen my relationship with nature. Shel is an amazing facilitator, creating space for people to show up as themselves and engage with herbalism in accessible ways. The series was definitely a tender portal and i hope Shel is able to offer it again!