Herbal Remedies for Heartbreak & Hard Times 2/21 1 to 3pm EST

These are challenging times. Cultivating consciousness as Covid-19, state violence and climate crisis—not to speak of the everyday suffering with which we must all contend in this life—wend their way through our communities means contending with untold heartbreak.

The heart is the seat of emotion, will and spirit. It emits an electromagnetic field scientists have measured to extend 16 feet beyond our bodies, with powers of perception that precede the brain by three to five seconds. If navigating the challenges in our personal and political lives requires that we lead with our hearts, what wisdom does the plant world offer us in doing so?

In this class, we’ll look at herbal remedies that fortify the heart, offer energetic protection and help us cultivate joy in the midst of sorrow. Together with Jess, attendees will make a sweet, heart-warming syrup and rosehip jam that honor and protect the body’s most powerful organ.

Sliding scale tickets are $25 for BIPOC only, $40 to $65 for everyone else.

ASR captioning provided

Date:
Sunday, 2/21 1-3pm EST over Zoom
Zoom details will be sent the day before the event

Jess Turner (she/her) is a Black clinical herbalist whose practice is centered on helping frontline communities—low-income, working-class and BIPOC communities who experience the first and worst impacts of climate change—repair through connection to the land and plants growing around them. In cities, these plants are often discarded as mere weeds. She is interested in exploring the liberatory struggles of the plants and people whom capitalism alienates and building bridges between human and more-than-human worlds.

Her apothecary is Olamina Botanicals.
https://www.olaminabotanicals.com/