A 9 month series of deep diving into medicine making with plants. In collaboration with Nate Summers.

Wild Plant Medicine Making Intensive

 About the Class

In this 9-month online series, herbalist and author Liz Neves and author and ethnobotanist Nate Summers will guide you  on a deep journey into reconnecting and rewilding your mind, body, and spirit through the world of Herbal Medicine Making.

 Deepening connection to the world of plants and plant medicine including learning local plants and breaking down the "green wall"

• Learn ethical and smart wildcrafting based on ancient and modern principles and approaches

• Making and creating a Green Pharmacy of wild plant medicines for common ailments

• ​Deepening familiarity and relationships with plants and plant medicines of all types including external medicines, tinctures, teas/infusions,  herbal smokes and smudges, flower essences, and others

​​​​​All classes meet via Zoom and will be recorded and available for your viewing convenience! 

At the end of the course, participants will be given permanent links to all of the class material including the ability to download a PDF of relevant info, and summary of what has been covered!

• Session 1: September 28, 2024 — Identification, ethical harvesting & sourcing, processing (drying, garbling, storing), offerings herb bundles (smoke cleansing/smudging), plant spirit connection & meditations

• Session 2: October 19, 2024 — Water infusions (tea), simples, steams, baths/footbaths, washes, compresses, poultices 

• Session 3: November 16, 2024 — Vinegar preparations, oxymels

• Session 4: December 7, 2024 — Sweet things: infused honey, electuaries, syrups, lozenges

• Session 5: January 18, 2025 — Alcohol tinctures & glycerites

• Session 6: February 22, 2025 — Infused oils, salves, lotion

• Session 7: March 15, 2025 — Elixirs

• Session 8: April 19 2025 — Formulating compounds

• Session 9: May 17, 2025 — Flower essences, sacred smokes, ceremony and ritual with herbs

Tuition: $947 for all 9 Sessions ($500 deposit due on registration, $847 Early bird price until September 15th ($500 deposit required), or Pay $847 total for full tuition discount!

Join Nate Summers and I for this free webinar to discover how to use medicinal plants for first aid applications.

The last days of summer are upon us! Come visit the wild medicinal herbs in the evening hours as the sunlight wanes. Meet magical Mugwort, Goldenrod, Aster, Hawthorn, and other wise green allies in our shared backyard of Prospect Park, Brooklyn.

We’ll meet at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park, by the Stranahan statue. Please bring what you need to feel comfortable (layers, snacks, water, etc).

There will be herbal tea to drink and I’ll bring some copies of Northeast Medicinal Plants if you let me know ahead of time that you’d like one!

Date Change! Note, this is now on Saturday, May 11.

Beltane Plant Walk in Prospect Park

Join me for a special plant walk in Prospect Park to celebrate this time of blossoming and fertility.

Bring all you will need to feel comfortable for about 2 hours in the elements. Water, snacks, sunhat are encouraged. There will be tea at the end of the walk, and a simple ritual.

We will meet at the Stranahan statue at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park.

We will walk at an easy pace on mostly even ground. We may traverse some stairways, but I am happy to accommodate and adjust based on attendance.

Please register in advance so I know how much tea to bring!

$33 per person.

Join me for a special plant walk in Prospect Park to celebrate this time of growing light.

Bring all you will need to feel comfortable for about 2 hours in the elements. Layers, water, and snacks are encouraged. There will be warm tea at the end of the walk, and a simple ritual.

We will meet at the Stranahan statue at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park.

We will walk at an easy pace on mostly even ground. We may traverse some stairways, but I am happy to accommodate and adjust based on attendance.

Please register in advance so I know how much tea to bring!

$33 per person.

About Imbolc

Imbolc is a cross-quarter holiday—celebrated in the Celtic tradition—that typically falls on February 1 here in the northern hemisphere. Groundhog Day follows close on its heels and has a kindred spirit of anticipation. Both holidays have us contemplating where we stand, at the middle point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox. In our evenly divided calendar, based on the movement of the Earth in relation to the Sun, this date falls between these two celebrations, becoming its own. On the wheel of the year, it falls opposite Lughnasadh or Lammas, the Harvest. In its opposition it represents the time of getting ready to plant seeds, seeds that will become responsive to the increasingly brightening days. The next cross-quarter holiday is Beltane, also known as May Day. This is the time we are also anticipating, the quickening, and the awakening of the sensual that comes with the time of fertility.

We continue to dream in this time of Imbolc, where we are at Midwinter. In some corner of our minds, there is recognition that all is change and there is the inner faith and knowing that the light is returning. There’s a stirring of warmth in the belly, that fire begins to burn brighter. We see it in the skies as day grows into the slowly waning night.

I look forward to see you and sharing the light with you!

It is time to explore creative waves of energy within us through plant spirits as we scout, transfer and set in motion inside our inner vital force.

The spirits of healing plants speak to us when we tap into their light frequency. Through the heart and our energy body we perceive the waves being sent to us by these wise beings. Being in their presence, calling to or being called by them, we are transformed.

Each plant has a unique gift that manifests as healing in our being - for example some open our receptivity, some adjust our focus, some encourage our voices, some fortify our will and spirit.

Discover the abstract way of our senses and open up your perception to relate to that part of your creative universal self through shamanic journeys.

In shamanism we learn to become the hollow bone in which we channel the creative waves unfolds. An exploration of our vast being and substance of our psychic inner seeds. Our cosmic connection to all worlds is able to manifest and change our energy into pure movement within our lives. Let us flower into a multi-dimensional space.

Learn about and tune into these waves of energy and light within us all!

Exchange: $75
For more info and to register email shamanicfirereiki@gmail.com
or pay via Eventbrite

Liz Neves is an herbal educator, dream & meditation guide, reiki & healing drum practitioner, mama, and student of life. Through her in-person and online offerings, Liz opens portals to the plant realms, empowering you to deepen your relationship with the healing plants. This alignment with the wisdom and medicine of the plant spirits opens the way to deeper intimacy with your self.

Liz is the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press).

To reach Liz email her at Gathering Ground

Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman is a medicine woman honoring the ways of her Maya and Taino lineages of the curandera's and medicine elders within her family. She is a (Shamanic) MedicineWay healer/teacher & Karuna Reiki Master, Certified Crystal healer/teacher and a Toltec Dreamweaver. The shamanic MedicineWay Apprenticeship Program reaches its 11th year. So proud of all the students how have grown so much and found a beautiful path of heart.
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To reach Irma email her at shamanicfirereiki.com

Online With Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman and Liz Neves

We all have those aspects of our selves that lie hidden from our daily awareness, perhaps parts that we find less than desirable or that we do not immediately wish to identify with. Carl Jung would call this our shadow. When we sweep our shadows under the rug, the greater the pull it has on our lives. Simply put, when we accept and even embrace our shadows, we are able to live with more freedom and flow.

There are many paths to shadow exploration, and if you are familiar or in process with this work, there are herbs that can help you navigate these hidden aspects of our selves. Join us as we explore the herbal allies that light the way to self-discovery and expansion.

Explore through shamanic journey to discover personal freedom from past accumulated memories. Clearing memories, letting go of preconceptions and the belief systems that work through illusion of recognition. Freedom from the past means living in the "Now" movement.

In the Toltec tradition exploring the shadow self is known as the Art of Stalking is a way to find your own inner freedom from conditioning of the past within the known and the unknown. Awakening to clear perceptions and begin to understand yourself in much deeper levels. We welcome looking within and with the use of recapitulation to look within our life into those places that have left us with a feeling of being frozen, examples of pain, fear, jealousy, rage, lack of control, sadness and much more. Although the shadow self is undesirable to face but understanding that is part of you and crucial to understand for your development of health and wellness.

We will be journeying to these parts and discover new place of wholeness and healing.

For Information and to Register visit MINKA

About Irma:

Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman is a Medicine Woman honoring the ways of her Maya and Taino lineages of the curanderas and medicine elders within her family. She is a (Shamanic) MedicineWay healer/teacher & Karuna Reiki Master, Certified Crystal healer/teacher, Toltec Dreamweaver.
Her style is accompanied by prayer work and traditional indigenous ceremonies to heal her community with heart.
Visit her at shamanicfirereiki.com

TWO EVENT DAYS to choose from: Sunday, August 28 and Friday, September 9.

Develop a deeper connection with the healing plants!

Join me in person in Prospect Park for a healing plant walk and in-depth experience with Sunflower.

We begin the workshop with a meditation to connect with the land we are on. Then we will wander through the park seeking these plants related to Sunflower. Along the way we will meet other plant friends.

I’ll share about the medicinal and edible uses of Sunflower, plus the spiritual significance of this plant, including information on their flower essences, mythology, lore, and more.

We will connect with the energy of Sunflower and then journey to deepen our connection with them.

After the class you will receive a comprehensive handout featuring recipes, identification tips, activity suggestions, and much more. You’ll also receive a recording of a meditative journey to connect with the spirit of this plant anytime.

This event takes place on both Sunday August 28 and Friday September 9. You can choose to attend one or both of the events. $44 exchange for each day.

Develop a deeper connection with the healing plants!

Join me in person in Prospect Park for a healing plant walk and in-depth experience with Bee Balm.

This category of plants includes those in the Monarda species. Other common names of this plant include Wild Bergamot, Horsemint, Sweet Leaf, and Oswego Tea.

We begin the workshop with a meditation to connect with the land we are on. Then we will wander through the park seeking these beautiful aromatic plants. Along the way we will meet other plant friends.

I’ll share about the medicinal and edible uses of Bee Balm, plus the spiritual significance of these plants, including information on their flower essences, mythology, lore, and more.

We will connect with the energy of these plants and then journey to deepen our connection with them.

After the class you will receive a comprehensive handout featuring recipes, identification tips, activity suggestions, and much more. You’ll also receive a recording of a meditative journey to connect with the spirit of this plant anytime.

This event takes place on both Sunday July 24 and Friday July 29. You can choose to attend one or both of the events. $44 exchange for each day.

Meet the plant allies that open us up to experiencing the truths and realms beyond ordinary shared reality.  They are the wild wise ones who know the cycles of death and rebirth and can facilitate transformation. 

Explore within shamanic journey, how to make death a personal ally. The ancient medicine elders tell us we need to lose the fear and find courage to face death as well as life, which are really part of each other. Death can also be an advisor to help us in our life.

We will also be learning about our power centers which help you keep focus to see with unbending intent. With the help of certain trees, plants and flowers which also accompany us in this journey.

Are you ready to see what unfolds? 

Exchange: $75
For more info and to register email shamanicfirereiki@gmail.com
or pay via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/358978473277

About your guides:

Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman is a medicine woman honoring the ways of her Maya and Taino lineages of the curandera's and medicine elders within her family. She is a (Shamanic) MedicineWay healer/teacher & Karuna Reiki Master, Certified Crystal healer/teacher and a Toltec Dreamweaver. The shamanic MedicineWay Apprenticeship Program reaches its 12th year. So proud of all the students how have grown so much and found a beautiful path of heart.
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To reach Irma email her at shamanicfirereiki@gmail.com

Liz Neves is an herbal educator, dream & meditation guide, reiki & healing drum practitioner, mama, and student of life. Through her in-person and online offerings, Liz opens portals to the plant realms, empowering you to deepen your relationship with the healing plants. This alignment with the wisdom and medicine of the plant spirits opens the way to deeper intimacy with your self. 

Liz is the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press).

To reach Liz email her at Gathering Ground

Develop a deeper connection with the healing plants!

Join me in person in Prospect Park for a healing plant walk and in-depth experience with Bee Balm.

This category of plants includes those in the Monarda species. Other common names of this plant include Wild Bergamot, Horsemint, Sweet Leaf, and Oswego Tea.

We begin the workshop with a meditation to connect with the land we are on. Then we will wander through the park seeking these beautiful aromatic plants. Along the way we will meet other plant friends.

I’ll share about the medicinal and edible uses of Bee Balm, plus the spiritual significance of these plants, including information on their flower essences, mythology, lore, and more.

We will connect with the energy of these plants and then journey to deepen our connection with them.

After the class you will receive a comprehensive handout featuring recipes, identification tips, activity suggestions, and much more. You’ll also receive a recording of a meditative journey to connect with the spirit of this plant anytime.

This event takes place on both Sunday July 24 and Friday July 29. You can choose to attend one or both of the events. $44 exchange for each day.

It is time to explore creative waves of energy within us through plant spirits as we scout, transfer and set in motion inside our inner vital force.

The spirits of healing plants speak to us when we tap into their light frequency. Through the heart and our energy body we perceive the waves being sent to us by these wise beings. Being in their presence, calling to or being called by them, we are transformed.

Each plant has a unique gift that manifests as healing in our being - for example some open our receptivity, some adjust our focus, some encourage our voices, some fortify our will and spirit.

Discover the abstract way of our senses and open up your perception to relate to that part of your creative universal self through shamanic journeys.

In shamanism we learn to become the hollow bone in which we channel the creative waves unfolds. An exploration of our vast being and substance of our psychic inner seeds. Our cosmic connection to all worlds is able to manifest and change our energy into pure movement within our lives. Let us flower into a multi-dimensional space.

Learn about and tune into these waves of energy and light within us all!

Exchange: $75
For more info and to register email shamanicfirereiki@gmail.com
or pay via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.com/e/317196753027

Liz Neves is an herbal educator, dream & meditation guide, reiki & healing drum practitioner, mama, and student of life. Through her in-person and online offerings, Liz opens portals to the plant realms, empowering you to deepen your relationship with the healing plants. This alignment with the wisdom and medicine of the plant spirits opens the way to deeper intimacy with your self.

Liz is the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press).

To reach Liz email her at Gathering Ground

Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman is a medicine woman honoring the ways of her Maya and Taino lineages of the curandera's and medicine elders within her family. She is a (Shamanic) MedicineWay healer/teacher & Karuna Reiki Master, Certified Crystal healer/teacher and a Toltec Dreamweaver. The shamanic MedicineWay Apprenticeship Program reaches its 11th year. So proud of all the students how have grown so much and found a beautiful path of heart.
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To reach Irma email her at shamanicfirereiki.com

Are you interested in the world of plants, herbalism, plant medicines, and wild edibles? Do you want to deepen your connection to plants and the green world around you?  Have you ever wondered about the stories of plants coming to people in dreams or revealing songs or visions?  Do you wonder about what kind of connection your ancestors had and to what plants?

I'm excited to announce that author and wilderness skills guide Nate Summers and I will be offering a Free Deepening Your Connection to Plants Webinar Wednesday May 25 at 1pm ET.

 In the free webinar, we will share simple and easy ways to connect to plants in your local bioregion.  This can enhance your journey to deepen your relationship plants no matter if you are a beginner or a seasoned herbalist. 

Learn how to improve dream recall and become a more active participant in dreams with the help of our green allies, the plants.

Learn about and directly experience the transformative medicine of nervines and oneirogens for relaxation and dream enhancement.

Touch into the magic of the herbs that help us to bridge dreamtime.

Your dreams are your own personal magic, revealing messages about your own path to healing, the path of your purpose, and the path to healing for all. In this workshop we will work with plants and their spirits. We'll also work with dream crystals to allow us to enter the dream realm and plant seeds to manifest our dreams into realities.

Join Maestra Nana Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman and I for an evening of fun, experiential learning and deepening of dreamstate awareness.

Online via MINKA Brooklyn.

$55 - $75 Sliding Scale

Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman is a Medicine Woman honoring the ways of her Maya and Taino lineages of the curanderas and medicine elders within her family. She is a (Shamanic) MedicineWay healer/teacher & Karuna Reiki Master, Certified Crystal healer/teacher, Toltec Dreamweaver. Her style is accompanied by prayer work and traditional indigenous ceremonies to heal her community with heart. She can be reached at shamanicfirereiki@gmail.com

Liz Neves is an herbal educator, dream & meditation guide, reiki & healing drum practitioner, mama, and student of life. Through her in-person and online offerings, Liz opens portals to the plant realms, empowering you to deepen your relationship with the healing plants. This alignment with the wisdom and medicine of the plant spirits opens the way to deeper intimacy with your self.

Liz is the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press).
To reach Liz email her at Gathering Ground

In this unique discussion co-presented by Brooklyn Public Library and the Lenape Center, as part of the Lenapehoking exhibition currently on display at Greenpoint, the Lenape Center’s Curtis Zunigha and Brooklyn-based herbalist Liz Neves will discuss plants used in traditional healing practices of the Lenape people. They’ll discuss the use of medicinal plants in both a historical and modern context, including ceremonies, wildcrafting practices, and making medicine with plants that grow throughout New York City/Lenapehoking.

This program is presented in partnership with the Lenape Center.

Curtis Zunigha is an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Oklahoma. (www.delawaretribe.org) He is currently the Cultural Director for his tribe and an acknowledged expert on Delaware/Lenape culture, language, and traditional practices. He has over thirty years of experience in tribal government, community development, cultural preservation, and telecommunications. 

Mr. Zunigha is Co-Director of The Lenape Center, a non-profit organization based in New York City which promotes the history and culture of the Lenape people (aka Delaware Indians) through the arts, humanities, and environmental activism. (www.thelenapecenter.com)

IN PERSON EVENT!  

Join us in a deep steeping in the wisdom and magic of the healing plants. Our Wild Wise Green Relations – the Healing Plants – are here for us in so many ways. They nourish, heal, and inspire us. And we can call on them as partners in creative collaboration – making medicine and dreaming with them. We’ll begin in meditation to ground ourselves into the strength of the Earth and power of the Cosmos. We’ll journey to meet a personal plant ally for nurturing guidance and healing messages. We’ll bring back an image or words to craft a seed to plant in the Earth. Then, with presence, awareness, and loving intention, we’ll create an herbal elixir to help us embody the wisdom of the plants.

Bring what you need to feel comfortable. Wear cozy clothes and bring layers (and slippers, if you’d like!). Space is limited. Please come vaxxed and masked. 

RSVP by December 16. Suggested exchange $100 includes all materials. Reach out for alternate payment arrangements. Cash or Venmo @Elizabeth-Neves-1 accepted.

Brooklyn location disclosed upon registration. Convenient to several train lines and buses.

Liz Neves is an herbal educator, dream guide, reiki & healing drum practitioner, and mama. She’s the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press). Liz has been an occupant of Lenapehoking her whole life, spending the last 19 years on Munsee and Canarsie land in Brooklyn, NY. 

Experience the joy of discovering the healing plants that grow near you in every season and ecosystem. 

Learn about the wild medicinal plants thriving in our region from Liz Neves, author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press) – so much more than a field guide and unlike any other book like it for connecting with healing plants in this region!

Liz will show you how to make healing remedies with herbs found in the Northeast, supplied by Furnace Creek Farm. Signed copies of Northeast Medicinal Plants will be available for sale during this event.

“Both a field guide and one of the best herbalism how-to books I’ve ever read… a must for anyone interested in herbal medicine, foraging, and self-sufficiency.” ~ Leda Meredith, author of Northeast Foraging and The Skillful Forager.

Liz is an herbal educator, dream guide, meditation instructor, mom, and 18-year Brooklynite who leads monthly healing plant walks in Prospect Park through MINKA Brooklyn.

At the edge of autumn, golden hues dance with purples and blues. Monarchs flit from bloom to bloom as Milkweed sheds her seed.

An abundance of edibles and medicinals ripen to offer their nourishing gifts to us, to the feathered & furred & creeping & crawling ones.

Join foraging expert Leda Meredith and herbalist Liz Neves for this unique, fun, and informative walk to discover the wild food and herbs that thrive in urban fields and forests.

Here’s what you will learn:

• how to correctly identify plants

• ethical harvesting practices

• historical and current uses for edible and medicinal plants from a variety of cultural perspectives

• the ways plants communicate their medicine to us

Space is limited.

Pre-registration required.

$40 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.

Children under 12 admitted free.

Mask-wearing encouraged when distancing is difficult (e.g, on tight paths or when crowding around to look at plants).

We’ll meet at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park.

Copies of Northeast Foraging, The Skillful Forager, and Northeast Medicinal Plants will be available for sale.

Leda Meredith is the author of seven books including Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plum to Wineberries (Timber Press) and The Skillful Forager: Essential Techniques for Responsible Foraging and Making the Most of Your Wild Edibles (Roost Books). A certified ethnobotanist, Leda has been an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for almost two decades. Currently a nomad beginning to put down roots in Costa Rica, she spent twenty one years in Brooklyn. Leda delights in that moment when a city dweller realizes that nature is not something they have to go on vacation to visit, but what they have been a vital part of all along.

The Spring Awakening is here! Feathered friends are returning from their winter abodes to nest and nurture their young. Our green community of plants is budding, blooming, leafing, flowering.

Join herbalist and author Liz Neves and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow as they combine their knowledge to lead a unique and exciting walk in Prospect Park.

We’ll explore the interconnected relationship of birds and plants at a peak time in the year, at the convergence of both spring migration and plant emergence.

Space is limited.

Masks and pre-registration required.

$40 per adult. Children 12 and under free.

We’ll meet at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to the park.

Gabriel Willow is a naturalist with a particular passion for birds and urban spaces. He is an environmental educator and ecological tour guide in NYC, where he leads tours and teaches classes for NYC Audubon and Wave Hill. His tours focus on seeking out the overlooked and ignored elements of wildness hiding all around us, ranging from boat trips on the East River, to kayaking on Newtown Creek, to seeking the elusive Peregrine Falcons nesting on skyscrapers near Wall Street. He has created programs for Lincoln Center, the Morgan Library and Museum, the NY Botanical Garden, and more. He is also an artist, illustrator, and DJ.

Liz Neves is an herbalist, reiki and healing drum practitioner, dream guide, meditation instructor, and mama living and teaching in Lenapehoking (mainly Brooklyn, NY). She’s the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press). Her classes are inspired by herbalism, earth-based spirituality, and ancient wisdom teachings. She has come to this path led by her experiences - of leaving the corporate world, of becoming a mother, of guidance from dreams. Liz believes we learn our greatest lessons directly from the natural world, from dreams, from the plants, and from our own internal guidance.

It’s February, and the plants are beginning to stir. The light is noticeably returning and the tree buds are fattening. Who do we see peeking out of the ground?

Let us gather, safely, wearing masks, outside to walk the land, to meet the medicine plants in their late winter forms. Anytime is a great time to learn how to identify plants. And to learn how to harvest medicine even in winter. We'll end the gathering with a plant connection meditation.

Please dress for the weather. Bring what you need to be comfortable (water, snacks, layers). And bring a journal if you’d like.

We’ll meet at the Flatbush Avenue entrance to Prospect Park near the carousel and Lefferts House. (Here’s a pin on the map.)

To keep our numbers small, I'm limiting the number of tickets available.

$25 or pay what you can options available. Click Buy Now for $25 ticket, and Donate for pay-what-you-can option.

Let us gather, safely, wearing masks, outside to walk the land, to meet the medicine plants in their winter guises. We’ll spy dried leaves, brown seeds, shriveled fruit, and bare limbs. There will be some green here and there to witness, too! It’s a great time to learn how to identify plants any time of year. And to learn how to harvest medicine even in winter. We'll end the gathering with a plant connection meditation.

Please dress for the weather. Bring what you need to be comfortable (water, snacks, layers). And bring a journal if you’d like.

We’ll meet at the Flatbush Avenue entrance to Prospect Park near the carousel and Lefferts House. (Here’s a pin on the map.)

To keep our numbers small, I'm limiting the number of tickets available.

$25 or pay what you can options available. Click Buy Now for $25 ticket, and Donate for pay-what-you-can option.

Celebrate the return of the Sun!

The Winter Solstice marks the turning point from deepest creative darkness to rejuvenating light. Even though we are now heading into winter, the coldest part of the year, we can look forward to the slow returning of the daylight hours. The darker days are beautiful for turning inward, for dreaming deeply, for rest. And yet, like little seeds germinating in the dark womb of the earth, we crave and turn toward the sun.

Let us gather, safely, wearing masks, outside to walk the land, to meet the medicine plants in their winter guises. We’ll spy dried leaves, brown seeds, shriveled fruit, and bare limbs. There will be some green here and there to witness, too! It’s a great time to learn how to identify plants any time of year. And to learn how to harvest medicine even in winter. We'll end the gathering with a plant connection meditation.

Please dress for the weather. Bring what you need to be comfortable (water, snacks, layers). And bring a journal if you’d like.

We’ll meet at the Flatbush Avenue entrance to Prospect Park near the carousel and Lefferts House. (Here’s a pin on the map.)

To keep our numbers small, I'm limiting the number of tickets available.

Herbal Gift Making With Self-care in Mind

Thursday, December 17 at 6:30 - 8pm

online at Forever Wild Catskills

We all could use a little (or a lot!) of self-care right now, especially during the holidays. In this workshop herbalist Liz Neves will walk you through the steps to craft custom herbal gifts for the special people in your life (including yourself!). Using readily available ingredients, we will make 3 sensuous herbal preparations to induce a sense of peace and calm:

Bath soak

Infused oil

Lotion

You’ll receive a list of materials to have on hand so you can follow along in the crafting. The class will be recorded so that you have the option to take in the information and then make it later at your own pace.

Exchange: $25



Artist Athena Kokoronis and I are up to a fun experiment that we would love for you to be a part of! This will be an herbal medicine making instructional video like no other where I will direct Athena to make an herbal preparation, an oxymel or elixir via Instagram Live! Part free workshop, part performance, and a whole lotta fun. We’ll talk about healthy boundary setting, sitting with the self & the solitude of the current moment, and how herbs can be our friends to lift us up and keep us in our power.

Join us!

On December 6 and December 12 I’ll be going LIVE on Instagram with Athena Kokoronis of Domestic Performance Agency where we’ll wax poetic about the confluence of herbalism and domesticity. It’ll be a spontaneous, meandering, yet focused discussion on herbal remedy making that you won’t want to miss!

Dec 6: 1pm ET @d_media_p_mom_a

Dec 12: 3pm ET @d_media_p_mom_a

We all have those aspects of our selves that lie hidden from our daily awareness, perhaps parts that we find less than desirable or that we do not immediately wish to identify with. Carl Jung would call this our shadow. When we sweep our shadows under the rug, the greater the pull it has on our lives. Simply put, when we accept and even embrace our shadows, we are able to live with more freedom and flow.
 
There are many paths to shadow exploration, and if you are familiar or in process with this work, there are herbs that can help you navigate these hidden aspects of our selves. Join us as we explore the herbal allies that light the way to self-discovery and expansion. 
 
Explore through shamanic journey to discover personal freedom from past accumulated memories. Clearing memories, letting go of preconceptions and the belief systems that work through illusion of recognition. Freedom from the past means living in the "Now" movement.
 
In the Toltec tradition exploring the shadow self is known as the Art of Stalking is a way to find your own inner freedom from conditioning of the past within the known and the unknown. Awakening to clear perceptions and begin to understand yourself in much deeper levels. We welcome looking within and with the use of recapitulation to look within our life into those places that have left us with a feeling of being frozen, examples of pain, fear, jealousy, rage, lack of control, sadness and much more. Although the shadow self is undesirable to face but understanding that is part of you and crucial to understand for your development of health and wellness.
 
We will be journeying to these parts and discover new place of wholeness and healing.
 
Cost: $45
For Info and to Register email shamanicfirereiki@gmail.com
Or Purchase a ticket using Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/123240789519

About Irma:

Irma StarSpirit Turtle Woman is a Medicine Woman honoring the ways of her Maya and Taino lineages of the curanderas and medicine elders within her family. She is a (Shamanic) MedicineWay healer/teacher & Karuna Reiki Master, Certified Crystal healer/teacher, Toltec Dreamweaver.
 Her style is accompanied by prayer work and traditional indigenous ceremonies to heal her community with heart.

About Liz:

Liz Neves, author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press), is a mama, herbalist, reiki and healing drum practitioner, dreamweaver, and meditation guide. In 2014, she founded Gathering Ground as a platform for herbal education, earth-based spirituality, meditation, and energy healing. She leads classes on herbal medicine making, plant connection and identification, and herbs for dreaming. To reach Liz email her at Gathering Ground

Discover the bounty of edible and medicinal plants thriving in Brooklyn! 

Take a walk with Leda Meredith and Liz Neves, your guides in this immersive, experiential workshop where you will learn:

• how to correctly identify plants

• ethical harvesting practices

• historical and current uses for edible and medicinal plants from a variety of cultural perspectives

• the ways plants communicate their medicine to us 

• practical and spiritual uses of plants

Masks required.

Please bring anything you need to feel comfortable (water, snacks, warm layers).

Copies of Northeast Foraging and Northeast Medicinal Plants will be available for sale.

$40 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds. Children under 12 admitted free.

Limited spots available.

We'll meet at the Lincoln Road entrance to Prospect Park, at Ocean Avenue.

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Leda Meredith is the author of seven books including Northeast Foraging: 120 Wild and Flavorful Edibles from Beach Plum to Wineberries (Timber Press) and The Skillful Forager: Essential Techniques for Responsible Foraging and Making the Most of Your Wild Edibles (Roost Books). A certified ethnobotanist, Leda has been an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for almost two decades. Currently a nomad beginning to put down roots in Costa Rica, she spent twenty one years in Brooklyn. Leda delights in that moment when a city dweller realizes that nature is not something they have to go on vacation to visit, but what they have been a vital part of all along.

Liz Neves is an herbalist, reiki and healing drum practitioner, dream guide, meditation instructor, and mama living and teaching in Lenapehoking (mainly Brooklyn, NY). She’s the author of Northeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 111 Wild Herbs for Health and Wellness (Timber Press). In 2014 she founded Gathering Ground as a platform for herbal education, earth-based spirituality, and ancient wisdom teachings. She has come to this path led by her experiences - of leaving the corporate world, of becoming a mother, of guidance from dreams. Liz believes we learn our greatest lessons directly from the natural world, from dreams, from the plants, and from our own internal guidance.