Botanical Meditations:
building relationship with plant allies through somatic experience
Sunday, September 22, 9:00 - 11:00am
Led by Brea Youngblood (she/her)
In The Garden are a series of workshops in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden that explore integrative justice driven approaches to embodiment, mental health, and wellness, both individually and collectively.
Join us from 9:00-10:30am for gardening in the Empowered Spaces Community Garden, and then at 10:30 for our workshop.
Empowered Spaces community members Rachel Tate (they/her) (join Rachel on 7/28) and Brea Youngblood (she/her) will provide their own version of this class with opportunity to engage with aromatics in thoughtful ways.
In each 30 minute class, you will have the opportunity take in sensation with one or all plants including mint, garden sage, rosemary, or basil.
This gathering invites the group to slow down and notice what is present in relationship with plant allies when we take the time to witness and feel.
In this gathering you might notice feeling, emotion, or behaviors arise when mindful attention is taken to the mundane world around us.
You may very well just notice how good these herbs smell!
Either way, we’d love to have you and your curiosity this summer, in the garden.
Registration
These workshops are free to our community garden members, and donation based to the larger community - pay what you can, if you can. 100% of all donations go to supporting the garden and our collaborative food share program with Jamaa Birth Village. Donations can be made at the workshop, or via Venmo or Paypal.
Sign up here to join us!
Empowered Spaces Community Garden
The Empowered Spaces Community Garden is an organic gardening cooperative dedicated to quality food access for all, embodied healing and wellness education, equitable and empowering community, and anti-racist solidarities. Through cooperative farming and community partnerships, we seek to create locally-based, environmentally sustainable, trauma-informed and justice-driven modes of connection, resiliency, and interdependence.
Meet Brea Youngblood (she/her)
Brea Youngblood is a multi-disciplinary artist, mystic, organizer and synthesizer. Weaving together photography, performance, music, poetry, healing practices and over a dozen years of experience as the founder of The Luminary, cutting edge arts non-profit based in St. Louis, MO, Youngblood’s work defies categorization.