Welcome friends, familiar and new. I’m Jan and I live in Brittany in a house that we are slowly renovating and hold spaces for those on journeys of transformation — creatives, writers, and those seeking well-being, rest and hope in our fragile world. I believe story is powerful and that the earth offers healing through our daily connection and herbal allies. Let’s create a little alchemy together.
How is your body feeling as Spring unfolds?
What is your body yearning for as April turns to May?
Is your creative energy begining to catch the fires of Beltane or is it gurgling with the water energy of early Spring or…?
What help would you like from our plant allies?
How do you want to feel?
In the warm light:
summer herbs for inner fire and creative energy
Join me in the warm light, a course for the Beltane season. Whatever season your body, soul, heart and creativity are currently dwelling in, I’d love to accompany you on a journey to discover more herbal allies.
We’ll take a deep dive into summer herbs of warmth for body & spirit, a journey of herbal healing and creativity.
The course includes
Four live workshops (recorded so you can also catch up later) on May 8 & 22 and June 5 & 19 @ 7.30 BST
Course materials for between sessions including creative prompts, recipes, meditations and more
A community of others in workshops,& on the feed where you can post work and thoughts
This is a supportive and creative space where you can explore using herbs in every day life for health and well-being. It's suitable for people at all stages of journeys with herbs -- come and learn some easy recipes and ways of taking inspiration from the plants for your creative life too. There will be videos, audio meditations and yoga nidrā practices, creative and journalling prompts and lovely things to make to nourish body and soul.
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Take a look at a tea we made in a previous course, looking at herbs for early Spring in the Imbolc season. This is ‘mobilitea’
Our sessions together will be:
Session 1: At the year’s warm heart
In this session we’ll explore herbs for keeping the heart strong and regulated through the summer, giving us strong centres from which to create
Session 2: Burning bright in the body
Our digestive fire and creative fire work in harmony — how we digest nutrients and how we digest life so often go together. In this session we’ll explore a wealth of summer herbs to keep the inner fires, creative, emotional and digestive, burning bright.
Session 3: Soaking up the light
We may not generally make our nutrients from sunlight like plants, but we need sun to manufacture vitamin D and being in the light alters mood and health. In this session we’ll explore embodiment and focus on the skin, the largest organ of the body.
Session 4: Playing under the Solstice sun
As we approach the Summer Solstice we’ll explore herbs for bringing joy and experimentation into our creativity and our bodies.
Thank you. Peace and blessings to you.