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Holy Botanica: Exploring the Depths of Plant Wisdom
Ongoing group, Oct 17th -Dec 5th, Berlin
A journey of communion, spiritual renewal & practical wisdom with our local plant teachers.
This journey is for those who seek to commune deeply with the spirits of nature as we turn towards the dark half of the year.
As the silence grows around us and the nights lengthen, we’re invited to soften into an increasing stillness which heightens our ability to listen deeply, and to immerse ourselves in practices of contemplation, mystery and magic.
In this journey we will gather together to work with plants and tap into the wisdom of nature, to a deeper understanding of our lives and place within the natural world.
What will we do?
In this series we will meet 5 times with the same group and dedicate each evening to a devotion, an inquiry and a celebration of *One Local Plant at a Time*.
We will explore this plant through communion practices, trance, journeys, rituals, self and group inquiries and other technologies that engage our soma, our energy system, our hearts, minds and bellies and the group intelligence.
We’ll also explore each plant’s lore through story and song, practical ways to work with these plants for medicine and magic and learn how to establish a spiritual practice with local plant teachers.
After each meeting you will go home with remedies (such as tinctures, elixirs, teas, oils) and practices to work with until the next meeting, to integrate and anchor your insights and relationship with each plant in your daily life.
Why Local plant magic?
We live in a time when so much is accessible to us. There are many plants from far away lands that are well known for their consciousness shifting properties, and there can be a tendency to think that only these plants have deep magic, or only these plants can shift our consciousness in noticeable ways.
However… Every plant is consciousness shifting (or has the potential to be).
And the plants that grow in the same ground that we walk upon hold particular wisdom for us. Despite our ever more global perspective, we are creatures that are deeply tied to place, and wired for (and often yearning for) relationship, reciprocity and real connection with our environments and the natural intelligences within them.
About my approach – direct experience, cultivating intuition and discernment
A significant aspect of my approach to plant work is an emphasis on the importance of direct experiential work with the plant. This means cultivating states of stillness, simplicity and communion and learning to listen deeply through your own being, through your body and your energy system.
This is is a way of reclaiming your own channel in relationship to the spirits that surround us. It profoundly enhances your ability to work with them and receive their guidance. It also supports you to strengthen your intuitive and discernment capacities which are applicable in every part of life.
I balance this with deep curiosity about and acknowledgement of the importance of the story and song of the plant world as well as an understanding of its medicinal properties and actions. My invitation is to dive into working with plants holistically and in intimacy.
PRACTICAL INFO
TO REGISTER: Email me at devotedtodirt@gmail.com
DATES & TIMES: All sessions are on Thursdays
- 17th Oct 6:45 -9:30pm
- 31st Oct 6:45 -10:30pm (longer session for Halloween & Ancestral celebration)
- 7th Nov 6:45 -9:30pm
- 21st Nov 6:45 -9:30pm
- 5th Dec 6:45 -10:30pm (longer session for Krampusnacht & ending celebration)
LOCATION: Holographic Healing Nest, Eisenbahnstr 11, 10997 Kreuzberg, Berlin
Spaces are limited for an intimate group experience
Assisted by Francesca Maria Coccia
IN ADDITION TO THE LIVE SESSIONS YOU’LL RECEIVE:
- Remedies to take home after each session to deepen your practice and guidance on how to establish a practice with them
- Supplemental readings/info on the plants
- Online group (telegram) – for questions, support and shares between sessions
- 20% off remedies from my apothecary Body of Earth botanicals for the duration of the course
- ***Please note that my remedies are made in traditional ways so that means many of them contain alcohol. If this is an issue for you, please let me know before you register.
INVESTMENT:
Earlybird till Sep 30th: 300 euros
From October 1st: 350 euros
(this can be divided into 3 instalments. Please email me for details. If money is a barrier to your attendance and you really want to join, please reach out to me with your motivation for joining.)
Cancellation policy:
Until October 6th: 50% refund
October 7th onwards: no refunds
Email: devotedtodirt@gmail.com
Past Events
Emerging Radiance: Exploring Limits, Claiming Space, and Igniting Power
June 15-16th 2024, Amsterdam, in collaboration with Markus Schnizer
An immersive & experiential weekend exploring the territory of connected boundaries, claiming space with compassion, embracing expansion and creative fire.
Explorations for this weekend:
- How can you state your limits powerfully in connection?
- How does it feel to hold your ground with compassion?
- Is it possible to trust anger as a wisdom power that can guide you into your life force, clarity and creativity?
- Can you allow yourself to be seen in what most deeply matters to you? Can you claim your space?
- Can you give yourself and others the grace to make ‘mistakes’ as you try new ways of expressing your aliveness?
- Where have you have placed limitations on yourself and others? Where can we allow our aliveness and awareness to expand some of these unnecessary boxes?
Working with body, energy and awareness through touch, embodiment, meditative and connection practice we’ll be supporting ourselves and each other to connect deeper to embodied clarity and to our own unique power.
We’ll work with the power of the pelvis and heart as alternative centres of knowing and clarity and we’ll nurture a space of experimentation, permission, compassion and enjoyment.
