About this Event
In this summer solstice week, consider the coming season and dream of what is to come: what will it smell like? What will the air look like? Consider things not right in front of you, or things you don't see everyday: what is the unusual that is coming? how will the season carry you?
flower/environmental/energy essence making—water, sun, moon, plants, place, embodiment
Make a ritual of the experience, take the time and center yourself
Sit and lay in the grass, sit by plants and close your eyes (notice the sounds around, the feeling of the sun on your skin, the tickle of the plants as they move near you)
Intention is key! Allow yourself to sit and ponder what are your intentions for being for communing for building for growing
Take stock of where you are and allow that to infuse in the water that is either holding the physical plants or the energies (if you are doing flower essences you can either cut the plant and place directly in the water—try not to touch the plants since they will carry your energy too unless that’s what you want—you can also place your jar/bowl directly under the plant and gather its energy that way
Give yourself intentional time, your essence will tell you when it is ready, you can sit with your essence, you can let it infuse with no distractions or you can do a variation of both
Each session will end with a poem and a writing prompt for reflection:
- , Destiny Hemphill
- , Lucille Clifton
What’s Included:
- herbs
- flowers
- spring water
What to Bring:
- small jars
- small object for building a communal altar
- notebook and pen
- clippers for plants
About alma valdez-garcia
alma (they/them) is a trans herbalist, landworker & poet who is from northern New Mexico. They have resided in NYC going on 9 years and are forever committed to making connections between land being, surviving and dreaming. Their practice emerges from Audre Lorde’s question, “What words do we not have yet?,” and Natalie Diaz’s assertion that “the answer is Palestine.” They are committed to thinking and making work as survival writing, a form of community building and revolutionary articulating against the taxonomies of empire in which we, in different and overlapping ways, live.
About Field Meridians Nature School
FM Nature School is a project to co-create an arts-based urban ecology curriculum that reflects our neighborhood in Brooklyn—aiming to generate tools for resilience.
Field Meridians is an artist collective committed to strengthening local food ecologies. Through site-specific programming, publishing, and radio broadcast, Field Meridians engages the Crown Heights community to lay the foundations for food sovereignty in the heart of Brooklyn. Field Meridians is an extension of MOLD magazine, the critically acclaimed online and print magazine about design and the future of food.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Brower Park, Prospect Place, Brooklyn, United States
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