Each session explores health and wellbeing as an art form, in tune with Spring’s uniquely dynamic energy.
Join herbalists Sophie Cozine and Marisa Clementi as we honor the sensual delight of taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound through medicine making, foraging, cooking, crafting, adornment, and celebration.
This is a space to learn and play in community!
Sponsored by Remedies Herb Shop.
WHERE: Marisa’s home studio in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
- Week 1: *Cherry Blossom Foraging in the Park for Oxymels
- Week 2: Spring Flower Elixir
- Week 3: Violet Plantain Oil
- *Plant Walk in Highland Park
- Week 4: Aromatic Bitters
- Week 5: Flower Essences
- Week 6: Harvest Feast & Celebration
*Closing Circle in Prospect Park
(* Saturday gathering)
Weekly Breakdown
WEEK 1: Saturday, April 25 - Opening Circle in the Park with the Cherry Blossoms
What better way to start than in the park? Get to know each other while exploring the qualities of the Spring season and how they can affect us: our bodies, emotions, organs, and psyche. Forage gorgeous cherry blossoms and learn how to make your own hot pink cherry oxymel at home.
WEEK 2: Wednesday, April 29 - Spring Flower Elixir
Elixirs are a beautiful and complex way to enjoy aromatic herbs and flowers, capturing Spring’s bounty. Our Spring Flower Elixir will feature all of the season’s bright beauties: cherry blossom, magnolia, grape hyacinth, violet, dandelion, and more.
WEEK 3: Wednesday, May 6 - Violet Plantain Oil
Learn about first aid to prepare for summer adventures ahead: remedies for bug bites, scrapes, after-sun care, and more. Make a skin nourishing lymphatic oil to take home using fresh Violet and Plantain leaves.
Saturday, May 9 - Morning Plant Walk in Highland Park
Come learn and explore all the medicinal plants that are right here in New York City! Together we will stroll through the beautiful park to find all the hidden Spring treasures such as Burdock, Mugwort, Hawthorn, Rose, Plantain, and Nettle!
WEEK 4 : Wednesday, May 13 - Roots, Shoots, and Bitter Allies
Learn about the season’s bitter roots and shoots to nourish the liver and cleanse the gut of Winter stagnation. Make your own aromatic bitters using dandelion and burdock roots, mugwort, citrus, and more.
WEEK 5: Wednesday, May 20 - Energetic Medicine and Flower Essences
The transition from Spring into Summer is a time for honoring the blossoming of the earth and believed to be a portal into the etheric realm. We will tap into the sensual beauty of flowers through movement, singing, visioning, and crafting our own flower essence to capture the energetic imprint of the moment.
WEEK 6: Wednesday, May 27 - Harvest Feast and Celebration
We’ll gather and honor the shifting of seasons by sharing and tasting medicines made over the Spring. We will particularly focus on kitchen witchery and food as medicine for enjoying the abundance of the season.
Saturday, May 30 - Closing Circle in the Cherry Grove, Prospect Park
We’ll close out the Spring Circle the way we started, in an expansive, exploratory way to honor the Summer months ahead.
And some special gifts!
- 10% off bulk herbs at Remedies Herb Shop in Carroll Gardens
- 20% discount to our Summer Solstice Garden Party on Saturday, June 20th
