Summer plant musings & medicine making

 

Beauty Medicine: all about Lilac

Beauty Medicine

all about Lilac - honey - wine - flower essence

fleeting & soul eternal

 This is an invitation for us to have fun exploring & connecting to the breath-taking world of plants and through them connecting to our own highest purpose.

You will receive ideas about how to include wild foods into your life for deep nourishment, clearer mind, more balanced emotions and for delight.

May 19^th 2023
6:00 – 7:30 pm
Cost: $15 - $25

at the Boulder Healing Hub
1650 38^th Street, Suite 100E
Boulder CO 80301

 

Claudia Frick: Certified Clinical Herbalist & Nutritionist, Flower Essence & Reiki Practitioner claudiafrick007@gmail.com or 720-660-5530

 

Collaborators! Co-Creators!

Let's create spaces of healing

& liberation for all 💛💛💛

My blood, my ocean. My tears, my gift.

 

Breathe on little sister, breathe on

          I am salt. I am tears.

          I am ocean.

I am unborn     young child     rebellious youth. I am

woman growing deeper into myself

down into my mystery, into the earth. I am

soft warm elder becoming frail

becoming ancestor & the wheel keeps turning.

 

Be like the river, little sister.

Hold on to nothing: let it go, let all go.

Open your fists, open your throat

          & scream & moan & wail & laugh.

 

I touch the handkerchief I knitted after my Mama died

to hold my tears. Today I fold it over my Sister’s body,

my Dad’s heart, over my own hands.

 

As tears turn into liberated hips

                                                cat-like oscillating of my spine

My belly draws soft spirals

                                                mimicking the movement of fern fiddleheads

Shoulder blades

                                                as wings of magpie & wild geese

 

My blood, my ocean. My tears, my gift.

 

I pray dear god, dear goddess, mama earth. I pray

to my ancestors who commune with yours

in behalf of us

          & the children. The children. All the children.

Rooted in Community

anchored in love

breathing moving radical transformation

each one is completely seen for who they are in their fullness, in their struggles, in their yearnings

celebrating each others unique journeys

heart medicine

soul medicine

wild medicine

roots & wings

stillness & movement

inhale & exhale

what do you long for in this moment?

what makes you feel alive in this moment?

dandelion love

I have fallen all over in love with dandelion!

the lion that wakes you in spring

I squatted next to dandelion

waiting for permission

to uproot him. Holy work

digging deep               loosening

the soil. I gently pull & feel how one being

gives itself      

into my hands. The dirt around

holy also. Some of it will make it into the tea pot

& I am becoming        wilder

freer

earth dance

wild bold dandelion

blossom           velvet

to the touch. My tongue traces each petal

taking you in               chewing you

slowly              so sweet. Whispers

of independence & connectedness

reaching me from

so close & still I can’t

grasp it

Shapeshifting woman

how I surrender to the moon           search for myself

in the darkness when there’s only the thinnest silver sliver

        my body, my mind so still               

I become comfortable in this space

where death touches me and I lean

closer       without needing to understand.      

It would make sense to yearn

for his world.   To be swallowed by a mystery I can’t escape

anymore   unless

        I let go of everything I know, I think I am, I try so hard            to be

I am so scared in a world that kills

what’s beautiful. Scared because I kill the ugly

which is the beautiful which

bones break and knit together in unexpected ways

skin stretches sleek smooth over a body          so foreign

ears grow in wild listening              

my gaze so fierce in yellow & green

my tailbone pushes further & further

        in pain & ecstasy.

I leap into the jungle

                wound-driven          to find home.