Instructor: Tonya Lemos
Thursday, July 31
1pm - 4pm
1 session

Being dedicated to a practice of self-care that nourishes AND heals the body, heart, mind, and spirit may be the most empowering, and loving action you can do for yourself (and those around you).  This class will begin with a weed walk, where we will identify local "weeds" and talk about their medicinal properties, value and how to integrate them into a self care practice. Of course we will also address ethical wildcrafting and harvest. Following the walk I will share my top 10 herbal strategies for health and wellbeing as well as compatible lifestyle practices which build resilience and support our healing journeys to wholeness and connection. We will discuss herbal allies (including Tulsi, Hawthorn, Self Heal, Goldenrod, Motherwort, Rose, Cacao) for these dark times and different ways of integrating them respectfully into our lives .

A life long environmentalist and plant person, Tony(a) Lemos is a biophiliac, process based conceptual artist who works at the intersection of art and herbalism. Her work centers around nature, wellbeing, creativity, connection and co-existence. She believes art and creativity to be an integral part of the healing process. Presently her work includes eco-printing, photopolymer printmaking as well alternative photography methods, often combining mixed media and found objects into artist books. She likes to explore symbolism from her ancestry (Greek/Middle East) and her deep connection to her present sense of place on Pocumtuc/Nipmuc territory,Ashfield/ Conway MA. She believes there to be such healing when we connect(art+health) materials to place, and has found by using materials from a particular place to help establish a relationship with it. She currently runs Blazing Star Herbal School and teaches at conferences all over New England including The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, the New England Botanical Gardens, The Provincetown Art Museum. This winter she curated and produced work for a successful show at the APE Gallery in Northampton MA called "Mind Memory and Mycelium".