Plants & Practices for Chronic Pain: Jan 22, 2023

Sunday, January 22

online + participatory

2 hours

1 PST | 2CT | 4 EST

[optional] affinity breakout groups 

$25-40 sliding scale

full scholarships + replay available for 3 weeks 

class will be closed captioned 

led by Myrna, a Queer Boricua (Puerto Rican) herbalists who lives with chronic pain 

In this online gathering we will:

• be in community & share with folks who experience or are connected to chronic pain
• learn about plants, roots, flowers as well as some foods and supplements that can support, hold and uplift us
• talk about the ways which colonialism, structural inequities, disaster capitalism & environmental racism have impacted our bodies
• share resources and do practices to release stress, pain & inflammation
• honor plants and nature as relatives/relationships we return to and cultivate for our continued healing

NOTE:  Plants & practices offered will lean towards musculoskeletal, emotional/spiritual and nervous web (system)-based chronic pain. This is an introductory class. A longer series will be offered in later winter or early spring.