(**Please note: This class is reserved to persons who have native ancestry from the SWANA [aka Middle East and N. Africa] region- mixed ancestry included. Please note that identity is more than a genetic consideration. This circle is intended for people with traceable generational relationships to the SWANA region. Thank you for respecting this space.
This space is inclusive to trans and queer kin, and welcomes ethnically marginalized communities from the SWANA region to join us in re-membrance. This work explicitly celebrate the pluralism of the SWANA region and strives to reject internalized nationalism and supremacy based on dominant identities, and colonial erasure and violence. The space does not tolerate harm of this nature in our communal spaces.)
This extended ONLINE series is for SWANA* community to engage in embodied learning about our ancestral plants and their uses as medicinal, cultural, and spiritual allies. It is designed for people interested in cultivating deeper, embodied relationships with plants, lineage, and the earth in general.
Registration deadline is April 1st, 2023
This is a 7 month long immersion, from April - October.
Plants are agents of consciousness, story, and memory. Our ancestral plants carry the DNA of our homelands, of our ancestors, and resonate this memory with the truths that live deep inside our own bodies and hearts. We will work with this relationship to access deeply held wisdom, revitalize lost bodies of knowledge, and re-establish relationship to ourselves, our ancestors, and the resilience and medicine available through being in conscious relationship with our plantcestors/homelands. Each participant will receive a package of SWANA native plant medicines to work with through the course of our class together. Experiential relationship with the plantcestors will be emphasized and facilitated through the duration of the class.
In this class we will:
Immerse deeply in the Plantcestral Re-Membrance methodology, to deepen at the intersection of ancestral re-connection and herbal medicine
Develop fundamental tools to work with plants as medicinal, cultural, and spiritual allies
Practice and learn tools to communicate with our medicines, land, and our internal selves
Engage in a process of personal healing through building relationship with plantcestors, working with our dreams, our ancestral stories, and each other
Learn traditional principles and ethical practice around harvesting, medicine making, and more
Build embodied relationships and gain experiential, folk, and medicinal knowledge about 3-4 SWANA plants
Deepen relationship with our lineage lands from wherever we are in the world
Learn how to better connect to our own embodied wisdom, intuition, and the cues of the natural and spiritual worlds to support our day-to-day lives and healing
Contribute to strengthening the knowledge and practice of our SWANA plantcestral traditions, stories, dreams, and ways of knowing
Receive a package of SWANA plantcestral medicines to work, heal, and learn with at home
Explore and revitalize traditional ways of healing and connecting to place
Take a personal journey into the plantcestral realm with the support of a close community, a generous facilitator, and a deeply intentional and caring container
Gain access to private community spaces for flourishing support during and after the circle
Circle Structure, Time & Participation Commitment:
A combo of live, pre-recorded, experiential, and written educational engagement.
The online sessions are conducted via live video conference calling on Zoom (can download for free).
Communication and a private member forum will occur through the BAND app. (dowload for free) and a password protected webpage.
Participants should be prepared to spend a little time (5-30 mins) each day with the online material and medicine packages sent to you via mail, in between sessions. This is a CRITICAL part of the collective process.
There will be small groups arranged based on your timezone, to support your process in between live classes. Communicating/meeting with them on the suggested dates will be required.
The foundation of this class is based on the cultivation of your own experiential personal relationship with the plantcestral allies we will be working with. This often opens up deeper healing processes. Participants must be willing and available to this process.
You will have exclusive access to discounted 1-on-1 mentorship sessions with Layla, if additional support is needed.
dates and times:
This circle entails a combo of live, pre-recorded, experiential, and written educational engagement.
Large group live sessions will occur on the following dates (time tbd based on applications submitted):
Mon, April 17th
Sat, May 20th
Fri, July 21th
Fri, Sept 22th
Sat, Oct 28th
With additional small cohort live sessions on:
June 10th
Aug 9th
Oct 10th
FEE EXCHANGE:
The registration for this immersive circle equals $125/month plus the cost of the herbal package and shipping to your home. The total amounts to:
$999 [FOR BASIC PLANT PACKAGE]
+ Includes all teachings and sessions.
+ 1oz bottle of microdosis with flower essence of each plant we will work with in the circle.
+ A bonus bottle with a plant remedy for supporting integration.
$1111 [FOR GENEROUS PLANT PACKAGE]
LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE.
+ Includes all teachings and sessions.
+ 1oz bottle of microdosis and/or flower essence of each plant we will work with in the circle.
+ A bonus bottle with a plant remedy for supporting integration.
+ At least one additional preparation of each plant we will work with. For example, an infused honey, tincture, herbal oil, oxymel, hydrosol, dry tea, dyed fabric, or other such remedies, depending on the plant.
PAYMENT PLANS AVAILABLE
+ 4 monthly payments of $250 - for basic package
+ 4 monthly payments of $278 - for deluxe package
+ 6 monthly payments of $167 - for basic package
+ 6 monthly payments of $186 - for deluxe package
SCHOLARSHIPS + WORK-TRADE AVAILABLE.
Limited numbers of partial scholarship and work-trade are available. Details for application are included in the application form.
If you would like to contribute to our scholarship funds, you may do so here. THANK YOU in advance!
REGISTRATION DEADLINE:
The application form is a confirmation of your intention to participate in the class and MUST be submitted by April 1, 2023. Once you are accepted into the course, a follow up form will be established to confirm final dates, due with initial payment links by the first week of April, to ensure your place. This is also a COMMITMENT and agreement to completing all following payments and participation to the best of your ability in our circle. If for some reason, you discontinue participation in our circle, the completion of your payments will still be expected.