Knowledge Share Description
Join us in Austin, Texas for a three hour IN PERSON knowledge share. Begin the new year learning how to make herbal tinctures and herbal teas to support our personal and collective resilience. During our three hour time together we will learn about and build relationships with many herbs that we can integrate into our daily lives. We will be weaving all of our senses and creativity as we create our own blends geared towards our own personal and community needs to support us in our stress, grief, and nervous system regulating. All participants will take home their own curated 4oz herbal tincture and herbal tea blend. This is a great workshop if you are just beginning your herbal journey or curious about learning to make herbal remedies. During our preparation time we have the honor of infusing our herbs with a DJ set by Fabi Reyna of Reyna Tropical.
We will:
Learn and build relationships to several herbs
Learn to make a tincture
Learn to blend herbal teas
How to make an herbal infusion for daily nourishment
Learn basic frameworks for how to continue your herbal journey
All participants will take home
4 oz tincture from locally sourced herbs (valued at $40 - $60)
Bag of herbal tea (that you will fill with herbs catered to your needs)
Cost
$60 - low income
$75 - standard
$100 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
Accessibility Information
Wheelchair accessible
Bathroom available
Chairs provided
In Person Gathering
641 Tillery St suite 105, Austin, TX 78702
1:00pm - 4:00pm Central Time
Facilitator
Antonia is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator, community organizer, and founder. Born and raised in New York City, in a first-generation household which nurtured the values and principles of nature appreciation, land stewardship, interdisciplinary education, and social justice—Antonia’s lifelong passion for herbs and plant medicine helps to bridge the relationships between rural and urban spaces. Antonia combines a decade of experience studying and working with plant medicine, with her studies in environmental and urban studies at Bard College, Clinical Herbalism at Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine, and learning with herbalists and elders throughout Central and South America. Antonia facilitates workshops and produces events as the co-founder of NY-based collective—Brujas—and as founder of Herban Cura: An herbal medicine and education project which centers the knowledge and stories of Indigenous, Black, Queer and Trans communities. Antonia’s work is rooted in her passion for sharing knowledge that interrupts notions of individualism and separatism from nature to grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities.