We gather to bless our bleeding!
We bless the bleeding of menstruation & pregnancy release of all kinds, including postpartum bleeding after childbirth, still-birth, miscarriage, & abortion.
We gather to connect with our herbal & human allies, build knowledge, skills, & rituals for self & community care.
Each circle will center a mystery plant ally, who will will sit with in meditation & experience sensually to open the circle. Only after this intentional time relating sensually & energetically, we will engage our intellects to discuss the featured plant’s constituents, folklore, & potential role in blessing our bleeding. Examples of appropriate harvest, dosage, formulation & preparation will be given as ideas, not instruction.
After the meditation & materia medica lesson we will weave our stories, knowledge, skills, & rituals for blessing our bleeding with plants & practical magic. Your facilitator will offer insights & anecdotes from her 20+ years of praxis, & participants are encouraged to bring their own unique medicine, in the form of inquiry, stories, wisdom & way-finding.
*All genders welcome!
*Youth ready for exposure to discussion of topics like sexuality & abortion are welcome to attend with an adult companion/mentor!
*Space is limited.
*Registering for all 3 dates is highly encouraged: let’s build a continuity & community! Folks who sign up for all 3 dates (Jan 19th, Feb 16, Mar16)will also receive a Mapping the Yoniverse coloring book!
Meet Samatha
Samantha Zipporah is an author & educator in service to our healing & liberation. Sam’s path rises from an ancient lineage of midwives, witches, & wise women with expertise spanning folk & herbal medicine, birth, sex, & death. She is devoted to connecting people with the innate pleasure, power, & wisdom of the body as part of the animate-all. Her praxis weaves scientific & soulful inquiry that integrates modern & ancestral practices & epistemologies. Her most recent publications & courses center the reclamation of contraception & abortion from the medical industrial complex. Her online membership, The Fruit of Knowledge, features access to her heart & mind via recorded lectures, ebooks, curated resources, participation in live online events & more.