Adrienne is a medicine woman, a messenger of the Earth, an herbalist, a guide, a space holder and teacher. Her voyage into the realms of plant medicine, healing, and spiritual exploration has spanned eight illuminating years. Adrienne is trained in the Wise Woman Tradition of Healing, Sacred Plant Spirit Medicine, Holistic Healing, and Traditional Herbalism. Her path of study is one that explores the connection of the physical, emotional, energetic, and spiritual aspects of wellness in both linear and non-linear realms. Adrienne’s lineage comes from the lands of the SWANA region (Southwest Asia + North Africa). These ancestral threads serve as a foundation and a guiding light that moves through her heart as she weaves a fabric of remembrance and connection to tradition, ceremony, healing, and land. Adrienne’s calling is to guide others in their quest to reconnect with the Earth, Spirit, and their own bodies + hearts. Through her work, she offers a sacred space for individuals to access wisdom, support, and healing. She is passionate about helping others traverse the intricate interplay of the physical and shamanic realms to allow the plants to guide one in the unearthing of the profound beauty that resides within each of us.

Body Oiling Ritual

Together we tend to the body temple as the most impeccable lover to ourselves. Oiling the body with fragrant plant oils, honoring every inch of our beautiful unique vessels and dropping into a state of receiving through getting to know our own sensual touch.

Joyce LeeAnn is a certified archivist, an interdisciplinary artist, and the founder of Archival Alchemy®. She has worked for a community archive, a corporate archive, a large public library, and a prestigious museum. However, her archival praxis began as a young Black girl, and as an act of decolonization she centers her innate methods. In 2011, Joyce LeeAnn self-published her archival text, somethymes grief goes for a walk. In 2013, she co-curated The Finding Aid: Black Women at the Intersection of Art and Archiving at the Schomburg Center. In 2017, Joyce LeeAnn emancipated her labor by cultivating Archival Alchemy®, a small business that helps seekers, visionaries, and creatives to develop the practice of remembering in order to transform their lives and leave a legacy. To learn more about her artistic work, please connect via @archivistafterhours; to learn more about her services, please visit archivalalchemy.com.

The Art of Surrendering: Stillness and Spirituality in Burlesque

Through storytelling, dialogue and movement, this workshop is an introductory exploration into a unique style of burlesque. As an interdisciplinary artist and a certified archivist, Joyce LeeAnn will introduce her approach to the concept of embodying archives, which is a conceptual framework that describes the memories and records we *choose* to carry genetically, spiritually, and physically in our blood and bones. What transformative potentiality awaits when this practice intersects with the art of burlesque? Together we'll look back to fuel forward, intentionally surrender into the here and now, and transmute any energy by moving through it with stillness.

Photo credit: Helane Blumfield, @hblumfield, 2019.

Baelyn Elspeth grew up in Los Angeles studying dance from the time she was 4. This affinity with movement provided a doorway into her relationship with spirit, health and the body. She has since journeyed into deeper pathways of Self cultivation through studying various practices in the Sacred arts, is a student of Zen, the Tao, and the “Way of Tea”.

Currently Baelyn resides in Santa Fe, NM and devotes her time to sharing and facilitating sacred space for communities all around the world, bringing the medicine of Tea and Ceremony wherever she goes. She guides others in making space for the sacred in their daily lives ~ through immersive retreats, workshops, and online mentorships.

Ceremony

Cha Dao "The Way of Tea" is a practice that comes from ancient Chinese lineage. It has been used since its discovery by the Daoists and Sages as a form of medicine and a way to cultivate awakened presence, sustaining long states of meditation. Tea is a plant teacher, a spirit of Nature, manifested through this Leaf and awakened by hot water. When served with intention in ceremony, it is a dance between the elements, a sensory exploration of presence, where everything is connected by space.

We will begin this virtual time we share together with tea, creating space to drop into silence so that we may arrive fully and attune to the present moment. Please have a kettle of hot water and a quiet space set up to sit for tea. You are welcome to have tea present in any way that feels familiar to you. Most importantly, we will be sitting together in quietude, absorbing a moment of peace.After we will talk a bit about Tea as a plant teacher and how Tea lessons are life lessons.

What does it mean to live a daily life in reverence to self cultivation and practice? How can Tea help us to transform over time, bridging our mind and heart?