Open Pathways for Grief and Ancestral Rememebrance: Exploring the connection between the Heart and Lungs
In this herbal workshop, participants will be be first be guided through a short breathe meditation and learn about African diasporic ancestral ways of honoring grief and heavy transitions. We will explore the connection between the heart and lungs, the spiritual competents of those organs, and herbal allies for both of those organs. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of grief rituals as it relates to the heart and lungs, and herbal allies for both.
Yaquana Williams…
(she/her) is a queer community herbalist, root-worker, ancestral reader, educator, and land-lover. She currently resides in Irvington, NJ. She comes from a Black ancestral lineage of West Virginia Mountain kin and Deep Southern Alabama roots. She loves music, food, and being in nature. She especially loves working the land at the urban farms in Newark, NJ. She has experience teaching classes on African herbalism, chakra-healing, breathwork meditations, and poetry. Having studied under Hood herbalism, Rooted medicine circle, and the People's Medicine School, she has been practicing herbalism for six years. However, the ancestral knowledge has been in her blood for centuries. Her plant medicine practice is inspired by the tradition of Black people throughout the African diaspora to use plants to heal themselves and their communities. Her herbalism is also rooted in spirit, derived from ancestral ways of rootwork and conjure in the hoodoo tradition.
A Virtual Event Series
Tuesday October 21st 7-9 PM EST
*Please note that these events are for PMS students (enrolled or alumni), and other PMS guest facilitators ONLY!