Recipes & Rituals for Community Care: Butterfly Pea Tea and Meditation
About this Event
"Tea is an act complete in its simplicity. When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea. The rest of the world dissolves." — Thich Nhat Hanh
Join us for a moment to slow down for a reflective evening of tea, and meditation. Grounding in our botanical tea of the evening of butterfly pea, we'll explore how this plant as a tea can help us have a mindful moment for ourselves as well as connect us to each other and our shared ecologies. Tia will share her practice with both tea and meditation, sharing how these practices can contribute to collective care for ourselves and each other.
Take time to exchange breath with the plants in the greenhouse, enjoy and herbal tea to calm the body, and rest into a guided meditation inspired by the very plants nourishing our bodies through tea.
Your Facilitator: Mattia “Tia” Colon
Mattia “Tia” Colon is a Master Level Social Worker, Meditation Facilitator & Community Gardener. It is her connection to a Vietnamese Buddhist temple in The Bronx that influences and inspires her work. Tia hosts soundbowl meditation events, and medicinal tea ceremonies with diverse groups of people across New York City. She utilizes various singing bowls and other instruments to create sound frequencies to induce a relaxing and healing atmosphere. She incorporates other nature related activities, such as gardening and herbalism with a contemplated twist to create powerful, unique, meditative experiences
What does it mean to heal in community? What does it feel like when we extend care to ourselves and the collective? How do plants and our local ecologies care for us? How can we care for the plants and local ecologies in return?
Weave in rituals and recipes into your own self-care and community care practices through weekly explorations in herbal arts, somatic movement in the greenhouse and garden, folk remedies, and other wild-crafts and meditative activities that foster a deeper connection to plants to care for the body, mental health, and the people you move with.
Each week, be guided by a guest herbalist, healing artist, or wellness practitioner who will help you create your own toolkit and apothecary for self and communal care.
Workshops are rain or shine.
Accessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths, and the entrance is through a gate with a small, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use, and while we try to cook without peanuts, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers.
When inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.
Our closest bathrooms are a building away, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone, and because herbalism classes take place here, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here, please reach out to Mallory Craig at [email protected].
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00
![[FREE] Maternal Yoga - East Harlem](https://cdn-ip.allevents.in/s/rs:fill:500:250/g:sm/sh:100/aHR0cHM6Ly9jZG4tYXouYWxsZXZlbnRzLmluL2V2ZW50czUvYmFubmVycy9iMjNjMjEzNDQwYmVjYmNiNmRkODAzYzNkYmViYTk5N2MwNDViZmNmZmY3OGY5ODI3YjRlZGVlOGNiZWZlNzE2LXJpbWctdzEyMDAtaDQ2OS1kY2Y2ZjdmNi1nbWlyLmpwZz92PTE3ODI4NjQxODY.avif)
