Community Medicine Making: Blooming with Flower Essences w/ Gualikuya Mariposa
In this class we will learn about several flower essences from plants in bloom this Spring. We will talk about how to work with them and co-create a ceremonial flower essence together.
💐 Flower essences are simple yet profound medicines that hold the high vibrational energy of flowers. They are gentle and accessible medicines and hold deep healing potential because they work on the subtle, energetic, heart and spirit level. Flower essences can support the body's natural capacity to bring itself back into balance and when prepared with clear intention and ceremony, can deepen our relationship with the plants and our own intuition.
✨About the Facilitator
Gualikuya Mariposa (they/them) is a postpartum birthworker, death and grief care provider, herbalist, and traditional medicine practitioner. They are a Queer, Two-Spirit human with ancestral roots in Borikén (Puerto Rico) and Poland. Gualikuya is living as a guest on Ohlone Lands (aka Berkeley, CA) where they tend a small medicine garden and are currently raising chickens. You can find Gualikuya at Remedios Healing Services @remedioshealingservices and Floripondio End of Life Planning & Services @floripondio_endoflife.
🍃 About Community Medicine Making
These hands-on learning containers are meant to provide both intentional knowledge exchange between local facilitators and community members, paired with hands-on engagement where each learner leaves with new skills and medicines to take home. These sessions range from:
🌿 Tinctures
🌿 Incense
🌿 Herbal Tea Blends
🌿 Fire Ciders
and more!
🤲🏾 About the Space
Freedom Community Clinic's Downtown Community Apothecary & Pharmacy is a donation based resource for for our community to drop in to learn, pick up medicines for themselves or loved ones, make tinctures and tea blends, rest, co-work and more. From seasoned and trained herbalist to those just stepping into their practice, our space welcomes you. We are located near Downtown Oakland.
In all our offerings, we prioritize Black, Brown, Indigenous and Immigrant community members and ask that allies be mindful of the space and resources they take up when visiting and signing up for offerings.
🫂 Accessibility
Our space wheelchair accessible and located near MacArthur Bart Station for those taking public transportation.
We are not a scent-free space and will have incense burning in the space with windows open.
We honor autonomy and have face masks available to folks who need it and will have air filters in the space as well.
We are a no shoes or shoe cover facility and have both slides in multiple sizes and shoe covers available.
✍🏾 Notes on Sign-Ups
All workshops are donation-based with no one turned away for lack of funds.
If you sign-up and can no longer attend, please reach out to us so we can make space for other community members. We understand that things shift last minute and want to make sure that all those who can attend, are notified.
Questions / Concerns?
Reach out to our Apothecary Manager Dan ([email protected]) or Director of Creative Media & Programming ([email protected])