Plant Bodies in our Bodies
Plant Bodies in our Bodies
by Rasheeqa Ahmad
Plant Bodies in our Bodies
Workshop • Sun 19 July • 13:00 • Brockway Room
A sensory and bodily encounter with a seasonal plant of our lands. Facilitated by London community herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad, in a circle we will connect with the energy, physical and physiological actions, spirit and being of a healing herb through a meditative tea tasting together.
Sharing our impressions and expressing them through writing and drawing, we will form a collective picture of this plant meeting to carry with us, and experience this practice as a way to continue being in living relationship with the wild world.
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR:
Rasheeqa (she/her) (Hedge Herbs) is a medical herbalist in her community in Walthamstow in North London. She has been practicing since 2012, offering treatment with herbal medicine and teaching about its many aspects, alongside a wider mix of work whose aim is reconnecting us as communities with the potential of this knowledge and craft as a way to support healthier living systems and relationships.
She is inspired by her early involvement with the Radical Herbalism Gathering in exploring how to make plant medicine accessible and restore balance to its practice in the contexts of systemic inequalities and oppressions that are part of our shared histories.
She is part of Community Apothecary Waltham Forest in her locality, a social enterprise that brings community members together around a patchwork of medicinal herb gardens where they can learn about growing and making medicines together, exchanging knowledge and peer support and seeding the model in other neighbourhoods so that we create landscapes of healing everywhere!
She was also a co-founder of the Mobile Apothecary in Bethnal Green, a street medicine distribution project bringing solidarity herbal healthcare to people from rough sleeper and less well resourced communities there.
