Instructor: Tonya Lemos
Thursday, July 23
1pm - 4pm
1 session

In moments of uncertainty, tending to our own well-being becomes a radical and compassionate act. This class invites you into a grounding practice of herbal self-care that nourishes body, heart, mind, and spirit. We’ll begin with a weed walk, meeting the resilient local “weeds” that have long offered medicine, nourishment, and quiet companionship. You’ll learn how to identify them, understand their gifts, and integrate them into a personal self-care rhythm—including guidance on ethical wildcrafting and harvesting.

After our walk, I’ll share my top ten herbal strategies for cultivating resilience and supporting long-term well-being, along with simple lifestyle practices that help foster connection and wholeness. Together we’ll explore potent herbal allies for challenging times—such as Tulsi, Hawthorn, Self Heal, Goldenrod, Motherwort, Rose, and Cacao—and discover respectful, reciprocal ways to bring them into our daily lives.

Each participant will also plant a small medicinal herb garden to take home, a living companion to support your continued journey toward wellness, balance, and inner steadiness.

A life long environmentalist and plant person, Tony(a) Lemos is a biophiliac, process based conceptual artist who works at the intersection of art and herbalism. Her work centers around nature, wellbeing, creativity, connection and co-existence. She believes art and creativity to be an integral part of the healing process. Presently her work includes eco-printing, photopolymer printmaking as well alternative photography methods, often combining mixed media and found objects into artist books. She likes to explore symbolism from her ancestry (Greek/Middle East) and her deep connection to her present sense of place on Pocumtuc/Nipmuc territory,Ashfield/ Conway MA. She believes there to be such healing when we connect(art+health) materials to place, and has found by using materials from a particular place to help establish a relationship with it. She currently runs Blazing Star Herbal School and teaches at conferences all over New England including The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, the New England Botanical Gardens, The Provincetown Art Museum. This winter she curated and produced work for a successful show at the APE Gallery in Northampton MA called "Mind Memory and Mycelium".