WELCOME TO THe soul of brooklyn EDITION OF BEATBOX BOTANICALS’ HARRIET’S APOTHECARY Harriet’s Apothecary is an intergenerational, seasonal, healing village led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, magicians, activists and ancestors. Our village, which manifests at the bloom of every Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter in Brooklyn, is committed to co-creating accessible, affordable, liberatory, all-body loving, all-gender honoring, community healing spaces that recognize, inspire, and deepen the healing genius of our vessels. Each season, we offer free to sliding-scale, body-affirming, love-drenched potions, prescriptions, and customized services to restore and expand your body’s abilities to heal and to love. We are so grateful you are taking care of yourself in this way and in turn taking care of the communities you are a part of. We hope that every moment you spend with us cultivates and inspires the best in your being and encourages the healing genius of your vessel. The intention of Harriet’s Apothecary is to continue the rich healing legacy of abolitionist and community nurse and herbalist Harriet Tubman. Like our courageous ancestor, we intend to expand access to health and healing resources that support our people in their healing journeys toward freedom. We also hope to connect individuals and communities to accessible self and community based resources that are rooted in the wisdom of our bodies, our ancestors and our plant families. Our village is an intentional space for self-identified POC/Indigenous/Mixed-Race Cis Women, Queer and Trans folks and the allies that love them. We recognize that there are significant individual, collective and generational consequences to living in a world that systematically oppresses people of color. We know that the consistent, widespread direct and indirect exposure to violence, colonization, loss, burn-out, stress, microaggressions, imperialism, dis-ease and traumatic social conditions permeates and impacts our personal and interpersonal physical, emotional and spiritual well-beings. We know that time and time again enduring systemic injustices impacts our relationship to self and community care and our relationship to our movement building work. We want to be a part of shifting this reality in our bodies and our communities. We are enthusiastic about the infinite possibilities we can all create when we engage our individual and collective capacity to heal, to love and to transform.
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We are deeply invested in creating a space where each person feels welcome at all times. We invite you to co-create a space of love, growth, compassion, respect and healing that honors the intricate beautiful identities and energies we each hold. To the best of your ability, lovingly challenge yourself to walk with us in the following agreements.
HEALING & LOVING COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS Set a loving intention for your time at Harriet's Apothecary. How do you want to love yourself while you are present? In what ways do you want to grow? What do you want to be open to? How do you want to embody the love that is you? Release judgments, preconceived notions, your ego and your fears. Lovingly challenge yourself to be open without attachment to outcomes. Allow whatever needs to manifest arise in order to be fully present to yourself and the community you will be with. Be present to your truth. Practice actively listening to what might be arising for you as you are in the space. Reach out for support if needed. There will be folks identified to meet your needs to the best of their ability. Practice active listening with each other, making a conscious effort to hear and understand what others are sharing. Be aware of the language that you use to address and/or connect with people. Many words have been used to historically oppress folks. Let’s participate in engaging in language that is liberatory and loving with each other. Please honor people's pronouns and gender identities, whatever they may be. Allow people to self-identify their gender and preferred pronouns to describe who they are (e.g. he/him/his/she/her/they/them/their/z/hirs) Be humbly and compassionately self-aware and curious about the pervasive ways privilege and oppression, both across and within identity groups, impacts us all. Be accountable to the impact of your actions to yourself and this community. To the best of your capacity, please be scent/fragrance-free to support members of our beloved community with chemical sensitivities. We acknowledge that essential oils, perfumes and scent products are important to one’s self expression and healing and we ask participants to also recognize how using these products can create barriers for folks desiring to share space with us.
TO OUR HARRIET’S APOTHECARY ALLIES (adapted from Color of Violence) As a participant in this space who DOES NOT identify as Black, Indigenous, People of color, we offer the following ways to honor and uphold the commitment to Harriet’s Apothecary to center Black, Indigenous and People of Color. 1.
Commit to being mindful about the impact of your presence on the goal of centering Black, Indigenous and People of color at Harriet’s Apothecary.
2. Do NOT attend designated Black, Indigenous and People of color only spaces. 3. If you decide to attend a healing offering or workshop: a. consider leaving when the room fills to create space for Black, Indigenous and People of color b. consider sitting in the back of the room, to create space for Black, Indigenous and People of color c. be accountable to how much space you take up: for instance, step back in the space rather than being the first person to speak or to ask questions, do not take-over or dominate in conversations, step-up listening and being a quiet presence. 4. Respect people’s gender identification by using their chosen pronoun and name. IF you do not know the pronoun of the person, use gender neutral pronouns (them, their) when you are referring to them. 5. Remember that all bathrooms are for everyone; respect people’s choices. 6. Talk with white folks and cis-identified men about the importance of honoring Harriet’s Apothecary’s commitment to the centering of Black, Indigenous and People of color. 7. If you are feeling discomfort during the conference around these goals, talk with other white folks, not Black, Indigenous and People of color. 8. Continue to support, fundraise and invite Black, Indigenous and People of color to Harriet’s Apothecary.
www.beatboxbotanicals.com BeatBox Botanicals is a local, sliding-scale, love-centered and community-inspired, plant medicine and healing practice. Rooted in the traditions of our ancestors, we use compassion, your body’s intuitive experience, and plant wisdom to handcraft medicine that restores and expands our body’s abilities to heal and to love. We work with herbs and our bodies as tools for healing, reclaiming our individual and collective wisdom, and nurturing sustainable relationships with the Earth. We create customized medicinal herbal products based on what your body’s needs and truths are. We offer individualized and community health consultations, skill-shares, workshops and healing spaces. We support liberation and justice movements committed to healing. We understand that transforming our world is deeply tied to the vitality of our minds, bodies and spirits and the spaces where we conjure up our liberation and justice magic. Transformation and liberation can not be sustained if we do not individually and collectively prioritize the healing and reflective work necessary to keep us alive and thriving. We believe investing in love and our own and each other’s healing, engages us in a rich legacy of resistance and decolonization, one that has sustained our ancestors and movements and in turn will strengthen us and enrich us for the long haul. Our work is inspired by the manifestation of love in and around us. The wisdom of our ancestors. The miraculous nature of our unshakable bodies’ intuition. The legacy of individuals and communities who have used healing and wellness as a tool for justice and liberation. The creative genius of indigenous and people of color, and queer and trans and two-spirit folk. The brilliance of sick and differently abled warriors. Loving-kindness meditation. Laughter. The Moon. The gifts of Nature. Intimacy with the Earth. We look forward to lovingly and authentically journeying with you towards healing and caring for ourselves and each other and expanding the wholeness that already resides within us.
Harriet’s Apothecary Schedule | August 15, 2015 1:00pm-2:30pm Sliding-scale Healing Sessions DIY Medicine-making Labs Self-care and Community Care Lending Library Healing Cyphers S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. by Climbing PoeTree Community Altar 2:30pm-3:30pm Welcome Harriet’s Apothecary Healer Introductions Sound Healing with Anais and Jasmine Guided meditation with Bea 3:30pm-5:30pm Sliding-scale Healing Sessions DIY Medicine-making Labs Self-care and Community Care Lending Library Healing Cyphers S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. by Climbing PoeTree Community Altar
Harriet’s Apothecary Schedule | August 18, 2015 5:00pm-9:00pm Workshops Sliding-scale BodyWork: Acupressure, and Acupuncture DIY Medicine-making Labs Self-care and Community Care Lending Library S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D. by Climbing PoeTree Community Altar
HARRIET’S APOTHECARY HEALING MENU Saturday, august 15
BLISS PUDDLE BODY WORK This customized session is designed to harmonize the mental and emotional bodies, and leave you puddled in bliss! Drawing from diverse modalities (including Thai Yoga Massage techniques), your session will compose of a series of opening postures, firm and fluid strokes, deep tissue release, restorative acupressure and soothing touch. Healer~ Naima Penniman $11-$111 30 min or 1HR sessions
CHAKRA BALANCING AND REIKI Reiki is a complementary healing modality that unblocks energetic stagnation and balances the chakra energy points of the body, mind and spirit. Each person is nurtured and honored in a way that supports their healing journey in a deeply profound way. Participants are encouraged to set clear intentions for their healing experience and will feel protected and empowered during and after the sessions. After receiving an energy healing treatment, we hope one will feel balanced in their spiritual, mental, physical and emotional bodies. Healer~Taja Lindley $1/min 30 minute OR 1 hour sessions
DIVINATION FACE PAINTING This healing practice will use face paint to pamper with decorative designs inspired by tribal patterns from world's cultures. Healer~ Dimitrea Tokunbo Donations 10 min sessions
COPPER & CRYSTAL HEALING AND ORACLE GODDESS READINGS
This healing practice will work with you to create customized hand crafted jewelry and adornments. You will learn the healing properties and powers of crystals. Shiwan's jewelry ranges from rings, power pieces (highly charged necklaces), waist beads, earrings, crystal crowns, and custom pieces that can be made on the spot . Healer~Shiwan Haynes-Greaves Copper and Healing Crystal Jewelry $15-$111 Crystal Card Readings: $20 Goddess Oracle Readings: $25
CREATIVE SOUND HEALING CIRCLE Singing in a circle builds an alternative social and creative matrix where tensions are released, and the unresolved, ever-changing flow of music becomes our playground for experimenting self love and collective healing. Through this creative process I invite my guests to celebrate every voice: everyone’s unique gift. All levels of singing and shyness are welcome. I simply lead the session with some traditional songs from all over the world and accompany us with some drumming and improvisation. Healer~Anais Maviel $3-$33 1 hour and 30 minute session
DIVINATORY PENDULUM READINGS
This healing technique employs a rose quartz crystal for a divination of the elemental energy in the body deciphered through the meridians (energy channels) running through the hands and fingers. The pendulum reading reveals plant medicines and self-care rituals to balance and enhance each element in the body. Healer~ Jasmine Burems $5-$55 15 min sessions
TAROT AND HERBALISM Join Herbalist and Nurse, Natalie Sablon, BSN, RN for a spiritually guided herbal consultation; which includes both a tarot divination and an herbal medicine consultation. Looking at both aspects allows for a customized herbal medicine recommendation, guided by spirit, and the science of herbalism Healer~Natalie Sablon $10-$50 30 min OR 1 hr sessions
Healing Cyphers
A (POC centered) group reflection & sharing experience. This cypher will be exploring “the trauma bond,” and it’s connection to our legacy of oppression. This experience is held “cypher-style,” with each added voice, experience and reflection moving us towards deeper healing and restoration of the mind & spirit. Healing the wounds of racialized violence involves an intentional exploration of how these wounds have penetrated our mind (our psyche), and damaged our spirit. Healing cyphers explore the deep impact of internalized oppression and reconstruct the internal & collective narrative by awakening insights & reclaiming our truth. *The cypher is a space where we can show up as our whole selves; in our agony, in our grief, and in our anger; where words, thought and deep reflection are offered and exchanged as part of a collective process of psychological liberation.*
Healer~ Naimah Johnson
$3-$33
30-45 min sessions for groups of 6
Herbalism love consultations Working with your body as a guide and healing tool, we will explore what your body’s current needs and truths are and compassionately discover the roots of present distress. Together, we will identify what plant medicine and intuitive rituals your body desires to reclaim wellness and nurture love and wellbeing throughout your mind, body, spirit, soul vessel. Healer~Adaku Utah
$11-$111
30 min OR 1 hr sessions
Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness meditation practice allows our innermost voice the opportunity to speak, to be heard compassionately by our bodies, and to be released from entanglement and freed from judgement through loving kindness. This will be an opportunity to ground into our beings and integrate the new openness and healing we have received throughout the day. Using our own breath as guide, we will journey into a place of deep listening to our heart’s intelligence and reverent awareness to the temples that house our souls. offered to EVERYONE
Tao Yoga Come learn gentle chakra opening stretches and energy meditation. Each of the stretches focuses on opening and strengthening the second (passion/emotions) and fourth (heart) chakras. Maintaining our self-are/worth is imperative to our healing. These chakra centered movements will allow us to tap into and develop our strength, internal center, breath and open heart; which will ultimately lead to relaxation and release. The practice of energy meditation will allow you to feel the energy that is you, that is all of us, serving as a reminder that we are all connected, while simultaneously quieting the mind. Healer~Nico Le Blanc
$5-$11
30 min sessions
Harriet’s Apothecary Schedule | AUGUST 18, 2015 Black women’s blueprint, 279 empire blvd brooklyn 5pm-9pm
5:30PM-7:00PM BEAUTIFUL LOVE MEDICINE: A SEXY TIME WORKSHOP Come learn about the benefits of aphrodisiac plants and different methods of preparation; the first being a baby-making aphrodisiac elixir. After which participants will have a firm grasp of the tangible benefits of pleasure as a radical act of self-care, additionally they will also take home a vial of their own love potion to try on themselves and their lover(s). BLACK GIRL CANDLE MAGIK In this workshop you will learn how to use your black girl magick to dress and prepare candles along with following specific Moon phases to help manifest prosperity, abundance, overcome trauma or many other goals and aspirations in your life! Each participant will walk away with 1 dressed candle to take home! ELIXIRS FOR BLACK BRILLIANCE AND RESILIENCE: HOODOO, MOJO AND CONJURING WITH PLANTN ALLIES AND MAGIKAL MATERIALS Self-care is the most integral part of making our movement for Black Lives Sustainable. As Black people in the United States, we experience frequent assaults on our psyches, as we face multiple layers of violence and trauma. We are capable of observing our own bodies, hearts and minds as we respond to the messages we receive, caring for ourselves in a context of loving support and assistance.We must fortify and nurture ourselves continuously, consistently, equanimously. In this hands-on DIY workshop we will nourish the whole mess and holiness of the individual and actively practice trust our bodies wisdom. To be a healer is to really trust the body’s wisdom as a practice; to practice clearing, enhancing, building, and nourishing through all of our various cycles, seasons, spirals, harmonies, disharmonies, and rhythms. We are all healers. We will co-create a meditative and investigative environment to listen to and journal from our own bodies wisdom. We will learn about traditional Black-American seeds, roots, leaves, trees, flowers and oils as well as the traditional Black American hoodoo practices and formats for medicine-making, ritual, healing and conjuring. And alas we will each choose one form of Elixir to create for our own Brilliance and Resilience be it spiritual bath, smoke blend, herbal tea, mojo bag, amulet, vinegar tonic, foot track magick, or warriors powder.
IN-BODIED This workshop combines movement, stretching, self-massage and a fresh soundtrack to love up on our bodies and nourish our spirits. You will create a customized sequence that you can practice routinely to cultivate centeredness and balance, energize your body and calm your mind, break down blockages and liberate your heart. All bodies welcome!
7:15PM-8:30PM BLACK GIRL MAGIK ASTROLOGY This workshop will take participants a few steps beyond Sun-Sign/Newspaper astrology. You will learn to interact with your own chart in a way that will provide insight every time that you glance at it. You will learn to understand the alphabet of astrology. Participants are asked to bring a print out of their chart. You can get one here, www.astro.com.
SELF-CARE CYPHER: FOR RELEASING TRAUMA Participants will explore & discuss ritual and practice for self care and leave with practical tools to create their own unique and individualized self-care plan and practice. Participants will also engage in a deeper and more intentional act of releasing trauma as a form of self care and power. SURVIVAL TOOLKITS FOR THE NON-PROFIT INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX In this reflective, interactive lab, we will design and craft our own unique toolkits to survive the woes and microagressions of nonprofit industrial complex shinanigans. TAO YOGA Come learn gentle chakra opening stretches and energy meditation. Each of the stretches focuses on opening and strengthening the second (passion/emotions) and fourth (heart) chakras. Maintaining our self-are/worth is imperative to our healing. These chakra centered movements will allow us to tap into and develop our strength, internal center, breath and open heart; which will ultimately lead to relaxation and release. The practice of energy meditation will allow you to feel the energy that is you, that is all of us, serving as a reminder that we are all connected, while simultaneously quieting the mind.
HARRIET’S APOTHECARY Soul of brooklyn EDITION HEALERS CONTACT ADAKU UTAH beatboxbotanicals@gmail.com www.beatboxbotanicals.com www.harrietsapothecary.com 773.593.5399 FB: beatboxbotanicals IG: soularbliss
NAIMA PENNIMAN www.naimainfinity.com naimainfinity@gmail.com 347.729.6762
TAJA LINDLEY taja.lindley@gmail.com 646-262-0936 www.TajaLindley.com | @tajalindley www.ColoredGirlsHustle.com | @cgirlshustle
BEA ANDERSON anderson.beatrice.rl@gmail.com
SELOME ARAYA selome.araya@gmail.com 323.703.9492 www.reikibyselome.com
NATALIE SABLON nativemoon88@gmail.com 678.665.1878 FB: WildHerban
DIMITREA TOKUNBO dimitrea@yahoo.com
EMILY CARPENTER emily.carpenter94@gmail.com
TONYA ABERNATHY i8artichokes@gmail.com
JASMINE BUREMS jasmine@honeyandgold.us www.honeyandgold.us FB: www.facebook.com/honeyandgol dus Twitter: twitter.com/honeyandgoldus
SHIWAN MOONWAMIE moonwannie@icloud.com www.moonwannie.com FB: moonwannie manifestations IG: moonwannie_manifestations
NAIMAH JOHNSON johnson.n.lmsw@gmail.com 646.531.1212 845.527.6687
JULIA BENNETT healinghand7@gmail.com
ASHLEY BROCKINGTON blackgirlsaredelicious@gmail.com
NICOLE LE BLANC AmeYogaNL@gmail.com
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