In this healing session, workshop leaders shared Toltekatl and Andean centered wisdom for working with and building relations with plant medicine. Participants partnered with mugwort through the elemental four vessels (fire, air, water, earth) to co-create powerful containers for dreams and manifestations. This included ingesting, meditating with, and journaling about mugwort. Participants left with mugwort bundles and tea blends to take home.

This was a QTBIPOC centered space, but all were welcome to join. We asked participants to approach this Indigenous wisdom centered space with care and respect, being sure to name the lineages you learned from as a way of honoring these sacred paths.

Masks were required for the entire duration of this event, and masks are available to all guests at CTHQ. If you are feeling sick or have tested positive for Covid-19, we ask that you please refrain from participating in CTHQ programs in order to care for fellow community members.

jei laura (they/them) is a Qariwarmi community herbalist, Usui Reiki practitioner, and story weaver of the Andean and Irish Diaspora oriented in healing and climate justice. They are a community steward of Pachakuti Collective, an Indigenous/Queer/Trans/Gender Expansive collective dedicated to stewarding liberated and healing relations between humans and our other than human kin. They are also a collective member of Bed-Stuy Clothes Swap, NYC POC Healing Circle, and a facilitator for a BIPOC climate justice fellowship.

Lydia (she/they) is a Xochihua/flower bearer being, fire and earth keeper, agricultora, and yerbera with roots in Anauak, Borikén, & Cuba. Lydia centers her passion of tending to all life by way of being a community steward of Pachakuti Collective, and by creating cyclical offerings of our earth. Lydia honors her ancestrales by being an infinite flower~ always seeding and blooming in divine duality, forever growing with our earth & cosmos. To connect, follow these journeys on Instagram @ciqeyixochitl @pachakuticollective Tlazohkamati 

About Cosmologyscape

This program is part of Creative Time’s public art commission Cosmologyscape by artists Alisha B Wormsley and Kite. The multimedia and participatory public art project, presented by Creative Time, is an invitation to the public to dream. Cosmologyscape seeks to harness the duality of dreams—as both individual tools of self-awareness and collective acts of imagination and world-building—and encourages the exploration of dreaming practices through an artist designed interface. How does it work? Take a nap, zone out, find your dream state. After that, visit www.cosmologyscape.com to submit your dream, and if you need help dreaming, follow a Dream Path on the website designed by a group of interdisciplinary artists. The dreams shared with Cosmologyscape will then be translated algorithmically into a pattern derived from Lakota visual language and Black quilting references, represented first in a growing digital tapestry of our collective dreams, and ultimately, into a series of sculptures unveiled in the fall, designed for further rest and dreaming.