In this healing session, we will share Toltekatl and Andean centered wisdom for working with and building relations with plant medicine. We’ll then partner with mugwort through the elemental four vessels (fire, air, water, earth) to co-create powerful containers for our dreams and manifestations. This will include ingesting, meditating with, and journaling about mugwort. Participants will leave with mugwort bundles and tea blends to take home.

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

Please note: Masks are required for the entire duration of this event, and masks will be 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.