Workshop Announcements!

Hey y’all! I’m facilitating two workshops at two different magical spaces here on the West Coast in February:

Radicle(al) Self Love Tea Blending Workshop 2/16/20 >>> 6:30pm - 8:30pm

@ Otherwild LA

1768 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027

Participants will learn how to use plants that support a radical self love practice with a selection of 7 simple herbal tisanes - we will taste and discuss the individual constituents and magical properties of each plant - then we will open up the rest of the session for custom blending, intention building, and conversation.

We will also be tasting a radical self love tea blend that Tyler has formulated for the season, iwillalwaysloveyou. Tea blend includes hawthorne berries, rose petals, lemon balm, lavender, and a few other herbal surprises that you’ll discover if you attend the workshop!

Bring your own intentions for self love and self care. All tea blending materials supplied.

More information on the Otherwild LA Events listing.

Tea blending for Dreaming 2/20/20 - RSVP HERE >>> 6:00 - 8:00pm

@ Sweet Magic: a workshop + event space by Seagrape

4810 Northeast Garfield Avenue Portland, OR 97211

Learn to dream more intentionally, create simple rituals for your bed-time, and practice formulating a magical herbal tisane blend which can assist in relaxing the mind and body into an eased state of generative slumber.

Participants will learn more about how to use plant medicine that supports an active dream work practice with a selection of 7 simple herbal tisanes. Taste, make intuitive observations, and examine the individual constituents and magical properties for each plant. The remainder of the session will be dedicated to custom blending, intention building, and group conversation; participants will be able to take home a custom herbal tisane blend to use in their own magical dream work.

Bring personal intentions for dream work and intuitive awakening. All tea blending materials supplied.

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Tyler is a 2019 graduate of the Sister Space School for Creative Healing Womxn in Portland, OR, and holds a BFA and MFA in Studio Arts. She is an eclectic practicing witch, fiber artist, and maker of intuitive plant medicine.

Breaking Free

“I want to break free

I want to break free

I want to break free from your lies

You’re so self-satisfied I don’t need you

I’ve got to break free

God[exx] knows, God[exx] knows I want to break free…”

- I Want to Break Free Freddie Mercury/Queen

I’ve really been feeling into a lot of the power love ballads as of late, especially as relates to lending them a self love voice. Go ahead and give another listen to one of your favorite power love ballads. Maybe it’s Halo by Beyonce? Or I Will Always Love You by Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston? Go ahead and give it another listen right now...or listen to the Queen song. I doubt you’ll regret it. This practice puts me in tears and broken voice every time. That self love catharsis will get me every time.

I begin this post with the opening lyrics to I Want to Break Free by Freddie Mercury and Queen because it has been my power-self-love-break-free-of-old-habits-and-patterns-shake-up-song. It’s really fun to dance and sing along to this one. Freddie made every song such an act of drama.

You know what else feels really dramatic? A new year about to begin! Fuck yeah, 2020!

The Solstice and Holidays denouemont always leaves me feeling in a bit of an uncomfortable free fall while I spend some time sitting a quiet, blank space with me, myself, and I. This free fall is an unavoidable part of the cycle. But the only way through this life is through.

We are just a few days away now from the New Year, a new decade, a new calendar cycle. What do you want to bring with you? What do you want to leave behind? How do you need to break free? How can you work to build new methods of attraction to the abundance you wish to draw in the world in 2020?

I’m making a lot of lists, have a few tarot spreads planned, and many deep dives into my journal to help me purge, plan, divine, and project the reality I wish to see for my world in 2020. 20/20 signifies clear vision. I’d like to bring a healthy dose of that with me into the next year. I want to bring with me a love and care for my own complexity. And, among many other more mundane and very personal goals, I wish to make more connection integrated in intentional community.

What do you have planned for 2020? More importantly, what is your power self love ballad for 2020? How will you break free?