Ayurvedic Elements

“Herb is the healing of a nation…”
“When you smoke the herb it reveals you to yourself.”
-Robert Nesta Marley

Svastha…the established self, knowing of the self, health. These are all translations of a sanskrit word that illuminates a whole concept in Ayurvedic medicine; knowing of self.

Svastha asks us to take account of all the ways we show up for ourselves. How does that look for folks who are in a relationship with Cannabis? What do we know about the qualities of cannabis and how it shows up in and for our minds and bodies?

Most of us began our relationship with cannabis in the era of prohibition. Likely without guidance, without a lot of informed, peer reviewed research etc. Many of us grew up learning what we know about herbs from the limited research that was available to us + a whole lot of collected anecdotal information from folks in community.

So, we want to take this opportunity to invite you to join us, myself and my FLY Radical colleague, Alex Galván, at Mission Dispensary in South Chicago for an experiential workshop on Cannabis & Herbal Allies to explore each of our individual relationships with cannabis + learn how to nourish our bodies with foods, herbs, and rituals that can support + enhance the quality of our experience.

In this 90 min workshop we will:

🌿guide you through an exploratory art activity to get curious and intentional about your relationship with Cannabis

🌿circle up for a presentation on how to identify your Ayurvedic mind/body type to understand the ways cannabis lives and breathes in your body

🌿make and take our own herbal formulas to use alongside cannabis for deep nourishment + increased mental/emotional/physical ease

🌿share out a workbook to guide you through making & using foods and herbs for your unique body type

The investment for this workshop is $35 and all materials will be provided.
Join us to wind down at the end of election week, and look to the wisdom of herbs, art therapy and Ayurvedic ancestral medicine to recenter.

🎟️🔗: https://square.link/u/KDrJ2EuR

Cost: $35
Location: 8554 S Commercial Ave
Date: Thursday 11/7
Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm
21+ *cannabis will not be provided or consumed at this event

Caption: Ayurvedic Elements
Graphic: Alex Galván

Mexican Night Market vibes ✨

Next up is my FAVORITE market, Buena Vegan Stoner Club! 🎊Buena Vegan Social Club

This Thursday, Feb 8th, you can visit the Ayurvedic Elements mobile apothecary at Guild Row and shop some user friendly bulk herbs + my winter collection of small batch herbal formulas. 🌿🍵💨🧿

Grab your 🎟 and join us for:

💘flash tats by

💘a ‘body macrame’ craft corner with the lovely

💘 complimentary infused treats from .sweets for early attendees

💘Tarot by

💘Elevated goodies from .il and

+ a curated selection of makers from the folks who bring us Chicago Vegan Test Kitchen

Purchase your 🎟️ here 👇🏽

https://cashdrop.com/chicago-vegan-test-kitchen

Buena Vegan St*ner Club: VDay Mercad # # #
💘Guild Row (Avondale)
📍 3130 N Rockwell Ave
🗓Thursday, Feb 8
🕐6PM-10PM
🎟$5 Early Bird/ $10 at the Door

Make Your Own Medicine with me every second Wednesday of the month at A Just Harvest!

Oil, but make it medicine. ✨✨✨

We have the power to alchemize almost anything into medicine. The energy of intention can activate even the most unwholesome entities so that they raise our vibration to the level we need.

Oil, a most prized medicine in Ayurveda and in my own personal practice, has had a bit of bad rap in recent years.
Folks question how it could be good for skin, for digestion, etc based on claims that fat phobic popular nutrition has been making for years.

However it is a feature in this weeks “Autumn Alignment” workshop with

Using plain oils charged up with intention, single herb oils, herbalized oil formulas and oil blends can LITERALLY change the way we live and love.

The Ayurvedic practice of Abhyanga aka self love aka self massage is a way to speak directly to the nervous system and rewire some of the deepest neuro grooves that can keep us in a fight or flight state.

The simplicity of this practice is what I love. The diversity of this practice is what I love. The deep calm it brings is love.

THIS is the medicine for fall.

Circle up this Thursday to deep dive into one of my most utilized Ayurvedic medicine practices and so much more from both the Ayurvedic and Toltekatl traditions. You won’t find these intersections anywhere else.

Deep bow 🙇🏽‍♀️ ✊🏽🙏🏽✨

Link in bio 🔗🔗🔗

Honoring that we are a microcosm of the macro is a core principle of both the Toltekatl & Ayurvedic traditions. While these two ancestral life medicines evolved on different parts of the globe, this principle is just 1 of the many powerful threads interweaving the two traditions that can help us ground, center & align with the physical and energetic seasons we are moving through.

As the Autumn Equinox approaches, it is a key moment of the year, in both traditions, to shift our lifestyles and tune into the changes happening around and within us. How we prepare for the season now, will set a course in our lives for the next several months.

So we are excited to invite you to join us in a special workshop where we will explore the wisdom available to us in the Toltekatl & Ayurvedic medicine traditions and discuss the food, herb, and energy balancing protocols that can help us transition to Autumn and embrace this opportunity to encourage ease in our body, mind & spirit.

During this 2 hour workshop with .elements & we will be reviewing:

🌀elements, essence & emotions of this season
🌀how the elements of autumn show up for us and within us
🌀vital herbs, foods & remedios that are powerful teachers and allies (recipes included)
🌀how to ground anxiety and overwhelm during the lowlight/high energy of autumn
🌀what to avoid throughout autumn and winter
🌀Ayurvedic bliss therapy aka Abyangha self massage
🌀a powerful Toltekatl full body breathwork exercise to ground ourselves into the Earth while opening our central channel to cosmic bioenergy

The workshop will be Thursday 9/15 from 7pm-9pm CST via zoom. Bring a notebook and a pen, and ground into your space ready to receive.

Sacred reciprocity will be $33 to honor the feminine essence that emerges with the Autumn.

Link to register 🔗
https://checkout.square.site/buy/BTAU7PVW3PE6RVRSHMVIVO53?src=sms

This thing we call life is wild and exhausting.

I love it…

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SUNDAY 8/28!!!!
Ayurvedic Elements will be presente Vegan Paradise!!!
🍽🌱💕✨

I’m popping up with some long awaited fan favorite herbal formulas + featuring a few new herb boos in the realm of soothing nerve tonics, immune supports, digestive tonics and medicinal herb treated oils. 😍😍😍

Be the first to taste test my new collection of bottled drink tonics and loose leaf formulas.
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I will also have the beloved rose water eyedrops on hand for all my city folk to soften, sweeten and strengthen that inner and outer gaze because Mercury is about to be in reggaeton. 🧿👁🌹🌊💜

Come find us at XMarket Chicago from 12pm-4pm this Sunday.

Looking forward to connecting with each of you. ✨✨✨




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🌴Vegan Paradise in Uptown is just around the corner +we are super excited to announce our lineup!📢📢📢

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There's free garage parking onsite as well as plenty of street parking on Clarendon. The market is outdoors as well as family/furry friend friendly. Grab your goodies and walk over the Clarendon Park for a picnic!

See all you hungry vegans in a few weeks!🍴

RSVP at the link in our BIO

Vegan Paradise by CVTK
Xmarket (Uptown)
804 W Montrose Ave
Noon-4PM

SUNDAY!!!! I’m popping out with some long awaited new and old herbal formulas with Chicago Vegan Test Kitchen!!!! I’ll have soothing nerve tonics, immune supports, digestive tonics, medicinal herb treated oils and rose water eyedrops. Looking forward to connecting with each of you. ✨✨✨

In these streets feeling the medicine of the concrete jungle and listening to its whispers. 🏙✨

“Rise up from where you’re rooted; beyond the layers of concrete and walls of brick, move and grow and twist and turn till you find the light and then, reflect it outward. Magic still lives on this stolen land.”
-back alley divine downloads

Outchea among the plant relatives as a guest facilitator for the weekly grief circle with the trio of Cristinas!

Thank you so much for allowing me to hold this space and share what I know about using food, herbs and rituals to move with and through grief. Goddess knows I’ve had my fair share of practice. 🙏🏽✨✊🏽💕