About the Workshop
In this second workshop in the series, we will learn some herbal and food-based ways to stay cool in summer. Summer is the season of joy and light, but increasingly, that heat is out of balance. We will discuss the ways a heating world is related to imbalances in our bodies as well as increased stress overall – and how to create a better balance in our lives through self-care, and awareness. We will make cooling summertime tea and syrup, prepare herbal summer mocktails, discuss (and snack on) some cooling summer foods, and prepare a healing topical (for skin) for summer challenges.
There will be an opportunity to share tips with each other, and all will leave with a handout of recipes and suggestions (more than we can get to during the workshop!).
Participants are encouraged to bring clean, sterile jars for their preparations, if possible.
About The Instructor
Katy Rugg
Katy is a Clinical Herbalist who found her way into leading workshops to connect people with the plants and their gifts through her own meandering journey; growing up and into a Quaker perspective and practice, she has developed her passions for deeper connection with other humans and the natural world through outdoor spiritual exploration, and formal study in French, Geology, graduate work in Intercultural Relations, and Urban Gardening and community programs in Boston, France and eventually, back here in her hometown of Richmond, VA. In 2017, she was honored to be a part of the inaugural Urban Gardener series, and shortly after left a soul-distressing job, allowing her to take a leap of faith to begin formal training in Herbalism (with Kat Maier at Sacred Plant Traditions in Charlottesville). When the pandemic hit, she went back to finish the 3-year program to become a Clinical Herbalist, understanding that the need was great to share the wisdom and generosity of the plants – who help us to return to our most authentic, and vibrant, selves. Katy loves to sing and write and be creative (especially in community), inspire people to live seasonally and in deepening relationship with the natural world. In addition to teaching workshops and gathering women, she has lately been delving deeper into the divine feminine, while stewarding a small patch of earth, and a small business called Petal Palate – dreaming up delights for our senses in collaboration with the flowers and the land (and hoping to inspire humans to be more embodied in the moment, and better stewards of the earth, and its human and other pollinators, in the process).