Tending to our Inner Cocoon
IN PERSON ONLY
Often it can be difficult to know where transformation will lead us until after it is complete. Just like a caterpillar spends its days in a cocoon alone, when you are transforming, the desire to be alone also emerges. It’s important to take care of ourselves while parts of us and our lives are being released. In this workshop we will be supporting our physical, mental and spiritual bodies in surrendering into a space of deep listening, deeper questioning while the process of change is happening. Times of transformation, whether voluntary or not, can disrupt our nervous system as fear, stress, and uncertainty can impact our day to day functioning and our ability to thrive through the process.
We can learn to lean in and trust our inner guidance and intuition by making a cocoon for ourselves in times of uncertainty, confrontation, fear, and loss so that we can start to release, get clear, and recalibrate.
Participants will be equipped with the teachings of various plant and herbal allies in creating personalized foot baths as part of their medicine to assist their journey of transformation. We will retreat into their own inner cocoons, while soaking our feet in an herbal foot bath, guided through a meditation and supported by reiki energy healing to support our nervous systems and to learn how we can do this for ourselves at home.
Jovan Clay and maria alexandra panagoulias
Jovan Clay is the founder of Thorns Touch Wellness. She is a believer in the magic of us human beings and our deep connection to the plant beings that are here with us on this earth. As a plant worker she wishes to reconnect our love, trust and relationships with true traditional medicine. She is a mover, a lover, a mother, a friend, a listener, a learner and so much more. She believes that her wealth comes from the health and sustainability of her community and those in extended communities. In addition to being a Reiki practitioner and yoga instructor for all ages, she loves creating plant based medicine infused with Reiki that supports our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies in healing, growth, courage and self love.Her intention is to remind us that we are surrounded in the support that we need to thrive.
Maria Alexandra Panagoulias is a student of the trees, mountains, stars and the ocean. Her biggest inspiration and greatest healing modality is the gift that nature has blessed us with all- the beautiful and energetic vibrancy of plant medicines that guide us through our earth journey and reconnects to the land, and the ancestors. Guided and protected by spirit and her ancestors, her call to be in services has always been a part of who she is. As an intuitive empath, she holds space with intention, patience, and love, allowing what is supposed to come through to be a space of reflection, healing, and releasing. As a New York City High School School Counselor for the last 15 years, she has advocated and supported the socio- emotional well being of the youth. She is the founder of Amethyst Gypsy Healing, incorporating the healing energy of reiki with plant energy and medicine for self love and healing of the mind, body and healing.