3RD ANNUAL SPIRITUAL HERBAL CONFERENCE
A VIRTUAL CONFERENCE WITH
KAREN M. ROSE
OCTOBER 3RD + 4TH, 2020
Uplifting Black and Indigenous Spiritual Technologies for Abolition + Liberation
We invite you to uplift the dreams & creativity of our community to co-create Imagination into Manifestation. We will activate dreams into our collective reality by calling upon our community to vision together Liberation into Practical Action. Our goal is to re-vision and build our world rooted in liberation and allyship with our plant community.
Sacred Vibes Apothecary
Sacred Vibes Apothecary is a place of connection in our community, where the important work of Spiritual and Physical health is explored through the lenses of Social and Racial Justice. We use plants to connect you deeply to your roots and to expand your vision towards what wholeness can mean for you.
Sacred Botanica
As a natural overflow of the River that is Sacred Vibes Apothecary, Sacred Botanica, is a new retail and education space dedicated to growing my work as a Plant Teacher, Astrologer and Medicine Woman. The Botanica is a few blocks away from the Apothecary purposefully to maintain the synergy between the two spaces.
Donate
Can't make it this year? Consider supporting the NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conference with a donation. Donations will be used towards tickets for POC in our local community:
$100 Donation: Sponsor a BIPOC person to attend both days of the conference.
$50 Donation: Donate funds towards this year’s Black Herbalist Convergence, which creates a space for Black Herbalists to come together prior to the conference.
2020 Raffle
Every donation up to $25 includes one raffle entry!
$0-$25 donation = 1 entry
$26-$50 donation = 2 entries
$51-$75 donation = 3 entries
$76-$100 donation = 4 entries
Raffle Prizes
1. Scholarship worth $1000 for Chestnut Herb School
Chestnut School Online Herbal Immersion Program (1,000 hours) Just as locally grown food is key to long-term sustainability, locally grown herbs are equally as important. That’s why we focus on growing your own herbs, along with the many ways you can use medicinal and edible weeds. This program lays out a clear path for your herbal journey. It begins with building healthy soil and germinating seeds, extends into growing and harvesting each herb, and culminates with creating a treasure trove of herbal allies.
Our Online Herbal Immersion Program is a vibrant multi-media online course, infused with a plant-centered approach to herbal medicine. In a nutshell, it has two equal and integrated parts: How to grow medicinal plants, and how to bring their medicine into your daily life.
The program features 119 videos, 150+ lessons, and a gorgeous 1,440+ page printable course manual, clearly organized into 17 modules of herb-packed instruction.
You’ll dive deep into herbal botany:
foraging and wild-harvesting ∙ edible flowers ∙ permaculture and organic gardening ∙ herbal materia medica ∙ creating your dream garden ∙ medicinal plant propagation ∙ useful garden weeds ∙ herbal medicine making ∙ fire ciders ∙ herbal cocktails and mocktails medicinal mushrooms ∙ herbal body care ∙ how to make an herbal livelihood ∙ and much, much more!
At the conclusion of the course, you’ll be herb-fluent in the cultivation practices, healing properties, and medicinal preparations for a wealth of healing plants. The Immersion includes all the content from our Medicine Making Course and the Foraging Course, plus much more!
2. Heidi Smith's The Bloom Book: A Flower Essence Guide to Cosmic Balance
From lavender’s ability to soothe frazzled nerves to rose’s charms in healing the heart, flowers don’t just delight the senses—they have a secret history as doorways to transformation. With The Bloom Book, Heidi Smith offers a holistic and comprehensive guide for working with flower essences—the vibrational signatures of our botanical allies—to bring about healing, awakening, and deep change.
3. CBD line of products from Treaty
Treaty CBD formulas are enhanced with plant extracts that thrive together in nature and within the body. Our organic hemp is grown using regenerative farming techniques that maximize carbon capture and restore ecosystems.
4. CSA box from Sawmill Farms
Our fresh herb shares are composed of a diverse assortment of fresh medicinal and culinary herbs ready for home use. From roots to shoots to leaves and flowers, we grow an ever diversifying variety of herbs using sustainable and certified organic practices on our land in Florence or are respectfully wild-harvested in our area’s fields, forests, hills and valleys.
About
Our Mission
The NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conference is an intersectional meeting place of the different practices and practitioners of herbalism. While uniquely addressing the challenges, knowledges, and collaborations experienced and cultivated in an urban environment, we, with reverence, centralize the intelligences of Indigenous, LGBTQI, POC, and immigrant communities from which we are rooted.
This year's Theme
The Structure of Dreams
This year’s Sacred Vibes' 3rd Annual Spiritual Herbalism Conference uplifts The Structure of Dreams! Workshops this year will call us all into the activation of dreaming toward practical strategies for liberation and abolition. Teachers will consider Indigenous and Ancestral technologies to return to, to prepare us with magic, inspiration, knowledge, and tangible skills to co-create structures of collectivity, equity, and abundance. This year, virtual technologies will serve as a space for us to challenge what it can mean to mobilize, connect, and find rootedness within the context of a global pandemic.
Sponsored By:
2020 Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Karen M. Rose
Trained in Eastern and Western Herbal Medicine, Master Herbalist, Karen M. Rose has dedicated her life’s work to empowering individuals to reconnect to their own ancestral traditions. Over the past 20 years, she has created several outlets to offer her teachings and healing modalities to women, Black, people of color, and LGBTQX communities. The opening of the Brooklyn-based, Sacred Vibes Apothecary in 2002, was merely the beginning. Karen has now expanded her enterprise, opening Sacred Botanica in 2020, a new location in Brooklyn, to make healing more accessible to the greater community.
Karen’s inspiration for this work began as a child in her native home of Guyana, where she was exposed to how African, Caribbean, and Latin American traditions profoundly influenced plant medicine and community healing. The legacy of these lands is the foundation of Karen’s core values and spiritual practices.
Regarded as a Spiritual Herbalist, Karen is revered for being the first to teach plant medicine from a place deeply rooted in ancestral healing and spiritual consciousness. Offering guidance to those on the path to finding the truth, she has trained over 400 herbalists through her Spiritual Herbalism Apprenticeship program as an act to reclaim their own health and offer to heal to their own communities.
Karen’s accomplishments include several in-house projects such as the Sacred Vibes’ Annual NYC Spiritual Herbalism Conference, the 2019 Herbal Almanac, the Global Virtual Apprenticeship Program, the Spiritual Herbalism Apprenticeship Community, and the free herbal Community Summer workshops. Karen has been featured in the New York Times, Black Enterprise, Refinery29 and Allure Magazine, Organic Life Magazine, Elle.com and has partnered with brands like BET, and Squarespace.
Karen currently resides in New York City with her three children, grandson, parents, and sisters. Her family is valued foremost and all of her work is supported by this firm foundation.
2020 HOSTS
We are a collective of 14 spiritual herbalism apprentices. Together we come from several multidisciplinary practices including Art, Dance/Movement, Astrology, Yoga, Midwifery, Education, Social Work, Activism and other Sacred Works.
We are comprised of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Queer, Nonbinary Trans, and White folks whose spirits have come together in furies of global uprisings for Black Lives and in the urgency of a global pandemic, to help our communities reimagine, manifest and actualize dreams into reality. We are educators, lovers of plant medicine and passionate about liberation in and for our communities. We are grateful to be walking this path with guidance from Karen Rose.
Level 3 Apprentices:
Amy Flores, Davisha Davis, Diane Feliciano, Haile Bee, Kelly Pacumio, Laraib Ali, Laura Cabrera, Laura Shmishkiss, Nat Strafaci, Ni’Ja Whitson, Princess Manuel, Rayna Blanco, Sasha Schaafe, Xenobia Hill.
2020 WORKSHOPS
About Us
Sacred Vibes Apothecary
Sacred Vibes Apothecary is a place of connection in our community, where the important work of Spiritual and Physical health is explored through the lenses of Social and Racial Justice. We use plants to connect you deeply to your roots and to expand your vision towards what wholeness can mean for you.
Shop
Sacred Vibes offers a full line of handcrafted herbal remedies in our Brooklyn & online shops! Visit today and enjoy the power and magic of Sacred Vibes products anywhere.
Learn
The Art and Practice of Spiritual Herbalism program offers you a deeper way of thinking, encouraging radical theories of self-healing and ultimately community healing to take shape in your mind, resulting in a transformation of mind, body and spirit.
Gather
Sacred Vibes collaborates with several community gardens in Brooklyn. At each location, our herbal apprentices have created thriving medicinal herb gardens and work closely with members of the local community to support initiatives of healing in the surrounding neighborhoods. Every year we also offer free herbal workshops in our community gardens!