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.

Raffle Prizes

1. CSA Box Sawmill

A box of fresh, in-season 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.

2. Line of wellness teas from Harlem Roots

Harlem Roots was founded in my Harlem kitchen in the neighborhood my parents were raised in. As a Black historical hub, Harlem holds generational knowledge of resilience, community and creation. Harlem Roots is an ode to my inheritance and a call to reclaim ancestral healing modalities through accessible and flavorful plant medicine.

3. 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. 

4. Babe’s Handmade

Meaka Brown was born and raised in the Roxbury Section of Boston. When Meaka became a mom, she created an all Natural Body Care Co. named Babes Handmade, sourcing all natural and organic ingredients to create luscious skincare. Babes Handmade fuses Plant Medicine with Nut & Fat Butters to make beautiful whipped butters, creams, salves and balms. It has recently expanded to include other herbal infusions as well.

After the death of her sister, Cannabis emerged into her world and she began incorporating it into her formulas. Currently Meaka works as a General Manager at Mello Dispensary, studying Spiritual Herbalism with Karen Rose & Cannabis with Tammi Sweet. Her goals are to aid BIPOC folks in gaining access to the Cannabis Industry, ending the war on drugs, developing safe Canna/Herbal medicines for support in daily life, and Canna education for Elders that focuses on destigmatizing the plant in hopes of re-uniting foks with herbal and plant based solutions to their aches and pains

5. Sun, Sea + Soil CBD line by Empress Karen M. Rose

Sun, Sea, and Soil. 
All formulated by Empress Karen using plants from her native home in the Caribbean. 

6. Sacred Vibes Apothecary Herbal Almanac 2020-2021
by Empress Karen M. Rose 

Both of them sold-out Sacred’s Herbal Almanacs. These Almanacs are beautifully designed and packed with herbal healing information. They are both sold out. 

7. In Northeast Medicinal Plants,

Liz Neves is your trusted guide to finding, identifying, harvesting, and using 111 of the region’s most powerful wild plants. You’ll learn how to safely and ethically forage, and how to use wild plants in herbal medicines including teas, tinctures, and salves. Plant profiles include clear, color photographs, identification tips, medicinal uses and herbal preparations, and harvesting suggestions.
Lists of what to forage for.

8. Herbal Rising Products by Tania Romero

Herbal Rising’s Calm Me Down Salve & Tea blend aids in supporting the nervous system and aiding anyone who is seeking to cultivate self love. Herbal Rising products are herbal remedies and products that are organic, sustainably and responsibly harvested. 

9. Sacred Botanica Plant Moon Elixirs - A Moon Phase Tincture Box Set 

Each moon cycle is a way to draw us closer back to the Source. At the same time moving us forward to better understand the Self.  These Elixirs will help you find the rhythm in your potential to actualize your purpose. Becoming aware of each phase of the Moon cycle is the power behind your manifestation. 

10. Milk Powders by Sacred Spice - Set of 5 Powders

Dawn, Noon, Dusk, Hot Cocoa, Moon Milk -
A set of plant-based powders to add to warm milk designed for your health.

11. Major Arcana: Portraits of Witches in America (2020) Frances Denny

Based on her critically acclaimed exhibition, Major Arcana collects the work of photographer Frances F. Denny, who traveled around the U.S. photographing and interviewing a diverse group of people who identify as witches. This book is an exploration of contemporary witchery told through striking photographs and short, inspiring texts written by the subjects themselves. The volume includes a foreword by the “Terry Gross of witches,” Pam Grossman, and as well as a transcribed conversation between the author and curator Horace D. Ballard. From occultists and Neo-pagans to herbalists and Wiccan High Priestesses, Denny’s portraits capture the face of modern American witchcraft and challenge our assumptions about who and what a witch really is.

12. Dream Kit: Moon Mother Apothecary

(mug not pictured, included) Dream kit curated to include herbal remedies that initiate deep and dreaming. This kit weaves in the medicine of plant allies like lavender, chamomile, lemon balm, rose and other VIPs (very important plants).

2021 HOSTS

We are a community of 12 spiritual herbalism apprentices. As a collective, we offer a variety of spiritual and social activism practices including Art, Dance, Reiki, Yoga, Writing, Gardening, Social Work, Tarot, Entrepreneurship, and other Sacred Works. 

We are comprised of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Queer, Nonbinary, and White Folks who have chosen a path of nourishing ourselves, each other, and our communities through the powerful work of plant medicine and other healing modalities. As herbalists, we wish to light a way towards a holistic, radical, and abundant future. We dedicate ourselves to justice, to love, and to each of you as we explore our creativity together and bring balance to our world. We are grateful for walking this transformative path with Karen Rose and invite you on our journey!

HOSTS:

Corrina Wainwright, Danielle Flowers, Jovan Clay, Lea Afia Bempah, Maria Panagoulias, Meaka Brown Paola Guerrero, Roxanne Henry, Sara Stroman, Shawna Mccullough, Dyaami D'Orazio, and Yahna Tullis

2021 WORKSHOPS