UPCOMING EVENTS
Authentici-Tea Conscious Conversation Circle
Every Thursday @ 7pm
Grounded Sound Journeys
with Terrie Weaver & Silvy Franco
1st & 3rd Fridays; occasional Saturdays
May 1st, 9th, & 15th
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Conscious Kids Story & Tea Time
with Lakeja Baylor
Medicine-Making Circles
May 23 ~ 1-3:30
Herbal Oxymels & Infusions
Let’s get to know Nettle and Milky Oats with all the creative and nourishing possibilities these plants offer. We will meet them and then incorporate them into teas and vinegars, exploring creative ways to receive mineral rich and tasty herbal infusions. You’ll take a nourishing herbal oxymel home with you.
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Mother’s Day Cacao Ceremony
May 10th, Mother’s Day
9:30-10:30am
w/ Silvy Franco
Come and begin your Mother’s Day with a guided heart-opening experience. We’ll learn about cacao, where this beautiful sacred plant comes from, how she is prepared for ceremony, and enjoy a cup while being guided back to your heart by the sound of the drum and guided meditation. You will leave feeling uplifted, reconnected to your emotional heart (seat of the soul) and to others.
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Rooted & Restored: Body, Breath, and Botanicals
with Elizabeth Greer, MA, PMH-C, Ms. Black WV 2026
Saturday May 9, 2026
11am – 2:00pm
Join us for a 3-hour workshop that is, at its heart, a love letter to women. We will spend the first part of our time together learning the science of feminine and reproductive/perinatal wellness, the evidence base for somatic bodywork and breathwork, and the brilliant convergence of healing traditions that have supported birthing women since before anyone was writing things down. We will talk about why this knowledge was suppressed, who kept it alive anyway, and why reclaiming it is not nostalgia — it is medicine.
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3-Day Immersion: Reading the Body Immersion
with Margi Flint
October 23rd-25th : 10am-4pm
Cardamom
/in Herb of the Month /by Ashley Davis(Elettaria cardamomum)
Cardamom is a well known and loved spice from the Indian subcontinent, often used as an ingredient in chai tea and used to flavor curries, desserts, and liqueurs. In Egypt and the Middle East, cardamom is ground and put into coffee to offset the acidic effects of coffee in the body (and it adds a delicious flavor)!
Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger family)
Parts Used: dried ripe seeds
Energetics: pungent, aromatic, warming, drying
Actions: digestive stimulant, expectorant, carminative, diaphoretic
Uses: Excerpted from The Yoga of Herbs by Dr. Frawley & Dr. Lad:
“Cardamom is one of the best & safest digestive stimulants. It awakens the spleen, stimulates samana vayu (similar to the solar plexus), enkindles Agni (the digestive fire) and removes Kapha (excess water & mucus) from the stomach & lungs. It stimulates the mind and heart and gives clarity and joy. Added to milk it neutralizes its mucus forming properties and it detoxifies cafein in coffee. Its quality is sattvic and its particularly good for opening and soothing the flow of the pranas in the body.” (p.109)
Indications: nervous digestive upset in children, belching, flatulence, indigestion (especially when dairy leads to digestive upset), excessive mucus production, wet/boggy coughs
Description: excerpted from A Modern Herbal by Maude Grieve:
“The large perennial herb. yielding Cardamom seeds is known in its own country as ‘Elattari’ or ‘Ilachi,’ while ‘Cardamomum’ was the name by which some Indian spice was known in classical times.It has a large, fleshy rhizome, and the alternate, lanceolate leaves are blades from 1 to 2 1/2 feet long, smooth and dark green above, pale, glaucous green and finely silky beneath. The flowering stems spread horizontally near the ground, from a few inches to 2 feet long, and bear small, loose racemes, the small flowers being usually yellowish, with a violet lip. The fruits are from 2/5 to 4/5 of an inch long, ovoid or oblong, bluntly triangular in section, shortly beaked at the apex, pale yellowish grey in colour, plump, and nearly smooth. They are three-celled, and contain in each cell two rows of small seeds of a dark, reddish-brown colour.” (p.159)
Contraindications: large amounts of cardamom can aggravate ulcers or other excess Pitta conditions.
Recipe: Baked Pears with Cardamom
Ingredients:
1/2 tsp cardamom
2 whole pears
1/2 cup water
Preparation:
1. Preheat the oven to 350.
2. Lay pears down on a baking dish.
3. Coat the bottom of the dish with water.
4. Sprinkle the pears with cardamom.
5. Bake at 350 til tender.
Check out this website for many wonderful Ayurvedic recipes! You can type cardamom into the search field to see a full list of recipes using this incredible spice.
**This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat any disease**