Herbal Foundations with Sia Hanna

Energetic Tastes, and Sensory Plant Relationship

Location: Prismid Sanctuary

Sat Aug 1, 11am-3pm at Prismid Sanctuary

What to expect

In this class we will learn key frameworks our ancestors and traditional people and practitioners use when working with herbs. Herbalism is at least many thousands of years old and is based on the cycles of nature, the senses and observations. This class will allow us to tap into those sensory and observational ways of relating to plants and our own bodies to provide greater understanding through embodied and traditional frameworks for how one would select herbs for the person in front of you.

Key Learning Goals

(1) Cultivating a sense of trust in one’s own bodily sensations

(2) Stepping back from the disease-based model and choosing herbs for patterns rather than simply for biomedical conditions

(3) Exploring a brief history of how we got here and how we reclaim ancestral sciences in their fullness

Sia Hanna (she/her) is the herbalist behind ahwa and herbals. Her work and herbal practice centers connection, collaboration, and empowerment through deepening experience with Plants, Land, Each other, and the fertile spaces in the interrelationships.

In her work as a practitioner, she supports people and groups in working collaboratively towards their goals, weaving the wisdoms each person holds, learning together, and centering the self-knowledge and self-exploration of her clients. Plants are her greatest teachers; through spirals of working with plants, with people who work with plants, and people seeking healing with plants, her entire worldview and purpose has shifted and continues to shift in these relationships.

Sia is informed by her experience as a diasporic being of Coptic Egyptian and Anatolian Greek lineages, the remembrance of ancestral and cultural practices, and by the many intersecting communities and histories throughout and beyond these regions. Plants hold a key to remembering how to be with Land and Each Other. Sia humbly and imperfectly answers the calling to work with them and bring them to the people in reciprocal and responsible ways, with the help and mentorship of many teachers along the way, from land stewards to clinical herbalists to culture keepers to all the different ways that one can fall back in love with the plants over and over again.