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New Year, New Moon Workshop – Brooms, Smudge Bundles, Botanical Dyeing : January 18th
Price range: $145.00 through $195.00
Learn New Skills & Make Beautiful, Intentional, Ritual Tools to Use in the New Year!
Join Emileigh Zola, Mary Ellen Lough, and Kristy Bogart for a rich and meaningful day learning new earth centered skills and creating handmade ritual tools. We gather on the New Moon in January to infuse some intention into our new calendar year.
You will be able to make all of the following:
- 3 mini brooms/altar brooms
- botanical dyed altar cloth & socks
- 5-6 smudge bundles, sachet of ceremonial herbs
Location: TBD (within 30 min of Asheville, NC)
Date/Time: Sunday, January 18th, 2025 from 9am-6pm (& break for lunch)
**Extra materials will be available for purchase if you want to use the skills you’ve learned in class to keep crafting at home!
We will be opening the class all together in a circle style format with a meditation and brief share before breaking off into smaller groups.
Mary Ellen Lough is a poet, homesteader, mother, community organizer, wildcrafter, and grows herbs and flowers for ritual and ceremony. She is the owner of Appalachian Sacred, celebrating folkcraft and women’s relationship to the land. In her own words :
I am descended from a long line of German appalachian folk healers, Tennessee farmers, wise women, hillfolk, and ordinary mystics. As a child, I was prone to daydream and wander, and my mother would send me out into the fields and woods to collect wild bouquets for our Sunday and holiday dinner tables, which I would arrange among my grandmother’s old china and crystal glasses.
I think a big part of my work is to reclaim ritual and the sacred in the everyday. I have come to know the overlooked “weeds” of the fields as healers and friends, the carriers of the sacred right below our feet, rustling inside our every quiet prayer. Keats wrote that “The poetry of earth is never dead.” Every where there is wildness, there is blessing, there is healing medicine. I try to weave the wild field in bloom. It is my prayer that every time you use your bundle, you will bless the plants and earth which offer themselves to you, that you will listen to what they have to teach you, and that you will offer your own heart and intentions back to the healing and tending of the “anima mundi “ – the soul of the world.
Emileigh Zola has a passion for curating spaces of depth, connection, and inspiration. She is the founder of “Rhythm and Ritual”, where she empowers individuals to craft handmade brooms with mindfulness & intention.
Emileigh has been tying brooms for over a decade now and loves sharing her craft with others. She is a patient and inclusive teacher, really encouraging students to slow down and tap into their own unique creative expression.
Wild Verbena is a practice of working with locally sourced flora, leaves, seeds, medicinal wild weeds, and ethically sourced barks, resins, and bugs to infuse their magic into natural fibers. Co-created by Kristy Bogart and Mother Earth, Wild Verbena is an earthen love letter of a moment in time, intentional devotion, and plant magic. Attempting to enchant people with the present and enchantment that surrounds us all. Natural ingredients beckon and call to share their power and are celebrated in process and ritual giving birth to one of a kind wearable medicine. Together we will dive into how to work with wild color as wearable art. You will co-create a one of a kind silk bandana/altar cloth filled with your intentions while learning a new skill to tend to in your own hearth, making beautiful holiday gifts for your loved ones and deepening your relationship with the living Earth.
*If you plan to gift this class to someone for the holidays, please let us know in the notes section upon checkout and we will email you a printable gift certificate!
