Herbs for Stress and Resilience
A sliding scale class and fundraiser for the St. James Infirmary
Tuesday September 22, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Suggested donation: $15 - 35, with no one turned away for lack of funds
As we move through these remarkable times, we have all adapted mechanisms to maintain resilience when in the face of stress, while also carrying ancestral trauma and ancestral learning. In this workshop we will explore our stress responses and work to shift responses that do not continue to support our wellbeing. We will cover plant medicines for nervous system support; for specific physical, spiritual, and emotional manifestations of stress, anxiety, and depression; for protection and for healing underlying trauma and other root causes of emotional imbalance.
St. James Infirmary is a peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers of all genders. Serving the San Francisco Bay Area, it is their mission to meet the needs of people engaged in the sex trade through advocacy, direct services, and social justice. They are loved and respected by community for the breadth of services they provide, including a community mental health program, primary care, trans health, HIV and STI testing and counseling, and a needle exchange. This year (their 20th!) St. James’ fundraising is focused on fighting for the equity of sex workers and trans people of color. Learn more and donate at www.stjamesinfirmary.org.
About the teachers:
Kara Sigler and Emiliano Lemus are both founding members of BAHRT who are also friends and herbal collaborators, frequently working together on projects about herbs for trans health (including editing a book in the works!).
Kara Sigler is a genderqueer white anglo-Ashkenazi femme who works as a Registered Herbalist and a Nurse Practitioner on Chochenyo Ohlone territory of the San Francisco Bay Area and foothills Mi Wuk land of the California Sierra Nevadas. Kara has worked with herbs and clients for over 15 years, teaching classes at many local herb schools including Ancestral Apothecary and the California School of Herbal Studies. Find Kara online at www.sfherbalist.com
Emiliano Lemus (they/them) is a clinical energetic herbalist working on Chochenyo Ohlone territory, trained by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine. They are also a UCSF medical student, a fourth-generation healer/plant meddler of mestizo chicano heritage (Chicimeca, Purepecha, and mixed/migrant Western European), and a host of the Herbal Highway (www.kpfa.org/program/the-herbal-highway). Find Emiliano online at www.emilianolemus.com and IG @trans.herbalist.
A sliding scale class and fundraiser for the St. James Infirmary
Tuesday September 22, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm PST
Suggested donation: $15 - 35, with no one turned away for lack of funds
As we move through these remarkable times, we have all adapted mechanisms to maintain resilience when in the face of stress, while also carrying ancestral trauma and ancestral learning. In this workshop we will explore our stress responses and work to shift responses that do not continue to support our wellbeing. We will cover plant medicines for nervous system support; for specific physical, spiritual, and emotional manifestations of stress, anxiety, and depression; for protection and for healing underlying trauma and other root causes of emotional imbalance.
St. James Infirmary is a peer-based occupational health and safety clinic for sex workers of all genders. Serving the San Francisco Bay Area, it is their mission to meet the needs of people engaged in the sex trade through advocacy, direct services, and social justice. They are loved and respected by community for the breadth of services they provide, including a community mental health program, primary care, trans health, HIV and STI testing and counseling, and a needle exchange. This year (their 20th!) St. James’ fundraising is focused on fighting for the equity of sex workers and trans people of color. Learn more and donate at www.stjamesinfirmary.org.
About the teachers:
Kara Sigler and Emiliano Lemus are both founding members of BAHRT who are also friends and herbal collaborators, frequently working together on projects about herbs for trans health (including editing a book in the works!).
Kara Sigler is a genderqueer white anglo-Ashkenazi femme who works as a Registered Herbalist and a Nurse Practitioner on Chochenyo Ohlone territory of the San Francisco Bay Area and foothills Mi Wuk land of the California Sierra Nevadas. Kara has worked with herbs and clients for over 15 years, teaching classes at many local herb schools including Ancestral Apothecary and the California School of Herbal Studies. Find Kara online at www.sfherbalist.com
Emiliano Lemus (they/them) is a clinical energetic herbalist working on Chochenyo Ohlone territory, trained by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes at the Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine. They are also a UCSF medical student, a fourth-generation healer/plant meddler of mestizo chicano heritage (Chicimeca, Purepecha, and mixed/migrant Western European), and a host of the Herbal Highway (www.kpfa.org/program/the-herbal-highway). Find Emiliano online at www.emilianolemus.com and IG @trans.herbalist.
