Magical Realists:
Practices for seasonal living in community.
A weekly group to explore the sensual delight of each season: in tune with cyclical rhythms of nature, bridging the tangible and intangible, and combining practical information with imagination.
Winter Sessions
Each session explores seasonal health and wellbeing as an art form,
in tune with Winter’s unique energy.
We will honor taste, touch, smell, sight, and sound
through cooking, medicine making, dancing, music, crafting, adornment, and celebration.
Sign up for the whole thing or just some of it.
This is a space to learn and play in community!
Details:
When: Wednesday evenings, 7-8:30pm
January 28 - March 25
(no class Feb. 18)
Where: at my home studio in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn
Pricing:
Full 8-weeks: $280 ($35 per session)
Single session: $38
Weekly Breakdown
JAN 28 - Winter Energetics & Fire Cider!
Get to know the qualities of the Winter season and how they can affect us: our bodies, emotions, organs, and psyche. Make a jar of ruby red fire cider to take home.
FEB 4 - Ayurvedic Cooking Class
Support your digestion seasonally! Together, we'll make and taste Ayurvedic staples like ghee and chai, and learn about spices for daily winter maintenance. Take home a jar of homemade ghee!
FEB 11 - Get a Move On
Learn a sequence of practical moves for daily physical activation, and guided dance improvisations for nightly intuitive exploration to work with in the dark.
FEB 25 - Medicine Making: Immunity Syrups with guest Sophie Cozine
Learn how to make tasty immunity syrups with Pine needle + Elderberry. Take home your own bottle!
MARCH 4 - Working with Our Hands
Adorn your space by crafting a handmade wreath, using evergreens and winter fruits.
MARCH 11 - Medicine Making: Skin Care
Learn Ayurvedic secrets for luxurious skin, and make your own face and body scrub using medicinal herbs and grains.
MARCH 18 - Restorative Sounds with guest Nami Soga
Enjoy stillness and subtle vibration with meditation, sound bath, and chanting, to honor this dark time of the year and the life force energy slowly working underground.
MARCH 25 - Winter Feast + Tying It All Together
A celebration of the season with dancing and an abundant table of medicinal foods and drinks.
Meet the Teachers
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Marisa Clementi
YOUR HOST
I refer to my work as a health practitioner as Magical Realism, as it is all at once practical and mysterious. My approach mixes the medicine practices of my Latvian and Italian heritage with the brilliance of Ayurveda, along with somatic explorations. I bring my artistry as a performer to this work through my deep knowledge of functional anatomy and somatic inquiry, as well as my inherited ancestral understanding of food and friendship as medicine.
marisa-clementi.comphoto by Lisa Greenberg
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Sophie Cozine
GUEST FACILITATOR
Sophie is a Clinical Herbalist, musician, and creative with a deep passion for plant medicine and the healing arts. She is dedicated to honoring the sacred connection between plants + people. Sophie has formulated for brands such as Anima Mundi Apothecary, Parch Spirits Co., and Nite Swim Bath Shop. She teaches regular classes + retreats at Remedies Herb Shop, the Omega Institute, and Anima Mundi Apothecary. floraliaherbals.com
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Nami Soga
GUEST FACILITATOR
Energetic and spiritual healing are the heart of my work, and I hold the belief that practices such as yoga, Reiki and astrology guide us beyond the illusion of separation and back into our natural state of wholeness. I blend diverse elements through intuitive and creative sequencing, inviting a balance of yin and yang, the earthly and the celestial. Alongside teaching, I am a licensed acupuncturist, massage therapist, Reiki Master practitioner, and astrologer.
ajnapura.cophoto by Jenna Duffy
