Seed and Thistle Apothecary

Join lara pacheco of Atabey Medicine to lead a 6 weeks series learning the 'Ma Wang Dui Birds Qigong as taught and certified by Dr. Liu D**g of the Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School. Over six weeks we will learn this beautiful, elegant, and ancient form while also connecting and exploring some plant medicine as tea. Once participants register, you will be encouraged to purchase an accompanying booklet or e-booklet through theLing Gui International Healing Qigong School. After our six week series, participants will have learned this form to practice on their own. Tea will be provided in person. Register here: https://www.thebymc.com/post/qigong-plant-medicine-6-week-immersion-into-the-ma-wang-dui-birds-qigong

“The times are urgent; let us slow down. Slowing down is losing our way-not a human capacity or human capability. It is the invitations that are now in the world-at-large, inviting us to listen deeply, to be keen, to be fresh, to be quick with our heels, to follow the sights and sounds and smells of the world.”-Bayo Akomolafe. Go get some community acupuncture from my dear friend, a power house mom, Felicia. She uses the space at Turn!Turn!Turn! on N Williams,Tuesday+Thursday, 9-2pm, Wednesday 9-1pm and Saturdays 9-1pm with Mo! More info
Image description: 1) light skinned brown cutie with a mask all tucked up in a blanket resting with needles on head 2) cutie arm with needles in and Oregon grape tattoo 3) same cutie but further away resting with a cozy blanket.

Happy Earth plane birthday dear brother! I miss you every day but take joy in knowing you’re at peace. I see you in my skin when it turns brown in the summer, in your kids faces, I feel you in the ocean, I hear you when your boys hum in pleasure when they eat, I see you in the pain and struggle in the patients I treat, and see you in the houseless on the street for your heart cared immensely especially for those who suffered greatly. I hear your affirmations towards me as a caretaker. I love you.

Everybody’s gotta have an adventure boo! Love you .common

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lara pacheco will be leading this lovely 6 week Qigong series weaving in Plant Medicine starting on WEdnesday mornings, July 13th until August 17th. Please sign up through the Bhakti Yoga Movement Center!

Countdown to turning 40 years old! One way I’m celebrating is by honoring my thespian self along with my fellow thezies! Thank you Headwaters Theater for the space! #40 . Image description: First- people laying on ground looking up with heads close by in a circle masked. Second image- people posed in a group in a theater looking dope.

La tierra sana. En solidaridad. The land heals. In solidarity. Bo matum mi familia!

Takaji dear ones! As a student if liberation acupuncture at POCA Tech, our student clinics are offering FREE treatments all month long this February. I offer treatments at our Rockwood location listed on flier on Tuesday mornings, 9-12:20 pm. Other student clinics are Wed-Friday evenings at same location, and Friday mornings. Also Wednesday am at Hillsdale and Friday evening at Cully. More information at working class acupuncture.org. Image description: stick drawing if a person with a heart radiating to another person in a recliner chair.

Please join our virtual open house next Wednesday evening for our Atabey Medicine BIPOC Herbal apprenticeship. Please RSVP at seedandthistle.com/events and fill out an application at seedandthistle.com/apprenticeship. Image: bipoc folks congregating by a River outside learning from a black femme.

Atabey Medicine BIPOC apprenticeship applications are open!! We have our year long program and seasonal offerings this year planned to be in person while following CDC and Oregon Health Authority guidelines. Applications here: seedandthistle.com/apprenticeship.
Caption (BIPOC apprentices holding botanically dyed pieces of fabric in a forest)

Also come out and support and see all the beautiful work and medicine that Atabey medicine apprentices are creating!! It will be a pop up market supporting BIPOC medicine makers at Open Hand and Health. This will also be the day applications close for our apprenticeship program so it's a great opportunity to come out and ask questions about the program and hear from apprentices about their own experiences!

Applications are open for our Atabey Medicine BIPOC apprenticeship! Also open this next year are seasonal offerings. Please look at our website for more information: http://seedandthistle.com/apprenticeship

Can’t imagine any other way to be the celebrating with this crew and connecting with ancestral ways and each other! Atabey medicine program 2022 will be unfolding soon! Stay tuned!. Love my Atabey fam!Image 1: BIPOC folks doing basketry by a River. Image 2: BIPOC folks chillin by a River. Image 3: BIPOC folks holding up botanically dyed fabric. Image 4: BIPOC folks building an altar.

This is happening this Summer with Brown Girl Rise!!

Hey! It’s been awhile bc I really dislike social media. I’m just jumping on to express my solidarity with Palestine and not supporting companies like Mountain Rose Herbs. These pics are from the program I co run called Atabey Medicine. We’ve always worked with medicine with and from the community. It’s never made sense to me otherwise. I couldn’t figure out how to share some of the awesome images and info people have been posting lately. There are so many amazing local growers here and those include apprentices with the tiniest gardens. We know where the true medicine comes from. Just to list some amazing local growers

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🦋 Read Issue 02: Nepantla at ofrendamagazine.com. LINK IN BIO.

We are excited to share wisdom from a variety of thinkers, healers, poets, teachers, and ceremonialists, including












Some have shared their work in AUDIO, so please take a listen. We'll be releasing a downloadable issue within the next few days, and we'll also be sharing a few extra nepantla-themed pieces in the weeks to come—so stay tuned for those.

We received so many submissions for this issue. Thank you to our amazing contributors and also to all of those who sent in their work for consideration. We are grateful that you're part of this community. Gracias. Tlazocamati. 🙏🏽

So our season with Atabey Medicine begins with Cottonwood, ‘níq̓ʷ-əɬ stik’ to set us on our year long journey. Gratitude for the the tree medicine of stars and earth and all elemental medicine. Thank you Cecile who is stepping deeper into her path and power. Gratitude for Ridhi for holding us and thankful for the apprentices and their courageous wisdom and especially thankful for Wapato island. We offered many prayers to the land and to the Multnomah bands of the Chinook and all their descendants. So much love!❤️❤️🌺🌺✊🏽✊🏽🐚🐚🌳🌳🌟🌪🔥💧

Yes to letting your freak fly out on the desert.

Thank you Hawthorn for holding us yesterday. Love being nourished by the plants with this community. Applications now open for the Atabey Medicine BIPOC herbal apprenticeship! Applications here: seed and Thistle.com/apprenticeship

Applications now open for Atabey Medicine BIPOC Herbal Apprenticeship. Applications and information accessed here: http://seedandthistle.com/apprenticeship

Please check out these upcoming Nature & Mindfulness Camp for children and teens from 3rd through 8th grade with PDX Alliance for Self- Care. These inclusive and intersectional virtual camps will provide self-care and mindfulness tools, academic resources, civic engagement, and more to Portland-area children and teens. The mentor program will center BIPoC, LGBTQ+, disabled, and all marginalized and underserved youth. Summer Americrop VISTAs are our camp counselors and academic mentors. Nature & Mindfulness Camp is offered at no cost for whoever is interested and has consistent and new online content courses that we’ve listed below! Furthermore, this will be an ongoing resource for children and teens which will extend through the fall with flexible levels of participation and dates.

Oye gente! The time is ripe for diving into reflection within our communities on what land we stand on to begin to vision what our collective transformation looks like. These patriarchal, cis heteronormative and white supremacist narratives are beginning to crumble though the last clutches and gripping is real. Here’s a beautiful and powerfully laid out manual by a crew I’m truly humbled to be a part of. This manual follows the Taíno medicine wheel thru each element, filled with reflection and exercises to help us in the process of decolonization. Boriken/Puerto Rico is a micro guide in this manual to share its own decolonizing process as a active colony of the U.S. Please consider purchasing a copy, 20$-40$ while asking White folks to pay higher end. Proceeds go to as they work towards land reclamation and healing justice for q***r and trans folk. Thanks to for putting this manual together. Please DM if you want a copy!

This my life’s work, y’all. These images say it all. The revolution may have multiple paths, faces and this is one. Allowing black and brown bodies to take up space in the forest, rivers and trees and not have to worry as much about violence because we were on ‘private’ land. For our bodies to experience pleasure, joy and remember again the ecstasy of interaction with water and the smooth texture of clay, our earth mother. Gratitude for this beloved crew and those who don’t have IG and those there in spirit . Gratitude for the land of the Kalapuya blessings on your people. Thank you for letting us be there. May there be more and more of our people finding our sovereign place once again with the land and with our medicine.

Plant medicine and access to healing spaces is a vital way in removing toxicity from the impact of white supremacy. Please consider donating funds to help us continually make medicine for our black community right now by sending $$ to @$HOCMA on Cash app Also support Ayomide pictured here whose
shop name is Milieu Collective and inside you will find The Portland Chocolate Laboratory Chocolatepdx.com. Ayomide is a power house here on Chinook territory/Portland, OR and who makes the best damn chocolate. She also helps run Humans of Color. Ayomide has played a role in getting medicine out to the houseless community and currently our Black community. Please help us continue to make more medicine by donating. This is another way to support this revolutionary transition.

Say her name Breonna Taylor.

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Upcoming Virtual Classes - https://mailchi.mp/cf5b54562700/upcoming-virtual-classes

Greatest expression of hope comes from seeds in all forms albeit a plant or child. The first picture of seeds were from family in Boriken who insist I take them back and I seeded them today. The next picture is of my Tulsi seeds from last years plants. May we remember our ancestors in this time of uncertainty as they’ve lived through a great deal of trials. May we remember the abundance the great mother, Atabey, always has to offer when we remember all we need is already here. All the hoarding and fear will not be what gets us out.

Get yer tickets for the Areito performance by the Slow Blink Puppet Collective Here at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/areito-puppet-show-tickets-94569320383. The performance will be the Spring Equinox, the weekend of March 21st, details in the poster made by . Sliding scale at The Headwaters Theatre. We’ll also have art to sale and ‘Decolonizing for Organizers Manual’ in which the latter the proceeds will support and . So excited to see this come together! It’s a part of my heart and soul and dedicated to the memory of my brother, Randy.