January 2019

The Kosmic Kitchen was born out of a friendship. We met while sowing the seeds for a community garden. It was there we discovered herbalism, and the plants' incredible capacity to heal. We brought home an abundance of herbs and discovered new (and old) ways to incorporate them into our everyday. We started to see our kitchen as a sanctuary. A place to nourish, heal, and make magic. After being introduced to the world of plants, we set out on journeys to deepen this connection. Together we studied permaculture at The Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, California in 2011 and Herbalism at The Florida School of Holistic Living in Orlando, Florida in 2012. Summer then ventured to Vermont to apprentice with renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar, which...

07 January, 2019

Reina Prado, founder of Healing Queen, is a Xicana feminista that brings a bi-lingual and bi-cultural approach to the sessions and workshops she leads. She is certified as an ICSU (Integrative Cranial Sacral Unwinding) and RPP (Registered Polarity) Practitioner through the Life Energy Institute. Through a combination of modalities, the session helps a client re-align to their heart space sourcing their wellness of being. Prado also developed a hybrid offering that she named the love limpias. The Love Limpia helps clear out emotional and / or physical blocks about love. This could look like or feel like limiting beliefs about deserving love, or releasing energetic ties to an ex. Through the Love Limpia, one may experience an expansion of their heartspace that welcomes love and radiates...

04 January, 2019

Shelley Phillips (folk flutes/oboe/English horn/Irish harp) is much in demand as studio and pick-up musician for the professional folk and baroque crowd, and has toured the world. She and her husband Barry have collaborated with Rumi translator and poet Coleman Barks, making two albums of poetry and music: The Rose and Five Things to Say. Shelley has appeared on over 20 recordings on the Gourd music label, including 4 solo albums. https://gourd.com/phillipssNEW.html Shelley has a Masters of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory, and continued her education on sabbatical in 2006 studying shenai with Sanjeev Shankar in India, willow flute with Jean-Pierre Yvert in Wales, and pipe making with Shirley Drake in England, as well as special classes in the Netherlands and Ireland. She continues...

25 January, 2019