Enjoy a weekend in nature. During this weekend workshop we will dive into the plant realm and learn how to forage wild food and medicine. You will learn how to properly identify local plants and learn recipes to make them into delicious foods. You will learn how to sustainably harvest plants for herbal medicine and turn the harvest into tinctures, salves, oils, lip balms, and teas. You will learn how to communicate with the plants in the subtler realms and make flower essences, or the vibratory essence of the plant. We will also practice yoga during the weekend to bring ourselves into greater balance with the natural world. Join us to learn about these powerful plant allies that are in your backyard waiting to befriend you.
The Workshop Includes:
Plant Walks
How to identify wild foods and medicines
Recipes to bring home
How to mindfully harvest and process plants into foods, herbal tinctures, salves, oils, lip balms, and teas (that you will take with you)
Plant communication and how to make flower essences
Vinyasa and Trauma-informed Yoga
Who this Workshop is for:
Plant/Nature lovers who respect and care for the earth
Someone interested in learning how to be in partnership with the earth and plants around them
Someone who wants to learn how to properly identify and work with the local plants
Someone open to the subtler realms of reality
Someone open to or already engaged in yoga practice
Pricing:
Commuter $295 (includes two lunches)
Camping $380 (includes one night camping, two lunches, one dinner, one breakfast)
Tiny House Accomodation $480 (includes one night in Tiny House, two lunches, one dinner, and one breakfast)
Cleo Post, Owner & Director Rainbow Body Yoga, E-RYT 500, B.A. & M.A. in Yogic Studies
Growing up in Upstate New York, nature has always been a huge part of Cleo's connection with herself and the world. This love of the plant world brought her to study herbalism and ultimately heal herself with the plants.
Cleo has studied Herbalism for the past 15 years. She has taken workshops and apprenticeships with Rosemary Gladstar, herbal classes with Brigitte Mars, and courses with Michael Tierra. Her love of plants brought her to study and learn about plant consciousness & communication, which she discovered through Pam Montgomery. She loves guiding people to a greater connection with nature and the plant world.
Cleo has been teaching yoga for 14 years and practicing yoga for 18 years, starting at an instructors house in the magical woods near Canaan, NY. The connection with the birds, the stream running outside, the breath, and the yoga poses expanded her awareness and consciousness. Her love for yoga blossomed and brought her to complete her 200hr yoga teacher training from Kripalu in 2011 and a couple years later to Naropa University where she received her 1000hr yoga teacher training and B.A. in Yoga in December 2013. In 2021 she went back to Naropa University and was part of the first cohort to graduate from the new M.A. program in Yogic Studies in 2023. The yoga programs at Naropa enabled her to dive deeply into ancient yogic texts, yogic philosophy, the practice of asana, and the study of Sanskrit. Cleo has studied under many amazing teachers, and has gained insight through experimenting with different yoga styles, which ultimately enabled her to find her own distinct teaching method and flow. Cleo started Rainbow Body Yoga in 2014 and is thrilled to offer and share the joy, peace, happiness, love, calmness, and serenity that yoga brings to all that come to practice through retreats and trainings.
Matthew, or ‘Mateo’, was introduced to yoga at the age of 16 via Yoga Therapy under the tutelage of John ‘Jonji’ Provenzano of the River Cloud School of Yoga in Kingston, NY. From the very beginning Matthew was taught and shown that this ancient practice of scientific self inquiry went far beyond mere stretching and muscle toning. The three-fold awareness is the basis of the way he structures his classes i.e. touch of earth, act of breathing, and sensation in the body. This method of mindfulness practice is a way to reground oneself in the present moment while opening the gateway to emotional intelligence. With this method the practitioner learns how to interrupt the body’s trauma response system.
Matthew completed two 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training certifications. One in 2011 at the Kripalu School of Yoga and the other in 2012 at the Atmananda Yoga Sequence in Manhattan. He taught yoga for kids at the Harlem Children’s Zone as well as at Fit4LifeNYC. Upon returning to upstate NY he has taught Yoga at several elementary schools in Ulster and Dutchess counties. He also ran a yoga program at the Boys and Girls club of Kingston. He is overjoyed to have partnered with Cleo to offer these one of a kind experiences.
Matthew studied at Naropa University where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies. His focus of study was Permaculture and Traditional Ecological Knowledge which he has continued to study and practice to this day. He also leads foraging and forest therapy walks in the Catskill mountains.