We invite you to enjoy a journey of sensing, drinking, eating, aligning with the planetary movements and moment, and contemplating data. Let's explore how we relate with the concepts of science and data. We'll discover the data of our own bodies and intuition as they interact with plants and with the group using our senses and biophysical devices that provide biofeedback. We'll receive data from plants – if they agree. How will we know if they agree? We'll pose hypotheses together. Then we'll enjoy a bit of story telling about the traditional practices and current scientific literature regarding the herbs and foods we experience at the event. Please bring your smart phone if you have one, as we will use it to download a free app to view one type of biophysical data.

What is relational science?

Marking the equinox, harvest moon & Sukkot
Harvest season FOODS + state-shifting ELIXIRS
Somatic sensing experiences
Live bio-data visualizations + bio-feedback experiences
Group sharing/sound making/song
Science storytelling
Facilitated conversations on science & data
Experimentation in co-research

This is a free event. We ask you to register, so we order enough ingredients. This is an intimate event – max 11 people.

The Medicine Studio is a symbiotic collaboration, featuring the co-weavings of:

Flourish.Science by CrowdDoing – 500+ global-volunteer-powered, mission-driven initiative that envisions empowered personal and communal health through food as medicine, unlocking nature’s potential with ancestral wisdom and contemporary science. We are activating a global ecosystem of healthy communities through public health research, literacy tools, and citizen science. "All flourishing is mutual." ― Robin Wall Kimmerer

Stacey Sude – Fire tender, medicine maker, science story teller, and practical ceremony weaver of Jewish and northwestern European ancestry. She has a background in western folk herbalism and physics (BA) and is an experienced natural product developer. She is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence and Chief Herbalist for the Flourish.Science initiative. She lives between unceded Lenape-Canarsie and Lumbee-Tuscarora-Occaneechi-Catawba-Cheraw lands (Brooklyn and Raleigh-Durham). Stacey's teachers include Peeka Trenkle, RH, MDiv; Carol Sanford; Fr. Patrick Heelan; Dr. Karl Pribram; and many more who have shaped her development. Stacey always keeps an ear out for the voices of our more-than-human kin and those under-heard in our human communities.

Dr. Ben Collins – Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics trained postdoctoral fellow in ethics, legal, and social issues of artificial intelligence in healthcare with background in bioethics and interests in clinical decision support, addressing health disparities, health-tech ethics, medical philosophy, and medical education with a focus on clinical reasoning, avoiding bias, and the use of AI in healthcare.

Marina Buksov – Functional Medicine Pharmacist (PharmD), Mental Fitness & Health Coach, Herbal Educator, and lifelong learner of the Healing Arts. She is the creator of Build Your Holistic Herbal Practice course mentoring other healthcare professionals in clinical herbal as well as business skills. She is also a Functional Medicine Pharmacist as part of PharmToTable telehealth platform, and the host of the Holistic Pharmacy Podcast.

Miki Aso – Nature Facilitator and artist based in the Hudson Valley. She began apprenticing with Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower in March of 2022 and completed Cultivating Cognitive Agility training in July 2022. Marguerite’s deep wisdom and nurturing guided her back to what is innately in each of us, in each of our cells, the ability to sense, send, and receive information from the natural world. Miki continues to work with Marguerite and facilitates Plant Kinship workshops. For more info visit weareallkin.earth.

Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower – co-founder of Plant Pioneers, a human-Plant relations movement where humans, communities, schools, farmers, corporate America must learn to remember how to use their inner skills for listening to and communicating with Plants, Trees and Land systems. The training program is Cultivating Cognitive Agility with Plant, Tree and Nature Allies. Here, relearn how to use your inner tool box for making contact. Marguerite says this is something we already know how to do. She also feels it is absolutely necessary and needed as we must live in reciprocity with Plants and Nature beings. She feels as we start treating Plants & Nature as equal partners in our living landscape, so much healing can happen, and she says, "this is the relational path. It will Naturally decolonize, deconstruct and dismantle human superiority, it's the right thing to do, and, it's about time."

Erica Hopkins – Painter, multimedia artist, strategist, impact investor.

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