Sunday, 21 July

Natural Beauty Medicine Cabinet - Make + Grow your own

A series of interactive holistic workshops - grow and discover the medicinal & therapeutic benefits of our native botanicals.

By Festina Lente CLG

Select date and time

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 10:30 - 12:00 GMT+1

Location

Festina Lente

Old Connaught Avenue A98 F702 Bray Ireland

Refund Policy

Contact the organiser to request a refund.

About this event

Make and fill your very own wellbeing cabinet - brimming with the riches and wonders of nature!

Held in the beautiful sensory Victorian Walled Garden - a series that helps you revitalise and boost your health. Explore and learn the medicinal and therapeutic benefits of our native botanicals that are naturally available in the Irish landscape.

Featuring a strong seasonal biophilia experience, we will connect and craft with plants that are vitally present and beneficial for each season. Discover plant allies to support and empower you throughout all seasonal life chapters - to activate and tonify digestion, immunity, lymphatics, emotions and sense of beauty within and all around.

Co-Facilitators for the Series

Support and guidance will be offered by:

- Laura Holly, Founder and maker of SugarLoaf Botanics

- Dr Sinead O’Connor, Head of Horticulture and Sustainability Services, Festina Lente Victorian Walled Gardens

Booking Options

1. Sign up for the entire series to receive a fully immersive experience
2. Book any sow + make workshop as follows:

Sunday July 21 - Make your own herbal body oil and salve - working with plantain and St Johns wort

Sunday 25 August - Make your own summer elderberry elixir and syrup - immunity and inner beauty tonic!

Sunday 22 September - Make your own nettle seed gomasio and pesto condiments

Sunday 20 October - Make your own smudge stick - inspired by mugwort, yarrow, sage and rosemary

Sunday 24 November - Make your own wreath/ garland and restorative herbal bath salts/ teas - invigorated by the warmth and glow of selected dried flowers and herbs from the gardens and wild flowers from the woodlands

Refreshments,creative journaling resources and seasonal take away kits are provided

In each immersive workshops you will receive guidance and experience of the following:

Growing Your Own - medicinal/skin loving herbs – guidance on how to grow your own medicinal plants, with or without a garden- with a take away seed/ pot set to start up your own sow and grow medicinal practice in your apartment balcony or garden

Identifying - native medicinal plants in the hedgerow/fields

Make Your Own - medicinal seasonal products:

a. botanical infusions: infusing plants in oils/vinegar/alcohol to make body oils, oxymels, elixirs and tinctures

b. botanical salves: turning infused oils into salves, ointments and balms

c. botanical edibles: infusions to sip and activate benefits for specific organs in your digestive system e.g. liver, kidneys, stomach

Guided “plant whispering” - foraging techniques and mindful biophilia atunement with seasonal plants (life-giving properties): via mindful walks, body led energetic practice, and journal prompts

Take Aways - your own a. hand made products to boost and revitalize your life and health chapter for an entire nature cycle and b. sown potted medicinal herbs to start up your home grown "medicine cabinet"

For more information please email Heather - events.workshop@festinalente.ie

Organised by

Festina Lente CLG

Festina Lente is a not-for-profit organisation provides a unique range of equestrian and horticultural activities, training, recreational events and employment services options with a strong emphasis on social inclusion, choice and personal development.

We have a variety of public services and facilities for everyone to enjoy on our campus in Bray – an Equestrian Centre offering lessons, camps and equine assisted programmes, a beautifully restored Victorian Walled Garden where we host lots of fun seasonal family and events, children’s workshops and birthday parties and gardening workshops, a Garden Centre, an open air snack bar and shop so why not pop along for a visit. Keep an eye on our Events Calendar for upcoming events!

We are also an education centre offering QQI accredited educational training courses:

We also offer other Equine Assisted programmes:

All activities encourage individual choice, personal development, achievement and progression and we are a registered Irish Charity.

Saol Anois is also a day service run by Festina Lente in our campus. The Saol Anois Day Service is funded by Health Service Executive and it was set up in 2005 to meet the support needs of adults with intellectual disabilities and/or dual diagnosis. It is a supportive and therapeutic service designed to meet the needs of people through individual plans. Service users have the opportunity to access a range of integrated developmental and leisure opportunities.

Our campus is situated in the grounds of what was once Old Connaught House, formerly the residence of the Plunket family. Read more on the History of Old Connaught House & Gardens and Festina Lente Foundation. Festina Lente (Latin) means Hasten Slowly and is the Plunket family motto. We adopted this as the name of our organisation in 1995 because it conveys our culture perfectly. Festina Lente was founded in 1988 by Mary Rachel Brophy; her aim was through social and economic inclusion, to support those most at risk. The result of all of the Festina Lente’s hard work is the wonderful garden and state of the art Equestrian Centre which are available to the public to enjoy whenever they want.