Come be a nut! Nuts are vegan, paleo, a great source of protein and easy to find locally. In this workshop you’ll learn how to make your own homemade nut products from nut butters to nut milk! Make it homemade, save dough, and cut down on your carbon foot print! Recipes and hands-on learning included!

$20 Early Bird /$25 at Door

In this beautiful restorative workshop, we will discuss how tea can play a healing role in your everyday life by incorporating Ayurvedic wisdom. Participants are encouraged to use their intuitive knowledge to make their own tea combinations. Drink in the knowledge of Ayurveda, grow your own, tea, and savor a flight of tea during this experiential workshop.

* Enjoy a flight of tea

* Make your own tea and take home a reusable tea ball

* Understand the doshas, gunas, and six taste of Ayurveda

* Learn how to grow, source and brew tea effectively

* A collection of tea recipes with knowledge of herbs/spices

Tea meets fermented prebiotic gut boosting delicious drink in this workshop all about making kick ass kombucha with ease.

Let your New Years Resolution be good health through the incredibly immune and gut boosting benefits of Kombucha. Learn how to make some Kick Ass Kombucha, get a Scoby to take home with you to start your home brewing life and get creative with some delicious ferments that are sure to rock your socks off!

Essential Oils are the new buzz. They are great aromatherapy and give us a dose of happy. In this workshop, you will learn how to make scented home products with essential oils from Deodorant, Laundry Detergent, Home Cleaners to basic Perfumes. Recipes and hands-on learning included!

$30 Early Bird/ $35 at Door
VIP Special Tickets $50 comes w/ a pack of Essential Oils

In this grounding workshop, participants will use nature's cycles to guide our own innovative thinking for the year to come. Participants will get to engage in their senses using breath and bodywork to envision their next journey with an inspired drawing meditation using natural plant dyes derived from root vegetables. Sink in, celebrate, explore the beauty of your inner being and the winter season with us this Saturday December 21st. 

* Embark on a short introduction on what nature does from the fall to winter.

* Followed by restorative yoga to strengthen your root chakra.

* Ending with meditative drawing using watercolors made from natural plant dyes. 

In this beautiful restorative workshop, we will discuss how tea can play a healing role in your everyday life by incorporating Ayurvedic wisdom  Participants are encouraged to use their intuitive knowledge to make their own tea combinations.  Drink in the knowledge of Ayurveda, grow your own, tea, and savor a flight of tea during this experiential workshop.

• Enjoy a flight

• Make your own tea to take home as well as a reusable tea ball.

• Learn the doshas, guns and six tastes of Ayurveda

• Explore how to grow, source and brew tea responsibly

• Select a collection of tea recipes with powerful herbs/spices

November 2nd 2019 10:30am-2:00pm

Warwick Community Orchard Warwick NY

In this introductory workshop, I share some of the lessons I’ve learned with managing fruit tree crops including seasonal organic management, pruning and preparing the soil beds in the understory of your trees.

This is a sliding scale event. We ask those who can pay full price do to pay it forward for those who may not be able to.

$35/45

We start at the beginning, with the breath.

As the fall winds usher the cool air for winter, we examine the respiration and subtle slow down that is inherent in this change of season. Come reset and join us as we begin to build our sangha here in the Hudson Valley.

September 30th 2019 6:00-7:30pm

Hopeful Roots Headquarters NY

In this hands on workshop, participants will learn about different types of bees and other pollinators. Learn about how we can positively impact our local ecosystems by providing habitat, increasing native plant diversity for local pollinators through making bee homes and selecting native seeds. Family Friendly. Must be 5 years old & up to attend. Cost $25.

In what ways are we speaking and acting in alignment with our inner being and in what respect are we keeping silent.

Today’s meditation explores, our presence in the world and our choice of how we show up in that.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

• 10:00 AM 1:00 PM

Wylde Woods Native Forest

Salisbury Mills NY

Mushrooms aren’t just for puns and eating they have many benefits. In this interactive workshop, you will learn mushrooms are so important to plants and animals, some new technological ways mushrooms are being used and how to grow your own mushrooms. You will also get to make & take 2 Shittake logs home with you to get you started! Come enjoy the Wylde Woods with us and explore the fascinating world of mushrooms. Bring your own lunch to enjoy! $45 + tax

How do you turn your food garbage into gold? What’s the best method for composting? Drawdown lists that food waste is ranked #3 to contributing to climate change. In this fun workshop about food and garbage, you will learn about ways you can compost your food scraps, what composting method is best for you, and resources to help get you started towards positively reduce carbon emissions and making fabulously rich soil.

This event has been rescheduled to Aug. 17th due to heat advisories.

Doors can take us to hidden places we have yet to explore. In this creative, fun and interactive workshop, participants will get to craft an entry to a magical kingdom of their own invention. Join us as we envision a secret world in the beautiful forests of the Mountain Top Arboretum and become enchanted by the beauty of the space and our own creative minds. Participants will get the opportunity to craft doors out of nature made materials for fairies and the like to enjoy and visit. Families are encouraged to bring their sense of love for the outdoors, playfulness and imagination to a joyful day in the woods. Rediscover the magic of the forest and explore our fairy garden at the Mountain Top Arboretum this July! Cost $10. Free for Arboretum Members.

Join us for sitting meditation at our new time this Sunday! 8:30am service! Tea and water is provided, snacks are encouraged. Please email me or subscribe for the address of our meditation location.

In this interactive and engaging workshop, participants will learn about seed saving, increasing biodiversity through native planting and walk away with seed bombs that you make! If you’re interested in growing plants, playing in the dirt and learning about easy ways to make birds come to your yard, then this program is for you! Presented by Kelly Collins, Hopeful Roots LLC.

“To shine light on a person means to use one’s observation and insight in order to advise someone about his strengths and weaknesses in the practice and to propose ways to practice that he can profit from.” ~ Thich Nhat Hahn

Sitting Meditation 10:00-10:40 Tea & Togetherness 11:00- 12:00pm

Please join us for sitting meditation. We will be diving into shining light contemplation with a focus on strengths for this weeks sessions. We will talk about how we can discuss weaknesses using loving speech.

We are overjoyed to offer our first one day Girls Creativity Retreat Workshop which empowers young women by using creative arts combined with breathing and meditation to simply relax and “be.” The day’s schedule will include “Body, Breath, and Voice” with Jody Weatherstone, “Shamatha Instruction and Conscious Cooking” with Christine Anisko, “Soul Collage” with Pat Quinn, and “Soap Making and Making a Self Care Calendar” with Kelly Collins. Register early! Cost $125.00

Designing a mindset and practice that nourishes our intentions for the spring and Kapha season. In this fusion of yoga and permaculture, participants will learn about permaculture principles to inform their gardening and how those principles align with their yoga practice. Members will enjoy actively practicing yoga and will walk about away with strategies for their gardens. This workshop will be held at Lotus Yoga Loft in Pine Island NY.

“ To begin anew is to look deeply and honestly at ourselves, our past actions, speech and thoughts and to create a fresh beginning within ourselves and in our relationships with others.” ~ Thich Nhat Hahn

Sitting Meditation 10:00-10:40 Tea & Togetherness 11:00- 1:00pm

Please join us as we create a regular sitting practice and dive into contemplations on beginning anew. Those who want to participate in a deep share are asked to join our conversations after meditation.