Natural Connections
Join us for a day of natural connections and take a taste of the garden home with you. In addition to the schedule, Anna Hebard, our Garden Coordinator will be available to show the exciting new garden features. From tasty berries, medicinal plants, and vegetable staples to critical habitat creation and pollinator nirvana, come explore the garden. The Library Garden is for the community, so light human grazing is encouraged.
Stay for the full event or stop in for portions that interest you. The event will go on, rain or shine!
Juice by The Peppered Mercantile will be free to the first 25 attendees.
Check out our schedule for the day:
10:00 AM – DANCE TO DISCOVER YOUR WILDCORE
Join author and WildCoreTM Movement creator Brietta Leader as she gently guides you through the 12 Keys that Unlock Your Untamed Expression. Each chapter of Brietta’s new book Wild Core offers a key that helps open the pathway to your own wild core. This 90-minute class will be a blend of movement, journaling and sharing as we explore our relationship to the elements, beauty and our own quality of aliveness. EveryBody is welcome! The class will be offered on yoga mats and chairs are welcome too! Bring your own journal or use one provided. A book signing will follow.
About Brietta:
Brietta has been a pioneer of dance in its many forms of healing, prayer, play, and conditioning in small mountain towns for over twenty years. She carries the lineage of the ancient art of dance within her soul. Her book Wild Core shares her initiations, discoveries, education, and the wild devotion that birthed her movement form called WildCoreTM. Brietta offers her healing artistry to people across the globe, supporting them to access their own wild core through movement. She owns the Embody Center for the Healing in Sandpoint, Idaho. www.embodysandpoint.love
12:00 PM – PERCUSSION PLAY SHOP
Discover your inner rhythm. Play rhythms led by Ali Thomas on a variety of ethnic percussion instruments. All listeners are welcome. Ages 8+ are encouraged to participate, no experience needed. Join the circle!
About Ali:
Ali Thomas is an experienced and gifted teacher, performer and group leader. Her charismatic style and ability to connect with students of all ages, cultures and experience levels make her a popular and sought-after instructor. Ali has primarily studied under Mamady Keita and had the unique opportunity of living with him and his family in San Diego, CA, for three years. During this time, she gained deep insight into the nuances of West African culture, as well as specialized djembe-building techniques. Ali is available for performances and offers local classes in authentic, traditional Djembe drumming (no improvisation). Information is available at www.dununbabe.com/home
1:00 PM – EMPOWER YOUR HEALTH JOURNEY
Identity Architect Henry Clemmons will share 5 tools to help people transform their lives. He offers a process for becoming your ideal version of yourself through personal identity transformation. “Losing weight, eating healthier, these are not sustainable goals unless we become the person who identifies as “active” or “healthy”. We cannot sustain a diet on will-power alone, because life is always lurking in the shadows and waiting to pounce on us.” Henry provides every piece of the puzzle that people need in order to walk the path of becoming. Are you ready? Are you tired of being tired, of feeling heavy, or of being embarrassed? If you are ready, this may just be what you are looking for. Reawaken to possibilities and purpose and return to a state of vitality.
Herbs & Folk Style Tincture Making—Laura Clemmons is a functional clinical herbalist who will share knowledge regarding herbs and teach participants how to make a folk style tincture to take home. Medicine-making guidelines and all supplies will be provided. She will also offer “surprise” herb teas/cooling beverages for folks to try. (And if you ask, she likely will share the recipes for those as well.)
About Tendril Apothecary & Healing Center:
Laura and Henry Clemmons are the owners of Tendril Herbal Apothecary and Healing Center in Sandpoint, an integrative health care clinic that focuses on putting health back into the hands of the community. It offers handcrafted organic herbal products, as well as access to health-related practitioners and services. More information can be found at tendrilapothecary.com.
Henry Clemmons is a certified Health Coach and Habit Change Specialist from the Health Coach Institute. He is a lifelong student of health and has studied numerous healing modalities including conventional medicine. With his unique blend of experience in the realm of health, psychology, spirituality, communication and wildness he is able to bring to the table what others cannot; the ability to get you the life you want through mindset mastery.
Laura Clemmons is a functional clinical herbalist. For 23 years Laura has been practicing the art of herbalism and earth-centered shamanistic healing. She comes from a strong lineage of Italian healers, known as the Strega. Laura is blending the best of ancient wisdom and modern technology along with creating a culture for practitioners of support and community. Laura is also active within her local and broader communities. She runs the Sandpoint Women’s Red Tent, acts as a mentor for both mothers and menarche girls in coming-of-age ceremony, and works with Herbalist Without Borders.
3:00 PM – YOGA WITH DREW
Join us in practicing Vinyasa Flow, a creative and dynamic form of yoga that utilizes the breath to link poses and postures. Meeting weekly at the Sandpoint Library for 10 weeks, starting May 27th. Each class is different and postures are sequenced in a way to help increase flexibility, strengthen and tone muscles, and allow you to tune in to your body’s own rhythm. All skill levels are welcome. Please bring your own yoga mat!
About Drew:
Drew Summey began practicing Vinyasa yoga in Orange County, California in 2018. On a progressive journey of internal transformation, discipline, and connectivity, he decided to obtain his Registered Yoga Teaching certificate in Sandpoint in 2022.
