Please join Kalen and Heidi-
Saturday, October 21st
1-3pm EST
Cost: $150
10% of proceeds will go towards the NRDC
An altar is a sacred space of intention and co-creation. It can serve as a container for creative or spiritual work, and attending to our altar influences the energy and the efficacy of our practices. The more you charge and ground the energy in your altar area, the more you can feel and trust it, and the more this energy can be transmitted into the world.
This will be an in-person, experiential workshop held at Kalen’s Upstate Studio in Chinatown. We will circle together around a group altar, and after a short, guided grounding and meditation, we will discuss the basics of creating a sacred space for co-creation, healing, and change. There will be a brief lecture on the traditional and ceremonial uses of the plants as well as the energetics of colors. Each participant will create their own altar cloth with natural plant dyes.
This class is for you if you are curious about how to integrate an altar into your spiritual or creative practice. This class is also for you if you have an established spiritual or creative practice and are looking for additional refinement and inspiration in your altar work. We will work with an assortment of different plant-based dyes, and no previous experience is needed.
Participants are welcome to bring one or two small-to-medium-sized items to dye along with the cloth.
Sign up here.
About my co-collaborator:
Kalen Kaminski is an artist, designer and prop stylist living in NYC. Her brand Upstate is a clothing, textile, and glassware line, as well as creative studio. Often drawing from the palettes, landscapes and visual cultures encountered in her global travels from locales ranging from Oaxaca, Mexico to Puglia, Italy to the verdant countryside of the Berkshires, Kalen synthesizes these various influences and marries them with her own unfettered, modern sensibility creating an aesthetic both time-honored and completely of the moment. Spurred by a passion for experimentation and exploration in hand-dyeing techniques Kalen’s ethos embraces singularity, kineticism, and exuberance in both design and life.