Knowledge Share Description

How is your womb? For those of us who bleed monthly, the womb is a second heart, affecting our emotional, physical, and spiritual health. What happens within our wombs during menstruation is a window into our overall well being. Yet, many of us know little about the uterus and practices for sacred menstruation because of our patriarchal culture. In this knowledge share we remember sacred practices for nourishing our bleeding bodies around and during menstruation. Through womb work we honor the rhythms of nature within. We ground ourselves in divine womb energy and a pace counter to capitalism and patriarchy to cultivate resilience and vibrance from the inside out. This share is rooted in traditions of folk herbalism, energy work, southern Black birth work and movement healing. We will explore birth/womb tending techniques common across many cultures, including touch, nourishment, and movement.

Knowledge Share Includes

• We will discover the different phases of the menstrual cycle and tools for physically and emotionally nourishing your body in each phase

• We will explore techniques for lessening PMS and period discomfort through movement, nourishment, and other comfort measures

• We will learn herbal and plant allies for menstruation

• We will explore practices for honoring (and maybe even enjoying!) menstruation as a sacred time

• Participants will receive 2 womb nourishing recipes and instructions for crafting their “Period Support Basket”

Exchange

$35

$75 reparations (If you have financial abundance, this is our our pay-it-forward option to fund our scholarships and work redistributing resources to Black and Indigenous Land Projects)

The zoom link will be sent 1-2 days prior to the knowledge share. Recording will be available for 30 days.

For scholarships please email herbancura@gmail.com with subject Nourishing Womb

Access

*ASR Captioning provided 

*Spanish interpretation available (Si requiere interpretacion por favor mande un email a herbancura@gmail.com)

Virtual Gathering

Zoom link will be sent out via email 1-2 days before knowledge share

2-5pm PST/ 5-8pm EST

Class will be recorded and available for 30 days

Facilitator

Rochelle Wilbun is a southern Black healing and dance artist. She integrates movement, earth medicine, and ritual through her work as a movement teacher, herbalist, and womb and birth worker. As a full spectrum reproductive companion, she offers physical, emotional, and nutritional support through birth, menstruation, and other reproductive stages. Rochelle holds space for bleeding and birthing people to trust in their bodies’ natural cycles and deepen their relationship to Nature. Rochelle receives wisdom from a long line of educators, conjurers, caregivers, and earth tenders. Channeling African American healing practices and the wise ways of her grandmothers, she works collaboratively with clients to develop individualized tools for healing. Rochelle is honored to have supported over 40 families and individuals through reproductive transitions. She has completed 600 hours of herbal apprenticeship with Flower Power NYC, has studied with B/I/POC herbalists across Turtle Island, and is a 200-hour yoga teacher and energy practitioner. Rochelle finds joy in sharing movement, plant medicine, and energy healing as practices of liberation for all people and the Earth.