Welcome to the fall edition of BeatBox BotanicalS: Harriet’s Apothecary is an intergenerational, seasonal, healing village led by the brilliance and wisdom of Black Cis Women, Queer and Trans healers, artists, magicians, activists and ancestors. Our village, which manifests at the bloom of every Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter in Brooklyn, is committed to co-creating accessible, affordable, liberatory, all-body loving, all-gender honoring, community healing spaces that recognize, inspire, and deepen the healing genius of our vessels.

Each season, we offer free to sliding-scale, body-affirming, love-drenched potions, prescriptions, and customized services to restore and expand your body’s abilities to heal and to love. We are so grateful you are taking care of yourself in this way and in turn taking care of the communities you are a part of. We hope that every moment you spend with us cultivates and inspires the best in your being and encourages the healing genius of your vessel.

The intention of Harriet’s Apothecary is to continue the rich healing legacy of abolitionist and community nurse and herbalist Harriet Tubman. Like our courageous ancestor, we intend to expand access to health and healing resources that support our people in their healing journeys toward freedom. We also hope to connect individuals and communities to accessible self and community based resources that are rooted in the wisdom of our bodies, our ancestors and our plant families.

Our village is an intentional space for self-identified POC/Indigenous/Mixed-Race Cis Women, Queer and Trans folks and the allies that love them.

We recognize that there are significant individual, collective and generational consequences to living in a world that systematically oppresses people of color. We know that the consistent, widespread direct and indirect exposure to violence, colonization, loss, burn-out, stress, microagressions, imperialism, dis-ease and traumatic social conditions permeates and impacts our personal and interpersonal physical, emotional and spiritual well-beings. We know that time and time again enduring systemic injustices impacts our relationship to self and community care and our relationship to our movement building work. We want to be a part of shifting this reality in our bodies and our communities. We are enthusiastic about the infinite possibilities we can all create when we engage our individual and collective capacity to heal, to love and to transform.

We are deeply invested in creating a space where each person feels welcome at all times.

We invite you to co-create a space of love, growth, compassion, respect and healing that

honors the intricate beautiful identities and energies we each hold. To the best of your ability, lovingly

challenge your self to walk with us in the following agreements.

healing and loving community agreements

• Set a loving intention for your time at Harriet's Apothecary. How do you want to love

yourself while you are present? In what ways do you want to grow? What do you want to

be open to? How do you want to embody the love that is you?

• Release judgments, preconceived notions, your ego and your fears. Lovingly

challenge yourself to be open without attachment to outcomes. Allow whatever needs to

manifest arise in order to be fully present to yourself and the community you will be with. 

• Be present to your truth. Practice actively listening to what might be arising for you as

you are in the space. Reach out for support if needed. There will be folks identified to

meet your needs to the best of their ability. 

• Practice active listening with each other, making a conscious effort to hear and

understand what others are sharing. 

• Be aware of language that you use to address and/or connect with

people. Many words have been used to historically oppress folks. Lets participate in

engaging in language that is liberatory and loving with each other.

• Please honor people's pronouns and gender identities, whatever they may be.

Allow people to self-identify their gender and preferred pronouns to describe who they

are (e.g. he/him/his/she/her/they/them/their/z/hirs)

• Be humbly and compassionately self aware and curious about the pervasive ways

privilege and oppression, both across and within identity groups, impacts us all. Be

accountable to the impact of your actions to yourself and this community.

• To the best of your capacity, please be scent/fragrance free to support members

of our beloved community with chemical sensitivities. We acknowledge that essential oils,

perfumes and scent products are important to one’s self expression and healing and we

ask participants to also recognize how using these products can create barriers for folks

desiring to share space with us.

• To support ourselves in being the best allies we can be to each other, take a

moment to read these articles on allyship http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/

2013/06/20136178-ways-not-to-be-an-ally/ AND http://everydayfeminism.com/

2013/11/things-allies-need-to-know/

• If you are a white ally, please consider inviting Black Cis women, Queer or Trans folks

in your life that need and deserve to be a part of this healing space.

ACCESSIBILITY

We strive to ensure that Harriet’s Apothecary is accessible and welcoming to our community. If you have access

needs and/or need support in attending Harriet’s Apothecary in the fullness of your being, please email

beatboxbotanicals@gmail.com . Also feel free to indicate your needs in the registration form.

Directions:

Take the 3 train to Nostrand. Head south on Nostrand Ave toward Union St. Turn right onto Empire Blvd.

Take the 5 train to Sterling St. Head south on Nostrand Avenue toward Union St. Turn right onto Empire Blvd.

Take the Q train to Prospect Park. Head east on Lefferts Avenue toward Washington Ave. Turn left onto

Washington Avenue. Slight right onto Franklin ave. Turn right onto Empire Blvd.

Please note that this building is not wheelchair accessible, there are 7 stairs to get into the space. As well as

stairs in the building to get to certain healing rooms.

We will have designated scent-safer spaces at Harriet’s Apothecary.

Please be scent/fragrance-free to the extent that you are able to, so that beloved community members with

chemical sensitivities can attend Harriet’s Apothecary. If you need support being scent/fragrence-free feel

free to contact us at beatboxbotanicals@gmail.com .

Bathrooms at Harriet’s Apothecary are designated All Gender. We will be providing free childcare.

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BeatBox Botanicals is a local, sliding-scale, love-centered and community-inspired, plant medicine and healing practice. Rooted in the traditions of our ancestors, we use compassion, your body’s intuitive experience, and plant wisdom to handcraft medicine that restores and expands our body’s abilities to heal and to love.

we work with herbs and our bodies as tools for healing, reclaiming our individual and collective wisdom, and nurturing sustainable relationships with the Earth. We create customized medicinal herbal products based on what your body’s needs and truths are. We offer individualized and community health consultations, skill-shares, and workshops. We support liberation and justice movements committed to healing.

we specialize in medicine that expands the capacities of the heart and our innate abilities to Love. We believe that love is the most transformative force in the Universe and exists abundantly in all of us. Investing in our love practice allows us to live out our Divine purpose.

we are dedicated to the traditions and sustainability of plant medicine, using only organic and ethically wild-crafted plants and ingredients. We source ingredients from local urban gardens and farms first, and when that option is not available we acquire herbs from responsible and fair trade companies. Each herb medicinal is handcrafted and brewed with reverence for the plants and land they come from. 90% of our medicine is made during the full and new moon to evoke the energy of the Moon’s wisdom and magik.

we understand that transforming our world is deeply tied to the vitality of our minds, bodies and spirits and the spaces where we conjure up our liberation and justice magic. Transformation and liberation can

not be sustained if we do not individually and collectively prioritize the healing and reflective work necessary to keep us alive and thriving.

we believe investing in love and our own and each other’s healing, engages us in a rich legacy of resistance and decolonization, one that has sustained our ancestors and movements and in turn will strengthen us and enrich us for the long haul.

our work is inspired by the manifestation of love in and around us. The wisdom of our ancestors. The miraculous nature of our unshakable bodies’ intuition. The legacy of individuals and communities who have used healing and wellness as a tool for justice and liberation. The creative genius of indigenous and people of color, and queer and trans and two-spirit folk. The brilliance of sick and differently abled warriors. Loving-kindness meditation. Laughter. The Moon. The gifts of Nature. Intimacy with the Earth.

we look forward to lovingly and authentically journeying with you towards healing and caring for ourselves and each other and expanding the wholeness that already resides within us.

black women’s blueprint, inc is a civil and human rights organization of women and men. Our purpose is to take action to secure social, political and economic equality in American society now. We work to develop a culture where women of African descent are fully empowered and where gender, race and other disparities are erased. We engage in progressive research, historical documentation, support movement building and organize on social justice issues steeped in the struggles of Black women within their communities and within dominant culture.

www.blackwomensblueprint.org

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Harriet’s Apothecary Schedule 12:00pm-2:30pm

sliding scale healing sessions DIY medicine making lab

self care and community care lending library healing cyphers

s.t.i.c.h.e.d by Climbing Poetree community altar

2:30pm-3:30pm welcome

healer introductions sound healing by Juliette Jones and Shamilia McBean

3:30pm-6:00pm sliding scale healing sessions

DIY medicine making labs self care and community care lending library

Healing cyphers s.t.i.c.h.e.d by Climbing Poetree

community altar

6:00pm-7:00pm announcements and blessings

mindfulness meditation sound healing performance by Jasmine Burems and Monica McIntyre

closing

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harriet’s apothecary map

basement acupuncture and acupressure

bodywork reiki

ground floor Community apothecary

DIY medicine making labs pendulum readings

aryuvedic health consultations self care and community care lending library

sound healing herbalism love consultations

1st floor sacred divination face painting

healing hair cuts childcare

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HARRIET’S APOTHECARY HEALING MENU

Acupuncture and acupressure Acupuncture is a healing practice stemming over 2000 years old used in both Traditional and

Classical Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture honors the energetic pathways, or channels, throughout the body that influence associated internal organs and structures. Energy from

these pathways surfaces at various points on the body, identified as acupuncture points. Each of these acupuncture points serves as a tunnel, or access route, to the deeper circulatory

channels within. Extremely fine gauge needles are inserted at selected points, stimulating these points and thereby activating the body’s natural healing abilities. Acupressure is acupuncture

without the needles. Instead of needles, acupressure involves the application of manual pressure (usually with the fingertips) to specific points on the body.

Healer~ Julia Bennett $11-$111 30 min or 1 hr sessions

arts-based herbalism workshopCome learn how to make your own herbal salves and syrups while using sacred herbs to inspire

learning, spark movement , preserve culture and nurture community. This participatory arts-based experience will explore history, justice, oppression, peacebuilding and reconciliation.

Healer~ Shamilia McBean Pay as you wish 1hr and 30 min sessions

Body Work This practice incorporates techniques based on Traditional Chinese Medicine, Aromatherapy infused in my Afro-Haitian Spiritual Traditions. It offers a blended treatment of Acupressure/

Shiatsu, Tui Na, Thai Massage/Movement in dis-eased areas using Sun blessed Stones. Crystals will be offered. Sessions will be 25mn long at $30 or 50mn at $60

Healer~ Sherley Accime $30 for 25 minutes and $60 for 50minutes

chakra balancing and reiki Reiki is a complementary healing modality that unblocks energetic stagnation and balances the chakra energy points of the body, mind and spirit. Each person is nurtured and honored in a

way that supports their healing journey in a deeply profound way. Participants are encouraged to set clear intentions for their healing experience and will feel protected and empowered

during and after the sessions. After receiving an energy healing treatment, we hope one will feel balanced in their spiritual, mental, physical and emotional bodies.

Healer~Selome Araya Pay as you wish 30 minute OR 1 hour sessions

copper & crystal healing and oracle goddess readings

This healing practice will work with you to create customized hand crafted jewelry and adornments. You will learn the healing properties and powers of crystals. Shiwan's jewelry

ranges from rings, power pieces (highly charged necklaces), waist beads, earrings, crystal crowns, and custom pieces that can be made on the spot .

Healer~Shiwan Haynes-Greaves Copper and Healing Crystal Jewelry $15-$111 Crystal Card Readings: $20 Goddess Oracle Readings: $25

divination face Painting This healing practice will use face paint to pamper with decorative designs inspired by tribal

patterns from different world's cultures.

Healer~ Dimitrea Tokumbo Pay as you wish 10 min sessions

Divinatory Pendulum Readings This healing technique employs a rose quartz crystal for a divination of the elemental energy in the body deciphered through the meridians (energy channels) running through the hands and

fingers. The pendulum reading reveals plant medicines and self-care rituals to balance and enhance each element in the body.

Healer~ Jasmine Burems $5-$55 15 min sessions

Diy tincture making for healthy circulation and period pain

Tinctures are a simple, low-cost way of making medicine that’s accessible for low-income folks and first time herbalists. The practice will focus on blood, how it flows through the body and

various environmental and spiritual influences that can effect healthy circulation. Participants will leave understanding the basics to tincture making and with their own home made tincture for

healthy circulation

Healer~ Che Rene Long Suggested donation $3-$10 30 min sessions

Healing Haircuts & Personal Grooming/Tonsorial Artistry

This healing practice will adorn your crown with stylish and body affirming cuts, designs and personal grooming.

Healer~Khane Kutzwell $11-$111 30 min sessions

herbs and healing through griefIn this workshop, you will learn about a few different herbs that make great

companions for easing tender transitions.  In addition, you will be able to get your hands wet while preparing your own herbal formula.

Healer~ Natalie Sablon $11-$111 1 hr 30 min sessions for groups of 8

Healing CyphersThis practice will be facilitating intentional discourse within small groups, around the interplay of the psyche, society, and our relationships (personal, romantic & professional). Groups will

explore how this interplay functions in the construction and maintenance of our internal narrative. The cypher will then shift to exploring how to counter false narratives and beliefs,

and how to interrupt disruptions within our relationship with our true self. Cyphers will be awakening insights into the truth of what we have the capacity to create for ourselves, once we release that which never belonged to us, including patterns of thinking, social moraes & value

systems, practices and behaviors. Participants in the cyphers will be moved to understand that we are no longer warrior-ing in the struggle; we are pioneering the revolution, and that it begins within. From the Healing Cypher will emerge new truths and states of being, that allow space for

love and recognition of self, as an act of revolution. **(Within the intimacy of the Cyphers, participants will explore relational topics of familial &

romantic love, money & under-earning, and power, vulnerability & dependency)** **Grounding stones will be available to those who partake in the cyphers, to help hold the energy of the exchange, as well as support the shifts that will come out of the co-created

experience.**

Healer~ Naimah Johnson $3-$33 30 min sessions for groups of 6

Herbalism Love Consultations Working with your body as a guide and healing tool, we will explore what your body’s current

needs and truths are and compassionately discover the roots of present distress. Together, we will identify what plant medicine and intuitive rituals your body desires to reclaim wellness and

nurture love and wellbeing throughout your mind, body, spirit, soul vessel.

Healer~Adaku Utah $11-$111 30 min OR 1 hr sessions

LOMILOMI OR Loving Hands MassageThis is an energetic and physical healing practice that comes from Ancient Hawai’ian tradition.

Built on tenants of Righteousness, Presence and connection to the Source, the LomiLomi brings light and clearance to the bodies of both giver and receiver!

Healer~Kelley Thomas $5-$25 10 minute or 15 minute sessions

Mindfulness MeditationMindfulness meditation practice allows our inner most voice the opportunity to speak, to be heard compassionately by our bodies, and to be released from entanglement and freed from judgement through loving kindness. This will be an opportunity to ground into our beings and integrate the new openness and healing we have received throughout the day. Using our own

breath as guide, we will journey into a place of deep listening to our heart’s intelligence and reverent awareness to the temples that house our souls.

Healer~ Donations offered to EVERYONE

Partner stretch & tension release Relieve tension, put down the day's oppressions, take in the positive energy of community, and

gain flexibility. This practice offers tools for muscle recovery and lengthening, using another person’s body for support and for greater release. No need to bring a partner (but you may!)

People of all body types and levels of experience are welcome.

Healer~Maria Bauman $10-$30 45 min sessions

Reiki Reiki is an energetic healing practice channeling and directing energy through touch to activate the natural healing processes of the healing person's body and restore well-being. Reiki energy

healing sessions can help (re)move/clear energetic blockages. Sessions are offered in increments of 5 minutes, we will focus the healing based on clients needs/desires and healer

intuition. Sessions that are longer than 15 minutes are opportunities for more in-depth and/or whole body healing work.

Healer~Taja Lindley Suggested donation, $1 a minute 10-30 min sessions

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HEALERS CONTACT ADAKU UTAH

beatboxbotanicals@gmail.com www.Beatboxbotanicals.com

FB: beatboxbotanicals 773.593.5399 IG: soularbliss

CHE RENE LONG chelsea.johnson.long@gmail.com

DIMITREA TOKUNBO Dimitrea@yahoo.com

JASMINE BUREMS jasmine@honeyandgold.us

www.honeyandgold.us FB: www.facebook.com/honeyandgoldus

Twitter: twitter.com/honeyandgoldus

JULIETTE JONES info@julesonstrings.com

www.JulesOnStrings.com

JULIA BENNET healinghand7@gmail.com

KHANE KUTZWELL 347.349.5899

www.camerareadykutz.com FB/Twitter/Yelp/Foursquare: camerareadykutz

KELLY THOMAS kelly@beautifulministry.com

973.568.4941 IG:beautifulhealin

MARIA BAUMAN mbdance723@gmail.com

www.mbdance.org

MONICA MCINTYRE cellomama@msn.com

215.360.2865 FB: monica.mcintyre.75

www.monicamcintyremusic.com www.reverbnation.com/monicamcintyre

NATALIE SABLON nativemoon88@gmail.com

678.665.1878

NAIMAH JOHNSON johnson.n.lmsw@gmail.com

646.531.1212

REGINA ROCKE rrcoke@gmail.com FB: Wolf Medicine

www.reginarocke.com

REGENERACION CHILDCARE NYC www.childcarenyc.com

SELOME ARAYA selome.araya@gmail.com

323.703.9492 www.reikibyselome.com

SHIWAN MOONWAMIE moonwannie@icloud.com www.moonwannie.com

FB: moonwannie manifestations IG: moonwannie_manifestations

SHAMILIA MCBEAN shamilia.mcbean@gmail.com

www.shamilia.com 954.296.9596

Twitter: shamadou

SHERLEY ACCIME sherley@thirdroot.org

www.thirdroot.org FB: kanyabodynsoul

TAJA LINDLEY taja.lindley@gmail.com

646-262-0936 www.TajaLindley.com | @tajalindlel

www.ColoredGirlsHustle.com | @cgirlshustle

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HARRIET’S APOTHECARY SPRINKLES INFINITE GRATITUDE TO.........ADELE SMITH-PENNIMAN. AIESHA TURMAN. ALIXA GARCIA. ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE HEALING JUSTICE PRACTICE SPACE COORDINATORS AND HEALERS. ANAIS MARVEL. BLACK WOMEN’S BLUEPRINT STAFF AND MEMBERSHIP. BEATRICE ANDERSON. CELIANY VELZAQUEZ. DIANA WARWIN. EMET VITALE-PENNIMAN. DAVI

DAVIS. DIMITREA TOKUNBO . EYINANNYA UTAH. FARAH TANIS. GAIA EARTHPEACE. JASMINE BUREMS. JUDITH ESSIEN. JONAH VITALE-WOLF. JULIETTE JONES. JULIA BENNETT. KAREN ROSE. KELECHI UTAH. KELLY THOMAS.

KHANE KUTZWELL. HARRIET TUBMAN

HERB SHOPPE BROOKLYN. LEAH PENNIMAN. MARIA BAUMAN. MONICA MCINTYRE. NAIMA PENNIMAN. NAIMAH JOHNSON. NATALIE SABLON. NESHIMA VITALE-PENNIMAN. PAUL UTAH. TAJA LINDLEY. TELESH PASCUAL

LOPEZ. REGINA ROCKE. REGENERACION CHILDCARE NYC. TERRESSA TATE. TONYA ABERNATHY. SHERLEY ACCIME. SAMARA GAEV. SACRED VIBES APOTHECARY. SHAMILIA MCBEAN. SHERYLL DURANT. SELOME ARAYA.

SHIWAN MOONWAMIE. SOKHNA HEATHYRE MABIN. URE UTAH. VENUS ZEPHYR FREE. YISHRAYL UTAH ALL OF OUR KNOWN & UNKNOWN ANCESTORS. OUR FEARLESS, FIERCE PLANT ALLIES. & OUR ECOSYSTEM ENTIRE.

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