Mugwort Kneaded Ancestral Incense Workshop

Sunday 1st December

I have just done a huge harvest of Mugwort because she was getting to hip height and I wanted to dry her ready for use.

I love putting Mugwort in incense. You can put a leaf of Mugwort under your pillow at night for lucid dreaming. She brings insight, she's cleansing, she brings strength, she's also medicinal.

I am offering a two part Mugwort series of workshops: do one or both

Part 1 Mugwort Kneaded Ancestral Incense (Saturday 30th Nov or Sunday 1st Dec)

Part 2 Mugwort Grow, Harvest, Dry, Store and Explore (Saturday 7th Dec or Sunday 8th Dec)

Mugwort workshop Part 1

Sunday 1st December

Mugwort Kneaded Ancestral Incense

We are going to use my homegrown and dried Mugwort in an Kneaded Ancestral Incense. This is the name that came to me after a workshop on making Kyphi (an ancient Egyptian temple incense).

My naming is for a similar method that uses dry and wet ingredients but uses the ingredients available to my ancestors in Scotland, and England, Norse countries and "Old Europe" (from Marija Gimbutas).

I made a 4th batch of Kyphi style incense but I added too much wet material to the herbs and resins and it is still sticky. After harvesting Mugwort recently I was "inspired" to knead in some dried Mugwort.

The outcome is an incense that is no longer sticky and drying as it should. I'm really excited to share this process.

I made a mistake with one sort of incense but it turned it into something I really wanted to share but didn't know how.

Thanks Mugwort and all the botanicals for the "inspiration".

We will spend 2 hours at making this version of Ancestral kneaded incense

Ancestral kneaded incense and how I came to this process through learning about Kyphi
Prepare my homegrown Mugwort with the mortar and pestle
How to knead Mugwort into our sticky incense
Drying, curing and heating Ancestral Kneaded Incense

This workshop is at Nevedya in Upwey. There are places for six people in this workshop.

Spots are very limited as I have a very small amount of my sticky incense. I'd really love for you to join me as these will be last workshops until March next year. I am in the start of the process of moving back to South Australia to be with my family as they age. If you'd like to come and learn with me please book your spot asap.

This is the Sunday workshop. Saturday Mugwort Ancestral Kneaded Incense workshop is here:

https://events.humanitix.com/saturday-mugwort-kneaded-ancestral-incense-creating-workshop-30th-november

Mugwort workshops Part 2

Saturday Mugwort Workshop - Grow, Harvest, Dry, Store and Explore - Saturday 7th December 9:00 am

https://events.humanitix.com/mugwort-grow-harvest-dry-explore-saturday-7th-december

Sunday Mugwort Workshop - Grow, Harvest, Dry, Store and Explore - Sunday 8th December 9:00 am

https://events.humanitix.com/mugwort-workshop-grow-harvest-dry-explore-sunday-8th-december

CAUTION: MUGWORT is used as a womb stimulant and to bring on bleeding.

It can cause miscarriage so you have to be very careful with her and all the Artemisia family.

PLEASE DO NOT COME TO THIS WORKSHOP IF YOU ARE PREGNANT OR TRYING TO CONCEIVE