Welcome to Natural Communions
An 8-part virtual series for Black people interested in deepening our relationships with our physical bodies, our emotions, our histories, and each other through intentional connections with the natural world.
The next cycle of Natural Communion workshops will begin in Spring 2027. Subscribe below for updates.
One-time workshops are available for in-person bookings in New Orleans or virtually anywhere. Message here for inquiries.
About the facilitator:
Amina Desselle Massey, PhD is a medical sociologist, spiritual herbalist, and multidisciplinary artist who studies how Black creative and spiritual traditions produce spaces for healing and transformation. Amina has conducted workshops for over a decade, fostering expansive spiritual community and social solidarity in collaboration with the natural world. Guided by Black American meaning systems, Amina confronts dogmatic belief, judgment, and shame by curating spaces of emotional safety, embodied knowledge, and collective creativity.
About Natural Communions:
In this workshop series, we will learn through the energy centers of our bodies, guided by energetic pairings of medicinal herbs and natural crystals. Each gathering features a guided plant meditation, crystal meditation, and information about how each plant grows and each crystal forms. Together, we will make connections between the lessons of the natural world and our own spiritual biographies.
You’ll receive an herbal glycerite (an alcohol-free herbal extract), a loose leaf tea, and a healing crystal by mail in advance of each session. By the end of our journey, you’ll have a collection that aligns with the chakras of the body.
This offering is for those of us interested in learning more about herbalism and crystal healing in ways that align with our cultural, spiritual, and social experiences. All levels of experience with herbalism are welcome. The series is shaped by Black American spiritual and creative traditions, and centers the lived experiences, histories, and knowledge of people of the African Diaspora.
This is an invitation to intentional [re]memory, to meet the supernatural world with our natural plant and crystal companions. Our world transforms our consciousness, our consciousness transforms the world.