USAL Project Tea Blending & Meditation

Andrea Jimenez founded Herb Club LA to get locals to connect with the land in a truly personal way. It was in her field biology class where Andrea had the opportunity to become a certified Naturalist after learning about the native flora and fauna of Tongva land also known as Los Angeles. This opened a whole new world of understanding between our health and connecting to mother nature. It wasn’t again until the lockdown where she found reassurance that deepening our connection to mother nature was truly important and finally mustered the courage to invite others to reconnect with the land and its creatures.

For this Tea Blending & Meditation workshop we will gather around plants that have had a long relationship with Tongva land: Nettle, California Poppy, Wild Rose, Mugwort, and Elderberries amongst others are deeply nourishing and caring not only to the land but to its animals and people.

During the tea meditation we will listen closely to the plants and their messages. We will slow ourselves down to taste them and be able to pay close attention. Then, we will use this moment of connection with the plants to craft a more personal tea blend. Every participant will get to take a tea bag home!

This event is presented by USAL Project and Getty’s PST ART: Art & Science Collide as part of the Northeast LA & Pasadena PST ART Weekend. USAL Project is a community providing experiences & goods for the modern outdoor enthusiast. With a team of hand selected guides, USAL and PST ART are collaborating to offer a series of local workshops and retreats across all things outdoors, sustainably, and wellness. PST ART Weekends make it easy to explore the diversity of exhibitions and programming that make up Art & Science Collide. Over six weekends in fall 2024, presenting partners team up to offer a full weekend of events. To see the full PST ART Weekend: Northeast LA & Pasadena schedule of events, please visit pst.art/events/nelaweekend(opens in a new tab)

PST ART is presented by Getty. The lead sponsors supporting PST ART are Bank of America, Alicia Miñana & Rob Lovelace, and the Getty Patron Program. Additional support is provided by the Simons Foundation; Eva & Ming Hsieh, Co-Founders of Fulgent Genetics; and Peggy & Andrew Cherng, Co-Chairs and Co-CEOs of Panda Express.

Southern California’s landmark arts event, PST ART, returns in September 2024 with more than 70 exhibitions from museums and other institutions across the region, all exploring the intersections of art and science, both past and present. Dozens of cultural, scientific, and community organizations will join the latest edition, PST ART: Art & Science Collide, with exhibitions on subjects ranging from ancient cosmologies to Indigenous sci-fi, and from environmental justice to artificial intelligence. Art & Science Collide will share groundbreaking research, create indelible experiences for the public, and generate new ways of understanding our complex world. For more information about PST ART: Art & Science Collide, please visit pst.art(opens in a new tab)