Event Archives
Free Tea Party
Ema's Herbs. Ventura, CA│ June 1, 2025
Join us for a Free Tea Party to sip herbal tea, chat, and connect on our cozy patio. Whether you're curious about plants, love a good conversation, or just want to unwind with a warm cup, there's a seat waiting for you. Come as you are, bring snacks if you wish, and let’s share tea, stories, and community!
Writing the Elements
Shiloh teahouse. Los Angeles, CA │ April 13, 2025
Explore how Elemental rhythms pattern in your body and the world through tea and writing, silence and community. We will sip, write, move, and share alone and together, guided by Elemental wisdom through five writing invitations, tea meditations, and conversations. Learn practical and poetic skills for ongoing Elemental writing to enrich your creative practice, connections, and life.
Equinox Acupuncture & Sound Bath
Bodhi Salt Yoga │ Mar. 16, 2025
Experience deep relaxation at this unique healing event that combines gentle community acupuncture with the soothing vibrations of a sound bath, pranayama and vocal toning. Join sound healer Kelly Jean Anderson and acupuncturist Jiling Lin to welcome the Spring Equinox by restoring harmony to your body and mind.
Free Herbalism Conference
Mountain Rose Herbs │ Feb. 28, 2025
The Free Herbalism Project is an interactive community event with lectures from expert herbalists, live music, and community—all free of charge! In this special Roundtable Edition, we will chat about herbalism through different practices and lineages. Participants will be able to ask questions and get answers to their biggest questions about herbalism.
Seasonal Rhythms
Herb Walks with Lanny Kaufer │ Feb. 23, 2025
Discover the art of seasonal living through the Five Phases (五行) of Chinese medicine. A local medicinal herb guides us through each Element via tea meditations, gentle movements, reflective journaling, and group discussion to explore the unique characteristics of each season and its correspondences. Learn practices to rest, move, connect, nourish, and create in harmony with the seasons.
Virtual Herbalism Conference
Herbal Academy │ Feb. 17 - 21, 2025
Take a journey into the heart of herbalism, where you’ll meet plants, people, and practices to transform your wellbeing. Immerse yourself in 30 transformative Herbalism Masterclasses, while exploring Connections – your connections to the plants, to others, and to your innate ability to heal and grow through herbal wisdom.
Tea & Calligraphy
Tile Cat Teahouse. Los Angeles, CA │ Jan. 12, 2025
Happy Lunar New Year of the Wood Snake! Come sip tea, savor community, and make 春聯 chun lian— spring words— to welcome the new year. Grind ink, learn about the 春聯 chun lian tradition, and make your own Lucky Words for the year ahead!
Seasonal Yoga
Insight Timer │ Ongoing
Join Jiling's Seasonal Yoga classes on Insight Timer, where we flow with nature’s rhythms to nurture balance and well-being. These drop-in sessions align movement and breath with the energy of each season, supporting you year-round.
Seasonal Energetics
Wintergreen Botanicals │ Online, 2024
Learn about seasonal energetics through Western energetics, East Asian medicine, and Ayurvedic doshas. Explore plant families, phytochemistry, materia medica, flavor, and more! (BIPOC & other scholarships available)
Herbal Apprenticeship
Artemisia Academy │ Online, 2024
Learn herbalism basics in 5 Herbal Apprenticeship modules: herbs for the body, medicine-making for beginners, holistic nutrition, intro to case studies, and intro to plant ID. The Community Herbalist Program prepares intermediate herbalists for community clinics in 6 modules: acute pathologies, advanced medicine-making, 5 flavors of phytochemistry, intro to clinic, California plant families, and Jepson-manual plant ID.
The Five Elements of Yoga & Chinese Medicine
Esalen Institute. Big Sur, CA │ Dec. 11 - 15, 2023
Reconnect with the Five Elements within and around you through yoga, nature, art, and ritual. Presence the beauty of your inner and outer wilderness, resourcing abundant wild, creative, infinite potential to fully thrive.
Elemental Creativity: Art, Movement & Meditation
Green Gulch. Sausalito, CA │ Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2023
Experience how the Five Elements manifest within and around you through art, movement & meditation. Practice and apply mindfulness—through the lens of the Elements—to channel your creativity. Align with your innate gifts to fulfill your highest potential, and have fun doing it!
Ojai Herbal Symposium
Ojai, CA │ Nov. 11 - 12, 2023
Ventura and Santa Barbara herbalists, come join us for the only herbal conference in our area! Meet other herbalists, get CEUs for acupuncturists, and enjoy gorgeous Ojai views. (12 Cat-1 CEU for CA-LAc)
Nourishing Life: Embodying Elements
Omega Institute. Rhinebeck, NY │ Sept. 11 - 15, 2023
Embody the Five Elements (五行) through yoga asana, intuitive movement, creative expression, and nature connection. Personalize your Nourishing Life (yang sheng 養生) practices, adapt to changing seasonal rhythms, and come home to the wild beauty of your inner radiance.
International Herb Symposium
United Plant Savers. Norton, MA │ June 9 - 11, 2023
Gather to honor plants with respect & reciprocity. Create local & global communities dedicated to healing and caretaking the Earth and all beings. Jiling will be sharing “Seasonal Rhythms: Five Elements Lifestyle Medicine,” “Writing from the Roots: Journaling Practices for Herbalists,” and “BIPOC Tea Talks.”
Seasonal Rhythms: Five Elements Lifestyle Medicine
Wintergreen Botanicals. Online │ May 18, 2023
Explore lifestyle medicine to support thriving health throughout the wheel of the year with the Five Phases (五行) of Chinese medicine and their correlating seasons, flavors, and body systems. Learn practices to rest, move, connect, nourish, and create through the seasons. Develop perspectives to optimize seasonal rhythms with kitchen herbs, foundational recipes, nature connection, creative expression, and elemental movements.
Free Herbalism Project
Mountain Rose Herbs. Eugene, OR │ May 7, 2023
Celebrate plants with world-class entertainment and botanical expertise from Richo Cech, Dr. Christopher Hobbs, Herbalists without Borders, Logan Keister, the Casanostra band, and myself!
Nourishing Life: Embodying the 5 Phases of Chinese Medicine
Esalen Institute. Big Sur, CA │ April 3 - 7, 2023
Embody the Five Phases (五行) through yoga asana, intuitive movement, creative expression, and nature connection. Personalize your Nourishing Life (yang sheng 養生) practices, adapt to changing seasonal rhythms, and come home to the wild beauty of your inner radiance.
Embodying Elements: Women's Wellness Series
Midwest Women's Herbal. Online │ March 4, 2023
Learn classical elemental associations with each of the Five Elements of East Asian Medicine, along with lifestyle medicine for supporting seasonal wellness. Experience creative movement, drawing, and journaling exercises to embody and empower your personal intuitive relationship with the Elements in and around you.
Elemental Creativity: Movement, Meditation & Drawing
Art Monastery. Online │ Feb. 21, Apr. 29, July 8, Sept. 30, Dec. 9, 2023
Connect with the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine within and around you through embodied movement, meditation, and drawing. Deepen your understanding of the principles of mindfulness and apply them, through the lens of the Elements, to channel your creativity.
Acupressure Aromatherapy intro
The Pharm. Ventura, CA live & online │ Feb. 15, 2023
Love up on yourself with AcuAroma, or Acupressure Aromatherapy, the application of properly diluted organic essential oils to specific acupressure points. Learn about the basics of meridian flow, acupressure points, and how to practice Acupressure Aromatherapy at home. Practice gentle qigong and yoga movements, alternating with AcuAroma point meditations. Rest with a long aromatic savasana at the end. Go home not only deeply refreshed, but also lovingly resourced with a sweet and transportable AcuAroma self-love ritual.
WildYoga Teacher Training
Balanced Rock Foundation │ Online & in-person, 2023
A Yoga Alliance approved 200-hour and 300-hour Yoga Teacher Training to invigorate your yoga practice through powerful tools for living in alignment with nature.
Lunar New Year Ecstatic Dance
The Pharm. Ventura, CA │ Jan. 21, 2023
Dance your way into the Lunar New Year of the Water Rabbit! In this family-friendly community event, we leave our shoes, cellphones, and conversations at the door as we welcome ecstatic freeform self-expression in a safe container. We will begin with an opening circle and warm-up, expand into freeform movement with a Five Elements (五行) inspired DJ set, then conclude with a closing circle. Free your body. Free your mind. Connect with yourself and your community to celebrate life! (Learn more about ecstatic dance here. This is a substance-free open movement event with NO prior dance experience necessary, welcome to ALL ages and abilities.)