Saturday 10am: Flower Magic with Sara Stewart Martinelli
Saturday 10am: Flower Magic with Sara Stewart Martinelli
Flowers have long been symbols of love, beauty, desire, fertility, and transformation. Across cultures, they have carried secret messages, inspired folklore, offered healing, and served as powerful allies in magical practice. Their colors, fragrances, shapes, and fleeting blooms awaken our senses and connect us to the sensuality and creative abundance of nature.
In this class, we’ll explore the folklore and magical traditions of flowers, the Victorian language of flowers, their medicinal gifts, and their remarkable ability to stir emotions and memories. We’ll also consider the mind as a garden, where thoughts and intentions are seeds we choose to nurture, and explore how flowers can help us cultivate beauty, meaning, and magic in our everyday lives.
Sara Martinelli is an herbalist, ethnobotanist, green witch, and the CEO of The Boulder Tea Company, as well as the owner of Three Leaf Farm, a small urban organic farm, botanical sanctuary, and education center. She holds a degree in Anthropology from the University of Colorado, with an emphasis on nutrition and culture, where she developed a deep interest in how food, herbs, and plants shape society, religion, and tradition. Her passion for ethnobotany led her to explore the historic and folkloric uses of herbs, eventually earning her certification from the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Boulder, Colorado.