Rooted Allyship
a hands-on, heart-open course to build meaningful relationships with the wild plants around you.
April - August, 2026, Aarhus, Institut for (X)
This course is for anyone who wishes to deepen their relationship with plants - whether you are just beginning or have worked with plants for years.
In this course we will explore what it means to be in allyship with plants in a time of ecological and social unraveling. Through embodied, sensory and creative practices, we will learn and practice ways of listening, sensing and responding to the plants around us. We will also learn to recognise, harvest, prepare and work with local wild plants as teachers and kin.
The intention of the course is to nurture knowledge and relationships with plants that can stay with you and support you for years to come.
What we will explore
Each session we will focus deeply on one or two plants or trees that grow wild around us.
We will explore:
Their medicinal qualities - physical, emotional, and spiritual
Their ecological roles and relationships
Their stories, mythologies and cultural lineages
What it means to relate to them as allies in times of polycrisis
You will learn how to:
Recognise the plants in their habitats
Harvest with respect and consent
Prepare teas, smudges or other remedies
Build an ongoing relationship through observation, journaling, and creative, embodied practices
Between sessions you will be invited (not obliged) to continue working with the plants in your own rhythm, integrating them into your daily life through reflections, sensory notes, dreams, and plant encounters.
How we will work
This is a participatory, embodied and relational course, not a lecture course, even though I will share knowledge in short mini-lecture formats also.
We will:
Spend time with plants outdoors
Practice attunement - slowing down, noticing and listening with our whole bodies
Develop practical skills in recognising, respectfully harvesting and preparing local wild plants
Explore ways of working with plants in daily life
Share stories and reflections, learning from one another as well as from the plants
Work with dreams, imagination, and creative practices as pathways into deeper relationship
The course is grounded in my practice in intuitive herbalism, plant mythologies and multispecies artistic research, and in what I have learned about plants and herbalism from my mother and grandmother while growing up, from Baltic plant traditions, from teachers I have apprenticed with — and from the plants themselves.
This is not a course that aims to teach everything there is to know about the specific plants we will focus on. Rather, I will offer tools, practices and ways of relating that can serve as gateways for your own continued exploration. My intention is to make this work accessible - to open doors, so that you leave with both practical knowledge and a living relationship you can continue to deepen in your own way.
Practicalities
Dates
Four Sundays, 10.00–17.00
(with 1h lunch break - bring your own lunch)
April 26; May 24; June 7; August 2
July – independent practice
The sessions build on each other, so before signing up, please check-in with yourself that you can commit for all four sessions (if you need to miss one, then reach out, this we can work around).
Location & Accessibility
Institut for (X), Aarhus (precise location will be shared after registration). The space at Institut for (X) is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. For other access needs, please share in the registration form and I will reach out to you to make sure I can accommodate them properly.
Participation fee
Sliding scale: 1600 - 3200 DKK
Choose the level that fits your situation:
Solidarity fee – 1600 DKK
For students, jobseekers, freelancers with low income, or anyone in a period of financial constraint.Standard fee – 2200 DKK
Covers materials, space, and facilitation hours.
For those with a stable income that comfortably meets your daily needs and little extras.Full-cost fee – 3200 DKK
Covers also the preparation and care work and allows this work to grow and deepen in the future.
For those with higher income or inherited wealth who can contribute a bit extra to help sustain the work and support accessibility for others.
If money is your only obstacle to join, please reach out. We will find a way! <3
How to register
Fill in the registration form at the bottom of the page and mobile-pay the participation fee to Box 2006MY (or reach out for bank account info and if you need an invoice. Invoices are VAT applicable. ). Registration is open until there are spaces left or latest till March 23.
Why I offer this…
These are intense times to be living in. Ecological instability, social fragmentation and uncertainty shape most of our lives. It can sometimes feel isolating. Yet we live on a multispecies planet. We are surrounded by plants and other beings who make life possible every single day and who have been through crises and changes many times before.
Plants sustain this planet. Literally. Still, they are often unnoticed or reduced to background or resource. I am interested in what becomes possible when we shift our orientation — when we begin to relate to plants not only as useful, but as beings, teachers, allies, friends, with whom we share a world.
My work grows from practice in intuitive herbalism, plant mythologies and multispecies artistic research. It is shaped by what I learned from my mother and grandmother, from Baltic plant traditions, from teachers I have apprenticed with — and from ongoing relationship with plants themselves.
This course is not about romanticising nature or simple answers. It is an invitation to develop practical skills and relational capacities - ways of paying attention, harvesting with care, preparing plants respectfully, and situating ourselves within a larger living world.