La Raigambre (2023— ) es un colaboratorio de experimentación enredado en las pedagogías de los cuidados para reconocerse cultura desde un sentir anterior a lo humano; compartido con el suelu, la coruxa, los cuerpos de agua o el castañu.

Según se escriben estas líneas, las dinámicas de índole sintrópica se multiplican dentro del bosque y a través de la bioconstrucción de estructuras junto a Mer Peña, antropóloga, arquitecta, poeta y amiga. Análogamente, desde el recorrido de Judit en el Diploma de Diseño Aplicado de Permacultura en la Academia de Permacultura Íbera se informa este proceso vivo.

Este espacio de atención, indagación y gestación en tierra de astures, noroeste de la Península Ibérica, se nutre de observaciones sintientes del paisaje interior-exterior y de las enseñanzas de muchas —-Natasha Myers, Cecilia Åsberg, Joanna Macy, Looby Macnamara, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, David Abram, Pauline Oliveros, Masanobu Fukuoka, Anaïs Estrems—- para entretejerse con las permaculturas del ser, la ecología cultural, las éticas de los cuidados, la tradición vitalista herbal, la praxis feminista decolonial, la antropología de los sentidos, la etnografía más-que-humana, la memoria ritual y la comunicación noviolenta, entre algunas de sus raíces.

What “wild weeds” inhabit the landscape that you are part of?

Nest in them.

How does light caress them?

Do you feel observed?

What sonic personality, texture, and scent do these plants embody?

Are they moist, juicy and succulent, growing in or around water or thin and spindly?

What tone and shape do you witness?

Do you smell them?

Follow any sensations in your body.

What emotions arouse?

Remember that plants are communicative, sentient, and intelligent ancient spirits.

Wildcraft some leaves, fruits, flowers or roots in reverence, respect, and gratitude.

In the morning, gather the upper parts of the plants as the energy is rising

and in the afternoon, the lower ones.

Roots are better foraged in the Waning Moon,

whereas leaves, flowers and fruits are in the Crescent and Full Moon.

The element Fire is associated with fruits and seeds,

Air and Ether with flowers,

Water with leaves,

and Earth with roots and bark.

Prepare a tisane with a plant that you foraged and visualise an intention for this medicine.

Sit on your knees, or in any other desired position,

with special attentiveness to the openness of your chest.

Take the medicine that you prepared.

Allow the flavour to suffuse your senses and to permeate your body.

Become highly attune to the intelligence of the plant as it touches your organ systems and tissues.

Receive cold or heat, dryness or humidity.

Imagine its qualities:

oily, aromatic, heavy, penetrating, rooting, light, restorative...

Locate the sensation on the tongue.

In what direction is it moving?

As your mind might wander, practice returning to the plant, return to the plant, return to the plant…

Although it might be easy to engage mentally with this experience, feel it, instead

—as this is how plants communicate.

Aim to stay also open to any memories that might surface, or any insight and inspirations you receive. 

Sensitise yourself to what is happening in your (collective) body.

Take some time to reflect and journal about your experience.

Each plant meditation has unique dynamics, feelings and sensations.

It will be a record of your progress in the expansion of your awareness.

I would suggest choosing a notebook, or any other means of recording, that you will dedicate specifically towards your relationship with plants and keeping it with you at all times ––for you never know when a plant might reach out and speak to you.

Those with a collective body, let yourselves share in a circle.

—-Sensuous Plantae, 2022