Corpus Ritual Remedies summer 2018

1 Contents

3 About Corpus Ritual

4 About Jennifer Patterson

5 Individual Remedies

18 Wholesale Information

19 Full Bio

20 Contact

2 About Corpus Ritual

Corpus Ritual is a small batch herbal remedy line based in Brooklyn, NYC & crafted by community herbalist Jennifer Patterson. She believes that herbal remedies are powerful touchstones and that relationships with plants can act as guides through our moments at the bottom of the well. Her work and her remedies focus on supporting people in experiences with depression, anxiety, PTSD/ C-PTSD, substance misuse, chronic pain and more.

The line includes alcohol-based & , as well as alcohol-based flower essences, a smoke blend, and teas. Seasonally there are also herbal-infused vinegars, vinegar & organic honey oxymels, herbal-infused bath salts, essential oils blends and more.

Jennifer believes we can only be as well as the environment around us, that in a time of such political crisis, violence and ecological destruction, any kind of work we do in supporting another’s healing is harm reduction work. She is honored to offer remedies to support people in connecting back to themselves, as they move through various states of embodiment.

3 About Jennifer Patterson

Jennifer is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, and words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. She has been in a deep study with herbs for the last 7 years and has both formal training, with herbalist Sean Donahue and others, and extensive and continued self-study. Always wanting to learn more, she attends conferences and workshops to deepen her study.

She brings a variety of skills and training to her work, and has a background in anti- violence work, community organizing and trained as a rape crisis counselor. Her work is infused with harm reduction, healing justice and disability justices lenses. In addition to , she is a facilitator of breathwork 1:1 sessions, group sessions and trauma-focused writing workshops. In her private practice she works on a sliding scale as she believes healing—that life-long, non-linear journey—should be more accessible and within reach. You can read more in her bio at the end of this line sheet.

4 tinctures + elixirs: 1 oz. $16 retail/$9.60 wholesale

trauma heart heal give less shits elixir sweet release

This elixir is so power(full) for This blend is soothing and Full of nervines, this blend is perfect healing from the times that bend and nourishing. It’s restorative. It’s floral for the moments where you need to break us. It supports the process of and sweet and strong. Packed with settle, soothe and support a nervous loss and grief while allowing us to adaptogens, this blend will help level system on overdrive, whether it's open into love: love for ourselves and out the nervous system on those with racing thoughts, frazzled nerves our communities. Cooling and days where you just need to put on or insomnia. A powerful sleep blend, calming, it allows us to center, reset your badass cloak so you can get it is also lovely for nerve and general and stay open in the world even back to the business of being your (even acute) pain. when it feels increasingly hard to do bright self in the world. It takes care so and keeps anxiety and stressful of those fried nerves and edges and feelings at bay. the rose supports your work in giving a little love back to yourself. Ingredients: Ingredients: rose, hawthorn, motherwort, skullcap, passionflower, california carnelian & rose quartz crystal Ingredients: poppy, & vodka essences, organic raw honey, & rose, lavender, oat tops, schizandra, brandy. organic raw honey, & brandy.

5 clear head elixir elderberry & ginger elixir ease the fuzz tincture

A grounding blend for the When you feel a cold coming on, This blend is for when anxiety and headache-y, foggy headed days Elderberry Elixir is for sure your stress interrupts clear thinking and where you feel a little overstimulated friend. It's also great for boosting makes you feel fuzzy all over. If you and a little unfocused. Perfect to use your immune system on the daily, are so worn out that you can't think when you need a little brain food and helps keep colds and flus away. or if your memory and concentration before anything where you need to Ginger adds a little heat to the blend are dropping, this blend will help feel alert and rooted in of clarity of and is also supportive of a healthy nourish your nervous system and thought. immune system and digestion. support your busy brain.

Ingredients: Ingredients: Ingredients: tulsi, brahmi, sage, rhodiola, brandy, elderberry, ginger, brandy, & raw hops, meadowsweet, oat tops, & raw organic honey organic honey catnip, & vodka

6 go easy tincture aller ease tincture hold on tincture

Know those days where you just getting you down? Anti- A blend for when depression has you can’t relax? This blend is good for inflammatory and vitamin-rich, this diving a bit more deeply into when you need to bring the volume blend supports the reduction of yourself, that helps you remember of your life down a notch and offer allergic symptoms while building up that underworld walking is yourself a little patience and your immune system and bringing necessary, from time to time, but kindness in the hustle. Nerve- some regulation to the nervous finding your way back out is restorative and pain reducing, it’s a system. Supportive of seasonal and necessary too. Cooling and heart- cooling blend that is perfect to use in animal allergies alike. supportive, it’s for when the grief larger doses, at the end of the day, or feels hot and big, for when you lose in drop doses throughout the day. Let connection to yourself and your a little easssseeee in. Ingredients: aliveness, to help balance your nettle, reishi, red clover, mullein, & immune system and stop the circular Ingredients: vodka thoughts from exhausting you. skullcap, oat tops, lemon balm, rose, & vodka Ingredients: elderflower, mugwort, yarrow, rose, st. john’s wort, passionflower, & vodka 7 build back up tincture oh! be joyful tincture kava kava + rose elixir If your adrenals and nervous system A heart and nervous system restorative, This blend is for when you need to are crashed out, and you’re running mimosa is an anchor for the heart and bust through blocks in order to be spirit. Combined with reishi, which is on fumes, and the depression and creative. It's for the days that you are great as an immune booster as well as anxiety keep nipping at your heels, overworked or anxious or fearful but supportive of the heart, lungs, kidney, this blend is for you. If you just. can’t. still want or need to connect handle. one. more. thing. A powerful liver, and more, I added some flower and gem essences supportive of standing at creatively. It's great for tension, daily blend for those of us who are especially muscle tension, especially just trying to stay afloat in a world of the edges of pain, for underworld traveling and breaking old harmful when its the product of emotional heartache and wildness and racing. A patterns, letting go of control of others stress. It's slightly mind-altering but mild and accumulative blend, it helps and the love they can/ can’t give us as is not a . Rather, it helps you you build back up in a sustainable we learn to give love to ourselves, and unwind and can help bring ease and supported way so that you can welcoming a connection to our own before sleep. maintain it. Like all herbs, “it” energy. doesn’t “fix” you but rather supports your body in building up a more Ingredients: Ingredients: grounded way. tinctured mimosa & reishi with ghost kava kava, rose, & vodka pipe, datura, & chicory flower essences, Ingredients: carnelian gem essence, & vodka & betony, oat tops, rose, tulsi, & brandy vodka 8 hold the line tincture panic bloom elixir radiance tincture

A blend of St. John's Wort, It's a blend to honor what blooms out When your digestion and mood is in Motherwort, Blue Vervain, and of the panic, it's nourishing and it's a a slump and when maybe you've Yarrow, it's a blend for boundaries, blend to counter the "attack" like of forgotten your shine, Radiance for sadness and grief, for holding those 20 second stabilizing hugs for Tincture is a friend for you. A great your line when you need to, for the heart that I'm always reading digestive remedy, it's helpful for sopping up the wounds, so you can about and helps clear up the fuzzy when your nerves get the best of you build yourself back up and radiate brain that can be induced when and your belly suffers. It can be taken from the solid inside of yourself. It's a triggered. It's for when we feel the during the day or at night to ease a reminder that you have so so much anxiety brewing in our bellies or more restful sleep. (And a more to offer, that people want and need chests or for when we catch it right visionary sleep too as mugwort is a to hear from you and that you have a before or as it turns into complete real lucid dreaming delight.) right to feel protected, boundaried panic. and safe in doing so and doing you. Ingredients: Ingredients: Ingredients: hawthorn, motherwort, oat tops, lavender, yarrow, mugwort, & vodka st. john's wort, motherwort, blue rhodiola, organic raw honey, & vervain, yarrow, & vodka brandy.

9 at the threshold tincture bitters on bitters elixir get some zzzs tincture This is a remedy for the times we are in. Where the full collapse is so Bitters are known for easing clearly outside of us, in our world, digestion, soothing gas and bloating The title pretty much explains it. A which also always means it is inside and can also relieve occasional heart blend for the nights of insomnia, for us too, like a mirror. It's a blend for burn and nausea. The addition of racing thoughts, for stress and strain when the heart is shattered and bitters daily or before a large meal in the times you would rather be you're feeling kinda like fuck can be incredibly helpful and packs sleeping, Get Some Zzzs is a really everything but you gotta witness the some major bitter flavor. It’s really powerful nightcap. grief, stay alive, grow deeper roots, helpful for getting your digestive step into the void, reconnect with system back on track. the bits of joy you can find, keep Ingredients: supporting yourself and your people chamomile, valerian, passionflower, as you bloom out of the rubble and Ingredients: california poppy, & vodka into something new. ginger root, orange peel, burdock root, angelica root, sage, gotu kola, Ingredients: chamomile, organic raw honey, & mullein, yarrow, rose, st. john's wort, vodka mimosa and vodka 10 Reishi

St. John's Wort

Self-Heal

Mimosa

Linden

Blue Vervain Lemon Balm single Mugwort herb Cramp Bark

Red Clover tinctures Hops 1 oz. $16 retail / Please email for individual information, uses, or questions. $9.60 wholesale

11 Nettle

Motherwort

Mullein

Blue Vervain

Fireweed

Elecampane Honeysuckle single Plantain herb Catnip

Monarda tinctures 1 oz. $16 retail / Please email for individual information, uses, or questions. $9.60 wholesale

12 Yarrow // energetic protection & holding boundaries

Crown Vetch // gathering energy & persevering through setbacks

Milkweed // extreme states of soul regression, returning to self, & shifting addiction

Violet // self-acceptance, stillness, & welcoming nourishing relationships

Mimosa // invites joy and the web of connection & welcomes calm after the storm

Canada Thistle // transforming childhood wounds & reconnecting with family

St. John’s Wort // inviting the light in after periods of depression, groundedness Queen Anne’s Lace // balance of energies, invites unification when feeling fractured single Datura // guide through the underworld, welcoming death to old patterns & harmful behaviors flower Wild Rose // sweetness, support in reconnecting to aliveness, & a desire to reengage with life

Jack in the Pulpit // inviting curiosity into the great mystery of life, & finding direction essences Monada // getting to the root of an old situation, & help with clearing energetic tangles 1 oz. Elderflower // ancient and divine protection, eases fear, & builds capacity for joy $16 retail / $9.60 wholesale

13 Magnolia // connection to inner wisdom and guidance, & comfort in times of change

Red Tillium // guide for times of death and rebirth, welcoming pleasure & passion

Lilac // letting go of the past & bringing us into alignment with the present

Honeysuckle // helps loosen deep-seated grief connected to the past

Clematis // breaks the spell of dissociation, invites curiosity & creativity in present

Moneywort // invites brightness, boldness, and courage after shock & trauma

Fireweed // for burnout and stagnation, invites revitalization & renewal Foxglove // for deep heartbreak and betrayal, a return to stillness & ones own heart single Bindweed // for taking a deep breath & cutting energetic cords of relationships that harm more than heal flower Evening Primrose // eases fear of relationships stemming from parental harm essences Chicory // letting go of control of others and the love they can/ can’t give us as we learn to give love to ourselves 1 oz. Flower essences are 1oz. dosage bottles, not stock bottles. $16 retail / $9.60 wholesale

14 tea + smoke blends

day break tea weight varies sweet sleep tea

Perfect for your morning start or $12 retail/ A blend of passionflower, skullcap, for the mid-afternoon slump, Day & peppermint, this cooling tea Break tea is a vitamin-rich, $7.20 blend is soothing to the nervous relaxing, grounding, digestion- wholesale system for those nights of racing soothing blend of nettle, sage, thoughts and insomnia. lemon balm, & tulsi. You can even It’s a great nightcap. brew it and add it to green or black tea if you still want some caffeine.

15 cold away tea sip on this tea

A staple in many houses, Cold A damiana, skullcap, oat tops, & Away Tea is a blend of chamomile blend for nervous elderflowers, peppermint, system restoration and anxiety echinacea, yarrow, & schisandra. reduction to help break and shift An anti-oxident blend, rich in cravings. vitamin C, it’s useful for colds, sinus infections, bronchitis, & flus as it builds immunity, increases sweating to reduce fever, and, if used at the onset of the illness, helps shorten the duration and severity.

16 breathe smoke blend

This blend is for when your nervous system is amped and for when breathing a bit more deeply is difficult. It is a soothing and grounding blend perfect for rolling and alone or for adding to other smokeables.

Ingredients: damiana, mugwort, skullcap, passionflower, sage, & rose

17 Wholesale Information

Wholesale is preferred but consignment is also an option. To place an order, please email [email protected]

Order Terms: Consignment 60/40 + shipping Wholesale 60/40 + shipping (net 30, $100 minimum) Orders will be filled within 21 days max

Shipping (depending on location and order size, might vary): USPS large flat rate box, $25 box ( which will includes insurance)

Payment: Venmo: Bones-Patterson OR PayPal: [email protected] Chase Pay is also an option. Please email to do so.

For other buying options or requests, please email as well.

Donations/ Fundraisers: Each year, Jennifer also donates a portion of her remedies to social justice work, movement work and fundraisers. Don’t hesitate to reach out with requests to collaborate. Jennifer might be unable to do so but is always interested in hearing more.

18 Full Bio

Jennifer Patterson is a grief worker who uses plants, breath, words to explore survivorhood, body(ies) and healing. A queer and trans affirming, trauma-informed herbalist and breathwork facilitator, Jennifer offers sliding scale care as a practitioner through her own practice Corpus Ritual and is a member of The Breathe Network and Breathwork for Recovery. She has facilitated writing and breathwork workshops at healing centers, LGBTQ centers, a Hasidic and Orthodox Jewish healing center, a needle exchange and harm reduction clinic, veterans hospitals, online with the Transformative Language Arts Network, sexual violence resource centers, at colleges and the collective What Would an HIV Doula Do?. She is the editor of Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti- Violence Movement (2016), lectures across the country, and has had writing published in places like OCHO: A Journal of Queer Arts, Nat. Brut, The Establishment, HandJob, and The Feminist Wire with new publications forthcoming. She is also the creative nonfiction editor of Hematopoiesis Press. A graduate of Goddard College’s MA program, Jennifer is finishing a book project focused on translating embodied traumatic experience through somatic practices and critical and creative nonfiction. You can find more at ofthebody.net.

19 Contact

Email: [email protected] Website: www.ofthebody.net Instagram: corpusritual

20