COME TOGETHER
a long covid support group
join in queer long covid community for mutual support, skill & infosharing, and relationship weaving!
we come together to share skills and information on navigating long covid. over the course of two months, we will gather to process our experiences, share what we have learned, try new things, and be together. we will talk herbs, food, emotional support practices, embodiment practices, creativity, grief & rage, structural shifts, lists and other logistical supports, surviving under capitalism and more.
come with your feelings and your bodies truth. come with your lived experience. come to hear the experiences of others. come to share what you know about your own wise body, and come ready to learn from the wisdom of others. come to find similarities and resonance, differences in individual experiences, and mutual respect throughout.
let this group be an anchor. let the group support you in these times of intense stress. let the knowing that you are not alone in this tend some of the rough edges. long covid is intense on its own; add in a govt supported culture of covid denial and it becomes even more fraught. we come together to remember that we don’t have to do it all alone; we support each other reciprocally when gathering around shared emotional experiences. let yourself be nourished as you also contribute to a wider web of community nourishment.
come as you are. you are welcome here. we are in this together.
LOGISTICS
This program will run from Feb 25 – April 8, 2025, which is 7 weeks or nearly 2 months.
We will meet weekly on Tuesdays 1:30pm – 3pm ET // 10:30am – 12pm PT.
We will meet weekly via Zoom, and connect in a digital community hub!
Spaces are limited for intimacy and connection.
Price: $30-80 per session sliding scale, $210-560 total. Scroll down to COST section for full details!
ACCESS
These calls will take place in English.
There will be closed captioning available for all zoom calls.
The calls will be recorded for those who need to miss one.
This will be an intimate space. This will be a gentle and lovingly held container.
Folks are welcome to be on or off screen, call in from bed or couch or floor; tending our bodies is the priority!
You are welcome to participate or not as they feel called, and are free to utilize the unmute or chat functions to contribute.
Attending all sessions is encouraged but not required.
Space is limited for intimacy & connection.
come together with fellow long-c babes, honoring the wisdom and hardship of our holy bodies
The Shape of Our Time Together
Each session will include info & skill shares from the facilitators, peer space for participants to share their experiences with similar practices, and then lots of space to share & connect around the realities of living with Long-C.
We will move through specific themes each week, including but not limited to: rest, tending grief, nourishment, supporting our immunity, community building, and building resiliency for the long term. Sessions will include practical therapeutic tips, a range of strategies to try on and experiment with, and herbal supports throughout.
This is a group space, where learning will flow in all directions. Everything shared is invitational, and folks can take what resonates and leave the rest. We come together to share our personal wisdom, and offer it to each other as a gift to Long C community; we come together to connect around living with Long C in a culture of Covid denial, and share the emotional impacts of that too.
This is a space where we connect, share wisdom, learn from each other, and offer mutual support.
What it Costs
this two month program is offered on a sliding scale: $560 / $350 / $210.
This breaks down to $80-30 per session. Please pay according to your access to wealth, generational support, job prospects, race & class, etc. If you have stable housing and do not experience food insecurity, please pay the highest rate of $560. If you live paycheck to paycheck, experience regular housing/food insecurity, etc. you are invited to pay the lower end of the scale at $210.
The more folks pay on the first tier of the scale, the more lower income spots are available for the cohort. Thank you for participating in helping weave sliding scale webs and supporting economic access! If you need a payment plan to participate, please reach out.
There are 5 spots available at the lowest tier, 10 at the median tier, and 5 at the top.
Note: There are no refunds for any reason. Payment plans are contractually binding for the full amount of the course.
SOLIDARITY ACCESS:
We have two no cost spaces set aside for low income QTBIPOC. Please email to inquire about these! ofhawthornandyew@protonmail.com
covid is a deadly
and disabling disease,
and you are not alone.
Who is holding this space?
This offering is facilitated by Max and rowan. they are long time collaborators and friends.
about max
Max Ruin (they/them) is a white, queer, trans, mad, disabled, chronically ill, herbalist, therapist, tattoo artist, mediator, and crisis intervention specialist living with long covid on occupied Lenape land. They are a bookworm, love to ride their bike when their body allows it, and are always happy to nerd out about nature, plants, all things queer, mutual aid, DIY, disability justice, ritualized tattoo and body reclamation, and what role spirituality can play in anarchy. Their work centers queer, trans, and gender expansive folks, is adamantly anti-racist, anti-zionist, and anti-capitalist, and they have a dedicated practice of dismantling white supremacy and oppressive ideologies both in themself and in any space they facilitate. They operate through a lens of interspecies connection, abolition, and harm reduction. You can find out more at www.anywaywecaherbs.com and www.expressyourselftherapynyc.com/max
about rowan
rowan is a queer agender person of western euro settler lineage living on Abenaki land. they are an herbalist, teacher, writer, and somatic bodyworker. they deeply believe that healing and transformation take place within community, and are committed to fostering spaces for this radical possibility. rowan is an anarchist, bookworm, avid baker, lover of song, ex-aerialist, and lifelong learner. they got long covid in august 2020, had their life change wholly, and have been living with it ever since. rowan is passionate about building spaces to nourish queer healing & aliveness as we build a more just world.
Questions and Answers
WHAT WILL THE CULTURE BE LIKE?
- This will be a very gentle container in which intense feelings will potentially be swirling. We will be gently meeting the truth of our emotions, not shying away from complexity and pain.
- All practices will be invitational (meaning you can feel into if something feels supportive and appropriate for you)
- Folks will be invited to be self responsible for their needs, tending their bodies as they need throughout our time together
- Together after touching on our personal experiences, the focus will be on sharing experiences, skills, plant relationships, practices (including embodiment and non-body based), and ritual invitations around tending the grief and rage that lives within us all
- This will be a firmly held facilitated container so that the intention for the offering remains on course
- We will take breaks and practice titration!
- Throughout you will be invited to care for yourself, participate as is appropriate, and practice self-responsibility
WHO IS THIS FOR?
- any queer or trans person seeking community and support for their long-covid
- queer people with lived experience of long covid
- people who like to work with plants, embodied practice and communal dialogue for justice and healing
- folks seeking skills and relationships to bolster their existing practices and habits
- folks excited to share what has worked for them with others who could benefit
- folks who enjoy non-hierarchical learning environments, where learning and wisdom flows in all directions
- folks looking for a gentle engagement with deep, complex and potent topics of covid, disability, albism, anticapitalism, grief & rage, relational rupture due to covid, medical neglect, and more.
Note: This is not intended to replace professional support. As always, Max and I suggest layered networks of support; this is merely one offering to add to the wider web of your care.
HOW DO I JOIN?
Sign up using the link below!
Note: Space is limited for intimacy and connection.
STAYING CONNECTED
My practice is slow, intentional and intimate. I’m not on social media so much; I do occasionally share things through my instagram, @hawthornandyew. However, the best way to stay in touch and hear whats new is to sign up for my newsletter HOME/BODY.
You’ll hear from me on a weekly-ish basis, and these notes will contain info on upcoming workshops and programs, new zines, things my friends are working on, and more alongside long form writing about things i’m learning about, feeling about, questioning and embodying. tune in for musings on herbs, relationship with the world, embodying our values, dreaming and moving towards a more just world, and the practices that will can help get us there.