🌿 Plant Connection Circle – Hawthorn

Immersive experiences exploring local plants, personal wellbeing, and climate connection through herbal wisdom, breathwork and sound.

🌱 What are Plant Connection Circles?


Wellbeing events hosted by Ishka in collaboration with herbalist Wendy Dooner, and partnership with Dundee Changemakers Hub, designed to help you:

– Reconnect with nature and local plants

– Restore your nervous system and emotional wellbeing

– Learn about herbal medicine, plant support, and ecology

– Feel more grounded, inspired, and connected

– Support local community gardens and climate action

Each session lasts approx. 3 hours and focuses on a different local plant explored through learning, tea, breath, sound, and reflection.

✨ What you’ll experience
Each 3 hour circle includes:

Plant exploration with Wendy Dooner


Medicinal uses and health benefits

Climate and ecological role

Tea tasting ceremony


Guided breathwork, sound and visualisation with Ishka



Breathwork, music and live instruments to support deep relaxation and inner connection

No experience needed


Simple, practical ways to support the earth


How to grow, support pollinators, and relate more consciously to plants

How to get involved with local green spaces

🌀 About Breathwork


Breathwork is a guided practice using conscious breathing, music, and sound therapy to help you:

– Calm the nervous system

– Release stress and tension

– Feel more grounded and connected

– Access insight, clarity, and emotional wellbeing

This is a gentle, music-led breathwork journey focused on relaxation, emotional release, and connection – not a push-your-limits or hyperventilation style.

It is safe, trauma-aware, and fully guided.
 No prior experience is needed.
 Everything is provided. You are always in control of your experience and can pause, sit up, or step outside at any time.

Breathwork is generally very safe, but extra care is needed with certain conditions (e.g. PTSD, panic attacks, some heart conditions, epilepsy, pregnancy). All participants are required to sign a waiver form before the session. Please get in touch if you are unsure or have any questions before booking.

🌿 Who it’s for


These circles are:

– Friendly, welcoming & inclusive

– Open to all adults (18+)

– Suitable for beginners and experienced people alike

– A calm, supportive space to explore something new and meet like minded people

You do not need any knowledge of plants, meditation, or breathwork.

📅 About the series


There are three linked sessions, each focusing on a different plant. 
You can attend one, two, or all three. Each session stands alone but together they form a deeper journey


💚 Community and Climate Impact

100% of paid ticket income is donated to local community gardens, supporting food growing, composting and biodiversity and community climate action
A number of spaces are funded by Dundee Changemakers for people facing financial or cultural barriers – if you know someone who would be keen to attend but this applies to, please get in touch to find out more


🔗 About the hosts


Ishka – wellbeing, breathwork and sound

https://www.we-are-ishka.com/

Wendy Dooner – Plant Spirit Herbalist

https://www.wendydooner.com/

Funded by Dundee Changemakers

https://www.dundee-changemakers.net/