Zoom! Gardening With Mindfulness

Set the intention to grow more than plants when you cultivate a symbiotic relationship between your garden and the garden of your mind. Former social worker, now urban farmer, Taneya Parks, blends mindfulness with horticulture using analogy to help you weed out what no longer serves you, while germinating new seeds of positivity. Coupled with seasonal planting tips and maintenance tricks for your raised bed vegetable garden, you’ll be well-equipped to tend your inner and outer garden from seed to harvest.

About the instructor:

Michigan native, Taneya Parks, set out to put roots down in Los Angeles in 2016. She did not anticipate the toll that adapting to big city life would have on her mental health, or that her lost sense of connection to green spaces would become the catalyst for her own personal growth. At a time when her mind felt overrun with pests and weeds, Taneya secured a raised bed in a Hollywood community garden and began growing vegetables for the first time. She found that as she prepped the soil, sowed seeds, nurtured the plants, and harvested with gratitude that a similar unfolding was taking place within her own life and affairs. Inspired by this connection, Taneya sought ways to further explore the ways in which gardening with mindfulness could promote a flourishing within the garden of the mind.