This workshop is spontaneous, interactive and filled with heart, i.e. singing and dancing as well as an irreverent look at hawthorn and how her place in the hedge spawned! It is common "social medicine". A lively journey with hawthorn unfurls during my time with participants and is the result of 23 years tending a sacred hoop that includes the Snoqualmie Valley and literally hundreds of hawthorn trees. It has been a long and inspiring conversation. Haw continues to broaden my understanding of the world to the point of taking 4 pilgrimages to the Old Country and the primal lands of Haw to deepen my understanding of the medicine she is and the many ways she is willing to serve at this critical moment in the unfurling of our world. This one is fun, inspiring and gets the juices flowing for more. Epigenetics, heritage and origin all are determining factors in how a given plant is/was used in different parts of the world and the cultures from which they grew. This exercise begins connecting where we've been, where we are and where it is we might be going at this time in the journey of human kind. In this tale, you will learn how a gnarly old tree tricked an innocent bystander into becoming a dancing fool...If you?ve had it up to here with perfection and are willing to take a peak over the edge at other options, let hawthorn be your guide! Beware! She is a tricky wicket!