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Cultivating Resistance Herbals

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Cultivating Resistance Herbals

Natural Medicine: Herbalism, Ayurveda, Yoga, Reiki. Visit us at Bulltánica, a center for well-being in Downtown Durham, NC.

We started our urban farm in 2016, and we’re excited to offer culturally appropriate healing—for all people, on all budgets.

08/12/2025

Unwind your mind, soothe your soul, and awaken your senses — all in one sip. 💫

This carefully crafted blend of tulsi (holy basil), cinnamon, cardamom, rose, and cocoa isn’t just a drink — it’s your new nightly ritual for:
Deep, restful sleep
Calming anxiety and letting stress melt away
Gentle, natural aphrodisiac energy

Sip it slow, feel the magic, and let your body and mind slip into the perfect balance of relaxation and desire.

Because self-care should feel as good as it works.

08/06/2025

Herbs & Menopause: A Conversation for Healing & Empowerment
Join me for a special class with the amazing Omisade Burney-Scott, creator of Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause.

Menopause is not a problem to be solved—it’s a powerful portal of transformation. Through conversation, storytelling, and practical herbal wisdom, this workshop will cover:
🌱Herbs for hot flashes, mood shifts, sleep, and libido, headaches, incontinence, joint pain, and dryness
🌱Ancestral traditions and cultural knowledge around the menopausal transition
🌱Creating daily rituals for hormone balance, joy, and self-connection
🌱How to reclaim menopause as a rite of passage, not a medical crisis

This will be an open, affirming space to share, learn, and connect. All gender expressions welcome.

Date: Wednesday 8/13
Time: 5-7pm
Register: link in bio

07/14/2025

I have been enjoying a study of mimosa this summer: watching its leaves unfurl, studying its flower buds as they burst with color, and breathing in its heady sweet aroma with each flush of flowers.

For years, I’ve used its medicine as a remedy for grief, and I’ve found it to be especially helpful for people who carry a deep sadness about the state of the world—those who carry its heaviness on them as each day passes. This season I’m coming to understand that it doesn’t just elevate the mood creating distance from the pain, but it creates a passageway out, lifting the heaviness for release. Paired with yoga, pranayama, bodywork, and a few other supportive herbs, mimosa has many gifts to offer us in balancing mental health, supporting us in healing through trauma, and moving through transitions.

I have abundant experience in releasing ama down, out of the body into the earth. But I still have much to learn about releasing up and out into the ethers.

If you want to dive deeper with mimosa, talk with me about paired herbal yoga practice, join me and from on 8/13 to talk about black cohosh and mimosa (and so many other herbal formulas) to support transitions through perimenopause and menopause, or come through for a community workday to soak up the love of these luscious trees.

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06/22/2025

Come hang out with us at Bulltánica this summer!

Our first workshop is on 6/23 from 5-7pm
Understanding Menstruation and Herbal Support
with Monica Rivera

Join us for a workshop exploring how herbal remedies can support the menstrual cycle through every phase. We’ll cover common menstrual challenges—such as cramps, irregular cycles, infections, and heavy bleeding—and how herbs can be used to nourish the body, ease discomfort, and bring balance. We’ll field questions about herbal contraceptives, STI healing, and herbs to support miscarriage and abortion aftercare. Rooted in ancestral wisdom and decolonizing health practices, this workshop offers a holistic approach to menstruation that honors the body as sacred and cyclical.
All gender identities are welcome. Whether you’re just beginning your cycle or deepening your relationship with your body, this workshop is a safe and affirming space for learning, sharing, and collective healing.

https://www.bulltanica.com/event-list

04/27/2025

The first flush of honeysuckle!
My kids love watching for the spring , especially the . They wait for violets, nibble on redbuds, and feast on honeysuckle.

I love making them honeysuckle syrup, honeysuckle sorbet, and I put it in all their cold & flu formulas to help their little bodies break through the stuck.

What stuck things are you moving through? What wild delights are you sharing with your sweet ones? What concoctions are you creating in your kitchen in these warm, long spring days?

03/27/2025

We have the chance of a lifetime: to grow Bulltánica into the healing community center we’ve dreamed of. Want to connect with neighbors, nourish your mind, feed your spirit? Want to learn and play and heal together in a multi-generational, multi-racial, beautifully wild space?

We need your help to save historic Whitehall Terrace from foreclosure. The reverse loan on this property from the previous owner is due. Without the funds to pay it off, we risk losing this treasure forever. We need your help, your support, and your belief in what we're doing.

Links in bio 💗💗

02/21/2025

Come visit me tomorrow 2/22 from 1-4pm for Shop Small Saturday at Bulltánica Herb Shop, located at 800 N Mangum St in sacred Old Five Points.

We have immune and anti-viral herbs for all your cold and flu season needs, as well as herbs for kids, sleep, joint healing, stress and anxiety, hormone balancing and much more. We offer teas made from locally grown herbs, as well as foods and drinks infused with medicinal herbs and mushrooms. We have beautiful indoor plants and medicinal herbs for your garden, gift baskets with tea and cooking herbs, mushroom coffee, and bull city swag.

Bulltánica is a botanica in the bull city. We offer an herb shop with an onsite apothecary and herbalist for consultations and customized blends, a licensed massage therapist, childbirth education and doula services, fitness classes and wellness workshops. Event details link in bio. 💗🌿💗

02/08/2025

I’m potting up some sweet herb divisions for my class on Monday. Durham friends, come to my class: Planning Your Edible and Medicinal Garden workshop from 5:30-7:30pm on 2/10 at Bulltánica.

We’ll talk about integrating native medicinal and edible plants into your gardens. We’ll talk about which plants like to be together, and how to maximize habitats for pollinators, birds, and other animal kin.

If you can’t make it, tell me what you’re working on in your garden this winter. Which plants are speaking to you? What are they asking/telling?

01/21/2025

Our world is an endlessly tumultuous, catastrophic, and heartbreaking place. Sometimes it feels like the darkness will take over. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to find precious bursts of light.

I’m offering donation based community yoga classes every Tuesday from 6-7pm at Bulltánica, 800 N Mangum St.

This season we’ll be exploring practices that weave our roots deeply into the earth and practices that open us to the ethers so we can fly.

Check my website for more details and a list of other upcoming classes for well-being.

01/08/2025

What do you keep in your herbal first aid kit?
Anti-microbial spray: to clean wounds; this is especially useful if you’re not near a sink or your kids are scared of washing their wounds at first

Yarrow to stop bleeding: it’s been used for generations, including in battlefield triage to stop deep bleeding and it’s great for nosebleeds

Healing salve: for cuts, bruising, (and if it contains plantain) bug bites and wasp/bee stings; comfrey increases cell proliferation, meaning you heal faster!

Something for emotional soothing: I like Magnolia flower essence or glycerites with mimosa/rose/lavender/lemon balm. I was taught by older midwives to use magnolia flower with baby’s when they are first born to help aid their transition, and it can help anytime you experience something scary or jarring

Pain relief tincture: several herbs reduce inflammation and decrease pain; many of them contain salicylic acid, the chemical aspirin was derived from

Digestive bitters: including herbs that can help pass gas and bind diarrhea

01/02/2025

Happy New Year’s Day! I’m spending some time weeding in my garden today, nourishing what will grow this coming year. January weeding is time to listen to what the plants need and plan for the coming spring.

For instance in the front, the trees are growing bigger and the wood betony is spreading beautifully, but the sochin and the bee balm are struggling. “Do you need more sunlight?” “Would you be happier to move to the side garden or near the blueberries?” I feel an emphatic “yes!” If I move those, I wonder who would like to grow with wood betony. Have I finally created a garden that lady’s mantle would thrive in? I listen and scheme so I’ll be ready when it’s warm enough to move plants happily.

And I think about what I’m creating space to grow this year in my life. I’ve got a lot brewing at Bulltánica in 2025. Now you can schedule in-person herb consultations and Ayurvedic treatments with me. (Check my website!) I’m organizing herb education and plant magic classes, and we’re bringing a childbirth educator to joins us to offer prenatal and postpartum care. (Stay tuned for open herb shop hours and a schedule of classes. Let me know if there is a specific topic you want to see on the schedule!)

12/18/2024

My favorite days are spent tasting our way through the woods, gathering up medicine, and enjoying each other in the sun. I love how game my kiddos are to try things, even when I offer flavors that our sour, bitter, astringent.

We found piles of juicy hawthorn berries. My oldest said they were disgusting, but he kept taking bites, like something was pulling him in despite his tongue.

Hawthorn is big heart medicine. Physically and emotionally. So much needed in the constancy of these uncertain times.

Address

E Trinity Avenue
Durham, NC
27701

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Website

http://cultivatingresistanceherbals.com/, http://Bulltanica.com/

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