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🌙 Peer Support Circle — with facilitator Gwen Pelfini Once a month, we hold a circle: a soft place to land, somewhere to bring the questions, the afterglow, and the things still settling. It's space for integration and general mental wellbeing — whether you're making sense of a recent experience or simply tending to your inner world among people who get it. No fixing, no judgment. Just real support and a room that holds you. 💛 And holding that space with us is Gwen Pelfini. Gwen (LMHC, LPCC, NCC, PATP) is an integrative, multi-licensed psychotherapist, adjunct professor, and certified provider — and the founder of Rooted Ethos. Raised in the Bay Area and trained at UCLA and NYU, she brings two decades in the mental health field, deep trauma work as an EMDR Specialist, and a warm-yet-direct presence that meets you exactly where you are. Her whole philosophy centers on helping people reconnect with their own Inner Healing Intelligence — the idea that the real work isn't done to you, it's done by you. Honoring the whole person: mind, body, and soul. 🌀 A lifelong hiker, water-lover, and singer, she weaves nature and creativity into the way she holds space — exactly the kind of grounded, human presence a circle like ours is built on. This is peer support the way it should feel: honest, warm, and human. Come as you are. There's a seat for you. 🪑 ✨ This gathering is free. RSVP on Eventbrite is encouraged so we know to expect you (and to help us hold the space) — but never required. Link in bio. 📩 Subscribe to the newsletter so you never miss a gathering. 📍 Professor Seagull's Smartshop. 1352 Grant Avenue in San Francisco 7.30pm to 8.30pm 🗓️ Thursday June 18th 2026 #PeerSupport #IntegrationSupport #InnerWork #HoldingSpace #MentalWellbeing #EMDR #CommunityCare #ChurchOfMotherGong #RootedEthos

🌿 A Place for Curiosity 🌿 Tomorrow, stop by and wander a little. Our shelves are filled with herbs, seeds, small-batch elixirs, tonics, tinctures, and intentionally crafted products from around the world. But that's only part of the story. We're also a place for curious books, visionary art, ritual traditions, strange ideas, meaningful conversations, and unexpected discoveries. You'll find oracle decks, works by visionary thinkers and artists, and inspiration from cultures that have explored consciousness, creativity, and transformation for generations. We're fascinated by altered states—not just through plants, but through art, poetry, music, ritual, community, and imagination. We believe creativity itself can be a doorway to new ways of seeing. Whether you're interested in ethnobotany, personal growth, mental well-being, visionary culture, or simply exploring something outside the ordinary, you're welcome here. Come browse, ask questions, discover something new, or just be yourself. 📍Professor Seagull's Smartshop 1351 Grant Ave, North Beach, San Francisco #Smartshop #NorthBeachSF #Ethnobotany #VisionaryCulture #PlantWisdom #Herbalism #Consciousness #ArtAndCulture #Curiosity #Community

✨ Now showing: Lasana Taylor ✨ A new voice on our walls — Lasana brings montage to life, blending images, spirits, and stories into single layered compositions. In his own words: "Most of my time on this planet, I have been in some type of artistic expression, and creating montages is an important section of it. What I would like to do is invite you to view these pieces as an experience involving spirits known and unknown. Part reality, part fantasy. At the same time, I want you to remember that all of you have a gift for creating. There is no good or bad art, only the need for expression. Express yourself!!!!" — Lasana Montage (n.): the art of bringing together different pictures into a single composition — superimposed so they form a blended whole while remaining distinct. Come see his work in person. 🌀 📍 Professor Seagull's Smartshop 1351 Grant Ave, SF 🗓️ On view now #LasanaTaylor #CollageArt #MontageArt #NorthBeachSF #SFArt #SFArtist #BayAreaArtist #MixedMedia #ContemporaryCollage #ExpressYourself

🎬 Free Movie Night at Live Worms! 🎬 This Wednesday, come hang out for a free screening of "Have a Good Trip: Adventures In Psyquedelics" — a wild, funny, thoughtful look at altered states experiences, featuring stories from Sarah Silverman, David Cross, Nick Offerman and a whole cast of other voices sharing their own journeys. Expect laughs, expect reflection, expect good company. 🍿 📍 Live Worms Gallery, North Beach 🗓️ Wednesday June 17th 🎟️ Free entry — just show up Bring a friend. ✨ #LiveWormsGallery #NorthBeachSF #MovieNight #HaveAGoodTrip #FreeEvent #SFEvents #DocumentaryNight

✨ Now showing: Job Smith ✨ A twenty-seven-year conversation with a hidden geometry. Job Smith — of Vaalogos Studio — creates work that lives at the intersection of code and composition. Using custom software that draws from both mathematical logic and biological systems, his patterns aren't designed in the traditional sense — they're grown. What emerges are shimmering interference patterns that resolve into stars, diamonds, and woven textures. His work pulls from a Cyberpunk aesthetic and his Diné/Navajo ancestry — some pieces echo the complexity of a traditional Navajo rug, others the glint of silver and turquoise jewelry. The code creates the architecture, but each piece is hand-finished — a process he describes as mirroring the intentionality and rhythm of the loom. Available as fine art prints on: 🔹 White gloss ChromaLuxe aluminum 🔹 Clear gloss ChromaLuxe aluminum 🔹 Epson cold-pressed natural fine art paper Read his full statement at jobsmith.carrd.co 🔗 📍 1351 Grant Ave, North Beach 🗓️ On view now #JobSmith #VaalogosStudio #DigitalArt #GeometricArt #SacredGeometry #DinéArt #NavajoArtist #Cyberpunk #FractalArt #FineArtPrints #ChromaLuxe #NorthBeachSF #SFArt

🦇 GOTH YOGA — First Edition 🦇 Dark ambience. Deep stretches. North Beach. Roll out your mat in low light and immersive sound as we move through an all-levels, all-bodies practice built to ground, reset, and connect. No flowery playlists here — just grounding movement and dark, enveloping soundscapes. Come as you are. All bodies, all levels, all black wardrobes welcome. 🖤 🗓June 27th - 4.30 to 5.30pm 📍 Professor Seagull's Smartshop, 1351 Grant Av, North Beach SF Fllow the QR code or go to our eventbrite profil --> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/goth-yoga-in-north-beach-tickets-1990538421001 . . #GothYoga #NorthBeach #SFYoga #AllBodiesYoga #DarkAmbient #AlternativeCommunity #YogaForEveryBody #MoveResetConnect #ChurchOfMotherGong

Continuing the teachings on preparation, containment, and navigation of non-ordinary states with Howard Whitehouse, CMT, MA, PhD. 🗓 Sunday, June 14 | 1:00–4:00 PM 📍 Hosted by the Church of Mother Gong We're honored to welcome Howard Whitehouse back. This gathering is for therapists, counselors, and clinicians who accompany others through expanded states of consciousness — and equally for explorers, seekers, and enthusiasts drawn to this work for their own path. Howard will walk participants through the three supportive components of the traditional context for working with these sacred medicines, and how such practices can facilitate Lucid Awakening. He'll also share a map for preparing and holding space within these deep inner journeys — so that meaning can be drawn from the experience and carried into lasting, optimal integration. Wherever you are on the path — guiding others or journeying yourself — you'll leave with a clearer framework for preparation, containment, and navigation. To get a spot : Follow the QR code or go there : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-psychedelics-initiate-the-lucid-awakening-of-the-self-tickets-1988257923973 #IntegrationSupport #TherapistTraining #InnerWork #HoldingSpace #ConsciousnessStudies #SeekersPath #ChurchOfMotherGong

🎨 FIRST (Freaky) FRIDAY — June 5th 🎨 The doors are open and the walls are FRESH. ✨ This month we're doing something we love: a group show featuring artists we've never exhibited before. New voices, new visions, new work on our walls for the very first time. 👀🖼️ Come be the first to see it. 🗓️ First Friday of this Month 🕔 5–9 PM 📍 1351 Grant Av, North Beach — yep, the best neighborhood in town 😉 🍷 Sips, good company + brand-new art Bring a friend, bring your curiosity. Meet the artists, find a piece that stops you in your tracks, and help us welcome some incredible new talent. ✨ See you then. 💫 #FirstFriday #ArtWalk #GroupShow #NewArtists #EmergingArtists #LocalArt #ArtOpening #SupportLocalArtists #ArtGallery #FirstFridayArtWalk #ComeThrough #ArtLovers #OpeningNight

✨ NEW IN ✨ Three botanical icons just landed in the shop 🌿 Meet your new self-care lineup from @animamundiherbals — adaptogenic, organic + wildcrafted, and made to fit right into your daily ritual. 🫘 MUCUNA "The Dopamine Bean" — naturally rich in L-DOPA, traditionally used to support mood, motivation + focus. A little ½ tsp in your morning coffee = chef's kiss. 🌞 HAPPINESS TONIC — a synergistic blend of Rhodiola, Ashwagandha, Mucuna + Albizia, crafted to support stress resilience and a balanced, lifted mood. 🌙 DREAM ELIXIR — okay, we have to be honest… this one has our whole heart 😍💤 Passionflower, Blue Lotus, Skullcap + Kava come together in the dreamiest nighttime tonic for deep rest and vivid dreams. A few drops in warm tea before bed and we are GONE. Truly obsessed. If you try one thing from this drop, make it this. ✨ Which one are you reaching for first? Tell us below 👇 (psst… we know our answer 🌙) Find' em on our website... DOPAMINE BEAN: https://www.sfsmartshop.com/shop/product/mucuna-anima-mundi DREAM ONE: https://www.sfsmartshop.com/shop/product/dream-the-lucid-dreaming-elixir HAPPINESS ONE: https://www.sfsmartshop.com/shop/product/happiness-adaptogenic-dopamine-tonic #AnimaMundi #Adaptogens #HerbalApothecary #Mucuna #DopamineBean #HappinessTonic #DreamElixir #LucidDreaming #PlantMedicine #HolisticWellness #NewArrivals #SelfCareRitual #NaturalWellness #HerbalRemedies #NervineHerbs

A taste of the strangeness ✨ That's the legendary THE GENIE — one of the avant-garde acts who've graced our monthly signature event: The Full Moon Trip Temple !!! We love bringing original, weird, one-of-a-kind live bands to the Temple, and THE GENIE is exactly that energy. But the Full Moon nights are just one piece of what we do. We host regular facilitators every month — like Howard Whitehouse, who mixes our favorite subjects with philosophy, and Gwen Pelfini multi-licensed psychotherapist, advocate. Recently we had the huge pleasure of hosting Robbie Martin for an introduction to Salvia Divinorum. Academic psychonauts, struggling artists, beautiful weirdos — people who come to teach, share, and stretch what's possible. Coming up soon: a workshop on altered states and poetry, more things on Salvia Divinorum, plus more we'll be announcing shortly. 👉 Check out everything we've got going on in our Eventbrite + website. WEBSITE: https://sfsmartshop.com/ EVENTBRITE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/salvia-divinorum-workshop-tickets-1988135465697#organizer-card #FullMoonTripTemple #LiveWormsGallery #NorthBeachSF #SFEvents #AvantGarde #Psychonauts #AlteredStates #SFNightlife #ExperimentalMusic

🔥🌅✨ WILD DAGGA ✨🌅🔥 Leonotis leonurus — the lion's tail 🦁 she doesn't bloom. she IGNITES. 🔥 stacked spirals of molten tangerine, marigold, and ember-red climbing the stem like a spell being cast in slow motion 🌀✨ 🧡 sunset given a stem 🧡 a wildfire wearing petals 🧡 velvet flames in a garden trance, the bees arrive drunk on her nectar. hummingbirds hover like tiny sorcerers. the whole plant hums in a frequency only the wild things hear 🐝🌬️🪄 southern African hillsides know her oldest name. traditional healers have walked beside her for centuries 🌍✨ she carries stories the wind still remembers 🍃 stand near her at golden hour and tell me you don't feel the air shimmer 🌞🌀 tell me the colors don't pour straight into your chest 🧡🔥 some plants whisper. she ROARS. 🦁🔥 🌀 what plant has cast a spell on you lately? 👇✨ #WildDagga #LionsTail #Leonotisleonurus #BotanicalWitch #PlantWitch #GardenMagic #WitchyAesthetic #SacredPlants #FolkBotany #HerbalLore #PollinatorMagic #OrangeBlooms #SunsetGarden #GreenWitch #PlantSpirit #WildBotanicals #CottageWitch #EarthMagic

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event at Professor Seagull's, in collaboration with Experimental College. Join us next Sunday, May 31 for Brews of the Ancient World: Teas & Natural Dyes — a hands-on exploration of ancient brews, botanical color, culture, and creativity. - Tea tasting - Natural dye experimentation - Herbal history + ancient traditions Live Worms Gallery, San Francisco 2–5 PM Tickets + info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1988527138200