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We are honored to share space with Teresa to bring in the Spring Energy and anchor our prayers. As one of the Traditional Healers within our network, Teresa will Discuss the Energetics of the Spring Equinox, Mexica New Year, and will create space for Prayer, harnessing the Energy of the Spring Equinox.
Teresa is a traditional healer from the Mexican and Meso-American traditions. She is also a school teacher and enjoys teaching in various settings, especially around traditional wisdom for healing the people. Teresa’s offerings range from divination to traditional Meso-American cupping and bodywork. She has been an HCC Network member since 2016 and we are thrilled to have her share with our community. |
Teresa Navarro
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Tues, March 16, 2020 | 5-6:30pm
The Community Care Herbal Response Project (CCHRP) invites you to join herbalists Elokin Orton-Cheung, Tracey Brieger, and Bekah Olstad to discuss herbal support for sleep. Holistic strategies and plants that can support healthy rest will be discussed. This is a fundraiser class with 100% of the proceeds to support the #IndigenousPeoplesDay5. Please learn more and donate at https://ip5solidarity.org and follow @decolonizers_defense. Register for the class here. |
This CCHRP fundraiser is to raise money for the Indigenous People’s Day 5 (IP5), the five indigenous women and Two Spirit people who are being charged with felonies for toppling a Junipero Serra statue in San Rafael in October, 2020.
The act of taking the statue down was an act of healing for the IP5 as well as the many California tribes whose ancestors were enslaved and tortured under Junipero Serra’s command during California’s mission era. We are thrilled to support this act of generational healing. |
❤ February workshops ❤
Gender Justice
Addressing Cis-Supremacy in our Healing Practices Trans-GNC*
Accomplice Training for Wellness Practitioners and Clinic Volunteers
Sunday February 28th 11-2.30 pm PT Online
*Gender Non Conforming
This workshop will center the needs, experiences and stories of Trans-GNC-2 spirit family in our community. Tools will be shared to support wellness practitioners and healing clinic volunteers to better receive and support our Trans-GNC-2 Spirit family through understanding the expansiveness of gender, trauma informed care, somatic tools for emotional regulation, and clinical engagement through the weaving of Healing Justice and Gender Justice.
Facilitated by
Prentis Hemphill ~ Sammie Ablaza Wills ~ Billy Janes Lac
RSVP HERE
Facilitated by
Prentis Hemphill ~ Sammie Ablaza Wills ~ Billy Janes Lac
RSVP HERE
Prentis Hemphill (They/Them), is movement facilitator, Somatics teacher and practitioner, and writer living and working at the convergence of healing, individual and collective transformation, and political organizing.
Prentis spent many years working with powerful movements and organizations, most recently as the Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter Global Network. In 2016, Prentis was awarded the Buddhist Peace Fellowship Soma Award for community work inspired by Buddhist thought. Prentis is the founder of the Black Embodiment Initiative and host of the Finding Our Way Podcast. Currently, Prentis teaches with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity, a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and works as a facilitator and consultant for organizations and groups looking to center healing justice and transformative justice into the very core of their work to build more well and self-determined communities. Prentis has served as a board member for National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network (NQTTCN), a network for connecting communities with representative mental health practitioners and an effort at bringing frameworks of healing justice more soundly into current mental health provision models; and on Black Emotional and Mental Health (BEAM), an organization committed to removing the barriers for Black people to receive mental and emotional care. Prentis is also a deeply committed practitioner and healer who utilizes Somatic methodology, intuition and ancestral practice into their work to heal trauma, and unlock the unique brilliance and contribution of each person, body and being they work with. |
Sammie Ablaza Wills (They/Them), is an enthusiastic, queer, non-binary Pilipinx organizer passionate about supporting people in reclaiming their inherent power and dignity.
Growing up in a hustling class immigrant household, their political journey started with witnessing xenophobia against their family, fighting budget cuts in public schools, and learning about trans Pilipinos fighting colonization. Currently, Sammie is the Executive Director of APIENC, a grassroots organization building power for transgender and queer Asian and Pacific Islander people in the Bay Area, where they originally started as a youth Summer Organizer. In their current role, Sammie supports hundreds of community members to organize for rights, build intergenerational connections, and heal for trans justice. Sammie is also an aspiring death doula for trans, queer, BIPOC communities. You can find more of their work on IG & Twitter @APIENC or at apienc.org, and more on Sammie at @FTWsammie. |
Billy Janes Lac (They/Them) studied at Emperor's College School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Santa Monica, California. There, they found a special calling to work as an ally addressing the body-mind connection and pain through herbal medicine, acupuncture, moving meditation practice and more.
Billy cares deeply about the Black & QTPOC (Queer Trans People of Color) community and works to create an inclusive and intersectional practice. A special interest in the ways our bodies store memory and trauma led Billy to study and practice Craniosacral Therapy with a special interest in somatic approaches to healing trauma. Billy also hosts the Queer Circle Podcast where Queer healers come to the mic to share their journeys and what they’d tell their younger selves. In popular culture, Queers are often props or villains and it was became increasingly important to Billy to amplify the voices of healers in the Queer community who, with strength and vulnerability, share how they’ve come to heal and bring healing to the community on their heroic journey. Website: janesacupuncture.com queercirclepodcast.com Instagram: @billyjaneslac @queercirclepodcast |
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