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We provide loving traditional healing sessions to people from especially traumatized populations in the Bay Area. More specifically for persons who are
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Image description: Four people of different ethnic backgrounds & shades of skin tone stand together in a line smiling brightly with their heads tilted in varying ways. They are all wearing warm jackets & one of them is wearing wire frame glasses. In the background there is a large board trimmed in gold with a black background. The words on the board read, "Arroyo is ALL THAT" in bold letters.
Community vision: Healing with the people
The central intention of the Healing Clinic Collective is to plant the seed for a return to the Sacred. We aim to encourage re-engagement to a sacred way of relating to ourselves as whole people. We aim to restore reverence and relationship to ancestral forms of healing and wellness that come from world views rooted in cultural understandings and expressions of love, interconnectedness, and regenerative relationship to both people and the Earth.
Many find western clinical medicine to be isolating and disjunctive – attempting to treat physical ailments with chemical pharmaceuticals that not only cause painful side effects, but also neglect the emotional/spiritual traumas that have manifested as physical health conditions in their bodies. There is a general lack of awareness throughout society today, including in working class communities, about the broad world of natural and ancestral healing modalities that are holistic and multi-layered. This is due both to the systemic push to displace and de-legitimize non-western/non-pharmaceutical forms of medicine, and the relatively high cost associated with natural medicine treatments today.
Systemic forms of institutionalized discrimination, social abandonment and economic exclusion continue to result in high rates of trauma and spiritual crisis experienced by poor and oppressed peoples. These spiritual and emotional traumas manifest as a wide range of health conditions and illnesses that must be addressed in a holistic way that mirrors the complexity of their source.
The HCC sees it’s work as a way to ensure that people who desire natural/traditional healing modalities can access them for ongoing care. For this reason, the Healing Clinic Collective has developed a Network of over 100 natural, traditional wellness practitioners and healers that offer their services for free at our Healing Clinics and for free/sliding scale when referred to them through the HCC.
Many find western clinical medicine to be isolating and disjunctive – attempting to treat physical ailments with chemical pharmaceuticals that not only cause painful side effects, but also neglect the emotional/spiritual traumas that have manifested as physical health conditions in their bodies. There is a general lack of awareness throughout society today, including in working class communities, about the broad world of natural and ancestral healing modalities that are holistic and multi-layered. This is due both to the systemic push to displace and de-legitimize non-western/non-pharmaceutical forms of medicine, and the relatively high cost associated with natural medicine treatments today.
Systemic forms of institutionalized discrimination, social abandonment and economic exclusion continue to result in high rates of trauma and spiritual crisis experienced by poor and oppressed peoples. These spiritual and emotional traumas manifest as a wide range of health conditions and illnesses that must be addressed in a holistic way that mirrors the complexity of their source.
The HCC sees it’s work as a way to ensure that people who desire natural/traditional healing modalities can access them for ongoing care. For this reason, the Healing Clinic Collective has developed a Network of over 100 natural, traditional wellness practitioners and healers that offer their services for free at our Healing Clinics and for free/sliding scale when referred to them through the HCC.
Community 🖤 Vision
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We provide loving traditional healing sessions to people from especially traumatized populations in the Bay Area. More specifically for persons who are:
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rooted in ancestral medicine ways
Above video of adélàjà simon accompanied by Sistahs of The Drum offering a song at the opening of HCC's 10 year anniversary celebration held on October 14, 2023.