upcoming events


​Tending Our Ancestral Wounds
2024 Fall Healing Clinic 
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​Sunday, October 6th, 2024 | 10:00am - 6:00pm

Arroyo Viejo Recreation Center
  7701 Krause Ave, Oakland, CA 94605 

​The HCC is excited to announce our in-person Healing Clinic "Tending Our Ancestral Wounds"! This year's clinic is intended to acknowledge and tend the wounds of colonial trauma passed in our DNA from our Ancestors, and compacted in our current experiences.

At the clinic, attendees can receive no-cost healing modalities, such as massage therapy, energy healing, herbal medicine consultations, grief counseling, and more!

Past Events




​​Meet & Greet (Online)
For HCC Network
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​Wednesday, September 4, 2024 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm
On Zoom
 Link Shared With RSVP

The HCC warmly invites our Network of practitioners and volunteers to come together for an online Meet & Greet. Whether you’re a new face or a seasoned practitioner, this is a wonderful chance to connect with fellow healers in our community and learn about the exciting opportunities within the HCC Network. Come with your questions, your curiosity, and your open heart as we explore our sacred work together.


Reciprocity: Free


​QTBIPOC Self-Limpia Ceremony 
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​Sunday, September 15, 2024 | 11:00am - 1:00pm
 ​Location: Oakland/ Huichin
 Exact Location Shared Upon Registration 

A limpia is a traditional cleansing practice & ceremony utilizing plants, prayer, and each of the elements. The limpia can help us encounter our emotional pain so we can face, feel, integrate and let it go. The point of the limpia is also to call our spirit back into our body so we may return to our true selves again. Our time will begin with a platica on the limpia before we go into our community self-limpia ceremony together.

Reciprocity: $10-50 Sliding Scale

Accessibility Info: Mask required. The meeting room is ADA accessible but the bathroom is not. This will not be a fragrance free space. Location will have ample parking/close to bus line.

Register by Wednesday, September 11th
About the Facilitators 

​Batul True Heart (they/them) and Melissa Reyes (they/them) are two spirit, queer, and indigenous traditional healers, community herbalists, and death companions. Through their project, Floripondio End of Life Planning and Services, they offer culturally conscious death care and education to Queer, Trans, Black, Indigenous, People of Color and all dying allies via the time honored perspectives and practices of traditional medicine. With deep listening, presence, the support of the elements and their ancestors, Batul and Melissa specialize in holding space for folks in times of transitions. 
We are excited to host our first in-person Network Gathering since the pandemic began.

HCC Network Gathering  |  July 13, 2024 | 12-3pm
@ the Orchard  |  5132 Miles Ave, Oakland 94618

We hope to see long standing + newer Network members at our Annual Gathering this year. 

❥ Come meet the amazing and magical members of HCC’s Network of ancestral healers and wellness practitioners

❥ Meet our new HCC Staff and Core members! HCC is welcoming a new Program Coordinator & Resident Herbalist, and two new Core members!

❥ We’ll have games, food & music 

❥ Learn about what’s on the horizon for HCC and opportunities for practitioners to collaborate in meaningful and gainful ways!

❥ Aima the Dreamer will be joining us and dropping healing knowledge on the Mic! 

 summer school Class Series

Corazon Sagrado - an ONLINE 5 week journey starting June 23rd & ending July 21st.
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​We will meet on Sundays from 10am to 12pm PT. Please make sure you can attend all 5 sessions, as there will be no recordings & each session will build upon the next.
Registering for this series is a commitment to cultivating community & spending concentrated time on self reflection, self care & ancestral exploration. All while being lovingly witnessed & supported by the community we create together. Additionally, you will be guided into making your own altar, which will become the anchor towards creating a daily practice that serves both your spiritual development & your connection with your ancestors.

This series is being facilitated by HCC Core Member, Kuya Gonzalez (they, them) of Spirit Root Medicine People. The sliding scale for the series is $55 to $99, with no QTBIPOC turned away! Simply contact us at [email protected]. 
Kuya'karanuta'ni Gonzalez is a Two Spirit Afro-Borikua Taino Ceremonialist, Sacred Artist, Culture Bearer & Cultural Organizer. Kuya is deeply committed to the work of healing our collective wounds of colonization, modernization & industrialization. They are passionate about creating sacred space & Altars for the facilitation of ceremonies rooted in indigenous wisdom. They are blessed to have been walking on the Red Road for almost three decades. Kuya is Project Director & core facilitator for Spirit Root Medicine People: Indigenous Two Spirit Lifeways, a wellness project for the Two Spirit/QTBIPOC Community. They are also a core member of the Healing Clinic Collective, a Huichin (Oakland, CA) based grassroots healing justice project which strives to plant seeds for a return to the sacred. One way the HCC does this is by offering free healing clinics rooted in Ancestral traditional medicine ways. Additionally, Kuya teaches workshops focused on healing, medicine making, self care & Ancestral remembrance. They have taught meditation in many settings including prisons and to women with cancer. As a caregiver, they have helped many in their journey to the other side. They have completed a year long Mindfulness Yoga & Meditation Training, a year long intensive in Commit to Dharma and a year long intensive in the North American Nonviolent Communication Leadership Program. Kuya has over 2 years of accumulated silent retreat practice, they have completed 4 traditional vision quests & almost three decades of indigenous ceremonial practice & vipassana practice. 
Energy Medicine Fundamentals
Sunday June 30, 2024; 12-4pm
$150
 
Energy Medicine Fundamentals is a fun, embodied, immersive workshop that teaches the basic concepts of energy medicine, energy work, and/or energy healing. Angela’s teachings examine the nature of reality (ontology), are liberatory and grounded in social justice and radical collective healing. Angela’s perspective and work are trauma informed and expansive. Participants can expect to move their bodies, breathe deeply, laugh, cry, meditate, get into the love vibration, and so much more. This class is a lovely precursor to learning Reiki, a Japanese hands-on healing tradition. Joins us!  
 
Reiki Class All Levels
Three Consecutive Sundays:
July 7, July 14, July 21;
12-5
$450

Reiki is a powerful hands-on energy healing tradition that is relatively easy to learn. In these immersive classes students will:
·       Receive Reiki attunements
·       Learn about Reiki, its history, concepts, and processes
·       Practice Reiki on each other & receive Reiki healing
·       Learn about and discuss psychic phenomena & ontology (the nature of reality) in the context of NOW post-covid, collective, trauma and the great turning, i.e. societal collapse
·       Learn about and practice Distance Healing and why it is important
·       Receive Reiki Certifications (for levels 1 & 2. Reiki 3 certification will require a certain period of practice before Certification is provided)
 
Participants should:
·       Take a COVID test before each class, and bring a mask to be worn during Reiki practice
·       Wear comfortable clothing, dress in layers
·       Bring a notebook or journal for note taking, writing utensil
·       For Reiki class, I ask students to bring snacks to share
Angela Omulepu is a wellness consultant, healing practitioner and change-maker who facilitates personal, organizational and societal healing through diverse healing modalities such as Reiki, guided imagery, non-violent communication, and creative writing.

​Her school, Reiki to the People, represents the intersection of spirituality and socio-political revolution. Ms. Omulepu's perspective and approach is shaped by her over 10 years of
experience as a union organizer and regional community organizer working for racial, social and economic justice.
Reiki to the People is committed to leveraging the energy of grassroots movements to help shift collective consciousness. It calls for a heightened level of engagement through sacred resistance and vibrational/energetic acuity.
Ms. Omulepu believes that healing society starts with healing the self—letting go of resentments, rewriting harmful narratives, and learning the language of energy. It is her strongly held belief that a critical mass of people adept at navigating the energetic plane can catalyze a positive shift–elusive solutions and creative new strategies will emerge, making equity, cooperation and abundance an achievable reality. In her heart, she believes that through Reiki practice and the exquisite attention to self-healing, we can change our world.

​Ms. Omulepu's love of art and creative expression is a driving force in her work. Author of a chapbook of poems entitled All's War in Fear and Love (2003), she is also self-taught painter who explores the human condition through interiors, landscapes and cityscapes. Her love for performance is also expressed in spoken word, improv and/or stand-up comedy. In addition to teaching Reiki, she offers a transformative class titled, Write to Heal. In this class, Ms. Omulepu works with students to identify and address issues associated with trauma, addiction, abuse and grief through creative writing.
Ms. Omulepu received her bachelor's degree in English from Cornell University (1998). She is currently completing her Masters' degree in the Integrative Health Studies Program at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS). She lives in Oakland, CA.

vigil & prayers for Palestine

2023 Highlights

PRAISE FOR "CORAZON SAGRADO" - A 5 WEEK SERIES FOR QTBIPOC OFFERED BY HCC CORE MEMBER, KUYA

Above right image: The "Loving Heart" Altar created for the final ceremony by HCC Core Member Kuya Gonzalez

​Evaluation Responses:

"I learned more about myself in this series and ways to connect with creating altars and how to create a personal altar. I also learned songs that I’m excited to practice." A.S.

"Folks sharing so vulnerably in regards to their journal reflections was so supportive because a lot of what was shared resonated so much for me and was a great reminder that i'm not the only one feeling like I'm struggling through certain things. Also, I was so pleasantly surprised with everyone's generous offerings during the final ceremony. it reminded and encouraged me to refocus on the offerings I want to share with community." C.Y.

GRATITUDE FOR "LIBERATION & HEALING FOR ALL OF US!"​

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