Sacred Seeds
build community care with us
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build community care with us 〰️
a collective care network that supports the empowerment of the people to take care of themselves in a sacred way.
We intend to do this by bridging the gap between the people in the community who need care & the skilled, holistic practitioners, the wisdom keepers, & stewards of the Earth’s abundant medicine.
We aim to reimagine infrastructures of healing using the talent, skills, instructions, & cultural knowledge that is already present in our communities today. They are here & they’ve been here–but the majority do not know who to go to or how to find them.
This approach is not a new. It is a proven & successful grassroots initiative in various cities, such as Oakland, CA where our advisors/mentors at the Healing Clinic Collective have been supporting the community for over 13yrs. Inspired by the depth of their impact, we want to cultivate this type of community care in our city as well.
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Our intention is to create more access to adequate health care for traumatized & overburdened populations who receive the least amount of access to loving care (2SQTBlP0C).
We aim to build our collective endurance & power by creating a directory of practitioners already resident in our community who treat others as a whole person so that people in need of healing may find holistic options to meet their needs.
Our practitioners provide natural, holistic, & ancestral care–offering non-pharmaceutical healing sessions to those who suffer from physical, mental, & spiritual illnesses, resulting from ancestral trauma, systemic & personal abuse, etc.
We’re often told by the govt that we need them, but our hope is to demonstrate that not only do we have the power to do what’s right for ourselves & our community but also reveal just how resourced we already are.
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Our central intention is to plant Sacred Seeds for a heart-led world and a culture of care. Our healers are the Seeds that share Sacred medicine with the people.
While modern Western medicine is needed & valuable, often the approach is to treat physical symptoms with pharmaceuticals which often cause/worsen other issues, meanwhile the emotional & spiritual–the root cause gets neglected making matters worse. This approach is sometimes helpful in the short-term but can often be more harmful in the long-term.
These Western systems are designed to profit off of our ill-being & often leave patients feeling dependent, disempowered, & disembodied.
Integrated Approach
We recognize that many people have to rely on bio-medical tools, medicines, etc. for their health needs for a variety of reasons such as accessibility, insurance, etc. While our work is to reclaim natural, holistic, & ancestral healing, we also support an integrated approach that includes biomedical practices as needed. -
This is for all of us. When it’s clear those in power care more about profit over people, we need our own system.
Although certainly not a replacement, our greatest form of health insurance is how we care for ourselves & each other.
We encourage our practitioners to offer sliding scale or other alternative payment options that can make healing more accessible, however as everyone’s circumstances are different, energy exchanges are solely up to each individual practitioner, and each practitioner sets their own terms and boundaries.
Though services will not be exclusive to this population, our primary goal is center & support the rising of native/indigenous nations, the Global Majority & QTGNCI2S, Neurodivergent, & Disabled folks–those in our community who are often most targeted, silenced & by their very existence & survival are sacred.
Often the most silenced are the most sacred–they hold within them the medicine the world so desperately needs right now. Our goal is to heal with & guide them as they rise into their own personal power. -
We are currently in the process of:
Building up the Core Team.
Cultivating the Healer’s Network (Apply to Be a Practitioner using the form below).
In search of Donors, Grants, and Fiscal Sponsorship. Please contact us to discuss sponsorship and grants, or make a donation by sending your contribution here or to @ale-luya on venmo.
Community members:
Through our directory of practitioners–who come from a wide range of backgrounds, cultures, & modalities–we are bridging the gap between the people in our community & practitioners who offer natural, holistic, & ancestral healing.
We also provide referrals upon request & by donation for those who need assistance in finding the right modality or practitioner.
Our long-term goal is to facilitate healing clinics to make these modalities more accessible to targeted communities & to care for our caretakers who are holding & transmuting a lot of harm within the community.
Practitioners:
By joining our network, practitioners will be featured in our community care directory which will be made available to individuals within the community by donation.
We will refer those seeking support to practitioners when their needs align with one another.
Joining our collective will also allow practitioners to connect, learn, grow, explore, build & heal alongside each other.
please consider supporting the
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accessibility of natural, holistic & ancestral healing
We’re seeking donors & fiscal sponsors–get in touch.
As I’ve learned from my wonderful mentor, Carla Perez at the HCC, money has a spirit like anything else, we've given it a life so we must call in this resource & allow this good work to be sustained. We should honor this work & those who steward it.
This is what money should be doing. Let’s keep redirecting it from somewhere else where it shouldn't be going to move it & invest it towards the kind of caring, resourced, heart-led world we want to live in–today.
Any amount is helpful! Please send contributions to: @ale-luya on venmo or @ale8luya on cashapp with the comment “Sacred Seeds”. Salamat–thank you!
are you a healer?
Join the Sacred Seeds’ community care network.
Please complete the form, and be as thorough as possible. This is an opportunity for us to understand who you are, your work, and the scope of your offerings.
Thank you for having the spiritual & political commitment to use your gifts in transformative ways. We appreciate you!