Sacred Seeds

resilience-based ceremonial organizing for healing

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resilience-based ceremonial organizing for healing 〰️

What is Sacred Seeds?

Sacred Seeds is a collective care network created to support the empowerment of our [most targeted] communities to take care of themselves in a sacred way–as inspired by our mentors & healers at Healing Clinic Collective in Oakland, CA.

We do this by bridging the gap between the people in the community who need care & the skilled, holistic practitioners, the wisdom keepers, the 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. we encourage our practitioners to offer sliding scale or other alternative payment options that can make healing more accessible, however as all of our situations are different, energy exchanges are solely up to each individual practitioner.

as I’ve learned from my wonderful mentor, Carla Perez, 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.

  • 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 connecting people to practitioners who treat others as a whole person.

    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.

  • Our Why

    While modern Western medicine is needed & valuable, often the Western 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 may sometimes be helpful in the short-term but is certainly more harmful in the long-term.

    While there are many wonderful, caring practitioners that don’t align with the systems they work under, the system can be limiting to their autonomy, power, skillsets, and the care they can provide to the community. These systems are designed to profit off of our ill-being & often leave the caretakers feeling under resourced as well.

    And while health insurance is necessary & valuable, this is also something that gets weaponized so that people can capitalize off our dis-ease. When it’s clear that they care more about profit over people.. we need our own system.

    our greatest form of health insurance is how we care for ourselves & each other.

  • This is for all of us, however each practitioner may set their own terms and boundaries.

    Though the network 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 those who are the most silenced are the most sacred, & they hold within them the magic & the medicine, the world so desperately needs right now. Our goal is to heal with & uplift them.

  • We are currently in the process of:

    1. Building up the Core Team.

    2. Cultivating the Healer’s Network (Apply to Be a Practitioner using the form below).

    3. 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:

  1. 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 and practitioners who offer natural, holistic, & ancestral healing.

  2. We also provide referrals upon request & by donation for those who need assistance in finding the right modality or practitioner.

  3. 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:

  1. 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.

  2. We will refer those seeking support to practitioners when their needs align with one another.

  3. Joining our collective will also allow practitioners to connect, learn, grow, explore, build & heal alongside each other.

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!