our intention
Our black, indigenous, API, people of color have been enslaved, damned, murdered, and taken by the claws of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism. We spend more time disconnected than we do in right relation with each other, all beings, and ourselves. Our people have equitably resisted and are calling you to release the veil. Release the veil of our unworthiness, of our lack of sacredness, of our too black, too brown, too different.
We welcome you to your first rites of passage: self-healer.
We believe in your abundance, your healing, your freedom. We welcome you to journeys of (re)membering yourself, ourselves, and all beings' sacredness. In year 1 we gather with humility to connect to our holistic self and meet our ancestors. We come to the huts, temples, and bodies of our ancestors in the companionship of plant, mineral, and energetic allies. We sit in meditation, offer ritual, and create ceremonies as easily as we breathe to listen to the wisdom within. We will be guided by the medicine of the energetic fields known as the chakras, our bodies, and a circle of community partners that will deepen our skills as urban medicine people.
Release yourself into all that you are. Continue reading to begin your first rites of passage: self-healer.
Rites of Passage Year 1: Self-Healer is also available to IN-PERSON.
We welcome you to your first rites of passage: self-healer.
We believe in your abundance, your healing, your freedom. We welcome you to journeys of (re)membering yourself, ourselves, and all beings' sacredness. In year 1 we gather with humility to connect to our holistic self and meet our ancestors. We come to the huts, temples, and bodies of our ancestors in the companionship of plant, mineral, and energetic allies. We sit in meditation, offer ritual, and create ceremonies as easily as we breathe to listen to the wisdom within. We will be guided by the medicine of the energetic fields known as the chakras, our bodies, and a circle of community partners that will deepen our skills as urban medicine people.
Release yourself into all that you are. Continue reading to begin your first rites of passage: self-healer.
Rites of Passage Year 1: Self-Healer is also available to IN-PERSON.
Listen.
Indigenize.
Heal.
our focus
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April - Creating the container
Opening ceremony, Bruja feminista medicine, Intro to the subtle body + the decolonized spirit, Intro to herbopolitical concepts, Blessing herbs, nourishing herbs, musculoskeletal system Medicine making: herbal infusions, balms May - Healing for roots + immunity Root chakra + immune system, Ancestor communities + dwellings, Intro to your embodied altar, Indigenous technologies, land sovereignty + urban gardening Medicine making: tinctures + tisane (herbal tea) June - Healing for intimacy Sacral chakra + genitourinary system, Ancestor birth rites + creation myths, Decolonizing the womb, Conscious urban foraging + consent Medicine making: honeys, cordials, elixirs July - Healing our power Solar plexus chakra + digestive system, Indigenizing our diet, Herbalism on EBT. Wild foods + edible weeds Medicine making: bitters |
August - Healing our hearts
Heart chakra + circulatory system, Practices for protection + shielding, Seed keeping technologies Medicine making: oils, flower essences September - Healing our truths Throat chakra + respiratory system, Ancestral truths, songs + sound healing, Spiritual activism Medicine making: facial steams October - Healing for presence Third eye chakra + nervous system, Ancestor visions for communal justice, Uprooting colonizers, harvesting roots Medicine making: sacred smoke: medicine bundles November – Healing for liberation Crown chakra, Radical oneness, Ancestralization ceremony, Trees + plant consciousness Medicine making: anointing oils, sacred tools December - Closing the container Rites of passage ceremony, Gratitude circle, Ancestor + medicine share |
scheduleWe will gather every second + third week of the month on 2 days during the week, session 1 for 3.5hrs, session 2 for 1.5hrs during April-December 2019. Our apprentices will collectively determine the gathering times by March 1, 2019.
Distance gathering: Week of: April 14-20, May 19-25, June 16-22,* July 21-27, August 18-24, September 22-28, Oct 20-26, Nov 17-23, and Dec 16-20 *in-person weekend optional, apprentices are invited to gathering with us in Roxbury, MA for a full gathering weekend |
apprenticeship details
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application
The first step to journeying with us for you to fill out our online application [currently opened]. Once invited to journey with Seed, Root, + Bloom we encourage a $100 deposit to hold your space. At this point we will come to a mutually agreed energetic exchange, CONTINUE READING TO CONNECT WITH PAYMENT OPTIONS, BARTER + SCHOLARSHIPS,
We are taking applications until March 1, 2019 or until all spaces are filled. Space is limited!
+Please read all available information and reach out to seedrootandbloom@gmail.com with your questions before applying. Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information
We are taking applications until March 1, 2019 or until all spaces are filled. Space is limited!
+Please read all available information and reach out to seedrootandbloom@gmail.com with your questions before applying. Check out our Frequently Asked Questions page for more information
our energetic exchange
honoring each other's labor + wisdom
We are a community supported and operating space. We labor for you from our ancestors' wisdom to our physical labor in preparing spaces, gardens, and materials. We humbly ask for an energetic exchange that honors our work. Your financial contributions support your own and other's journeys to ancestor who are coming from historically oppressed communities. Your financial contribution is a direct investment in the sustainability of bellx + supporting facilitation's work, and the VITAL work of our community partners, who are healers, cooks, caretakers, urban farmers, prison abolitionists, and liberators. We strive to make this healing community the most accessible to those needing to be with us and to learn from their ancestors. we also will name that our program offerings are already reduced compared to similar 9 month long herbal apprenticeships. We humbly ask you to begin a process of decolonizing your fears around money, and consider how to make this exchange the most mutual.
We believe that historically oppressed communities, such as our black, indigenous, femme + trans* communities NEED this sacred community, In service of that, we offer different ways that we can support each other!
ALL BARTER + SCHOLARSHIPS HAVE BEEN FILLED FOR 2019
WORK TRADE/BARTER-FILLED
We are offering 2 work trade positions with apprentices able to make contributions in the following areas: plant medicine/healing rituals/music from your tradition, reiki, art, web design, woodworking, other medicine related services you can offer. The trade will be up to 25% off of total apprenticeship costs. It is more [uncompensated] labor for us to organize + maintain bartering positions, we are accepting this trade with folx who have the time + energetic capacity to show up for this work.
SEED SCHOLARSHIP-FILLED
We are offering as many partial and full scholarships based on contributions received (see our gofundme or follow us on instagram to help us!). We are offering 1 full scholarship, 2 partial scholarships, please indicate on your application.
Priority will be given to our immigrant, our trans family, and youth (ages 20 + younger)
ALL BARTER + SCHOLARSHIPS HAVE BEEN FILLED FOR 2019
WORK TRADE/BARTER-FILLED
We are offering 2 work trade positions with apprentices able to make contributions in the following areas: plant medicine/healing rituals/music from your tradition, reiki, art, web design, woodworking, other medicine related services you can offer. The trade will be up to 25% off of total apprenticeship costs. It is more [uncompensated] labor for us to organize + maintain bartering positions, we are accepting this trade with folx who have the time + energetic capacity to show up for this work.
SEED SCHOLARSHIP-FILLED
We are offering as many partial and full scholarships based on contributions received (see our gofundme or follow us on instagram to help us!). We are offering 1 full scholarship, 2 partial scholarships, please indicate on your application.
Priority will be given to our immigrant, our trans family, and youth (ages 20 + younger)
APPLICATIONS CLOSED
spring 2019
DISTANCE LEARNING
BIPOC ancestor + herbal apprenticeship
meet your facilitators:
xochitlcoatl, seed, root + bloom alumnae + bipoc contributors
xochitlcoatl is born from the womb of Adriana, a mestizo cultura, and border experiences from Los Angeles, Califas to Boston, MA. moving wildly as we have always been, xochitlcoatl flows with the gifts of ancestor + spirit, baring witness and acting from the messages that they are needing to share. she communes with plant beings, four-legged, finned, and people beings to support the healing of the tapestry of our oneness.
xochitlcoatl offers support and companionship for individuals + families in life transitions, such as emotional or physical changes, first moon, menstrual cycle, birth, postpartum, abortion, loss, bereavement, miscarriage, and adoption. she weaves her mesoamerican cultura, the indigenous, african, + european knowings + healing ways in supporting others through herbal, massage, energy & rebozo support. she believes in your autonomy, medicine, and advocates for your reproductive + healing justice.
her practice is inspired by lineage, spirit + her many teachers, including her mamá, Rosalba Solis, Panquetzani, La Loba Loca, Sage Maurer, Lupo Passero, Luana Morales, Irischa Valentin,Chanel L. Porchia, Leah Penniman + growing.
photo by jenny rebecca mcgaughlin
xochitlcoatl offers support and companionship for individuals + families in life transitions, such as emotional or physical changes, first moon, menstrual cycle, birth, postpartum, abortion, loss, bereavement, miscarriage, and adoption. she weaves her mesoamerican cultura, the indigenous, african, + european knowings + healing ways in supporting others through herbal, massage, energy & rebozo support. she believes in your autonomy, medicine, and advocates for your reproductive + healing justice.
her practice is inspired by lineage, spirit + her many teachers, including her mamá, Rosalba Solis, Panquetzani, La Loba Loca, Sage Maurer, Lupo Passero, Luana Morales, Irischa Valentin,Chanel L. Porchia, Leah Penniman + growing.
photo by jenny rebecca mcgaughlin
