welcome into teomaustli, the sacred
we are sacred. we are the sacredness of our ancestors. we are the seeds of resistance, resilience, and hope that they planted for these times. yet our black, indigenous, API, people of color histories + realities of being enslaved, damned, murdered, and taken by the claws of colonization, white supremacy, and capitalism sometimes makes our sacredness inaccessible. teomaustli is a multi-year ceremony with 3 rites of passages rooted in recovering + recommitting to our rightful path as sacred. a recovery that is only possible by (re)membering our sacredness, the sacredness of all beings, and being in right relation with our first mother, earth.
teomauistli year 1: xinachtli/seed
year 1 xinachtli/seed is a 9 month prayer where we meet the seed of the sacredness planted within us. we welcome you to a prayer of remembrance, where in (re)membering ourselves, we (re)member each other and the sacredness of all beings. during this journey we humbly meet spirit, our ancestors, and the medicine in the wounds of having our existence be resistance. we journey in comradeship with plant ancestors and the people of the lands we live on to the medicine within. we practice ways to live in integrity with the medicine that lives around us, before looking outward to other's cultures or others for the medicine we need. we sit in meditation, make offerings, and co-create ceremonies for the healing we deserve. through this journey we prepare, nourish + redefine our soils, so that our seeds dare to live, dare to break through their seed coat + sprout into their sacred form.
release yourself into all that you are. continue reading to begin teomauistli year 1: xinachtli/seed.
release yourself into all that you are. continue reading to begin teomauistli year 1: xinachtli/seed.
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our 9 month journey
*we are a spirit-led experience, the outline below is subjected to change based on the needs of our collective + spirit
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april - creating our container
Opening ceremony, Bruja feminista medicine, Intro decolonizing the spirit, Intro to herbopolitical concepts, Blessing herbs, nourishing herbs, musculoskeletal system Medicine making: herbal infusions, balms may - healing our roots 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: sacred smoke part 1: herbal smoke blends october - healing for presence Third eye chakra + nervous system, Ancestor visions for communal justice, Uprooting colonizers, harvesting roots Medicine making: sacred smoke part 2: medicine bundles november – healing for liberation Crown chakra, Radical oneness, Ancestralization ceremony, Trees + plant consciousness Medicine making: anointing oils, sacred tools december - closing our container Closing ceremony, Gratitude circle, Ancestor + medicine share |
our seasonal journey
for the first time ever we are launching seasonal journeys to the sacred of xinachtli. you will have access to and join our community for 3 months//a season of meeting your sacred and plants corresponding with a specific part of the healing you are hoping to plant in 2021. this is a sweet option if you are not ready to make the full time, have the energetic capacity, or can make the financial commitment right now.
seasonal journey participants will have access to all of the gatherings, content, and medicine associated with the season you are in the journey as well as have access to our group thread where we share resources and offer each other support over the 9 month journey.
spring journey [april, may, june]
-3 months include: opening our container [nourishment, altar practice, blessing herbs], healing our roots [immunity, root chakra, healing our intimacy [genitourinary health, sacral chakra]
summer journey [july, august, september]
-3 months include: healing our power [digestive health, solar plexus], healing our hearts [cardiovascular health, heart chakra], healing our truths [respiratory health, throat chakra]
seasonal journey participants will have access to all of the gatherings, content, and medicine associated with the season you are in the journey as well as have access to our group thread where we share resources and offer each other support over the 9 month journey.
spring journey [april, may, june]
-3 months include: opening our container [nourishment, altar practice, blessing herbs], healing our roots [immunity, root chakra, healing our intimacy [genitourinary health, sacral chakra]
summer journey [july, august, september]
-3 months include: healing our power [digestive health, solar plexus], healing our hearts [cardiovascular health, heart chakra], healing our truths [respiratory health, throat chakra]
schedulewe will gather via Zoom meeting 2x a month for 2-3.5hr sessions during April-December 2021
2021 gathering days: Monday and Wednesday on the second + fourth week of the month [gathering time will be determined by participants] note that days and times are subjected to change should we need it, our dates will be confirmed March 2021 |
journey details
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a month in
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application process
the first step to journeying in teomauistli year 1: xinachtli/seed is completing the online application. once invited to journey with the teomauistli year 1: xinachtli/seed crew you are encouraged to offer a $100 deposit to hold your space. at this point we come to a mutually agreed energetic exchange. continue reading to learn more about our contribution options and scholarship opportunities.
we are taking applications until FEBRUARY 15, 2021 or until all spaces are filled.
please read all available information + in the frequently asked questions below before reaching out to love@lamalayerba.com with your questions before applying.
we are taking applications until FEBRUARY 15, 2021 or until all spaces are filled.
please read all available information + in the frequently asked questions below before reaching out to love@lamalayerba.com with your questions before applying.
our energetic exchange
honoring each other's labor + wisdom
we live + survive with the support of our community, that's YOU. we labor for you from our ancestors' wisdom to our physical labor in preparing materials to spiritual labor in holding your specific journey. 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 xóchicoatl + the VITAL work of our community partners, who are healers, cooks, caretakers, urban farmers, prison abolitionists, and liberators. we invite you into a process of decolonizing your fears around money, and consider how to make this exchange the most mutual.
we operate on a SLIDING SCALE based rooted in an honor system: 9 month journey $1000-1500, seasonal journey $333-555. this is an opportunity for us to reflect on the privileges, resources, and abundance we are able to share for this invaluable experience of healing in community. this is an opportunity to care for each other where we are at. for support on where you land on the scale visit DEFINING SLIDING SCALE. this is an honor system, we do not ask for any proof of your situation, we trust in your palabra to honor our work the best way you can at this moment.
CONTRIBUTION OPTIONS
PAYMENT PLANS
we offer a variety of payment plans/contribution options from one time to payments that can begin months before the beginning of our journey. please see the corresponding section in our application to learn more. if you have the financial means to support others on this journey, offering to give more
*BARTER + SCHOLARSHIPS are available for participants committed to the 9 month journey.
BARTER
we are offering work trade positions this year: graphic designer (ideal: capacity to co-create sketches from pencil to computer to t-shirts). please view the corresponding section in our application to learn more if your skills meet the needs we have this year.
note that work trade creates more [uncompensated] labor for us to organize + maintain work-trade/bartering positions, we are accepting this trade with folx who have the time + energetic capacity to show up for this work and be mostly self-directed.
SCHOLARSHIPS
we are offering a handful of partial and a couple full scholarships based on contributions received via reparations to LA MALA YERBA and our own means can allow. please indicate on your application. scholarships will be awarded march 2021 after all applications and scholarship requests have been reviewed.
priority will be given to our immigrant, our trans family, and youth (ages 20 + younger)
FUNDRAISING
you may fundraise or ask for reparations whether or not you are the one in need of assistance. supporting yourself and those needing support are deep ways we can love each other.
PAYMENT PLANS
we offer a variety of payment plans/contribution options from one time to payments that can begin months before the beginning of our journey. please see the corresponding section in our application to learn more. if you have the financial means to support others on this journey, offering to give more
*BARTER + SCHOLARSHIPS are available for participants committed to the 9 month journey.
BARTER
we are offering work trade positions this year: graphic designer (ideal: capacity to co-create sketches from pencil to computer to t-shirts). please view the corresponding section in our application to learn more if your skills meet the needs we have this year.
note that work trade creates more [uncompensated] labor for us to organize + maintain work-trade/bartering positions, we are accepting this trade with folx who have the time + energetic capacity to show up for this work and be mostly self-directed.
SCHOLARSHIPS
we are offering a handful of partial and a couple full scholarships based on contributions received via reparations to LA MALA YERBA and our own means can allow. please indicate on your application. scholarships will be awarded march 2021 after all applications and scholarship requests have been reviewed.
priority will be given to our immigrant, our trans family, and youth (ages 20 + younger)
FUNDRAISING
you may fundraise or ask for reparations whether or not you are the one in need of assistance. supporting yourself and those needing support are deep ways we can love each other.
- to fundraise your spot in the program you may use this letter, and any promotional material shared by LA MALA YERBA. tag @LAMALAYERBALOVE and we will uplift your campaign
- to financially support others on the journey:
- create your own fundraising campaign/community ask for this community!
- uplift the fundraising campaigns of other seed-lings
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XINACHTLI is the little spark of mycorrizhal juicyness that inspires the latent remedios of DNA into waking tf up and weaves us together, remembering, through the vehicle of sacred Mexica ceremony and centering black and brown trans femme diasporic education and deep homage.
Xinachtli is lineage magic, channeled from the hearts and hopes of thousands of abuelitas and two spirit ancestor and plantcestor benevolence, practiced and held every day with so much love and fierce strength. So beyond grateful to have found this cohort, these connections, this affirmation and validation of my roots, our roots!! Boundless gratitude for the existence of Xochicoatl and the magnitude of container that she has created. So needed. So nourishing. So much pulling open and taking new shapes beyond the narrative of colonization. Xinachtli changed my entire trajectory by connecting me to my own ancestors and medicines, and then connecting me to my community, our community. |
XINACHTLI is the little spark of mycorrizhal juicyness that inspires the latent remedios of DNA into waking tf up and weaves us together, remembering, through the vehicle of sacred Mexica ceremony and centering black and brown trans femme diasporic education and deep homage.
Xinachtli is lineage magic, channeled from the hearts and hopes of thousands of abuelitas and two spirit ancestor and plantcestor benevolence, practiced and held every day with so much love and fierce strength.
So beyond grateful to have found this cohort, these connections, this affirmation and validation of my roots, our roots!! Boundless gratitude for the existence of Xochicoatl and the magnitude of container that she has created. So needed. So nourishing. So much pulling open and taking new shapes beyond the narrative of colonization. Xinachtli changed my entire trajectory by connecting me to my own ancestors and medicines, and then connecting me to my community, our community.
Valentina Kai
xinachtli 2020
Xinachtli is lineage magic, channeled from the hearts and hopes of thousands of abuelitas and two spirit ancestor and plantcestor benevolence, practiced and held every day with so much love and fierce strength.
So beyond grateful to have found this cohort, these connections, this affirmation and validation of my roots, our roots!! Boundless gratitude for the existence of Xochicoatl and the magnitude of container that she has created. So needed. So nourishing. So much pulling open and taking new shapes beyond the narrative of colonization. Xinachtli changed my entire trajectory by connecting me to my own ancestors and medicines, and then connecting me to my community, our community.
Valentina Kai
xinachtli 2020
Xochicoatl consistently creates some of the safest spaces I have ever known.
During my 9 months in the xinachtli program, I felt supported in reconnecting with long-neglected parts of myself, my family, and my lineage. The relationships I was supported in building with plant medicines helped me heal and grow in ways I didn't know I had needed. xinachtli is a space to reflect and explore wonder, rage, grief, joy, and the loving embrace of community. It is a space for sharing with authenticity and being witnessed with compassion. I can honestly say this experience changed my life, and I am so grateful.
Afra Khan
xinachtli 2020
During my 9 months in the xinachtli program, I felt supported in reconnecting with long-neglected parts of myself, my family, and my lineage. The relationships I was supported in building with plant medicines helped me heal and grow in ways I didn't know I had needed. xinachtli is a space to reflect and explore wonder, rage, grief, joy, and the loving embrace of community. It is a space for sharing with authenticity and being witnessed with compassion. I can honestly say this experience changed my life, and I am so grateful.
Afra Khan
xinachtli 2020
