Our communities need healers, and our healers need community.

Juan Cortez

“When you think about acupuncture, massage therapy, Reiki, yoga, sound therapy, you think about a ‘spa day,’ you think about people that have money who are able to attain those services. Not poor people in the projects.”

Dandelion Praxis

  • Winter 2025 Cohort Graduation

  • Embodied Ancestral Listening with Ezekiel Goodwin

  • Every Life, A Universe with Seh-Reum

Healing for La Gente

The problem we’re here to solve: Racial capitalism systematically sabotages the intergenerational transmission of ancestral healing arts because healers are essential to collective liberation.

When healers go untrained, they often end up absorbing pain and getting sick, or getting stuck in martyr-centered nurturing drama triangle dynamics.

When healers take their rightful place in resistance movements, liberation happens. The Bois Caïman ceremony that Cécile Fatiman, Boukman Dutty, and other healers did the night before the Haitian Revolution empowered the freedom fighters with metaphysical support to overthrow their oppressors.

We follow the example of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and the Young Lords in identifying access to quality health care as fundamental to collective liberation.

  • If you feel too political for the healers and too spiritual for the activists...

  • If your sensitivity makes you a great card-reader but gives you panic attacks at protests...

  • If you're fed up with spiritually-bypassing wellness gurus who buy into fascism...

  • If you have healing gifts but don't know how to use them yet...

  • If your yoga, reiki, qigong, or breathwork teacher makes fatphobic comments...

  • If your certification program denies structural violence and focuses on victim-blaming people for lifestyle choices...

  • If you come from medicine people and hear the call to reclaim your ancestors' folkways...

  • If you feel lonely and drained from holding space in collective care contexts...

  • If you feel isolated and burnt out from doing frontline medic work...

  • If your apocalypse role is the curandere who gives límpias to comrades...

  • If you absorb others' pain and make yourself sick because you're not trained in empath shielding...

Healers are essential to collective liberation and fulfill a sacred social role in ancient cultures and indigenous traditions.

We empower our communities with culturally-competent, equity-focused healers trained in ancestral healing modalities because integrative care is for everyone. By removing structural barriers to training in and offering care, we respond to structural violence with a sustainable, preventative, by-us-for-us solution. The Dandelion Healers learn technologies of traditional medicine and support each other in practicing Healing Justice by offering low-barrier care to those impacted by systemic violence.

Dandelion Healers

  • LA Adkins, LCSW

    LA (she/her) is a creative, champion of solitude, and a writer. She is also a licensed therapist (LCSW) and is certified, studied, and trained as a mindfulness meditation guide and sound journey practitioner. She is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has lived in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and California. She also studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico. LA provides sound therapy, holistic wellness coaching, public speaking services, and she makes candles, all of which have a focus on holistic wellness. She has published a self-exploration gratitude journal, and she delivered a TEDx talk on the power of solitude in one's healing journey. LA allows her values to guide her mission and work, including how she holds space and shows up in the world. Her values include accountability, authenticity, autonomy, integrity, justice, and transparency. She firmly believes that one's relationships with others are both an extension and reflection of the relationship one has with oneself. Hence, the name of her wellness brand and practice, which is Reconnect With You. Her work with Reconnect With You and beyond focuses on inspiring and nurturing the inner journey, specifically equipping folx with the strategies, tools and wisdom to navigate their inner environment.

  • Ezekiel Goodwin [he/him]

    Ezekiel Goodwin is a queer elder who walks with his ancestors. Ezekiel’s background as an HIV Education and Training Professional has led him to study yoga and other healing modalities. He is called to serve QTBIPOC folks, disabled, and anyone who seeks assistance.

  • Jasmin Jones [she/her]

    “I have a degree in Africana studies, and I am currently building my practice in healing modalities like moving meditation, body scanning, and energy work. I value radical love as the healing work for ending white supremacy.“

  • Nikita Bhakta, A.H.P., CMT

    I am a certified Ayurvedic Health Practitioner with over five years of doctoral-level education, immersive experience, and continued learning in the field of Ayurveda.

    Living an Ayurvedic lifestyle is my joy, and I am dedicated to helping others embrace these timeless principles to cultivate health and harmony. Through Ayurvedic philosophies, practices, regimens, and rituals, I guide individuals toward living balanced, vibrant lives.

    Rooted in a lineage of East Indian women who have preserved and passed down Ayurvedic traditions, I honor the deep connection between mind, body, and nature. My practice focuses on preventative care, mindfulness, digestive health, and stress management. I am passionate about empowering my community to reconnect with themselves and the natural world, fostering inner and outer harmony.

    As both a certified Ayurvedic Health Practitioner and Massage Therapist, I provide clients with personalized tools, resources, and compassionate presence to awaken the healer within. My work is centered on helping individuals rediscover their innate ability to heal and thrive.

After three months, every Dandelion Healer will…

We can't + won't train you to be an expert herbalist or acupuncturist in 3 months; that isn't possible. We’re focused on getting people to a place where they can space-holders for two communities under intense, direct attack right now: trans people  and Indigenous-descended people targeted by ICE.  bell hooks + the Combahee River Collective taught us that when we work from margins to center, everyone gets free. 

Our communities are under attack, and the Panthers & Young Lords showed us what to do when that happens. We take care of us!

  • Have tools to create a website for community to find their offerings

  • Be comfortable offering trauma-informed, gender-affirming, culturally competent, access-centered cupping therapy for communities facing structural violence

  • Be comfortable applying earseeds + training others to apply earseeds using the acupressure protocol developed by the Panthers/Young Lords 

  • Have working facility with medical Spanish and experience working with interpreters

  • Be ready to build community partnerships with aligned orgs to offer this medicine to those who most need it

  • Have a support network of colleagues with shared values + priorities, with whom to bounce ideas off + build shared power

Dandelion Healers Cohort

We empower our communities with culturally-competent, equity-minded healers trained in ancestral healing modalities because integrative care is for everyone. By removing structural barriers to training in and offering care, we respond to structural violence with a sustainable, preventative, by-us-for-us solution. The Dandelion Healers learn traditional movement medicine and support each other in offering low-barrier care to those impacted by systemic violence.

 FAQs

    • You have the tools and support system at this point in your life to put in time and energy to answer the call to community healing by learning new information and modalities, facilitating sliding-scale healing for the public (with scaffolded support and feedback to help you grow), and practicing offering low-barrier care

    • You’re ready to be publicly visible and responsible to your community as a space-holder committed to Healing Justice

    • You want to support freedom movements, but your heightened sensitivity makes frontline “street heat“ work overwhelming to your nervous system

    • To join the Winter 2025 Cohort means a three month commitment.

    • Make time to watch 6 modules of lessons, about 1 hour each, and pass a check-for-understanding quiz for each module.

    • At least one 1:1 thirty-minute alignment meeting with Camellia before graduation.

  • - 5 equity slots at $97/month + trade 

    - 5 community slots at $147/month + trade

    - 5 resourced slots at $197/month

    - 5 sustaining slots at $247/month 

    We can set up installment plans of differing amount and frequency if your application is accepted.

    • Ongoing community support with sensitive healers committed to liberation

    • Project-based, culturally responsive training curriculum designed for relational learners committed to social justice

    • PDF handouts and resources in modalities 

    • Opportunities to practice facilitating healing workshops and treatments to community

    • Logistical and coaching support with building a practice and letting your people know what you do

    • Training in medical Spanish, trauma-informed, gender-affirming, culturally competent, access-centered care

You are not alone.

Our goal is for every healer in the Dandelion Healers Network and every member of each Cohort to feel supported by a network of peers with shared values and empowered to sustainably fulfill their movement role as a community healer.

Our shared purpose is to skill-up for Healing Justice, and we support each other on our own individual, lifelong journeys  as healers. We are like a flock of the migratory generation of monarch butterflies who defy colonial borders as they journey from "Canada" to Michoacán.  Their parents weren't born in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, but the migratory generation follows a deep, mysterious, inner calling  that guides them to the birthplace of their grandparents.