Resources

Light the imagination and let your body be your guide

Tending Soul & Soma

The healing journey is a communal effort, meaning we find restoration when we commune with life. It may be necessary to explore and invest in various practitioners and communities for support. This includes advocacy from your primary physician, as well as, considering nutrition, fitness, restorative practices, rejuvenating and enjoyable activities. Here are some suggestions to explore:

Restorative Centers & Organizations

• Ancestral Medicine - Global Community Restoring Ancestor and Earth Reverence

• Work that Reconnects - Joanna Macy’s global transformative action committee to address climate crisis

• Somatic Abolitionism - Resmaa Menakem’s training to upend white-body supremacy

• Animas Valley Institute Nature-based Soul immersions

• Mosaic Voices - Multicultural Myth Healing Foundation

• Institute of Chicanx Psychology and Community Wellness - Liberation, Decolonizing & Re-Indigenizing Circles, Platicas, Trainings for Chicanx Comunidad

Meditation and Body/Somatic Support

• InsightLA -Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Program

• MARC - UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center

• Spirit Rock - Insight Meditation Center

• Kripalu - Center for Yoga & Health

• Rubin Museum - Himalayan Art-centered Meditations & Talks

• 5 Rhythms -Movement Expressive Dance Practice

• The Embody Lab - Education platform for Somatics, Meditations & Psychedelics

• Feldenkrais Method - Bodywork

• Rolf Institute - Bodywork

• Hellerwork - Bodywork

• Craniosacral

• Reiki

Depth Oriented Lectures

• C.G. Jung Institute -Public Programs & Lectures

• University of Philosophical Research -Events & Lectures

• Pacifica Graduate School -Retreats

• The Jung Platform - Courses & Lectures

 Beloved Community Practitioners & Services

• Marga Laube - Vedic Astrologer

• Chani Nicholas - Western Astrology + Chani App / Weekly Podcast

• Raina Manuel Paris - Tarot Readings Myth & Archetype

• Marcia Lopez - Womb Healing Massage - based in LA

• Sara Mangano - Cranial Sacral - based in LA

• Britta Bushnell - Transformational Birthing Class

• Rethinking Reproductive Health - Doula, Midwifery & Sex Education

• Whole Mother Therapy - BIPOC centered Pregnancy, Postpartum, & Conscious Parenting mental health

• Latinx Parenting - Decolonial Parenting Education

• Institute of Chicanx Psychology and Community Wellness - Liberatory praxis trainings, courses and platica circles.

Wisdom Library

While psychological knowledge is helpful but not necessary for treatment, here are some resources that may be of value supplementally in building understanding and furthering development. Here are some recommendations:

Podcasts

• Living Myth with Michael Meade on mythology for modern times

• California Institute of Integral Studies - Public programs personal and social healing

• For the Wild with Ayana Young conversations on ecology & rewilding

• Under the Hood with Aleks Evanguelidi and Patti Quintero on womanhood

• On Being with Krista Tippett on what it means to be human

• Emergence Magazine explorations on ecology, culture and spirituality

• The Emerald Animist explorations through myth and imaginations with Joshua Michael Schrei