ABOUT

WE ARE IN A GLOBAL MOMENT OF ECOLOGICAL AND SYSTEMS COLLAPSE. WE CAN NO LONGER TURN AWAY FROM OURSELVES AND THE TRUTHS OF OUR COLLECTIVE HISTORIES OF GREED, OPPRESSION, DOMINATION, AND EXPLOITATION THAT KEEP US IN A LOOP OF COLLECTIVE SUFFERING IN WHICH THE GREATEST LOADS HAVE FALLEN ON OUR BLACK, INDIGENOUS, DARK-SKINNED, POOR, RURAL, FAT, DISABLED, LGBTQIA+ SIBLINGS AS WELL AS OUR FORESTS, OUR OCEANS, OUR RIVERS AND MOUNTAIN VALLEYS, OUR SACRED, NON-HUMAN KIN.

IT IS TIME FOR US TO SHOW UP, TO CULTIVATE PRESENCE, TO BE ACCOUNTABLE, AND TO CENTER OUR GREAT HUMAN CAPACITY TO CULTIVATE LOVING RELATIONSHIPS. IT IS TIME FOR US TO RECLAIM THE JUICY, RESTFUL, PLEASURABLE, TENDER BITS THAT THIS WORLD, OUR BODIES, AND OUR SYSTEMS HAVE TO OFFER. THERE IS A FRACTAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OUR INDIVIDUAL WELLBEING AND THE HEALTH OF THE COLLECTIVE. IN ORDER FOR US TO SUSTAIN THE WORK OF TRANSFORMING OUR CURRENT CONDITIONS INTO LIFE-AFFIRMING, ACCOUNTABLE, AND LIBERATORY COMMUNITIES, WE NEED TO ADDRESS THE HEALTH OF THE WHOLE BODY AND EACH OF ITS PARTS. 

EVERYTHING IS IN RELATIONSHIP, AND WE BEGIN TO CULTIVATE LOVING, LIBERATING WORLDS WHEN WE BEGIN TO BRING INTENTION, AWARENESS, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COMPASSION TO ALL OF THE RELATIONSHIPS WE EXIST IN. THOSE WITH OUR BODIES, OUR LOVED ONES, OUR COMMUNITIES, OUR SYSTEMS, OUR LAND, AND OUR NON-HUMAN KIN. THIS CALLS FOR A MULTI-LEVEL APPROACH IN WHICH WE ARE ALIGNING TOWARDS WELLNESS ON EVERY LEVEL OF RELATIONSHIP, FROM THE MICRO (OUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH OURSELVES), TO THE MACRO (THE HEALTH OF OUR SYSTEMS AND OUR PLANET). 

APPROACH

OUR BODIES HOLD THE ROADMAPS TO OUR HEALING, WELL-BEING, AND PLEASURE. MEDICINA DE AMOR OFFERS AN APPROACH THAT:

1. INVITES US TO DEVELOP AND SUSTAIN A RANGE OF CONTEMPLATIVE HEALING PRACTICES AIMED AT CULTIVATING PRESENT AWARENESS, COMPASSION, AND ACCEPTANCE FOR THINGS AS THEY ARE WITNESSED. 

2. SUPPORTS US INTO SUSTAINING OUR CAPACITIES TO SHOW UP AND BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR TENDING TO AND TRANSMUTING OUR CHALLENGES AND BLOCKAGES INTO LOVING ENERGY AND WISDOM THAT SUSTAIN ACTION TOWARDS MORE LIFE-AFFIRMING CULTURES.

3. REMINDS US TO REST AND FIND TENDER ENJOYMENT IN OUR ALREADY INHERENTLY LOVING, WISE, AND PERFECT COMPLEX BODIES, HOLDING THAT OUR TRANSFORMATION IS NOT INTO SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES BUT RATHER A DEEPER MOVEMENT INTO THE MOST PERFECT AND EXPANSIVE PARTS OF OUR BEING— WE ALREADY HAVE EVERYTHING WE NEED. 

OUR BODIES ARE SACRED SITES AND OUR SACRED SITES ARE REFLECTIONS OF OUR BODIES. AS MORE OF US DO THE WORK TO RETURN HOME TO THE POWER OF FEELING, OF OFFERING FULL PRESENCE TO OUR EARTH-BODIES, WE WILL ALIGN WITH THE PROFOUND, HEALING, CREATIVE CAPACITIES WITHIN US ALL(INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, SYSTEMS, AND LAND).