
Community Care Circle (Virtual)
​A healing space for our tender & tired hearts to be held, nourished and resourced in these times. Community Care Circles are co-held by spiritual elders, healers & culture workers based in Turtle Island and the Caribbean who offer space for our stories, grounding, care, teachings, and tools for loving up on our nervous systems, hearts, spirits, minds and bodies.
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October 27
Grounding, Grief & Gratitude Ritual
with Rev. Rhetta Morgan
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November 24
Honoring our Emotions: Regulating our Energies
with Rev. Dr. Nam-Thu Itzpapalotl
December 15
Braids of Time: Embodying our Dreams
with Abuela Felisa Yolocuicapahtli Yzaguirre
January 26
Cuidando nuestro duelo / Tending to our Grief*
with Lourdes Hernández-Rivera
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*Spanish to English interpretation available
Virtual
Mondays
​10/27, 11/24, 12/15, 1/26
5:30p pst | 7:30p cst | 8:30p est
​FREE
English & Spanish interpretation available
Interpretación en Ingles y español disponible


October 27: Grounding, Grief & Gratitude Ritual
Hosted by xochicoatl bello
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There is space in this virtual circle for your heart in all the ways you show up. It is together, that we can be compassionately met by each other and learn how we navigate these times.
We become a meditative and love filled sanctuary with song, poetry and the sharing of our stories. My hope is that we will be inspired and encouraged to look toward community and the spiritual wisdom that lives in our bones, gifted to us by our ancestors, to weather the ongoing storm.
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Register @ tinyurl.com/HTcare

November 24: Honoring our Emotions, Regulating our Energies
with Rev. Dr. Nam-Thư Itzpapalotl
Hosted by xochicoatl bello
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We deserve to thrive. It can be challenging to imagine and live this possibility when we’re constantly in a state of emotional, physical trauma, stress and crisis. Acupressure and Movement are rooted in many lineages. They’re an invitation to honor our emotions, regulate our energies and move what no longer serves us. In these times, it’s
imperative that we remember and relearn ways to care for ourselves and each other.
Join us for an interactive circle where we will tap into the wisdom of our bodies and learn simple and empowering acupressure, self-massage and Qi Gong to restore balance.
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Register @ tinyurl.com/HTcare



December 15: Braids of Time: Embodying our Dreams
with Abuela Felisa Yolocuicapahtli Yzaguirre
Hosted by xochicoatl bello​​​​
Rest, joy, play, and pleasure are our resistance. We live in a world full of distractions and tragedy. Our attention and imagination are our greatest resources. Together, we will weave the silver, golden, and rainbow threads of time to anchor us to our dream lives. Through a moment of stillness, imagining, and meditation, we will create future memories to anchor us as we embody the dream now. We affirm and trust that good things are on their way to us already.
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Register @ tinyurl.com/HTcare

January 26: Cuidando nuestro duelo / Tending to our Grief
con / with Lourdes Hernández-Rivera
Presentado por / Hosted by xochicoatl bello​​​​
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"El dolor es el precio que pagamos por amar." Esta frase del Dr. Collin Murray nos recuerda que cada pérdida tiene su significado y su precio en función de la intensidad de la relación y del vacío dejado. El objetivo de este Círculo de Sanación enfocado en el duelo, es hacer espacio para compartir nuestros pensamientos y estados de ánimo con la conciencia de que cada cual vive la separación de una manera diferente y muy personal. Este será un lugar sagrado en el que cada historia será acogida con respeto y solemnidad para que al finalizar, nos sintamos más ligeros de nuestro pesar.
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"Pain is the price we pay for loving." This quote by Dr. Collin Murray reminds us that every loss has its meaning and price, depending on the intensity of the relationship and the void left behind. The goal of this Healing Circle, focused on grief, is to make space to share our thoughts and moods with the awareness that each person experiences separation in a different and very personal way. This will be a sacred place where each story will be received with respect and solemnity so that, by the end, we feel lighter from our grief.
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Spanish to English Translation Available
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Inscripción / Registration @ tinyurl.com/HTcare

Meet your spaceholders

Rev. Rhetta Morgan
Reverend Rhetta Morgan is a singing healer, spiritual activist, and interfaith minister who has been gathering tools for healing and inspiration for over 40 years. Through her gifts of song, poetry, prayer and facilitation she cultivates hope and nurtures connection throughout activist and spiritual communities internationally, as a pathway back to belonging and wholeness. As a facilitator and coach, Rhetta is known for her ability to support others to be bold, heal their self-limiting beliefs, and integrate their internal healing with their social movement work. This support is essential to cultivate the powerful spiritual activism that is needed in these times.
Rev Rhetta’s current focus is holding space for grief. She co creates grief circles with Salt Trails Collective, Philadelphia PA, and for a wide range of organizations, nonprofits and spiritual communities.

Felisa Yolocuicapahtli Yzaguirre
Felisa Yolocuicapahtli Yzaguirre (she/her/ella) is a heart-led Xicana mother, community partera & leader, bodyworker, reproductive justice educator, and medicine woman based in Tonkawa territory (among other tribes) in Austin, TX. Felisa is a native Texan, born near the Guadalupe Mountains within the border politics of El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juárez, MX, with maternal roots in Guanajuato, MX. She carries ancestral memory of the Rio Grande River from the desert to the Gulf coast. Walking the path of traditional midwifery, she honors the womb and its sacred waters, recognizing it as the first home of all humans.
Felisa is a multidimensional weaver of traditional practices and Mexican Traditional Medicine, with evidence-based and Western modalities. She honors trauma-informed practices that treat and restore wholeness to a human's mind, body, spirit, and relationship to the land. Her approach encourages embodiment and re-membering through caring touch, compassion, witnessing, and education. She provides a path for individuals to deepen their relationships with themselves by inviting higher self-awareness as they become their own healers.

Rev. Dr. Nam-Thư Itzpapalotl
Trần Nam Thư (last-middle-first name) is a Vietnamese queer medicine woman,
descendant of refugees from the AmeriKKKan war in Vietnam. She was born and raised
on land indigenous to the Karankawa, Akokisa, Atakapa-Ishak, Caddo tribes & Black
Ancestors who built what is now known as Houston and Sugar Land, Texas.
Nam-Thư began connecting to the art of intuitive touch at 4 years old, tending to elders
who were in physical pain, where she learned it often stems from emotional and spiritual
pain. She is devoted to empowering herself and others to remember our ancestral
medicine and feel more free in our bodies. She is a sanctified healer and Reverend of
the Sacred Medical Order Church of Hope- Transcendence Ministry, herbalist,
aromatherapist, ceremonialist and licensed massage therapist. She holds a Masters
and Doctorate in Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. On the Red Road, she has been
gifted the name, Abuela Itzpapalotl (Obsidian Butterfly). Her practice is rooted in
Liberation Medicine.

Lourdes E. Hernández-Rivera
Lourdes E. Hernández Rivera nació y vive actualmente en el archipiélago de Puerto Rico. Por poco más de 10 años se ha dedicado a promover la acupuntura en oreja como herramiento eficaz para navegar el trauma en poblaciones vulnerables. Su práctica en comunidades ha incluido desde la coordinación de eventos de justicia de sanación hasta la dirección de Centros de Apoyo Mutuo, una modalidad de autogestión comunitaria que rescata lugares abandonados para convertirlos en lugares de acogida para las personas necesitadas de servicios básicos, sobretodo en tiempos de desastre. Actualmente lidera el proyecto Caminando la Utopía, que ofrece Espacios de Relajación y Bienestar en Centros de Rehabilitación, Refugios temporeros y comunidades abandonadas por el Estado.



