Sacred Roots has offered a home to explore my spiritual journey of deconstructing and constructing theology. The retreat came at the right time for me to continue learning and practicing tools in the context of a safe and loving community. I am especially grateful to Martha Martinez who has been a wonderful healer in my life and to Yu-shuan for her loving leadership and organizing.
—Marilyn Travis, educator, East Palo Alto, ‘19
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Sacred Roots has offered a home to explore my spiritual journey of deconstructing and constructing theology. The retreat came at the right time for me to continue learning and practicing tools in the context of a safe and loving community. I am especially grateful to Martha Martinez who has been a wonderful healer in my life and to Yu-shuan for her loving leadership and organizing.
—Marilyn Travis, educator, East Palo Alto, ‘19
Sacred Roots has not only been a physical home for me but also a spiritual one. Sacred Roots helped me better understand and see what my values could look like in praxis. Sacred Roots showed me what community care looks like, and I am forever grateful.
—Exie Adams, Marriage & Family Therapist, Philadelphia, ‘14
Sacred Roots offers opportunities for people seeking truth to do it in an emotionally, intellectually, and physically safe space. The invitation to do the deep work of unlearning and relearning in a community with a frame of equity is very powerful and encouraging. Absolutely have nothing but praise to share about the positive impact this work has had on me and the community!
—H. Jamison, Technology Manager, Oakland, CA, ‘13 and ‘14
Participating in the summer program marked a formative and liberating experience for me in my spiritual and personal journey that continues to ground me to this day. It was a space where I was reminded to continually re-connect with and honor my own voice and story as an act of resistance. It was a safe space that encouraged me to openly grieve the systemic oppressions that surround BIPOC communities and where I experienced a renewal of hope by witnessing the power of communal healing.
—Jessica Lopez, Interpreter Program Manager, Partnerships for Trauma Recovery, Berkeley. '12 & '14
I often think back to the summer I spent at Sacred Roots in 2016. I got my start in immigration advocacy that summer, but more importantly I got to experience a place where justice was realized through collective reflection, repentance, and joy. I am forever grateful to Yu-Shuan and my cohort for teaching me how to hope.
—Justin Talbott, immigrant rights advocate, San Francisco, '16
Sacred Roots shifted so many paradigms of faith, justice, and community for me. I continue to reflect on my time here as I pursue liberation and advocate for BIPOC communities. This program will continue to be one of the most impactful experiences of my adult life. In times of deep deconstruction in my life, Sacred Roots gave me ample space to develop new and sustaining spiritual practices, and find new theologies that were healing to my experience as a Black Queer man. I’m forever grateful for the sacred and generous leadership of Yu-Shaun.
—Rashad M, grad student and campus minister, Seattle, ‘16
The Sacred Roots POC healing retreat was such a powerful experience of being led by wise POC women and reclaiming spiritual practices that are ancestral and embodied. Sacred Roots offers brave and loving space to encounter Spirit that is more mysterious and more beautiful than all the supremacies that try to shackle it.
—Albert (Iok-Piak) Hong, pastor, Oakland, ‘19
The Sacred Roots summer program was a catalyst for me to engage more deeply with my own stories at the margin, equipping me with healing practices and sustainable advocacy led by the Spirit. Under the leadership of Yu-Shuan I was able to come as I was, broken and in pain, and yet realize again that me and my community's stories were still part of God's plan for the redeemed. Since then, I have pursued a career where I can utilize my gifts in pursuit of justice for communities.
—Sam Garcia, Urban Planner, Oregon, ‘11
There have been a few moments in seminary and in life where I sense that prior life experiences have come together in a transformative way that brought those life experiences together and set me on my way forever changed. This course is one of those profound markers in my formation.
Free wellness sessions for the immigrant communities. Sessions include Massage Therapy, Herbal Consultation, and Energetic Healing. Interpretations available in Mam and Spanish
A 2-Part Series on African, Indigenous, and Asian community healing, featuring ancestral foods, altar-making, ceremonial dance, drumming, herbal medicine-making and more!
Free wellness sessions for the immigrant communities. Sessions include Massage Therapy, Herbal Consultation, and Energetic Healing. Interpretations available in Mam and Spanish
A bilingual workshop exploring two Theater of the Oppressed techniques to deepen understanding of how we move in the world and process the internal messages and tensions that we carry
A winter restorative retreat to nourish your tender heart. We will gather to honor our individual and collective need for rest, reflection, and community building. This space is open to all BIPOC Queer, Trans, Gender Expansive, Two Spirit people who are interested in earth-based and embodied practices of freedom.
Join Sacred Roots healer, Lidia Ruelo-Salazar, for a free nature hike to learn about the herbs and flowers that have supported us since the beginning of time. Lidia is a queer herbalist, healing practitioner/curandera, and community organizer. Through sacred rituals and herbal remedies rooted in her indigenous Mexican heritage, she holds and facilitates a trauma-informed healing space with sacred rituals and herbal remedies for individuals and groups.
A monthly Asian American Qigong class with Sally Chang, a Taiwanese queer martial artist, educator, acupuncturist, and founder of Evergreen Taiji Academy
Want to engage in social change by leveraging energy to impact change at a vibrational level? Join us in learning about this powerful ancient hands-on healing modality that heals holistically—body/mind/soul—through the transmission of 'universal life force energy' This Reiki I Class will be taught by Sacred Roots healer, Angela Omulepu
join us as we re-learn how to move grief out of the body, using the body's own wisdom in movements and sound. Grieving together with the support of one another is an effective, sacred practice that is indigenous to many cultures.
Explore how Jesus enaged in building people power, using a framework rooted in the Philippines movement for human rights and democracy - Agitate, Organize, and Mobiilize (AOM)
Sacred Roots is offering free energetic healing medicine to local BIPOC social justice practitioners in order to strengthen and support our movement leaders.
Join educators around the country in person to engage in a professional development experience that goes to the heart of what you need right now: rest, joy, wellness, and radical-self-care in community.
Join us weekly for a high energy and grounded movement live-video class to build resilience, community, and liberation through Haitian and West African dance and its history.
In response to the pandemic, Sacred Roots Healers of Color Collective is offering a 5-week live-video series to Communities of Color, sharing traditional wisdom and practices to support us through this time of crisis.
Sacred Roots is partnering with Mujeres Unidas Y Activas to offer free weekly Spanish computer literacy classes for all employees of Mujeres Unidas for the month of October..
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