Offerings/Services

Since 2016, Sacred Roots has provided healing and learning experiences rooted in the cultural traditions of Black, Indigenous, Asian, and other communities of color. Our offerings are deeply embodied and grounded in the lived wisdom of those most impacted by systemic oppression. We provide individual and group sessions that support community members, grassroots leaders, educators, organizers, and institutions. These practices are designed to nurture personal healing, strengthen collective resilience, and build power for justice movements. We proudly honor the healing justice lineage shaped by the resistance, care, and sacred traditions of Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans communities—guided by visionaries who have long imagined liberation through collective care.

Healing Justice Workshops

Healing Justice Workshops facilitate embodied, experiential learning circles grounded in BIPOC cultural practices and anti-oppression frameworks. Through seminars, workshops, and retreats, participants relearn suppressed histories, reconnect with ancestral traditions, and recover tools to transform systems of harm into systems of care.
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Check out some of the workshops/retreats we have offered in the past here.

Healing Justice Sanctuary

Healing Justice Sanctuary offers one-on-one healing sessions led by practitioners trained in a wide range of ancestral modalities—including Traditional Asian Medicine, Curanderismo, Temazcal, Reiki, Pranic Healing, Qigong, Astrology, Past Life Discovery, Bodywork, Sound and Movement, Poetry Therapy, and Restorative Justice. These sessions resource community & movement leaders and those impacted by trauma with wellness tools to support personal and collective liberation.

Ancestral Healing School

Ancestral Healing School builds a learning community for the responsible, reciprocal practice of Indigenous Healing Arts. Through mentorship from lineage wisdom keepers and peer-to-peer circles, the school nurtures integrity, accountability, and intercultural respect among movement-based healers, ensuring these sacred practices are carried forward with care and depth.

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Our Past Offerings

Sanctuary Housing

Since 2016, Sacred Roots provided wraparound sanctuary housing for over 40 newly arrived migrant families and low-income BIPOC young adults (ages 18+). Each household was supported by a community-formed care team that served as culturally responsive case managers, offering holistic support tailored to their needs. This program created a healing-centered space for rest, stability, and transition. Due to the impacts of COVID-19 and the loss of our rental space, we concluded our sanctuary housing program in August 2020.

Our Past Offerings

Community Medicinal Garden

In response to the increasing commodification and exploitation of land, Sacred Roots partnered with fellow BIPOC-led grassroots organizations—including Planting Justice, Roots of Labor Birthing Collective, Abundant Beginnings, and Círculo de SanARTE—to create an intergenerational community medicinal garden. This collaborative effort aimed to decolonize our relationship with land and food, reclaiming ancestral practices of nourishment and healing. Together, we cultivated and distributed medicinal plants and traditional foods to our communities, while offering workshops and seminars to restore ancestral food knowledge and strengthen collective wellness.

Our Past Offerings

In Response to COVID

In response to COVID-19, we paused all non-essential on-site activities to offer safe shelter to traveling healthcare workers and vulnerable families in need. At the same time, we expanded our 2,000 sq. ft. community garden into a food and medicine solidarity land project to address rising food insecurity. In partnership with Mijente, we helped build a network of mutual support pods throughout Fruitvale, San Antonio, and East Oakland—redistributing homegrown medicine and food to those most impacted. We also held virtual healing spaces to foster connection, resilience, and collective care during a time of deep uncertainty.

Upcoming & Past Offerings

Healing Lines: Tools to Heal Conflict in Our Lineages Past, Present, and Future

February 12, 2025

Deepen our capacity to transform conflicts within ourselves with others, and the world at large using nonviolence and interplay tools. This lab will have a cohort-based model that will meet monthly from february to july to practice tools and skills rooted in nonviolence and interplay to move through conflict in our lives.

Healing Justice Series

April 27, 2024

A 2-Part Series on African, Indigenous, and Asian community healing, featuring ancestral foods, altar-making, ceremonial dance, drumming, herbal medicine-making and more!

Oakland Wellness Fair

April 14, 2024

Free wellness sessions for the immigrant communities. Sessions include Massage Therapy, Herbal Consultation, and Energetic Healing. Interpretations available in Mam and Spanish

Theater of the Oppressed Conflict Embodiment Lab

April 4, 2024

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

Reconnecting to Our Roots

March 11, 2024

A 5-day immersive anti-oppression course for Asian American youth

Sacred Root's Healing Sanctuary Danza Ceremonia

September 30, 2023

A Danza Ceremonia with Calulli Huey Papalotl

Asian American Qigong Class

July 22, 2023

A monthly Asian American Qigong class with Sally Chang, a Taiwanese queer martial artist, educator, acupuncturist, and founder of Evergreen Taiji Academy

Reiki Class with Angela Omulepu

May 21, 2023

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

Grief Circle - A Sacred Communal Wellness Practice

November 6, 2022

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.

Building People Power: Jesus, Spiritual Ancestor and Grassroots Organizer

September 22, 2022

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)