Preceding Practioners
Alejandra F
Alejandra Margarita Foerg, grew up on the border of Nogales, Arizona. Her hopes are to help in decolonizing birth and the postpartum period by offering traditional care, honoring the birthing person's wishes, and an open heart. She is so grateful to honor her Mexican ancestors by practicing and continuing to learn the healing art of Curanderismo and integrating other modalities with the passion to help heal intergenerational trauma and to help guide others back to themselves. She offers birth and postpartum doula services, limpias, platicas (heart-to-heart talking and listening), and a sense of humor. Laughter is her favorite medicine.
ID: Photo of a Latina smiling. Her dark brown hair is pulled back behind her shoulders. She is wearing red lipstick and earrings. Behind her is a blurred background of red, yellow, and black.
Annie
Annie Masaoka is a licensed practitioner of Chinese Medicine which includes acupuncture, herbal prescriptions, cupping, gua-sha, and tui-na. After completing Chinese Medicine School and a two year Chinese herbal program, Annie has completed a clinical internship and continues to study with Andrew Nugent-Head who studied lineage style under thre doctors of Chinese medicine over 27 years in China.
ID: Photo of a non-binary biracial Asian person with short, black and white hair. Annie is smiling and wears earrings, a black blazer, and a floral top. Behind them is a white wall.
AZiza
Dr. Aziza K.S. Knight intelligently fuses art, intuitive spiritual coaching, manual touch bodywork, assisted harmonic breath, and Reiki in her integrated healing practice. More commonly known as “Dr. Zee”, she has been studying and practicing spirituality, the arts and health sciences for the duration of her lifetime. She has an academic background in Psychology (B.S, 2008), Reiki (Master Level III, 2011), Chiropractic (DC, 2014), and Grief & Bereavement Counseling (2019) and is an ordained minister through the Universal Life Church, whose only tenet is to support those who have committed to “do that which is right”.
ID: Photo of a Black woman smiling into the camera. She has dark brown hair pulled into a low bun wrapped in a sunflower yellow cloth. She is wearing an orange shirt, colourful beaded necklaces, black earrings, and a nose ring.
Crystal
Crystal Teng is an energy and body work practitioner, poet, storyteller, home-cook, and somatic/movement artist walking in the place between metaphor and magic. Some of her healing modalities are craniosacral therapy, body-mapping, facilitating storytelling circles in the Asian diaspora, and facilitating introspective spaces to cultivate embodied self-awareness.
ID: Photo of an asian gender non-conforming person standing outside. Crystal’s expression is calm and they look forward. Crystal is wearing a pink top and a hat with a wide brim. Their hair is pulled back behind the shoulders.
Diana
Diana Quinn Inlak’ech is a naturopathic doctor and energy work practitioner. Her work is sourced in the healing power of nature for whole person care. She is passionate about transforming cultural and historical intergenerational trauma through community care and ancestral practices. Her healing modalities include botanical medicine, homeopathy and flower essences, nutritional therapy, Reiki, craniosacral therapy, ritual and ceremony, guided meditation, tarot, and astrology.
ID: Photo of an indigenous Latinx woman with shoulder-length dark brown hair. She is smiling and sits in a room showing a white wall and a black couch behind her. She is wearing a black sleeveless top.
Mianne
Mianne Afua Adufutse is a writer with a B.A. from Columbia College Chicago, where she focused on fiction writing. She is also a licensed massage therapist, Shiatsu and Reiki practitioner, working on an Oncology and Hospice massage certification. Having been born in Michigan, she is passionate about connecting artists in Michigan, and helping communities thrive through various healing modalities.
ID: Photo of a Black woman with long, black hair. She is wearing a purple tank top and pink leggings. She is standing with both of her arms stretched above her head while her right foot is lifted off the ground, intertwined with the leg of another person who is on the ground. She is in a room painted light blue.
raven
Raven Martin is a ancestor in practice whose known primary modalities of healing are community rooted service, energy work, and creative business analysis. She has her B.A in Media Arts (double minor Photography + Journalism). Raven is a Reiki I practitioner, mediator and emotional support guide.
ID: Close up photo of a round-faced, brown skinned black woman with big hair that fills up the photo and large eyes that look into the camera.
RHiannon
Rhiannon Chester-Bey, MA, is a social justice Advocate & Educator and Healing Arts Practitioner. She is a certified Reiki Practitioner in the Usui System of Natural Healing. Rhiannon is a first generation, Detroit native and has been an engaged member of various grassroots social justice movements for over a decade. She holds a deep belief that the people closest to any issue are able to solve the issue and should be directly involved in solution making; beyond solution making, people closest to issues also experience intersectional trauma and are deserving of personal care and healing resources. She supports people on their healing journeys by offering emotional support, empathic listening, Reiki, Crystal Reiki and other less traditional forms of healing practice such as financial trauma healing & intersectional wisdom workshops and representative portrait photography.
ID: Photo of a Black woman with short, black hair. She is smiling while wearing a black t shirt and necklace. Behind her is a white wall and framed piece of art
VioletA
I’m a Clinical Social Worker, Reiki Practitioner, and Ear Acudetox specialist who strives to use a justice-based lens in all areas of my life and work. Possibility and slow movement excite me. These days, I'm learning more and more about graceful ways to hold change, grief, and rebirth. Want to learn more about the experiences that inform the type of work I do? Feel free to visit: www.violetadonawa.com.
