FACILITATED BY: Soula Smith and Lindsay Fauntleroydsay Fauntleroy
EXCHANGE: 30min. $60 or $30 Optional Reduced Rate
REGISTER: Via our partners at Ifetayo HERE
*To register for a session, clients will need to complete a one-time registration for the portal and then search for the desired APPOINTMENT type*
MINKA Constellations & Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy team up to offer a monthly Ife Grove Community Clinic to increase access to Acupuncture & Reiki. The sliding-scale sessions are 30 minutes of deep restoration—calming the nervous system, reducing pain, and helping to bring the mind, body and spirit into balance.
Our community clinic model is rooted in the reality that we all need care, yet we don't all have the same access to that care. Peoples of the African Diaspora and our siblings of the Global South often face discrimination, dismissal, systemic inequities and harm within healthcare spaces. Our collaboration aims to provide a Diaspora-centered space of care that considers the current experiences and complex histories of our kin while expanding the types of healing modalities we get to benefit from.
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Soula Smith is a Reiki Level 2 and Earth Evolution Reiki practitioner. As a grantmaker, she works to support the realization of human rights and social and economic justice – aiding in upholding dignity and unlocking human potential.Soula is grateful to be of service to the BIPOC community as a bridge to the strength, courage, and wisdom of one’s own body and spirit. It is an absolute honor to have the opportunity to bring her grantmaking expertise and healing knowledge to the philanthropic and wellness space so that we may all practice collective care as a means of building our capacity to do healing and social justice work. In all of her work she shows up in her full authenticity and wholeness, devoted to the journey and joy of liberation.
Lindsay Fauntleroy is an acupuncturist, medicine maker, and the author of In Our Element: Using the Five Elements of Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power. Lindsay's approach to "soul medicine" emerges from over 15 years of clinical practice, her doctoral studies of Afro-Indigenous psychology, and her commitment to community wellness. She is the clinical director of The Spirit Seed, where she teaches personal and professional development courses on how to work with ancestral healing traditions to ease modern mayhem. Lindsay is a faculty member of MINKA's Consciousness of Radical Equity (CORE) Leadership Program, as well as the facilitator of MINKA’S Flower Essence Certification Program.
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Paying It Forward
We provide most of our community offerings and private sessions by sliding scale. This is based on the idea of ‘paying it forward’ which enables more people to access healing and wellness. This works when people pay as much as they can for our offerings to help others who may be less fortunate be able to gain access, too. We believe everyone is entitled to heal and thrive, and that practitioners deserve to earn a living wage. We are all in this together and choose to do our best to take care of one another. Thank you for being part of the MINKA community!