FACILITATED BY: Soula Smith and Lindsay Fauntleroy and Winter Parris

EXCHANGE: 30min. suggested rate $70 with optional $30-$70 Sliding Scale

REGISTER: Book your session via our partners at Ifetayo for Reiki HERE, for Acu HERE, for Nutritional Consultation HERE

MINKA Constellations & Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy team up to offer a monthly in-person Community Clinic to increase access to Acupuncture, Reiki and Nutritional Consultation.  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.

Nutritional Consultationsare facilitated by Winter Parris, a NYC-based yoga teacher and Ayurvedic wellness practitioner supporting nervous system health, resilience and sustainable wellbeing, for individuals and organizations. Her work integrates classical yoga, breath work, meditation, and Ayurveda, informed by a doula-trained, trauma-aware lens that honors life transitions, stress physiology, and lived experience.  Winter offers personalized 1:1 care and works in adjunct collaboration with family and women’s health clinicians, supporting clients through lifestyle, nutrition, stress, and digestive care alongside medical treatment. 

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Paying it Forward
We offer sliding scale pricing rooted in the spirit of paying it forward. Those who pay the full suggested price help open the door for others who need more support. We believe everyone deserves access to healing and wellness — regardless of their economic situation — and that practitioners deserve to earn a living wage, too. When we take care of each other, everyone thrives.

Thank you for being part of the MINKA community!