What does it look like to weave together your talents, your heritage, and your sense of connectedness to benefit our interrelated world?
We dive into the powerful story of Xochitl Bernadette Moreno and Ashel Seasunz Eldridge, who at the start of the pandemic, came together over their passions for service, spirituality, and community by forming the organization, Essential Food and Medicine.
Through the lens of both their organization and their rich individual histories, we explore:
- What role did their spiritual heritage play in informing their work?
- How did they form an authentic set of guiding principles?
- How did their approach lead to a community movement around their efforts?
- How can someone with an intent to serve get started?
Tune in and get inspired!
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About E-FAM: https://www.essentialfam.org/about-us
Re-indigenizing our community's relationship to land, food and medicine working with the houseless, reservations, and incarcerated. IG: @essentialfam
About Xochitl Bernadette Moreno (Co-founder and Co-director of EFAM)
Xochitl has a background in healing arts from around the world, bridging herbalism, curanderismo, massage, and more, with activism. She is a long time media maker and activist cutting her chops in the anti-globalization movement and many years of on the ground community organizing from Oakland, CA to Deep in the Amazon.
About AshEL SeaSunZ Eldridge (Co-founder and Co-director of EFAM)
AshEL is Chicago born, living in Oakland by way of NY, with West African/Blackfoot ancestry. He works intentionally with various shamanic practices including Peruvian plant medicines since 2005. His work in ceremonial leadership includes Dagrara divinatory and ancestral healing, Japanese spiritual purification, (www.sukyomahikari.org), and Galactic Language Activation/soul cleansing via Tian Gong. He is also the founder of Soulestial Church, a community of healers, medicine carriers, musicians, artists and activists that offers gatherings, workshops, and retreats honoring ancestral medicines and teachings to support the healing and purification of mind, body and spirit. You can learn more about him at: http://www.ashelseasunz.com/
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Other References:
- Movies: Voices of the Wisdom Keepers | The Women of the White Buffalo
- People: Vandana Shiva (Indian scholar, environmental activist, food sovereignty advocate, ecofeminist and anti-globalisation author)
- Learning: The Yoga Sutras
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