New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Tag: healing

  • Herbal Support for Wintertime Wellness

    Herbal Support for Wintertime Wellness

    Atava Garcia Swiecicki, clinical herbalist, will teach herbal medicine you can use to support yourself and your loved ones this winter season – including important herbs that help prevent and treat cold and flu. Learn easy recipes for common herbs like ginger and elderberry.

    Reclaim Ancestral Latinx medicine and rituals for healing! Class time will include hands-on medicine making, including Fire Cider to take home. $60 fee includes materials.

  • Black Men Flower Project Somatic Exercise Session

    Black Men Flower Project Somatic Exercise Session

    This class offers Black men and boys a chance to reset, grow, and heal in a supportive, Black-only space. No prior experience needed—just bring an open mind and a desire to connect with yourself on a deeper level. Somatic exercises help release stored tension, reduce stress, and promote healing by allowing you to fully experience and respond to what your body needs.

    Register HERE now—spaces are limited!

  • Black Is Enough Symposium

    Black Is Enough Symposium

    Come for a day of healing and developing unity with other Black folks, Africans, people of African descent, and those with ancestry in the African diaspora. Register HERE

    Bring your full self to unlearning the negative and learning how to better support OUR Black communities and diversity for wellbeing, collaboration, and economic power. Wear comfortable clothes. Be ready to cry, to disagree, and to start working on individual and collective trauma. Food provided. Youth and child programming provided for ages 0-17. If you’re interested in volunteering, or for support with gas, or other questions or inquiries, please email admin@myjune19th.org.

    “Thank you for your understanding that this event is for Black folks, Africans, people of African descent, those of ancestry in the African diaspora only. If this not you, please email admin@myjune19th.org for more info for PART III  in May/June 2024 for non-black folks to come together for healing from the dehumanizing effects of racism on us all,  support in your role in building racial parity and unity, and training to build positive environments for Black children, youth, adults, families and communities.”

  • Folk Medicine – Healing & Spirituality: AfroMundo Festival event

    Folk Medicine – Healing & Spirituality: AfroMundo Festival event

    Screening of short (15-min) film “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” followed by panel discussion.

    Panelists include Film Writer & Director Cara Lawson; Ashoka Fellow & Founder of Birthing Project—Underground Railroad for New Life, Kathryn Hall Trujillo; Doulah & Healer Tauz TamuPovi; Ausettua AmorAmenkum who since the 1980s has engaged incarcerated women with performance & spiritual arts.

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