HEALTH AND WELLNESS FOR PEOPLE AND LAND

The Indigenous Healing Center (IHC) is an inter-tribal and intergenerational collective that nurtures the leadership, health and healing of Indigenous families from diverse tribes and nations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Utilizing indigenous scientific approaches to health and medicine, we are dedicated to the wellbeing of people and land.

Our Purpose

Through the lens of culture as first medicine, we work to strengthen the cultural identities of children, youth, adults, and elders by creating spaces to maintain and practice indigenous spirituality, including ancestral medicines, languages, art, and land-based traditions.

OUR CORE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES

The center and its collective of Indigenous families, are working to design projects/programs that are grounded in these 3 core values & principles:

De-Colonizing

We have a commitment to hold each other accountable to whether we are operating from colonial values and life ways or whether we are truly in alignment with our indigenous values, ways of life, and cultures.

Culture as First Medicine

Cultural/spiritual: all of our projects and collective members are grounded and embody indigenous values, cosmovisions, paradigms, and lifeways.

Systems and Multi-Generational

Our projects are designed using systems thinking, and with a vision for the future generations, so not just the impact we can have 3 years from now, but the impact we will have 300 years from now.

"The indigenous scientific knowledge of our Grandmothers and Grandfathers has always existed, although it has not been recognized.

No one is coming to show us how to move forward, we must learn to value and above all to live according to the knowledge of our Elders and Ancestors.

To live by it and teach it to our current and future generations."

-Tat Balam Pascual Yaxon, Mayan Spiritual Leader,

Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Indigenous Healing Center

Our Work

Through intergenerational knowledge sharing, our collective is designing multigenerational projects that cultivate resilience and restore indigenous identities. As our elders say, by giving the old information back to the young and to the old, we return what is rightfully the peoples back to the peoples: our languages, our medicines, our traditions, our spirituality.