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Massage therapy dedicated to activist care, restoring resilience & supporting community based care.

04/03/2026

Last week was a gorgeous workshop The Peoples Medicine Class co hosted with .fae .

Offered at the Onyx Lab as part of their community workshop series .

It felt super special to share the radical history of the 5 point ear acupuncture protocol developed by the Black Panthers and the Young Lords - whose work embodied mutual aid, community care , health autonomy , by and for approach , harm reduction and literally people’s medicine .

Offering folks to experience this protocol and notice their somatic responses , and then teaching folks how to use ear seeds on themselves and others so they can take this medicine home with them .

Followed by learning how to explore your own energetic field , self energy healing and how we share energy with others .

Thanks to everyone who came and we hope to offer more of these spaces in the future !

01/28/2026

May this mood carry me through the threshold of 35 and into the following decade . 🙏🏽

Deep gratitude to community, earth & ancestors for bringing me this far in life .

35 feels an achievement , like an oh s**t I actually kept myself alive until this point , im impressed kinda.

30-31 felt like a portal … 35 feels like a softer version of that , I can feel the foundation beneath me in a diff way .

I recently did my bazi and learnt im a yang fire 🔥 so now I have a whole new identity which feels like a fun shift from my earth heavy 6 x cap of western Astro

Let’s see what that brings ;)

11/28/2025

A field guide on how to survive a depoliticised somatic trauma training :

Gather your QT/BIPOC friends & form a temporary polycule

Rent a 4 story mini mansion with an indoor elevator & rooftop hot tub by the lake

Watch at least three different reality tv shows by your fake fire

Boulder on any surface you can find in your pjs

Hike in the fog & drink water from a juniper bush

Make many nonsensical memes

Grocery shop like it’s the only regulation tool you have - bonus points if you end up with 600 carrots , 10 tubs of peanut butter & 15 yoghurt pots

11/03/2025

This autumn yellow was the love of my eyes and my heart . Arresting , magnificent , soothing .

For those of you who know me I am OBSESSED with mustard yellow , that golden butter yellow , the ochre

Hwang ( yellow ) is my mother’s maiden name .

A few years ago as I was connecting with Korean traditions I found out yellow “ Hwang “ corresponds to the center within the cardinal directional points . Associated with the element earth and the virtue of trust .

Yellow held me in the autumn of 2018 as I processed the grief of my aunts death . Yellow kept me tethered to this plane , reminded me I had the capacity to be with & feel grief slowly and surely , one shard at a time .

This autumn Iv been finding the seasonal transition tough alongside the uncertainty of our sociopolitical times and the economic crisis we are currently in.

Many days have felt like a rough sea and once again Iv found the gift of yellow in the turning of the leaves reach out to me , a moment of grounding , a quiet comfort … a reminder to anchor into my centre .

Next week the first real cold snap arrives …. If you haven’t had a moment with the yellow leaves , here’s an invitation to infuse your last moments , feast the eyes & id love to know what comes up for you

10/17/2025

Day versus Night - tales of an Aries Full Moon cengiz

09/30/2025

Earlier this year I contributed to the After Care Project - an initiative providing post surgery care packages for q***r youth 18-35 .

As part of this program I blended special sun infused scar care oils to support scar healing post top surgery .

organic almond oil & rose hip seed oil with organic calendula & rose grown from the garden .

The scar care oil is deeply moisturising, gentle , packed with vit C and supports scar tissue health and repair .

For BIPOC youth you can apply for scarwork session with thats 50% subsidised - follow the link in bio to sign up !

It was such a pleasure collaborating with in this way , to centre holistic post surgery healing support !

***rhealing ***ryouth

09/17/2025

amongst the nettles - moments of rooting , weaving futures , new connections & deep nourishment . This nettle love held me through all winter and into the peak of summer .

Thanks to for capturing the moment & the stories

09/17/2025

Practitioner team photo from the last day of the Trans Care Clinic of 2024-2025.

What a gorgeous two years of offering interdisciplinary , holistic trans centred health care to the community.

Through offering this pilot project we were able to showcase what gender affirming health care in a by and for model within community can look and F E E L like.

We felt it important to specifically platform trans feminine practitioners & racialised QT practitioners & working class practitioners who literally do the most with the least.

Thank you to all the brilliant practitioners & collaborators we have worked with including

workbodyworkresistance.bodywork
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***rlyfluid fae

Nana Geva
Dylan kinsman - our Concordia intern & host

We also partnered with community orgs who funded additional clinics for their q***r and trans youth, including some QTBIPOC specific ones.

Now more than ever trans rights , healthcare & advocacy are being challenged and must be defended.

We hope this model has inspired you all and will be taken up by others in the future !

We also hope we have created a web of deep care for trans and gender expansive community in the city 💕

***rhealing

08/21/2025

Summer abundance

06/13/2025

After a year of rest and research, tending to our gardens and gathering botanicals on our travels, Eco-Arts Collective, invites you to our Living Room for an evening of communal sustenance.

𝘈 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨,

𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴,

𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘶𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘥.

𝘈 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦

𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘹𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦,

𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘣𝘦,

𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘦.

Hosted at Black-led community space, ONYX Lab, Living Room offers a BIPOC-focused space for reconnection and recalibration, within ourselves and one another.

Leaning into the power of medicinal foods and ancestral healing practices that have supported liberation movements for generations, Living Room opens the portal to a plane of rich communal rejuvenation.

In this series, Healing Practitioner , Manna Mu offers walk in 30-60 minute 5-point ear acupuncture and ear seeds, a revolutionary medicine developed by the Black Panthers & the Young Lords.

Along with a selection of Southern-inspired snacks, Chef Berlin Reed plays bartender at our handcrafted tea bar, with personalized blends made from foraged and homegrown herbs.

ONYX Lab at LPM, 1221 Crescent St.

6pm-8pm, June 18

PWYC - kids welcome

02/03/2025

This lunar new year I wanted to share an ecological somatic clay enquiry from my time at artist residency in dec.

This was a land listening , ancestral research piece exploring the kokdu ( wooden death companions carved onto funeral biers during the Joseon Dynasty in Korean cultural practice ).

The kokdu are guides, companions and beings who support the dead on their journey to the next life. They exist in the boundary between this world and the world beyond , and whilst some representations are in human form they are neither human nor not human.

Some of the traditional roles they offer include : the guide, the guard, the entertainer, the carer as well as mythical creatures such as the dragon and the phoenix .

My process included digging raw clay from the earth, listening , observing , mapping the ecological landscape of the land of for a week , , noticing who grew where and with whom.

Meditating with the plants to connect to their energies , observing how the clay is made up of the decomposed plant material of the land , remembering in death we return to earth, so how could clay kokdu made of the earth guide us in our earthly return, remembering we will decompose and then guide others .

I wanted to explore what emerges from the clay itself, the shapes and textures , what companion creature will they become ?

How does the clay kokdu represent an earthly embodiment of the locality and stories of the land ?

How does this land want to support us ?

12/03/2024

Last week I said goodbye to 10 pine an ecosystem that has been home as well as the hearth of my practice since 2020. There is much to feel about this which don’t have words right now . But it made me reflect on the many studios and tables of my massage practice journey. So here’s a fun timeline snapshot for you :

🦋Slide 2 & 3 : I used to spontaneously instigate massage lines at raves and then when I was on exchange at McMaster uni in Hamilton I started a weekly massage circle that would pop up around diff locations on campus and invite students walking by to join in. Slide 3 is a massage line I started in Cuba on Xmas day !

Slide 4 &5 : after graduating from Bristol college of massage and bodywork , I shared a studio with a collective of massage school friends at Picton street in a building that had cheap rent cos it was part of an ethical properties initiative for social impact led projects .

Slide 6 & 7

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