Aki Hirata Baker

Aki Hirata Baker Aki Hirata Baker is a multi-modality healing facilitator, teacher and speaker, whose work is based on the anti-racist spiritual liberation principle.

- Most private sessions are currently offered via zoom/skype/FT
- All workshops are offered via MINKA brooklyn online portal - visit MINKAbrooklyn.com for more info
- Investment in sliding-scale fee
- 3-months commitment required for private sessions

Aries stellium New Moon into Ta**us season, then straight into Uranus entering Gemini… my entire being has been in a Vit...
04/30/2026

Aries stellium New Moon into Ta**us season, then straight into Uranus entering Gemini… my entire being has been in a Vitamix-level blender for the last two weeks.

I have so much to do, yet I can barely do the bare minimum. On most days I am sitting in front of my computer feeling like my is on fire, not capable of sitting still for one reason or another. I know what I want to do and what I need to do — but the sheer amount of too-muchness, the continuous filling up without a way to let it move through me, was taking me down. Literally.

At some point I surrendered. Bed. Sleeping on and off. Cursing my misery of sensitivity and the world that is simply too much.

I have these days too.

And funny thing is — I always know this to be true, so why do I still struggle through it when it comes over me is beyond me, my ego is pretty solid mind you — these are the moments of discoveries and connections.

This piece was born out of sitting in front of the computer in vain, laying in bed cursing and sleeping, arguing with my friends and losing my s**t.

Being human, messy and spiritual, is often like this one. Immense gratitudes to all of my life collaborators, going through conversations and other moments to connections with me. You know who you are, and I love and appreciate you deeply.

The full essay is on Substack — link in bio.

And if this conversation is lighting something up in you, come find us in June. Sacred Erotic Reclamation is exactly this kind of work — the messy, embodied, real kind.
and I will be there.

🔗 link in bio

How does this land? Anything to adjust in tone, length or the close?

Because Spring.Because Japan.Because Family.Because being alive now means something.
04/30/2026

Because Spring.
Because Japan.
Because Family.
Because being alive now means something.

Chetna and I started having a conversation around how we relate to our Eros months ago.How would our lives be different ...
04/10/2026

Chetna and I started having a conversation around how we relate to our Eros months ago.

How would our lives be different if we move from our deep desire for pleasures? What does it mean to reclaim the erotic in a time when the death culture is fully exposing itself? When the headlines alone are enough to make our bodies brace, contract, go numb - what does it take for us to reclaim safety in our own desires?

A PSA, a prayer, a provocation - this is what came out of us as we weave together our desire to center our aliveness in each of our creative lives.

The erotic is not what we’ve been told it is. It is not spectacle. It is not danger. It is not something to be controlled or surveilled or shamed into silence.

The creative intelligence of Gaia herself is calling us. It is the force that moves mountains, sprouts seeds, births worlds. It is what lives in our bodies as longing, as aliveness, as the refusal to go numb.

Reclaiming it — fully, ancestrally, with grief and with joy — is not optional any longer.

The chaos that swirls around us masquerading as death is demanding we remember.

Read the full piece on Substack — link in bio. 🌹🔥

And if this is calling you: we gather this summer at Kripalu for a Sacred Erotic Reclamation retreat.

More in the last slide, and registration via and

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📸 of moi after my first divorce, captured by a lover circa 2002.

Spring in Japan🌸
04/09/2026

Spring in Japan🌸

She saved the world with her body. So they made her a footnote.Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto — 天宇受売命 — danced outside the cave ...
04/04/2026

She saved the world with her body. So they made her a footnote.

Ame-no-Uzume-no-Mikoto — 天宇受売命 — danced outside the cave where the sun had hidden itself in grief. Every instrument had failed. Only then did someone reach for her.

What brought the light back was not piety.
It was eros.

I grew up Shinto. I was not taught this story as living inheritance. That silence was not accidental. This is what colonization of the mind does — it turns your most potent medicine into a shameful joke and then teaches you to tell it that way yourself.

The same move that turned Mary Magdalene into a pr******te.

The ones who do the actual work are always written out of their own story.

She was the last resort.
When she was always the first medicine.

Full essay on Substack — link in bio.

The Luminous Path begins Easter Sunday.
Registration closes Easter Sunday.

No one turned away for lack of funds.

We are living in a time designed to keep us reactive.The overwhelm is not accidental. The urgency is not accidental. Eve...
03/31/2026

We are living in a time designed to keep us reactive.

The overwhelm is not accidental. The urgency is not accidental.

Even our resistance — the outrage, the algorithm hacks, the taking of positions — can become predictable to the very system we are trying to move against. They are working on hacking into our minds.

This is not a reason to disengage. It is a reason to go deeper into becoming more human, away from the mechanization.

Mary Magdalene’s teachings describe seven forces that move through human consciousness — fear, desire, confusion, anger, forgetting, and more. Not sins. Not failures. Pressure points. The exact places where external control gets its grip onto us.

When we know these forces intimately — when we can feel them moving through us without being consumed by them — something shifts. We become harder to be moved without our consent.

We remember what was never actually lost.
That is sovereignty. Not a destination. A practice.

The Luminous Path: A Journey Beyond the Seven Powers of Ego toward the Liberated Heart begins Easter Sunday.
7 weeks. Mary’s map. Your life as the territory.

Registration closes Easter Sunday.
Link in bio.
No one turned away for lack of funds.

This feels a little… raw, strange, and maybe surreal.After many many years of hiding and dodging, finally, the first pub...
03/29/2026

This feels a little… raw, strange, and maybe surreal.

After many many years of hiding and dodging, finally, the first public share of my writing - a story on why I ended up with Mary Magdalene and her liberatory teaching.

Let me know your thoughts.

For years, Mary Magdalene kept knocking and I kept not answering.The imagery alone was enough to make me turn away — eur...
03/27/2026

For years, Mary Magdalene kept knocking and I kept not answering.

The imagery alone was enough to make me turn away — euro-centric, aestheticized, rose petals and soft light and flowing white dresses. You know that PRIESTESS look. The kind of sacred feminine that makes me want to run in the opposite direction, very fast.

And still. Something persisted.

My relationship with Christianity is not uncomplicated. I came to it young, brought my mother with me, and what followed left a wound I have carried for a long time. I still believe in Jesus. I left the institution. Without my mother.

I spent the years after moving through other doorways — a Shinto household that was always my foundation, Indigenous and earth-based practices, the Medicine Way, traditions that put the body and direct knowing back at the center. The Christianity I walked away from was never my home. But the teacher — the actual human being who chose love without categorization, without condition — him I kept.

Years later, I fell in love with a conservative Christian man. Yes, that kind. Bible verses at every opportunity, Amen more times than I could stomach. And when our spiritual differences became impossible to ignore, I knew what I needed to do.

I needed to speak his language. Not to agree with him, nor to convert to his belief system — but to find a bridge that allows communication to build.

So I went looking. With urgency, not casualness. Back to Mary, Thomas, and Philip.

What I found didn’t give me better arguments. It gave me a scaffolding — a way to be passionate without losing myself, to feel without collapsing into reaction, to stay rooted in my truth without hardening into defense.

Mary’s teachings — especially what she names as the seven powers of ego — taught me how to remain. With him. But most importantly, with myself.

The Luminous Path: A Journey Beyond the Seven Powers of Ego toward the Liberated Heart begins Easter Sunday. Seven weeks. Mary’s map. Your life as the territory.

Registration closes Easter Sunday. Link in bio.

01/26/2026

Inviting y’all to SUNNY 🌞 🌴LA in-person USUI REIKI TRAININGS on February 7 & 8th😆 from ICY 🥶❄️NYC!! Wow, the wind was REAL at the beach…

I am excited to bring teachings and culture to LA I in partnership with ❤️teaching Usui Reiki level 1 and 2!!

Registration can be found both on MINKA and WUUM sites - can’t wait to spread LOVE in this way during this time of intense shift for humanity. Join me🥰🥰🥰

🪄3 MAGICAL DAYS in Brooklyn🦄What a beautiful experience it was to gather in Brooklyn again for weekend intensive trainin...
01/20/2026

🪄3 MAGICAL DAYS in Brooklyn🦄

What a beautiful experience it was to gather in Brooklyn again for weekend intensive training of Usui and Earth Evolution Reiki as ! Folks gathered from NYC, NJ and Pittsburgh, learning and unlearning so much about healing, energy, magic and the collective evolution.

We had a surprise visit from and of - the special group gets a special treatment it seems, the conversation deepened in ways we were so grateful to witness.

2026 feels quite powerful already‼️ Now I am getting even more excited about the upcoming Usui Reiki Training on February 7 & 8th💕

We are standing at the threshold - between what has been and what is becoming.Each ceremony, each breath, each gathering...
12/22/2025

We are standing at the threshold - between what has been and what is becoming.

Each ceremony, each breath, each gathering is an act of remembering: that rebirth is not a single moment, but a way of being.

We hold this crossing line with care - because we all deserve a space of becoming.

Join us - in ritual, in community, in this sacred work of remembrance.

🌹Ceremonies + Traininfs in LA, Brooklyn, the Berkshire & Online. Link in bio

About yesterday🫀💦🫠1. Realized I am growing to like my growing hair.2. My sacred spring is also a vibe for my teenage mi...
12/13/2025

About yesterday🫀💦🫠

1. Realized I am growing to like my growing hair.

2. My sacred spring is also a vibe for my teenage middle child.

3. My youngest holds Japanese convenience stores as SACRED.

4. History repeats itself, in the most surprising ways. Japanese folk tales often start with ‘when grandfather went to get water from the river…’ and I realize my child is that grandfather carrying gallons of water from the spring🤣

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