Sacred Roots, Oakland

Sacred Roots, Oakland VISION

Sacred Roots seeks to center people of color - Black, Indigenous, API, immigrants, queer, and womxn - in our pursuit of shared healing and liberation.

We are a collective of seasoned BIPOC movement healers, culture workers, and wisdom keepers of Indigenous traditions from the Global Majority who create reciprocal, intergenerational spaces for healing, learning, and connection. We are a Black, Indigenous, Women of Color-led grassroots project, fiscally sponsored by Canticle Farm, in the village of Huichin, the ancestral territory of the Chochenyo Ohlone people. We cultivate our collective wellness through cultural healing practices and embodied learning. VALUES

Cultural Wisdom - We offer a liberatory learning and healing pedagogy, rooted in Black, Indigenous, API, and People of Color communities and practices. Power With - We believe that the wisdom of those most impacted by the systems of oppression must inform the “what” and the “how” of social transformation. Interconnected - We believe in and nurture the sacred presence and connections between all living beings. OFFERINGS

We offer embodied community-based learning & healing through a collective table of medicine that is both relational and proximal to those most impacted. Street Academy: facilitates embodied and experiential healing-based anti-oppression learning circles, grounded in our interconnectedness and relational proximity with beloved street scholars, healers, organizers, and activists in our communities. We believe that the wisdom of those most impacted by the systems of oppression must inform the “what” and the “how” of social transformation. We offer seminars, workshops, and retreats of varying lengths.

- Relearning truthful history
- Reconnecting with our traditions and cultures - healing what was
broken, the transmission of the medicine from one generation to
the next
- Recovering traditional, ancestral, and holistic healing tools while
transforming systems of oppression

Justice Sanctuary: offers medicine of various healing modalities, rooted in BIPOC cultural wisdom and practices. Our BIPOC practitioners are trained in energy work, spiritual accompaniment, acupuncture, herbalism, astrology, numerology, somatic coaching, poetry as medicine facilitation, doulaship, and counseling.

- We see wellness as a balancing of the four quadrants of the
individual's healing basket - physical, mental, emotional, and
spiritual
- By resourcing individuals in the movement and those most
impacted by trauma and oppression with wellness tools, we
strengthen our collective capacity, resilience, and effectiveness
in our struggle for liberation



GIFT ECONOMY

At Sacred Roots, we believe in a generosity-based gift economy as a way to build collective wealth. We share our offerings with deep respect, gratitude, and honor to those who came before us. Your financial contribution is part of honoring and paying it forward by allowing this work to continue to advance the movement toward collective healing & learning.

Sacred Roots November Newsletter is here!We’re celebrating the close of our Restorative Justice Across Lineages series —...
11/05/2025

Sacred Roots November Newsletter is here!

We’re celebrating the close of our Restorative Justice Across Lineages series — 7 weeks, 140+ participants, and so much collective healing.

We’re also thrilled to announce a new grant for Phase 2, deepening our restorative justice work with local movement organizations.

And don’t miss El Splash Zone, a bilingual, participatory performance on Nov 8 & 9 exploring music, story, and cross-cultural healing.

Matinee: November 8 at Canticle Farm
Evening Show: November 9 at First Congregational Church (doors open at 5pm)
RSVP here: https://luma.com/k8dg1tqv

10/14/2025

We’ve journeyed through accountability, repair, and relationship — now we arrive at grief and renewal. Thank you for trusting us to hold this sacred container and co-creating ceremony for healing and learning at every session.

Join us for the closing session of our Restorative Justice Across Lineages series:
From Grief to Possibilities

Saturday, October 19
10:00 AM–1:00 PM
Clinton Park, Oakland

Let’s honor and release what no longer serves and open our hearts and imagination to what might want to emerge.

🌿 Oct 18 – From Grief to PossibilitiesGrief is more than sorrow—it’s a resource for healing and restoration. In our clos...
10/14/2025

🌿 Oct 18 – From Grief to Possibilities

Grief is more than sorrow—it’s a resource for healing and restoration. In our closing session, Yu-Shuan Tarango-Sho & Azaria Bailey-Curry guide us through ritual, reflection, and art-making to uncover grief’s wisdom and possibility.

🗓 Oct 18 | ⏰ 2–4 PM | 📍 Clinton Park, Oakland | Free

🌿 Oct 11 – Joyful AccountabilityWhat does accountability look like beyond punishment? With Tien Nguyen & Elli Nagai-Roth...
10/07/2025

🌿 Oct 11 – Joyful Accountability

What does accountability look like beyond punishment? With Tien Nguyen & Elli Nagai-Rothe, we’ll reframe accountability as joyful alignment with our values—through embodied practice and storytelling.

🗓 Oct 11 | ⏰ 2–4 PM | 📍 Clinton Park, Oakland | Free

🌿✨ Deep gratitude to everyone who joined us for Elemental Support in Conflict. Together we remembered the sacred practic...
09/30/2025

🌿✨ Deep gratitude to everyone who joined us for Elemental Support in Conflict. Together we remembered the sacred practice of calling on the elements—earth, water, fire, air, and spirit—for wisdom and comfort in times of conflict.

We journaled, gave space to all the parts of ourselves that arise in conflict, and gathered around a sacred altar for grounding and healing. 💧🔥🌱💨✨

Next up: Generative Conflict through Tarot & Somatics with Kimi Mojica & Sarah Cargill.
Conflict is often seen as something to avoid—but what if it could be a way to connect, learn, and grow? In this session, we’ll use the Devil card in the Tarot, somatic practices, storytelling, and reflection to dance with discomfort, confront what keeps us stuck, and discover new ways of meeting conflict with curiosity, compassion, and agency.

🗓 Saturday, Oct 4 | ⏰ 2–4 PM
📍 Clinton Park, Oakland
🌱 Free & open to all

🌿 Sept 27 – Elemental Support in ConflictWith Laura Rivas & Angela Kim, we’ll explore how earth, water, fire, air, and s...
09/23/2025

🌿 Sept 27 – Elemental Support in Conflict

With Laura Rivas & Angela Kim, we’ll explore how earth, water, fire, air, and spirit can sustain us in conflict, guiding us toward joy, resilience, and repair.

🗓 Sept 27 | ⏰ 2–4 PM | 📍 Clinton Park, Oakland | Free

🌿 Sept 20 – Into the Dark: Wisdom of ShameThis week with Oona Valle & Lizhen Wang, we’ll explore the nature of shame—how...
09/16/2025

🌿 Sept 20 – Into the Dark: Wisdom of Shame

This week with Oona Valle & Lizhen Wang, we’ll explore the nature of shame—how it shows up in conflict and the hidden wisdom it carries—through astrology, theater, and embodied play.

🗓 Sept 20 | ⏰ 2–4 PM | 📍 Clinton Park, Oakland | Free

09/15/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our second session of Restorative Justice Across Lineages!

We gathered in circle with libations for our ancestors, plant support for grounding, and sound healing to soothe our bodies and spirits. Resourcing self-compassion in the ways our ancestors may not have been able to allows us to extend deeper compassion to our families without disappearing ourselves—especially in the midst of conflict and harm.

We are so grateful for the beauty you each brought into the space. 💛

Next up: Finding the Wisdom of Our Shame Through Embodied Play
Saturday, Sept 20 | 2–4 PM | Clinton Park, Oakland
Free & open to all

🌿 Sept 13 – Healing Across GenerationsJoin Shirley Johnson & Vivián Renteria to explore how family and ancestral conflic...
09/09/2025

🌿 Sept 13 – Healing Across Generations

Join Shirley Johnson & Vivián Renteria to explore how family and ancestral conflicts shape us—and how ritual, sound, and movement can guide us toward resilience, compassion, and repair.

🗓 Sept 13 | ⏰ 2–4 PM | 📍 Clinton Park, Oakland | Free

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Witnessing Our Many Selves. Our circle of 30 held laughter, play, and tenderness...
09/08/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Witnessing Our Many Selves. Our circle of 30 held laughter, play, and tenderness as we practiced presence and compassion with all our inner voices. We’re carrying forward so many insights into what it means to hold multiple truths in community.

See you at our next Session!

Healing Across Generations with Shirley & Vivian

Building on the presence and compassion from our first gathering, we’ll explore how family and ancestral conflicts shape us—and how movement, breath, reflection, and sound can guide us toward repair.

Saturday, Sept 13 | 2–4 PM | Clinton Park, Oakland | Free & open to all

Sept 6 – Witnessing Our Many SelvesThis week we open our Restorative Justice Across Lineages series with Guangping Chu &...
09/02/2025

Sept 6 – Witnessing Our Many Selves

This week we open our Restorative Justice Across Lineages series with Guangping Chu & Tatiana Chaterji. Through Theater of the Oppressed and Buddhist teachings, we’ll witness our many voices with compassion and deepen our capacity to hold multiple truths.

Sept 6 | 2–4 PM | Clinton Park, Oakland | Free

What does a system of collective care look like to you? What practices, spaces, or relationships help us support one ano...
07/18/2025

What does a system of collective care look like to you? What practices, spaces, or relationships help us support one another through this planetary shift? Drop a word, a phrase, or even a feeling in the comments. Let’s co-create a language of care, rooted in liberation, guided by ancestral memory, and embodied in how we live and heal today.

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1972 36th Avenue
Oakland, CA
94601

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