about folks healing
Folks Healing is a community-rooted apprenticeship program grounded in seasonal rhythm, cosmology, and embodied care. Apprentices offer a weekly community healing clinic that supports patients in living in relationship — to season, body, and community.
Drawing from Chinese Medicine, Vietnamese folk traditions, and Indigenous ways of knowing, Folks Healing offers a way of learning and living medicine that is relational and accessible. Rather than focusing on techniques or credentials, the work centers on aligning with natural rhythms — learning to listen, sense, and care for self, for others, and for community.
Learning unfolds over time through shared practice, seasonal study, self-care rituals, and embodied inquiry. This learning is inseparable from the Folks Healing clinic, which offers care to the broader public and brings the medicine into lived community context. The clinic supports the mission of accessibility while allowing the program to remain connected, responsive, and accountable to the people it serves.
Folks Healing exists to support people in remembering that healing is not rare or distant, but a human birthright — something we cultivate and steward together.
a short history
Folks Healing emerged over time through clinical practice, teaching, and long-term study of cosmology and seasonal medicine. Its earliest roots lie in community acupuncture, where accessibility, shared space, and relational care shaped a way of practicing medicine grounded in everyday life. This work expanded into teaching through workshops, public education, and the founding of the Navajo Healing Project — a pivotal experience that clarified how medicine could be transmitted experientially, in community, and with cultural responsibility.
Continued study of Classical Chinese Medicine, folk traditions, astrology, and Feng Shui, alongside writing, art, and storytelling, further informed the above approaches.
Folks Healing was formed to gather these threads into a coherent, long-arc learning pathway rooted in seasonality, embodiment, and shared stewardship. Folks Healing grew from lived practice and shared study, shaped over time by the people who have devoted their lives to this work.
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